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Aide

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Assistant-
Dental, dietetic, education, geriatric, home health care, med, med lab, medication, mortuary, nurse, ot, opthalmic, pathology, pt, physician, rt, vet

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Abuse

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Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish

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Ancient Romans did..

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First to organize medical care

Began public health and sanitation systems

Diet, exercise, and medications uses

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented the microscope 1666

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Assault and battery

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Threat or attempt at injure

Unlawful touching of another person without consent

(Performing a procedure after a patient has refused, threatening a patient)

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Associate’s Degree

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Awarded by a technical/career or community college after completion of two years

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Athletic Trainer

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Bachelor or master’s required

Treat and prevent athletic injuries

Works with a physician

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Audiologist

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Master’s Degree & 9-month postgrad clinical

Provide care to patients with hearing impairments

Test hearing, diagnose problems, prescribe trestment

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Bachelor’s Degree

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Awarded by college or university

After four years

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Behaviors associated with wellness

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Eight hours of sleep
Eat right
Exercise

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Biomedical engineer

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Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree

Combine engineering and bio mechanical principles to assist in operation of facilities

Design systems, machines, and equipment

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Biomedical engineer technician

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Install, test, service, and repair equipment

Sometimes teach other staff members how to operate

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Birth control pills

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Taken daily to reduce possibility of pregnancy

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Cardiologist

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Deals with diseases of the heart and blood vessels

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Central/Sterile supply worker

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On the job training, 1-2 year HSTE program

Ordering, maintaining, supplying equipment to other departments in facilities

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Christian Barnard

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First open-heart surgery 1967

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Competance

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Qualified and capable of performing a task

Know limits and ask for help when needed

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Confidentiality

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HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act)

Strict standards for maintaining confidentiality of health care records

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Contracts

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An agreement between two or more parties

Implied- obligations are understood without verbally expressed

Expressed- stated in distinct and clear language, orally or written

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Defamation

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Occurs when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage th eperson’s reputation

Spoken = slander
Written = libel
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Health Care

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Ask janelle

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Dental Hygienist

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Work under supervision of dentists

Perform prelims treatment of mouth and teeth, clean, fluoride, ect

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Dental laboratory tech

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Make and repair various dental prostheses

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Dependability

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Employers and patients rely on you, so you must accept the work and responsibility of your position

Prompt, timely, accurate, good attendance

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Dermatologist

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Physician who specializes in hair, skin, and nails

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Dialysis tech

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A.k.a.

  • Renal Dialysis tech
  • Hemodialysis tech
  • Nephrodialysis tech

Operate kidney hemodialysis machines

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Dietition

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Bachelor’s or master’s

Manage food service systems, asses patients, teach proper nutrition, research and develop recommendations for patients, and supervise and train

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Doctor’s degree

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Doctorate, Doctoral, or Doctor’s degree

Awarded by college or university after two additional years beyond a bachelor’s or master’s

Some require 2-6 additional

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Dorothea Dix

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Founder of +30 mental hospitals

Activist on behalf of the mentally ill

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Electrocardiograph tech

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Operates electrocardiograph

  • –Records electrical activity of brain
  • –Records are called electroencephalogram
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Electroencephalogram tech

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Advanced position of electrocardiograph tech

Perform EEG’s, nerve conduction tests, measure sensory and physical response, EP (evoked potential) tests, and brain response

Polysomnographic tech - specialize in sleep

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First women to graduate medical school

Became leading public health activist

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Emergency med tech

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Sometimes serve in fire and rescue departments

Levels: EMT basic, intermediate, paramedic
Also first responder

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Emotional wellness

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Promoted by understanding personal feelings and expressing them appropriately, accepting one’s limitations, adjusting to change, being optimistic

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Empathy

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Being able to identify with and understand another person’s feelings, situations, and motives

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Endodontics

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Treatment of diseases of the pulp, nerves, blood vessels, and roots of teeth

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Entrepreneur

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Individual who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business

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Epidemieologist

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Master’s or Docter’s degrees

Identify and track diseases as they occur in groups of people

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Ethics

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Set of principles relating to what is morally right and wrong

Offer a standard of conduct or code of behavior

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False imprisonment

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Restraining an individual or restricting their freedom

