| delegation | | a setting for people who require some help with daily care, but who need less than a long-term care facility offers. |
| team nursing | | people responsible for the care of both their children and aging relatives. |
| registered nurse (RN) | | method of care in which a nurse acts as a leader of a group of people giving care. |
| dementia | | polite, kind, considerate. |
| holistic | | the loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and communicating. |
| trustworthy | | the term for an illness or condition that is long-term or long-lasting. |
| activities of daily living (ADLs) | | care that involves the whole person; this includes his or her physical, social, emothional, and spiritual needs. |
| resident | | transferring authority to a person for a specific task. |
| policy | | a person living in a long-term care facility. |
| professionalism | | the group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care. |
| sub-acute care | | a registered nurse with advanced education who is able to see patients and write prescriptions. |
| empathetic | | to find a problem through a survey. |
| courteous | | a method, or way, of doing something. |
| care team | | care usually given for less than 24 hours to people who have had treatments or surgery. |
| sandwich generation | | a special equipment that helps a person whi is ill or disabled perform ADLs; also called adaptive devices. |
| chronic | | licensed nurse who has completed one to two years of education; LPN/LVN passes medications, gives treatments, and may supervise daily care of residents. |
| team leader | | a licensed nurse who has completed two to four years of education: RN's assess residents, monitor progress, provide skilled nursing care, give treatments, and supervise the care given by nursing assistants and other members of the care team. |
| licensed pratical nurse (LPN) | | answerable for one's actions. |
| first impression | | personal daily care tasks, including bathing, dressing, mouth care, hair care, toileting, and eating and drinking. |
| care team | | the order of authority within a facility. |
| home health care | | 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. |
| cite | | mixing children and the elderly in the same care setting. |
| accountable | | a course of action to be followed. |
| assistive devices | | 24-hour skilled care for temporary illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. |
| chain of command | | a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers. |
| assited living | | a legal term that means a person can be held responsible for harming someone else. |
| outpatient care | | the identification of a disease by its signs and symptoms and from the results of different tests. |
| nurse practitioner (CNP) | | guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled. |
| adult daycare | | a nurse in charge of a group of residents for one shift of duty. |
| inter-generational care | | care given in a nursing home or a hospital; used for people who need a higher level of care and observation than some long-term care facilities can give. |
| liability | | care given to adults at a facility during daytime work hours. |
| continuity of care | | the group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care. |
| acute care | | care that takes place in a person's home. |
| procedure | | the act of behaving properly for a certain job. |
| charge nurse (nurse-in-charge) | | deserving the trust of others. |
| diagnosis | | a way of classifying or categorizing people at the first meeting. |
| conscientious | | identifying with and understanding another's feelings. |
