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Chapter 23 vocab
Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care and Home Care, 4th Edition
Term | Definition |
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terminal illness | a disease or condition that will eventually cause death. |
grief | deep distress or sorrow over a loss. |
hospice care | holistic, compassionate care given to people who have approximately six months or less to live. |
palliative care | care that focuses on the comfort and dignity of a person who is very sick and/or dying, rather than on curing the person. |
Cheyne-Stokes | alternating periods of slow, irregular respirations and rapid, shallow respirations, along with periods of apnea. |
rigor mortis | the Latin term for the temporary condition after death in which the muscles in the body become stiff and rigid. |
postmortem care | care of the body after death. |
biodegradable | capable of breaking down or being decomposed by bacterial or other living organisms |