| Acronyms | Medication Management | Can't Touch This! | No Trespassing | Healthy vs Unhealthy? |
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What is Alcoholic Anonymous?
AA
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What is Librium?
Medication used at HCRC to treat alcohol withdrawal.
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What is hand washing?
Single most effective way to reduce spread of communicable disease.
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What are boundaries?
Guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify for themselves what are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around them.
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What is unhealthy?
Keeping secrets with patients.
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What is material safety data sheets?
MSDS
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What is Subutex?
Medication used at HCRC to treat opiate withdrawal.
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What is the correct time for effective hand washing?
15 seconds
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Who is the staff member?
Person responsible for maintaining boundaries in staff/client relationship.
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What is healthy?
Setting consistent limits on patients.
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What is over the counter
OTC
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What is detox?
The phase of treatment focused on the removal of harmful chemicals/drugs/alcohol from the body.
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What is Hepatitis B, or C, or HIV?
Name any of three common blood borne pathogens contracted from needle stick.
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What is a friend, or business associate (ie hairdresser, gardener, mechanic, etc), or same social circles (ie church, volunteer, gym)?
Name an example of a dual relationship.
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What is unhealthy?
Sharing personal problems with patients.
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What is post acute withdrawal syndrome?
PAWS
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What is a side effect?
An expected, well-known reaction to a medication that occurs with a predictable frequency.
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What is wash your hands?
You should do this before beginning work, after using the restroom, after you sneeze, after a body audit.
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What is codependency?
Not knowing how to separate one's feelings from their partner’s and allowing his/her mood to dictate one's level of happiness or sadness.
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What is unhealthy?
Giving patients personal contact information or money.
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What is "as needed"?
PRN
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What is yoga or bio-bed, or meditation, or gym, or ropes course, or hiking, etc?
Name any non-pharmacological intervention available at HCRC for improving patient's physical or psychological well-being.
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What is Universal Precautions?
The concept of disease control which requires all human blood and certain body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious with any blood borne pathogen.
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What is a role model?
A person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others.
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What is healthy?
Respecting the beliefs and opinions of others.
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