131vocabulary

Question 1

Creative or symbolic thinking

Answer 1

Abstract thinking

Question 2

The legal document executed by a competent client or legal proxy specifically identifying individual preferences for the level of care at the end of life, related to treatment,medication, hydration, and nutrition.

Answer 2

Advance directive

Question 3

The way the patient displays their emotions; is the book appropriate to the situation?

Answer 3

Affect

Question 4

Can’t produce the sounds or words; it ranges from having difficulty remembering words to being unable to speak, read, or right.

Answer 4

Aphasia

Question 5

Any intentional touching without consent

Answer 5

Battery

Question 6

Over detailed; explains way too much.

Answer 6

Circumstantiality

Question 7

Deep unconsciousness for a prolonged or indefinite.

Answer 7

Comatose

Question 8

An act that results in harm to another person

Answer 8

Commission

Question 9

Extremely literal thinking. For example what brought you into the doctors office today? The bus did.

Answer 9

Concrete thinking

Question 10

Verbal communication matches nonverbal communication

Answer 10

Congruent or congruency

Question 11

The publication of faults statements that result in damage to a person’s reputation

Answer 11

Defamation

Question 12

The ability to understand and accept another persons reality, accurately perceiving feelings and communicate this understanding to the other

Answer 12

Empathy

Question 13

Intends to provide hopebut actually disregards the concern of the client

Answer 13

False reassurance

Question 14

Lack of emotional response on their face; no expression of feeling

Answer 14

Flat affect

Question 15

Reading at or below a ninth grade level; would have trouble comprehending written instructions on medication bottles, negotiating the healthcare system, and fully understanding the consent forms

Answer 15

Functional iliteracy

Question 16

Perception of things without any stimuli; for example seeing things that aren’t there

Answer 16

Hallucination

Question 17

Misperceptions of stimuli; for example seeing a piece of fuzz and thinking it is a spider

Answer 17

Illusion

Question 18

When verbal communication does not match what is being shown with nonverbal communication

Answer 18

Incongruent

Question 19

A person’s agreement to allow something to happen based on a full disclosure of risks, benefits, alternatives, consequences of refusal.

Answer 19

Informed consent

Question 20

The act of being able to think ahead and plan for the future. Does the client know they have a problem?

Answer 20

Insight

Question 21

Factors within both sender and receiver that influence communication

Answer 21

Interpersonal variables

Question 22

Ability to compare and evaluate the alternatives in a situation. Do they have good or bad judgment? I.e. jumping off a building

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Judgment

Question 23

Really tired, Drowsey; person will have flat affect

Answer 23

Lethargic

Question 24

The person is awake, alert, aware of stimuli from the environment and within the self, and responds appropriately and reasonably soon to stimuli

Answer 24

Level of consciousness

Question 25

The written defamation of character; false entries in | a medical record.

Answer 25

Libel

Question 26

Slouched over towards one side i.e. symptoms of stroke

Answer 26

Listing

Question 27

Shifting from one topic to an unrelated topic; person seems unaware that topics are connected

Answer 27

Loosening associations

Question 28

Sleeps most of the time, difficult to awake, confused when aroused

Answer 28

Obtunded

Question 29

Failing to do an act that would have prevented harm

Answer 29

Omission

Question 30

Does the client know the date? Does the client know their name? Time place person equals order that it leaves them.

Answer 30

Orientation

Question 31

Stereotypes based on strong emotions

Answer 31

Prejudice

Question 32

An individuals space varies from culture to culture.

Answer 32

Proxemics

Question 33

Motivation for one person to communicate with another; cues that initiate communication

Answer 33

Referent

Question 34

Defect in the function of one or more of the senses, resulting in visual auditory or olfactory impairments

Answer 34

Sensory deficit

Question 35

The process of attributing characteristics to a group of people as though all persons in the identified group possessed them.

Answer 35

Stereotype

Question 36

Lisping, slurring words; only vigorous and repeated stimuli will arouse patient; probably drunk; sternal rub or nailbed

Answer 36

Stuporous state

Question 37

Superficial; digressive; goes off on a tangent

Answer 37

Tangenteality

Question 38

Need to gain, maintain, and defend one's right to space

Answer 38

Territoriality

Question 39

Unaware of one side of your body

Answer 39

Unilateral neglect

Question 40

To have mixed feelings about something

Answer 40

Ambivalent

Question 41

One's own culture should be the norm

Answer 41

Ethnocentrics

Question 42

To feel okay about; no shame about it i.e. okay with being a addict

Answer 42

Egosyntonic

Question 43

The desire to change; does not want to be an addict

Answer 43

Egodystonic

Question 44

The process of adapting to a new culture but maintaining an old culture

Answer 44

acculturation

Question 45

Process of adapting to a new culture and leaving the old culture behind

Answer 45

Assimulation