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A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
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Acute illness
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Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with daily activities
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Assisted Living Residence (ALR)
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A nursing care pattern; a case manager coordinates a person's care from admission through discharge and into the home or long-term care setting
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Case Management
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An ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset. It has no cure. It can be controlled
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Chronic Illness
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A nursing care pattern focusing on tasks and jobs/ each nursing team member has certain tasks and jobs to do
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Functional nursing
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The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care interdisciplinary health care team.
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Health team
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A health care agency or program for persons who are dying
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Hospice
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A nurse who has completed 1 year nursing program and has passed a licensing test (2 names)
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Licensed Practical Nurse
Licensed Vocational Nurse |
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A person who performs delegated tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse
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Nursing Assistant
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Those who provide nursing care - RN's, LPN's, and nursing assistants
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Nursing Team
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A nursing care pattern where services are moved from departments to bedsides
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Patient-focused Care
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A nursing care pattern where an RN is responsible for the person's total care
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Primary Nursing
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A nurse who has completed a 2- 3- or 4- year nursing program and has passed a licensing test
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Registered Nurse
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A nursing pattern where a team of nursing staff is led by an RN who decides the amount and kind of care each person needs
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Team Nursing
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And illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover
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Terminal illness
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