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| answerable for one's actions |
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| Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) |
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| personal daily care tasks, including bathing, dressing, mouth care, hair care, toileting, and eating/drinking |
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| special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled perform ADL's; also called assistive devices |
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| a setting for people who require some help with daily care, but who need less care than a long-term care facility offers |
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| the group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care |
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| the order of authority within a facility |
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| a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers |
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| guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled |
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| the term for an illness, or condition that is long-termed or long-lasting |
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| transferring authority to a person for a specific task |
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| loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and communicating |
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| identifying with an understanding of another's feelings |
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| a legal term that means a person can be held responsible for harming someone else |
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| 24 hour care provided usually in a nursing home for people with ongoing conditions |
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| an important member of the care team who performs assigned nursing tasks and gives personal care |
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| a course of action to be followed |
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| a method, or way, of doing something |
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| the act of behaving properly for a certain job |
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| a person living in a long-term care facility |
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| method of care in which the resident is the primary focus; team members are cross-trained in skills, allowing residents to see many of the same people performing their care |
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