Keeping patients against their own will

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Genetic counselor

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Provide information to individuals on genetic diseases

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Geriatric assistant

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Provide care for patients baths, bedmaking, feeding)

Require more education to care for elderly in extended care facilities

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Gerontologist

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Disease of elderly individuals

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Geriatrician

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Specializes in elderly individuals

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Gynecologist

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Diseases of the female reproductive systems

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Health

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Ask

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Health care admin

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Health care executives / health service managers

Plan, direct, coordinate, and supervise delivery of health care and manage the operation of facilities

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Informed consent

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Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is sound of mind after a procedure and all risks involved have been explained

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Invasion of privacy

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Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information without individual’s consent

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Integrative care

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Uses mainstream medical treatments and CAM (complementary or alternative) therapies to treat a patient

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Libel

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Written defamation (false statements that ridicule someone)

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Licensed vocational / practical nurse

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Work under supervision of RN’s

Provide care requiring technical knowledge

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Living will

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Documents that allow individual to state what measures should or shouldn’t be taken to prolong their live when conditions are terminal

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Malpractice

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Bad practice / professional negligence

The failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that individual’s profession, resulting in injury, loss, or damage to a patient

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Master’s degree

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Awarded after +1 years after a bachelor’s degree

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Medical clinical lab tech

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Work under pathologists

Study tissues, fluids, and cells to help determine presence or causes of diseases

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Medical illustrator

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Produce charts, illustrations, graphs, and diagrams for health textbooks, journals, magazines, and exhibits

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Medical translator

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Assist cross-cultural communication processes by converting languages

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Mental wellness

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Promoted by being creative, logical, curious, and open minded

Learning from experiences

Solves problems easily

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Louise Joy Brown

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First invirto fertilization baby produced by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe -1978

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Five dimensions of humans

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Touch, taste, sound, smell, sight

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Florence Nightingale

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Writings sparked world wide health care reform

Improved unsanitary conditions of a British based hospital during the Crimean war

“Lady with the Lamp”

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

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German physicist

Devised a temperature scale and introduced use of mercury into thermometers

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Gastroenterologist

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Treats individuals with digestive system issues

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Health information tech

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organize and manage health information data by ensuring its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper and electronic systems

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Homeopathic care

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complete medical art and science based upon the principle of stimulating the innate ability of the body to heal itself.

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Intellectual wellness

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Encourages creative, curious, and mentally stimulating activities

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Internist

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Specialist in internal medicines

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Joseph Priestly

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Discovered oxygen

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Kidney transplant

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operation in which a person whose own kidneys have failed receives a new kidney to take over the work of cleaning the blood

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Health care levels

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Primary- center physicians, public health nurse, health workers, traditional healers

Secondary- Infirmaries, municipal, district hospital, out-patient departments

Tertiary- Medical centers, regional and provincial hospitals and specialized hospitals.

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Louis Pasteur

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discovered that microbes were responsible for souring alcohol and came up with the process of pasteurization, where bacteria is destroyed by heating beverages and then allowing them to cool

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Marie Curie

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first woman to win a Nobel Prize
only woman to win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry)
efforts, with her husband, Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre’s death, the development of X-rays.

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Objective data

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not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased

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Oncology hospital

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Hospital specializing in cancer

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Opthamologist

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the branch of medicine dealing with the eye, including its anatomy, physiology, and pathology

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Pediatric hospital

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Specializes in children

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Periodontist

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periodontist is a dentist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of periodontal disease, and in the placement of dental implants

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Polio vaccine

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Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that invades the nervous system. Polio is an infectious disease caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinal tract

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Professional

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Following a profession for a means of livelihood

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Professional characteristics

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Appearance, demeanor, reliability, competence, ethics, poise, accountability, organized

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Promotion

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Raised in position or rank

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Rene Laennec

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1816 invented the stethoscope

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Robert Koch

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best known for isolating the tuberculosis bacterium

won the Nobel Prize in 1905

considered one of the founders of microbiology

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Spiritual wellness

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Seeking meaning and purpose in life

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Stages of illness

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  • Symptoms Experience - the client experience some symptoms
  • Assumption of sick role - acceptance of illness, sick advice
  • Medical care Contact - seeks advice to professionals for validation of real illness
  • Dependent patient role - becomes dependent on health professional for help
  • Recovery/Rehabilitation - returns to normal or former role and function
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Sympathy

