CAREGIVING HOME CARE MANAGEMENT
CORE TOPICS ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS STUDY RESOURCE PACK
●● ADLs (activities of daily living)
Answer: personal daily care tasks, including bathing, skin, nail, and hair
care, walking, eating, and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring,
and toileting.
●● acute care
Answer: 24- hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries;
generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.
●● adaptive devices
Answer: special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled
perform activities of daily living; also called assistive devices.
●● assistive devices
Answer: special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled
perform activities of daily living; also called adaptive devices.
●● care team
,Answer: the group of people with different kinds of education and
experience who provide resident care.
●● chain of command
Answer: the order of authority within a facility.
●● charge nurse (nurse-in-charge)
Answer: a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers.
●● chronic
Answer: long-term or long lasting
●● cite
Answer: in a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey.
●● conscientious
Answer: guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled.
●● continuity of care
Answer: 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
Answer: polite, kind, considerate
●● delegation
Answer: transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task.
●● diagnosis
Answer: the identification of disease or other problems by its signs and
symptoms and from the results of different tests.
●● empathetic
Answer: identifying with and understanding another's feelings.
●● first impression
Answer: a way of classifying or categorizing someone or something at
the first meeting.
●● functional nursing
Answer: method of care that involves assigning specific tasks to each
team member.
●● holistic
CORE TOPICS ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS STUDY RESOURCE PACK
●● ADLs (activities of daily living)
Answer: personal daily care tasks, including bathing, skin, nail, and hair
care, walking, eating, and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring,
and toileting.
●● acute care
Answer: 24- hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries;
generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.
●● adaptive devices
Answer: special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled
perform activities of daily living; also called assistive devices.
●● assistive devices
Answer: special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled
perform activities of daily living; also called adaptive devices.
●● care team
,Answer: the group of people with different kinds of education and
experience who provide resident care.
●● chain of command
Answer: the order of authority within a facility.
●● charge nurse (nurse-in-charge)
Answer: a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers.
●● chronic
Answer: long-term or long lasting
●● cite
Answer: in a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey.
●● conscientious
Answer: guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled.
●● continuity of care
Answer: 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
Answer: polite, kind, considerate
●● delegation
Answer: transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task.
●● diagnosis
Answer: the identification of disease or other problems by its signs and
symptoms and from the results of different tests.
●● empathetic
Answer: identifying with and understanding another's feelings.
●● first impression
Answer: a way of classifying or categorizing someone or something at
the first meeting.
●● functional nursing
Answer: method of care that involves assigning specific tasks to each
team member.
●● holistic
