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Acute illness
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A sudden illness from which a person should recover
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Alzheimers disease
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A disease that affects brain tissue; there is increasing memory loss and confusion until the person cannot tend to simple personal needs
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Assisted living facility
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Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and activites in a home-like setting
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Board and care home
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Provides rooms, meals, laundry, and supervision to a few independant residents, often in a home setting; residential care facility
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Case management
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A nursing care pattern; a case manager (an RN) coordinates a persons care from admission through discharge and into the home setting
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Chronic illness
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An ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no cure; the illness can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment
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Deconditioning
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The process of becoming weak from illness or lack of exercise
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Functional nursing
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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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Hospice
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A health care agency or program for persons who are dying
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Independence
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Not relying on or requiring care from others
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Interdisciplinary health care team
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The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the persons total care; health team
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Involuntary seclusion
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Separating a person from others against his or her will; confining a person to a certain area; keeping a person away from his or her room without consent
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Licensed practical nurse (LPN)
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A nurse who has completed a 1-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test; called licensed vocational nurse (LVN) in some states
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Licensed vocational nurse (LVN)
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Licensed practical nurse
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Medicaid
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A health care payment program sponsored by teh federal government and operated by the states
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