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Ch1 Fund Vocab

Chapter 1 Words to Know

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Active listening demonstrating full attention to what is being said; hearing both the content being communicated and the unspoken message.
Activities of daily living (ADLs) acts that people normally do every day.
Art ability to perform an act skillfully.
Assessment skills acts that involve collecting data.
Capitation strategy for controlling health care costs by paying a fixed amount per member.
Caring skills nursing interventions that restore or maintain a person's health.
Clinical pathways standardized multidisciplinary plans for a specific diagnosis or procedure that identify specific aspects of care to be performed during a designated length of stay.
Comforting skills interventions that provide stability and security during a health crisis.
Counseling skills interventions that include communicating with clients, actively listening to the exchange of information, offering pertinent health teaching, and providing emotional support.
Cross-trained ability to assume a non-nursing job position, depending on the census or levels of client acuity on any given day.
Discharge planning predetermining a client's post-discharge needs and coordinating the use of appropriate community resources to provide a continuum of care .
Empathy intuitive awareness of what the client is experiencing.
Evidence-based practice scientific knowledge used to predict nursing interventions most likely to produce a desired outcome.
Managed care practices cost-containment strategies used to plan and coordinate a client's care to avoid delays, unnecessary services or overuse of expensive resources.
Multicultural diversity unique characteristics of ethnic groups.
Nursing skills activities unique to the practice of nursing.
Nursing theory proposal of what is involved in the process of nursing.
Quality assurance process of promoting care that reflects established agency standards.
Science body of knowledge unique to a particular subject.
Sympathy feeling as emotionally distraught as the client.
Theory opinion, belief, or view that explains a process.
Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) performs tasks and duties assigned by RNs and/or LPN/LVNs for clients.
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