1.ADL: activities of daily living
2.care plan: plan for each resident created by the nurse
3.LTC: long term care
4.RCF: residential facilites
5.scope of practice: defines the tasks that healthcare providers are
legally permit- ted to perform as allowed by state or federal law; what
you are allowed to do
6.status: condition of the resident
7.libel: defamation in written form
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, 8.slander: defamation in oral form
9.battery: the intentional touching of a person without his or her consent
10.false imprisonment: unlawful restraint that affects a person's freedom
of move- ment; includes both the threat of being physically restrained
and actually being restrained
11.breach of confidentiality: occurs when a patient's private
information is dis- closed to a third party without his or her consent
12.HIPAA: health insurance portability and accountability act
13.negligence: actions, or failure to act or provide proper care for a
person, result- ing in an injury
14.assault: a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person felling
fearful that he or she will be harmed
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