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| The knowledge of right and wrong. |
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| Numerous rights identified in the OBRA law that relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility. |
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| Injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill. |
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| Durable Power of Attorney |
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| A 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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| Communication without using words. |
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| An accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care that is not part of the normal routine in a healthcare facility. |
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| Paralysis on one side of the body. |
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| Rules set by a government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety. |
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| The process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his and her health care. |
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| Verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors. |
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| A medical order that instructs medical professionals not to perform CPR in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest. |
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| Objective Information (Signs) |
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| Information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells; also called signs. |
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| Loss of function or ability. |
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| Weakness in one side of the body. |
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| Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) |
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| A law passed by the federal government that includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training, staffing requirements, resident assessment instructions, and information on rights for residents. |
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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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| The repeated use of legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful to oneself or others. |
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Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) |
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| A medical order that specifies the treatments a person wishes to receive, not what he/she wishes to avoid, when he/she is very ill; decisions are based on conversations between the patient and the healthcare provider. |
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| Subjective Information (Symptoms) |
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| Information that a person cannot or did not observe, but us based on something reported to the person that may or may not be true; also called symptoms. |
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| The ability to see things near but not far; also called myopia. |
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| A detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents in long-term care facilities. |
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| Actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that results in unintended injury to a person. |
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| People who are legally required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect because they have regular contact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in care facilities. |
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| Communication involving the use of spoken or written words or sounds. |
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| Skin that is blue or gray. |
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Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) |
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| A condition that occurs when blood supply to a part if the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures with the brain; also called a stroke. |
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