Questions and Answers
1.Acute Illness
Answer Sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
2.Chronic Illness
Answer Ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset, has no known cure,
can be controlled and complication prevented with proper treatment
3.Terminal Illness
Answer Illness or injury from which a person will not likely recover
4.Assisted Living Facilities
Answer The Activities usually done during a normal day in a persons life
5.Hospice
Answer Health care agency or program for persons who are dying
6.Director of Nursing
Answer Nurse who supervises the care of all the patients at a health
care facility
7.Medicare
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, Answer Federal health insurance for people who are 65 or older, and
certain people with disabilities
8.Medicaid
Answer Health care program that assists low income families or
individuals in paying for long term me3dicals and custodial care cost
9.Confidentiality
Answer Trusting others with personal and private information
10.Accountability
Answer The fact or condiction of being responsible
11.Delegate
Answer To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a
certain situation
12.Ethics
Answer Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct
13.Professional Boundaries
Answer That which separates helpful behavior from behav- iors that are
not helpful
14.False Imprisonment
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