HCAP 120 Final Exam 2025

DOT - directly observed therapy (watches as a person takes each dose of a medication) Unregulated care provider - broad term applied to staff members who assist nurses and other health care providers in giving care Community Health Worker - a frontline worker dedicated to providing quality health care to their local community Task - a function, procedure or activity that a support worker assists with or performs for the client Assignable task - Appointing someone to take on responsibilities to complete a task while providing client care Code Red - Fire Code Blue - Cardiac arrest Code Yellow - Missing Patient Code Green - Evactuation Code Black - Bomb threat Code White - Aggressive behaviour Code Grey - System failure Code Brown - Hazardous spill Code Pink - Maternity or pediatric emergency Code Orange - Disaster/ mass casualty Signs - Objective Symptoms - Subjective Physical losses - Mobility, senses, cognition, bone density, muscle and tissue density, organs lose cells causing them to shut down Basic needs - oxygen, food, water, sleep, clothing/shelter, elimination, sexual reproduction, stimulation and physical activity Growth - increase in physical size and weight that occurs in a slow and steady manner Gender Identity - Each person's internal and individual experience of gender Ethnicity - sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion or identity Sexism - showing intolerance or prejudice towards a person or group of people because of their gender Sexual orientation - whether a person's physical and emotional arousal is to people of the same or opposite sex or both Development - the maturation toward adulthood; usually characterized by physical changes and increased ability and functionality Gender - roles, personality traits, attitude, behaviours, values, and relative power and influence assigned to the sexes by society Culture - the characteristics of a group of people, including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music and traditions