NAA 100 -- Key Terms (Study Guide for Exam
#1)
Abbreviation Ans✓✓✓ A shortened form of a word or phrase.
Abuse Ans✓✓✓ The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable
confinement, intimidation, or punishment that results in physical harm,
pain, or mental anguish; depriving the person (or the person's caretaker)
of the goods or services needed to attain or maintain well-being.
Accountable Ans✓✓✓ Being responsible for one's actions and the
actions of others who performed delegated tasks; answering questions
about and explaining one's actions and the actions of others.
Acute Illness Ans✓✓✓ A sudden illness from which a person is
expected to recover.
Acute Pain Ans✓✓✓ Pain that is felt suddenly from injury, disease,
trauma, or surgery.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Ans✓✓✓ A disease that affects brain tissue;
memory loss and confusion increase until the person cannot tend to
simple personal needs.
Anaphylaxis Ans✓✓✓ A life-threatening sensitivity to an antigen.
,Asepsis Ans✓✓✓ Being free of disease-production microbes
Assault Ans✓✓✓ Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a
person's body without the person's consent.
Assessment Ans✓✓✓ Collecting information about the person; a step
in the nursing process.
Assisted Living Residence (ALR) Ans✓✓✓ Provides housing, personal
care, support services, health care, and activities in a home-like setting.
Base of Support Ans✓✓✓ The are on which an object rests.
Battery Ans✓✓✓ Touching a person's body without his or her consent.
Bed Rail Ans✓✓✓ A device that serves as a guard or barrier along the
side of the bed; side rail.
Biohazardous Waste Ans✓✓✓ Items contaminated with blood, body
fluids, secretions, or excretions, bio means life, and hazardous means
dangerous or harmful.
Board and Care Home Ans✓✓✓ Provides roms, meals, laundry, and
supervision to independent residents in a home-like setting; group home.
, Body Alignment Ans✓✓✓ The way the head, trunk, arms, and legs are
aligned with one another; posture.
Body Language Ans✓✓✓ Messages sent through facial expressions,
gestures, posture, hand and body movements, gait, eye contact, and
appearance.
Body Mechanics Ans✓✓✓ Using the body in an efficient and careful
way.
Boundary Crossing Ans✓✓✓ A brief act or behavior outside the helpful
zone.
Boundary Sign Ans✓✓✓ An act, behavior, or thought that warns of a
boundary crossing or violation.
Boundary Violation Ans✓✓✓ An act or behavior that meets your
needs, not the person's.
Cardiac Arrest Ans✓✓✓ See "SCA"
Carrier Ans✓✓✓ A human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes
but does not have the signs and symptoms of infection.
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Abbreviation Ans✓✓✓ A shortened form of a word or phrase.
Abuse Ans✓✓✓ The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable
confinement, intimidation, or punishment that results in physical harm,
pain, or mental anguish; depriving the person (or the person's caretaker)
of the goods or services needed to attain or maintain well-being.
Accountable Ans✓✓✓ Being responsible for one's actions and the
actions of others who performed delegated tasks; answering questions
about and explaining one's actions and the actions of others.
Acute Illness Ans✓✓✓ A sudden illness from which a person is
expected to recover.
Acute Pain Ans✓✓✓ Pain that is felt suddenly from injury, disease,
trauma, or surgery.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Ans✓✓✓ A disease that affects brain tissue;
memory loss and confusion increase until the person cannot tend to
simple personal needs.
Anaphylaxis Ans✓✓✓ A life-threatening sensitivity to an antigen.
,Asepsis Ans✓✓✓ Being free of disease-production microbes
Assault Ans✓✓✓ Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a
person's body without the person's consent.
Assessment Ans✓✓✓ Collecting information about the person; a step
in the nursing process.
Assisted Living Residence (ALR) Ans✓✓✓ Provides housing, personal
care, support services, health care, and activities in a home-like setting.
Base of Support Ans✓✓✓ The are on which an object rests.
Battery Ans✓✓✓ Touching a person's body without his or her consent.
Bed Rail Ans✓✓✓ A device that serves as a guard or barrier along the
side of the bed; side rail.
Biohazardous Waste Ans✓✓✓ Items contaminated with blood, body
fluids, secretions, or excretions, bio means life, and hazardous means
dangerous or harmful.
Board and Care Home Ans✓✓✓ Provides roms, meals, laundry, and
supervision to independent residents in a home-like setting; group home.
, Body Alignment Ans✓✓✓ The way the head, trunk, arms, and legs are
aligned with one another; posture.
Body Language Ans✓✓✓ Messages sent through facial expressions,
gestures, posture, hand and body movements, gait, eye contact, and
appearance.
Body Mechanics Ans✓✓✓ Using the body in an efficient and careful
way.
Boundary Crossing Ans✓✓✓ A brief act or behavior outside the helpful
zone.
Boundary Sign Ans✓✓✓ An act, behavior, or thought that warns of a
boundary crossing or violation.
Boundary Violation Ans✓✓✓ An act or behavior that meets your
needs, not the person's.
Cardiac Arrest Ans✓✓✓ See "SCA"
Carrier Ans✓✓✓ A human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes
but does not have the signs and symptoms of infection.
