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A system in which the care of a group of patients is assigned to a team of four or five health workers, led by a professional nurse who assigns them various tasks. They meet at the beginning and end of each shift to exchange information.  

A bandage shaped like the letter T, used for bandaging the area between the legs.  

A set of agreed signs made with the fingers and hands, used to indicate words by or for people who cannot hear or speak. Language that uses expressive gestures and movements of the hands, face, and body to communicate words and concepts. Developed to allow communication with and among people who have ear and hearing…

In the UK, a hospital which earns its revenue from services provided to the District Health Authorities and family doctors.  

The change in colour sensitivity which takes place in the eye in low light when the eye starts using the rods in the retina because the light is too weak to stimulate the cones.  

Cirrhosis of the liver caused by viral hepatitis.  

A device using electronic switches which helps a person who is severely paralysed to work a machine such as a telephone. A device that enables severely paralyzed patients to use typewriters, adding machines, telephones, and a wide variety of other machines. Modem Possums are operated by micro-switches that require only the slightest movement in any…

Referring or belonging to a person.  

For nursing which describes the individual as a system with physiological, psychological and social components. The nurse and patient work together to define the patient’s problems and to understand their reactions to one another, and the nurse takes on different roles in each phase of the relationship, such as a teacher, counsellor, leader, and technical…

A line on the ilium which separates the false pelvis from the true pelvis.