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  • Improvement

    The process of making something better or of getting better.

  • Informed

    A process in which people are given important information, including possible risks and benefits, about for example, a medical procedure or treatment.

  • Mobile

    The degree to which a person is capable of moving about their environment.

    Alternative terms
    Physically mobile
  • Physically well

    Where a person can perform tasks without any physical discomfort.

  • Pupils equal and reacting to light (PEARL)

    An assessment of a person's pupillary reaction in relation to head injuries or brain function.

  • Sick

    Physically or mentally ill; not well or healthy.

  • Symptomatic

    Showing symptoms of a particular disease.

  • Understand

    To know why or how something happens or works.

  • Unresponsive

    Not reacting to a stimulus because of being unconscious or very ill.

  • Vital signs

    Routine measures of clinical indicators used to monitor a person's condition.

    Alternative terms
    Obs; observations; vitals
  • Person at risk

    A person, who is potentially at risk due to ill-health, injury, disability, age or socio-economic circumstances.

    Alternative terms
    Vulnerable resident; Vulnerable person; VP
  • Environmental restraint

    The intentional restriction of a person’s normal access to their environment, with the intention of stopping them from leaving, or denying a resident their normal means of independent mobility, means of communicating, or the intentional taking away of ability to exercise civil and religious liberties.

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