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Feeling of concern to another human

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Technician

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Animal health, biomed, biotech, dental lab, dialysis, diatetic, education, electrocardiograph, emergency med, forensic science, health info, med records, mental health, nurse, pharm, surgical, vet

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Technologist

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Animal health, cardiovascular, clinical lab, education, electroencephalograph, extracorporeal circulation, med lab, nuclear medicine, opthalmic med, radiologic, ultrasound, vet

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Negligence

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Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position

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Neurologist

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Disorders of the brain and nervous systems

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Occupational therapist

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Oncologist

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Diagnoses and treatment of tumors and cancer

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Occupational therapists

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Help carry out programs

Direct patient crafts and projects

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Orthodontist

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Aligns and straightens teeth

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Orthopedic hospital

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Specializes in diseases and disorders in the bones and muscles

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Orthopedist

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Diseases of the muscles and bones

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Pathologists

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Diseases of the changes in organs, tissues, and cells

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Pediatrician

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Diseases and disorders in children

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Perfusionists

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Extracorporeal circulation techs

Member of open heart surgeries

Operate heart-lung machines used in coronary bypass surgeries

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Periodontics

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Treatment and prevention of diseases in gums, bone, and teeth structures

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Pharmacist

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Dispense meds per written orders from physicians

Provide drug info, care, and directions

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Phlebotomist

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Venipuncture techs

Collect blood and prepare it for testing

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Physical therapists

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Work under physiatrists

Provide treatment for mobility and prevent permanent damage and disability

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Physician assistant

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Under supervision of physicians

Prepare patients for exams

Take vitals signs

Prep for labs, tests, procedures

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Prevention

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Providing care before acute or chronic disease occurs

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Proctologist

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Disease of lower part of large intestine

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Pyschologist

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Study human behavior and use is knowledge to help individuals deal with problems

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Radiologist

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Use of xrays and radiation to diagnose problems

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Recreational therapists

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Therapeutic recreation specialists

Use recreational and leisure activities as forms of treatment to minimize patients’ symptoms

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Rehabilitative hospital

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Extended care / skilled care

Designed to provide skilled nursing care and rehabilitative care to prepare patients

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Self motivation

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Ability to begin or follow through with a task

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Slander

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Spoken defamation

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Small pox vaccine

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Edward Jenner 1796

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Social wellness

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Showing concern, fairness, affection, tolerance, and respect

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Sociologist

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Study of humans, origins, organizations, and development of humans

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Speech-language therapist

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Speech therapists / speech scientists

Identify, evaluate, and treat patients with speech and language disorders

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Subjective data

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less on fact and based more on personal interpretation or patient reporting

may include things such as the patient’s reported energy level, pain level, anxiety level, or skin color

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Tact

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Having the ability to say or do fitting things in a particular situation

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Team player

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Working together with doctors and staff above and below you

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Torts

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Wrongful act that does not involve a contract

Civil wrong instead of a crime

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Verbal abuse

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Speaking harshly, swearing or shouting, inappropriate language, writing threats

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Sigmund frued

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developed psychoanalysis, a method through which an analyst unpacks unconscious conflicts based on the free associations, dreams and fantasies of the patient

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Licensure

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You have a license to practice a specific thing

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NHCSS

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Nation Health Care Skills Standards

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Continuing educational units

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nationally recognized method of quantifying the time spent in the classroom during professional development and training activities

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HIPPA

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information

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AIDS

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1984 by Dr. Robert Gallo

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Nursing education

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1800s

By American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses

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Clara Barton

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Founded and was president of the first ever American Red Cross

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Hippocrates

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“father of medicine”

contributions to medicine include detailed observations of disease and its effects, and an understanding of how health is often influenced by diet, breakdowns in bodily processes, and the environment

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Joseph Lister

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regarded as the founder of antiseptic medicine

learned of Louis Pasteur’s theory that microorganisms cause infection.

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Sir Alexander Flemming

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Discovered penicillin in 1928

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William Harvey

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English physician who was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart

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William Roentgen

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chiefly associated with his discovery of the rays that he called X-rays

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