| A | B |
|---|
| HCP | Health Care Plan |
| MDS | Minimum Data Set |
| RAPs | Resident Assessment Protocols |
| continuity | doing the same things in the same way |
| setting priorities | looking at things and putting in order of importance |
| planning | devising a way of getting a job done |
| rounds | going to each resident to determine briefly wheterh thy have any immediate needs |
| implement | to cary out or accomplish a given plan |
| procrastination | putting off doing something until some other time |
| observation | recognizing and noticing a fact or occurrence |
| objective observation | facts observed and not distored by personal feelings |
| subjective observation | individual judgments based on personal feelings |
| Farenheit | temperature where 32 = freezing point & 212 = boiling |
| Celsius or centigrade (C) | temperature where 0 = freezing & 100 = boiling |
| perpendicular | at a right angle |
| calibrated | marked with graduations, as on a thermometer |
| bulb | portion of thermometer that is place in direct contact with patient's body |
| stem | long narrow portion of a termometer, opposite from the bulb |
| oral | in the mouth |
| rectal | in the rectum |
| axillary | in the armput |
| pulse | the rhythmic expansion and contraction of the arteries |
| radial pulse | pulse felt at the inner aspect of the wrist |
| rate pulse | the number of pulse beats per minute |
| rhythm pulse | the regularity of the pulse beats |
