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✔✔Registered Nurse - ✔✔In long-term care facilities, a registered nurse coordinates,
manages, and provides skilled nursing care.
✔✔Licensed piratical nurse - ✔✔Gives medication and treatment.
✔✔Physician or Doctor - ✔✔A doctor diagnoses diseases or disabilities and prescribes
treatment.
✔✔Physical Therepists - ✔✔Evaluates a person and develops a treatment plan.
✔✔Occupational Therapists - ✔✔Helps residents learn to adapt to disabilities. Often
uses assistive or adaptive devices.
✔✔Speech-language pathologist - ✔✔identifies communication disorders, addresses
factors involved in recovery, and develops a plan of care to meet recovery goals
✔✔Registered Dietitian - ✔✔Evaluates the patient's nutritional status and develops a
treatment plan to improve health or manage illness.
✔✔Medical Social Worker - ✔✔Helps residents get support services, such as
counseling
✔✔Activities Director - ✔✔Plans activities for residents to help them socialize and stay
physically and mentally active.
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔Line of authority and helps to make sure that residents get
proper health care.
, ✔✔Liability - ✔✔Someone can be held responsible for harming someone else.
✔✔Scope of practice - ✔✔the tasks that healthcare providers are legally allowed to do
as permitted by state and federal laws.
✔✔Care Plan - ✔✔a written plan for each resident created by a nurse; outlines the
steps taken by the staff to help the resident reach his or her goals.
✔✔Policy - ✔✔Course of action that should be taken every time a situation occurs.
✔✔Procedure - ✔✔Method or way of doing something.
✔✔Sympathy - ✔✔sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others
✔✔Tactful - ✔✔showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when
dealing with others
✔✔Conscienctious - ✔✔Try to do their best. Guided by a sense of right and wrong.
✔✔Dependable - ✔✔reliable
✔✔Patient - ✔✔Do not lose temper easily.
✔✔Respectful - ✔✔Valuing other people's individuality and treating others politely and
kindly
✔✔Tolerant - ✔✔respecting others beliefs and practices and not judging them
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making
decisions
✔✔Laws - ✔✔rules set by the government to help protect the public
✔✔Ombudman - ✔✔Passed in 1987, responds to reports of poor care and abuse in
long-term care facilities. Legal advocate for residents.
✔✔Cite - ✔✔to find a problem through a survey
✔✔Residents Rights - ✔✔how residents must be treated while living in a facility
✔✔Quality of life - ✔✔Dignity, choice, and independence are important parts of quality
of life.