Hartman's CNA Chapter 1-5 with complete solution Rated A [2024]

Accountable - answerable for one's actions activities of daily living (ADLs) - personal daily care task, including bathing, skin, nail, and hair care, walking, eating and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring, and toileting acute care - 24-hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers adaptive devices - special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLs; also called assistive devices. adult day services - care for people who need some assistance or supervision during certain hours, but who do not live in the facility where care is given animal-assisted therapy (AAT) - the practice of bringing pets into a facility or home to provide stimulation and companionship assistive devices - Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLS; also called adaptive devices. care team - the group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care chain of command - the order of authority within a facility charge nurse (nurse-in-charge) - a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers chronic - long-term or long-lasting cite - in a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey conscientious - guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled continuity of care - an ongoing coordination of a resident's care over time, during which the care team is regularly exchanging information and is working toward shared goals courteous - polite, kind, considerate Delegation - transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task Dementia - the serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and communicating diagnosis - the identification of disease or other problems by its signs and symptoms and from the results of different tests empathetic - identifying with and understanding another's feelings first impression - a way of classifying or categorizing someone or something at the first meeting functional nursing - method of care that involves assigning specific tasks to each team member