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Accountable
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Answerable for one's actions
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Activities of Daily Living
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Personal daily care tasks including bathing, skin, nail and hair care, walking, eating and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring, and toileting
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Acute Care
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24 hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries
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Assisted Living
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A residence for people who require some help with daily care, but who need less care than a long-term care facility offers
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Care Team
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The group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care
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Charge Nurse
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A nurse in charge who is responsible for a team of healthcare workers
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Chronic
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The term for an illness or condition that is long-term or long-lasting
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Courteous
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Polite, kind, considerate
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Conscientious
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Guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled
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Delegation
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Transferring authority to a person for a specific task
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Diagnosis
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The identification of a disease by its signs and symptoms and from the results of different test
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Empathetic
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Identifying with and understanding anothers feelings
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Fuctional Nursing
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Method of care assigning specific each team member
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Home Health Care
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Care that takes place in a persons home
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Hospice Care
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Care for people who have approximately six months or less to live; care is available until the person dies
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