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Communication
Nurses Aide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Barrier | a block or an obstacle |
| Charting | the act of noting care and observations; documenting |
| Code | in health care, an emergent medical situation in which specially-trained responders provide resuscitative measures to a person |
| Culture | a set of learned beliefs, values, traditions, and behaviors shared by a social, ethnic, or age group |
| Edema | swelling in body tissues caused by excess fluid |
| Barrier | a block or an obstacle |
| Incident | an accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care |
| Charting | the act of noting care and observations; documenting |
| Medical Chart | written legal record of all medical care a patient, resident, or client recieves |
| Objective Information | factual information collected using the senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch; also called signs |
| Code | in health care, an emergent medical situation in which specially-trained responders provide resuscitative measures to a person |
| Objective Information | factual information collected using the senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch; also called signs |
| Culture | a set of learned beliefs, values, traditions, and behaviors shared by a social, ethnic, or age group |
| Orientation | a person's awareness of person, place, and time |
| Edema | swelling in body tissues caused by excess fluid |
| Incident | an accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care |
| Prioritize | to place things in order of importance |
| Medical Chart | written legal record of all medical care a patient, resident, or client recieves |
| Rounds | physical movement of staff |
| Objective Information | factual information collected using the senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch; also called signs |
| Orientation | a person's awareness of person, place, and time |
| Prioritize | to place things in order of importance |
| Rounds | physical movement of staff from room to room to discuss each resident and his or her care plan |
| Subjective Information | information collected from residents, their family members and friends; information may or may not be true, but is what the person reported; also called symptoms |
| Verbal Communication | communication involving the use of spoken or written words or sounds |
| Vital Signs | measurements - temperature, pulse, respiration's, blood pressure, pain level - that monitor the functioning of the vital organs of the body |
| Body Language | is a form of nonverbal communication |
| Closed Bed | bed completely made with the bed-spread and blankets in place |
| Depressant | a substance that causes calmness and drowsiness |
| Draw Sheet | an extra sheet placed on top of the bottom sheet; used for moving residents |
| Incontinence | the inability to control the bladder or bowels, which leads to an involuntary loss of urine or feces |
| Insomnia | the inability to fall asleep or remain asleep |
| Occupied Bed | a bed made while the person is in the bed |
| Open Bed | bed made with linen folded down to the foot of the bed |
| Stimulant | a drug that increases or quickens actions of the body |
| Unoccupied Bed | a bed made while no person is in the bed |
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