CNA Course Week 3

• Alopecia - hair loss
• Anticoagulant - a drug that prevents or slows down blood clotting
• Dandruff - excessive amounts of dry, white flakes from the scalp
• Hirsutism - excessive body hair
• Infestation - being in or on a host
• Mite - a small spider like organism
• Pediculosis - infestation with wingless insects that feed on blood; lice
• Pediculosis capitis - infestation of the scalp with lice
• Pediculosis corporis - infestation of the body with lice
• Pediculosis pubis - infestation of the pubic hair with lice
• Scabies - a skin disorder caused by a female mite
• Affected side - the side of the body with weakness from illness or injury; weak side
• Garment - an item of clothing
• Unaffected side - the side of the body opposite the affected side; strong side
• Undergarment - an item of clothing worn next to the skin under clothing
• Chemical restraint- any drug used for discipline or convenience and not required to treat medical symptoms
• Convenience - any action taken to control or manage a person’s behavior that requires less effort by the staff; the action is not in the person’s best interest
• Discipline - any action taken by the agency to punish or penalize a patient or resident
• Enabler - a device that limits freedom of movement but is used to promote independence, comfort, and safety
• Freedom of movement - any change in place or position of the body or any part of the body that the person can control
• Medical symptom - an indication or characteristic of a physical or psychological condition
• Physical restraint - any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached to or near the person’s body that he or she cannot remove easily and that restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one’s body
• Remove easily - the manual method, device, material, or equipment used to restrain the person can be removed intentionally by the person in the same manner it was applied by the staff
• Antibiotic - a drug that kills certain microbes that cause infection
• Antisepsis - the processes, procedures, and chemical treatments that kill microbes or prevent them from causing an infection
• Asepsis - the absence of disease producing microbes
• Carrier - a human or animal that is a resevoir for microbes but does not develop the infection
• Contamination - the process of becoming unclean
• Cross-contamination - passing microbes from 1 person to another by contaminated hands, equipment, or supplies
• Disinfectant - a liquid chemical that can kill many or all pathogens except spores
• Disinfection - the process of killing pathogens
• Healthcare infected infection - an infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given; the infection is related to receiving health car
• Immunity - protection against a certain disease
• Infection - a disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body
• Infection control - practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection
• Medical asepsis - practices used to reduce the number of microbes and prevent their spread from 1 person or place to another person or place; clean technique
• Microorganism - a small living thing that can be seen only with a microscope
• Non-pathogen - a microbe that does not usually cause an infection
• Normal flora - microbes that live and grow in a certain area
• Pathogen - a microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection