CNA Chapter 1 Vocabulary

(ADLs) Personal daily care tasks, including bathing, skin, nail, and hair care, walking, eating, and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring, and toileting.

24 hour skilled care for short term illnesses or injuries; generally given at hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers.

Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled proform ADLs; also called assistive devices (note, book has entry for assistive devices that has exact same wording, no flash card for it)

Care given to adults at a facility during daytime work hours.

A residence for people who require some help with daily care, but who need less care than a long term care facility offers.

The group of people with different kinds of education and eperiance who provide resident care.

The order of authority within a facility.

A nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers.

The term for an illness or condition that is long term or long lasting.

In a long term care facility, to find a problem through a survey.

Coordination of care for a resident over time, during which the care team is always exchanging information about the resident and working toward shared goals.

Transferring authority to a person for a specific task.

The loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and communicating.

The identification of a disease by its signs and symptoms and from the results of different tests.

Method of care assigning specific tasks to each team member.

Care that involves the whole person; this includes his or her physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Care that takes place in a person's home (referred to as a client)

Care for people who have approximately six months or less to live; care is available until the person dies.

mixing children and the elderly in the same care setting.

a not-for-profit orgnization that evaluates and accredits different types of healthcare facilities.