| A | B |
|---|
| activities of daily living | the activities usually done during a normal day in a person's life |
| disability | any lost, absent, or impaired physical or mental function |
| prosthesis | an artificial replacement for a missing body part |
| rehabilitation | the process of restoring the person to his or her highest possible level of physical, psychological, social or economic function |
| restorative nursing care | care that helps persons regain health, strength, and independence |
| avoidable pressure ulcer | a pressure ulcer that develops from the improper use of the nursing process |
| bedfast | confined to bed |
| bony prominence | an area where the bone sticks out or projects from the flat surface of the body |
| chairfast | confined to a chair |
| colonized | the presence of bacteria on the wound surface or in wound tissue; the person does not have signs and symptoms of an infection |
| eschar | thick, leathery dead tissue that may be loose or adhered to the skin; it is often black or brown |
| friction | the rubbing of one surface against another |
| pressure ulcer | a localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue usually over a bony prominence |
| shear | when layers of the skin rub against each other |
| slough | dead tissue that is shed from the skin |
| unavoidable pressure ulcer | a pressure ulcer that occurs despite efforts to prevent one through proper use of the nursing process |
