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Chapter 8 vocabulary
Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care and Home Care, 4th Edition
Term | Definition |
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physiological needs | needs that relate to the processes and activities that keep living things alive. |
psychosocial needs | needs that involve social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality. |
holistic care | a type of care that involves caring for the whole person—including the person’s physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. |
masturbation | to touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself or another person sexual pleasure. |
sexual orientation | a person’s physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person. |
gender identity | a deeply felt sense of one’s gender. |
bisexual, bi | a person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction may be for people of the same gender or different gender. |
cisgender | a person whose gender identity matches his or her birth sex (sex assigned at birth due to anatomy). |
coming out | a continual process of revealing one’s sexual orientation or gender identity to others. |
cross-dresser | typically a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items usually associated with women. |
gay | a person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the same sex. |
lesbian | a woman whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for other women. |
LGBTQ | acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. |
queer | a term used to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual.. |
straight | a person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the opposite sex. |
nonbinary and/or genderqueer | A person whose gender identity does not fit into the category of man or woman; the person’s gender may be in between those two categories or may be entirely different from them. |
transgender | a person whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth due to anatomy |
transition | the process of changing genders, which can include legal procedures, medical measures, telling others, and using new pronouns. |
spiritual | of, or relating to, the spirit or soul. |
reincarnation | a belief that some part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body. |
karma | the belief that all past and present deeds affect one’s future and future lives. |
yarmulke | a small skullcap worn by Jewish men as a sign of their faith. |
agnostics | people who believe that they do not know or cannot know if God exists. |
atheists | people who believe that there is no God. |
dietary restrictions | rules about what and/or when individuals can eat. |
fasting | not eating food or eating very little food. |
vegetarians | people who do not eat meat, fish, or poultry and may or may not eat eggs and dairy products. |
vegans | vegetarians who do not eat any animal products, including milk, cheese, other dairy items, or eggs; vegans may also choose to not use or wear any animal products. |
premature | the term for babies who are born before 37 weeks’ gestation (more than three weeks before the due date). |
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) | a condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep. |
cognitive | related to thinking and learning. |
chickenpox | a highly contagious viral illness that is common among children. |
leukemia | a form of cancer in which the body’s white blood cells are unable to fight disease. |
anorexia | an eating disorder in which a person does not eat or exercises excessively to lose weight. |
bulimia | an eating disorder in which a person eats huge amounts of foods or very fattening foods, and then eliminates the food by vomiting, using laxatives, or exercising excessively. |
trauma | severe injury. |
menopause | the end of menstruation (occurs when a woman has not had a menstrual period for 12 months). |
geriatrics | the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in older and elderly adults, as well as problems related to aging. |
gerontology | the study of the aging process in people from midlife through old age. |
ageism | prejudice toward, stereotyping of, and/or discrimination against older persons or the elderly. |
developmental disabilities | disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during childhood up to age 22. |