Across
- 5. any unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment
- 7. the intentional touching of a person without their consent
- 9. physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members
- 13. a law passed by the federal government that includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training
- 17. a signed, dated, and witnessed legal document that appoints someone else to make the medical decisions for a person in the event they become unable to do so
- 18. legal documents that allow people to decide what medical care they wish to have in the event they are unable to make those decisions themselves
- 21. verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors
- 23. the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person
- 24. rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety
- 25. abuse non consensual contact of any type
- 27. a legal advocate for residents in long-term care facilities who helps resolve disputes and settle conflicts
- 28. purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to a person
- 29. the use of spoken or written words, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person
Down
- 1. passed by congress in 1996 to help keep health information private and secure
- 2. people who are legally required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect
- 3. the repeated use of legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful to oneself or others
- 4. a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that she will be harmed
- 6. actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a person, that result in unintended injury
- 8. information that can be used to identify a person and relates to the patient’s condition, any health care that the person has had, and payment for that health care; examples include a person’s name, address, telephone number, social security number, email address, and medical record number
- 10. the separation of a person from others against the person’s will
- 11. the unlawful restraint of someone which affects the person’s freedom of movement; includes both the threat of being physically restrained and actually being physically restrained
- 12. emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolating, or insulting a person, or treating him as a child
- 14. a medical order that specifies the treatments a person wishes to receive, not what he wishes to avoid, when he is very ill; decisions are based on conversations between the patient and his healthcare providers
- 15. the improper or illegal use of a person’s money, possessions, property or other assets
- 16. a medical order that instructs medical professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest
- 19. the knowledge of right and wrong.
- 20. any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a person’s body
- 22. injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill
- 26. a document that outlines the medical care a person wants, or does not want, in case the person becomes unable to make those decisions