CH.1.1 Welcome to the Health Science Field Flashcards
Accreditation
Offical recognition from a profession association that an education program meets minimum educational standards for an occupation.
Alternative complementary, integrative therapies
Healthcare practices a treatments that minimize or avoid the use of surgery or drugs
Career clusters
Groups of similar occupations and industries that share a core set of basic knowledge and skills for all workers
Career ladder
A sequence of job positions progressing from entry-level to higher levels of responsiblity and authority based on education, experience, and performance
Career pathways
Smaller groups of specialized occupations within a career cluster that require more specific sets of knowledge, skills, and training
Credentials
Documents proving a person’s qualifications for a particular occupation
Genomic medicine
Personalized medical care that uses a patient’s unique combination of gene and chromosomes to prevent illness and maintain health
Holistic care
Therapies that treat the patients as a whole person after assessing the individual’s physical, mental social, and spiritual well-being
Nanotechnology
A field of science that manipulates individual atoms and molecules to create devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies now
National Health Science Standards
Standards determined by the National Consortium for Health Science Education, which describe the skills that workers need to suceed in healthcare careeers
Regenerative medicine
A form of medicial care that creates living tissue to replace tissue or organ funtions lost due to age, disease, injury, or birth disorder
Western Medicine
The most common form of medical care in the United States which uses medication and surgery to heal the signs and symptoms of illness
