Chapter 1 Terms Flashcards
Aide
Assistant. Home health care.
Abuse
Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish
Ancient Romans
Added hospitals for injured soldiers
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
“Father of microbiology” discovered bacteria and other small organisms
Assault and battery
Threat or attempt to injure. Unlawful touching without persons consent
Associates degree
Degree rewarded by a vocational technical school or community college after successful completion of two year course of study or its equivalent
Athletic trainers
Prevent and treat athletic injuries and provide rehabilitative services to athletes
Audiologist
Provide care to individuals who have hearing impairments
Bachelors degree
Awarded by a college or university after a prescribed course of study that usually lasts for four or more years
Behaviors associated with wellness
Come back
Biomedical engineer
Combine knowledge of biology and biomechanical principles to assist in the operation of health care facility. Design sensor systems
Biomedical equipment technician
Work with machines to diagnose, treat, and monitor patients.
Birth control pills
Taken daily will help prevent pregnancy
Cardiologist
doctor with special training and skill in finding, treating and preventing diseases of the heart and blood vessels
Central/sterile supply worker
Ordering, maintaining, and supplying all the equipment and supplies used by other departments of facility.
Christian Barnard
Performed first heart transplant
Competence
Able, capable
Confidentiality
Not to be shared with or told, to be held in confidence or with one self
Contracts
An agreement between people
Defamation
Slander or liable; a false statement that causes ridicule or damage to reputation
Definition of health care
Social insurance for ill or injured
Dental hygienist
Work under supervision of dentists. Preform preliminary examinations of teeth and mouth
Dental laboratory technician
Make and repair a variety of dental prostheses such as dentures
Dependability
Trustworthy
Dermatologist
a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin
Dialysis technician
Operate the kidney hemodialysis used to treat patients with limited or no kidney function.
Dietitian
Manage food service systems assess patients residents nutritional needs, plan menus, teach others proper nutrition and special diets, research nutrition needs and develop recommendations
Doctors degree
Awarded by a college or university after completion of two or more years of work beyond a bachelors or masters degree
Dorothea Dix
Created mental asylums
Electrocardiograph technician
Operates electrocardiograph machines
Electroencephalograph technologist
Operates an instrument called an electroencephalograph. Records activity of brain
Elizabeth Blackwell
First female physician in US in 1849. Started women’s medical college in New York in 1868
Emergency medical technician
Provide emergency, prehospital care to victims of accidents, injuries, or sudden illnesses.
Emotional wellness
Promoted by understanding personal feelings and expressing them appropriately accepting ones limitations adjusting to change being optimistic
Empathy
Identifying with another’s feelings but being unable to change or solve situation
Endocrinologist
have the training to diagnose and treat hormone imbalances and problems by helping to restore the normal balance of hormones in the body
Endodontics
Treatment of diseases of pulp, nerves, blood vessels, and roots of the teeth
Entrepreneur
Individual who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business.