Chapter 8: Career Development

Question 1

Abuse

Answer 1

A pattern of practices or customs that are unsound or inconsistent with ethical business, fiscal, or healthcare practices or customs.

Question 2

Accreditation

Answer 2

The process by which an external entity reviews an organization or program of study to determine if the organization or program meets certain predetermined standards.

Question 3

Anatomy

Answer 3

The study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

Question 4

Career development

Answer 4

An organized planning method used to form an individual’s work identity.

Question 5

Certification

Answer 5

The process or action of providing an individual with an official document attesting to their status or level of achievement.

Question 6

Code of ethics

Answer 6

A written list of a profession’s values and standards of conduct.

Question 7

Communication

Answer 7

The sharing of information between two or more people as a way to convey meaning.

Question 8

Confidentiality

Answer 8

The obligation of healthcare providers to not disseminate patient information beyond proper channels.

Question 9

Conflict of interest

Answer 9

A clash between an individual’s selfish interests and his or her obligations to an organization, group, or persons.

Question 10

Conflicts

Answer 10

Serious disagreements or arguments.

Question 11

Continuing education

Answer 11

The process by which a professional seeks recurrent learning activities and training beyond the initial license or certificate because health care is always changing.

Question 12

Dispargement

Answer 12

The action of belittling or criticizing the skills, knowledge, or qualifications of another professional.

Question 13

Documentation

Answer 13

The process of entering a description of a patient’s history, condition, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, and results of treatment.

Question 14

Ethics

Answer 14

The formal study of moral choices that conform to standards of conduct.

Question 15

Fraud

Answer 15

The intentional deception of another person to that person’s detriment.

Question 16

Health record

Answer 16

An ordered set of documents or a collection of data that contains a complete and accurate description of a patient’s history, condition, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, and results of treatment.

Question 17

Health team

Answer 17

A team of health personnel, each with a specialized function, brought together in accordance with the needs of the client and his or her family.

Question 18

Healthy behavior

Answer 18

An action taken to attain, maintain, or regain good health and to prevent illness.

Question 19

Infection control

Answer 19

A discipline focusing on preventing the spread of healthcare-associated infections.

Question 20

Licensing

Answer 20

A right conferred by a governmental body to practice an occupation or provide a service.

Question 21

Malpractice

Answer 21

Professional misconduct.

Question 22

Medical math

Answer 22

The application of mathematical computations related to healthcare procedures.

Question 23

Medical terminology

Answer 23

Specialized terminology used in medicine that allows healthcare providers to communicate specific details of a patient’s condition in a precise manner.

Question 24

Negligence

Answer 24

The failure to do something that a reasonably prudent person would do in the same or similar situation; alternatively, doing something that a reasonably prudent person would not do in the same or similar situation.

Question 25

Physiology

Answer 25

The study of how organisms and their body parts carry out the normal physical functions that allow them to exist.

Question 26

Professional

Answer 26

An individual with specialized learning engaged in a specified activity as an occupation.

Question 27

Professionalism

Answer 27

The conduct, character, skills, and judgment of a trained person.

Question 28

Why are states responsible for licensure?

Answer 28

Each state decides what professions to license; this controls the number of individuals who participate in a particular calling.