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| The knowledge of right and wrong |
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| Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety. |
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| Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: Law passed by fed government to include minimum standards for NA training, staffing, and resident assessment and rights for residents. |
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Guidelines for assessing residents in LTC facilities |
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| Numerous rights identified by OBRA that relate to how residents must be treated while in a facility. Creates an ethical code. |
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| The process in which a person, with the help of a physician, makes informed decisions about healthcare. |
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| The failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person. |
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| Actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that result in unintended injury to a person. |
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| Injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill. |
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| Verbal, physical or sexual abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors |
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| The repeated use of legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful to oneself or others. |
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| People who are legally required to report suspected abuse or neglect due to association with a vulnerable population. |
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| Durable Power of Attorney |
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| Signed, dated, and witnessed legal document that appoints someone else to make the medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so. |
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| Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment: Medical order that specifies the treatments a person wishes to receive when very ill. |
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| Use of words to make a point |
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| Body language or other visual/symbolic cues to send a message. |
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| Information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells - signs. |
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| Information that a person cannot or did not observe but is based on something reported - may be symptoms. |
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| Discoloration of the skin - blue tint. |
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| Occurrence of injury or psych episode |
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| A loss of function or ability |
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| Ability to see things near but not far - also called myopia |
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| Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) |
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| Paralysis on one side of the body |
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| Weakness on one side of the body |
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| Inability to understand language/speech |
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