Exam 1 Terms Flashcards
Aide
Assistant-
Dental, dietetic, education, geriatric, home health care, med, med lab, medication, mortuary, nurse, ot, opthalmic, pathology, pt, physician, rt, vet
Abuse
Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish
Ancient Romans did..
First to organize medical care
Began public health and sanitation systems
Diet, exercise, and medications uses
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope 1666
Assault and battery
Threat or attempt at injure
Unlawful touching of another person without consent
(Performing a procedure after a patient has refused, threatening a patient)
Associate’s Degree
Awarded by a technical/career or community college after completion of two years
Athletic Trainer
Bachelor or master’s required
Treat and prevent athletic injuries
Works with a physician
Audiologist
Master’s Degree & 9-month postgrad clinical
Provide care to patients with hearing impairments
Test hearing, diagnose problems, prescribe trestment
Bachelor’s Degree
Awarded by college or university
After four years
Behaviors associated with wellness
Eight hours of sleep
Eat right
Exercise
Biomedical engineer
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree
Combine engineering and bio mechanical principles to assist in operation of facilities
Design systems, machines, and equipment
Biomedical engineer technician
Install, test, service, and repair equipment
Sometimes teach other staff members how to operate
Birth control pills
Taken daily to reduce possibility of pregnancy
Cardiologist
Deals with diseases of the heart and blood vessels
Central/Sterile supply worker
On the job training, 1-2 year HSTE program
Ordering, maintaining, supplying equipment to other departments in facilities
Christian Barnard
First open-heart surgery 1967
Competance
Qualified and capable of performing a task
Know limits and ask for help when needed
Confidentiality
HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act)
Strict standards for maintaining confidentiality of health care records
Contracts
An agreement between two or more parties
Implied- obligations are understood without verbally expressed
Expressed- stated in distinct and clear language, orally or written
Defamation
Occurs when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage th eperson’s reputation
Spoken = slander Written = libel
Health Care
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Dental Hygienist
Work under supervision of dentists
Perform prelims treatment of mouth and teeth, clean, fluoride, ect
Dental laboratory tech
Make and repair various dental prostheses
Dependability
Employers and patients rely on you, so you must accept the work and responsibility of your position
Prompt, timely, accurate, good attendance
Dermatologist
Physician who specializes in hair, skin, and nails
Dialysis tech
A.k.a.
- Renal Dialysis tech
- Hemodialysis tech
- Nephrodialysis tech
Operate kidney hemodialysis machines
Dietition
Bachelor’s or master’s
Manage food service systems, asses patients, teach proper nutrition, research and develop recommendations for patients, and supervise and train
Doctor’s degree
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
Dorothea Dix
Founder of +30 mental hospitals
Activist on behalf of the mentally ill
Electrocardiograph tech
Operates electrocardiograph
- –Records electrical activity of brain
- –Records are called electroencephalogram
Electroencephalogram tech
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
Elizabeth Blackwell
First women to graduate medical school
Became leading public health activist
Emergency med tech
Sometimes serve in fire and rescue departments
Levels: EMT basic, intermediate, paramedic
Also first responder
Emotional wellness
Promoted by understanding personal feelings and expressing them appropriately, accepting one’s limitations, adjusting to change, being optimistic
Empathy
Being able to identify with and understand another person’s feelings, situations, and motives
Endodontics
Treatment of diseases of the pulp, nerves, blood vessels, and roots of teeth
Entrepreneur
Individual who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business
Epidemieologist
Master’s or Docter’s degrees
Identify and track diseases as they occur in groups of people
Ethics
Set of principles relating to what is morally right and wrong
Offer a standard of conduct or code of behavior
False imprisonment
Restraining an individual or restricting their freedom
Keeping patients against their own will
Genetic counselor
Provide information to individuals on genetic diseases
Geriatric assistant
Provide care for patients baths, bedmaking, feeding)
Require more education to care for elderly in extended care facilities
Gerontologist
Disease of elderly individuals
Geriatrician
Specializes in elderly individuals
Gynecologist
Diseases of the female reproductive systems
Health
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Health care admin
Health care executives / health service managers
Plan, direct, coordinate, and supervise delivery of health care and manage the operation of facilities
Informed consent
Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is sound of mind after a procedure and all risks involved have been explained
Invasion of privacy
Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information without individual’s consent
Integrative care
Uses mainstream medical treatments and CAM (complementary or alternative) therapies to treat a patient
Libel
Written defamation (false statements that ridicule someone)
Licensed vocational / practical nurse
Work under supervision of RN’s
Provide care requiring technical knowledge
Living will
Documents that allow individual to state what measures should or shouldn’t be taken to prolong their live when conditions are terminal
Malpractice
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
Master’s degree
Awarded after +1 years after a bachelor’s degree
Medical clinical lab tech
Work under pathologists
Study tissues, fluids, and cells to help determine presence or causes of diseases
Medical illustrator
Produce charts, illustrations, graphs, and diagrams for health textbooks, journals, magazines, and exhibits
Medical translator
Assist cross-cultural communication processes by converting languages
Mental wellness
Promoted by being creative, logical, curious, and open minded
Learning from experiences
Solves problems easily
Louise Joy Brown
First invirto fertilization baby produced by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe -1978
Five dimensions of humans
Touch, taste, sound, smell, sight
Florence Nightingale
Writings sparked world wide health care reform
Improved unsanitary conditions of a British based hospital during the Crimean war
“Lady with the Lamp”
Gabriel Fahrenheit
German physicist
Devised a temperature scale and introduced use of mercury into thermometers
Gastroenterologist
Treats individuals with digestive system issues
Health information tech
organize and manage health information data by ensuring its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper and electronic systems
Homeopathic care
complete medical art and science based upon the principle of stimulating the innate ability of the body to heal itself.
Intellectual wellness
Encourages creative, curious, and mentally stimulating activities
Internist
Specialist in internal medicines
Joseph Priestly
Discovered oxygen
Kidney transplant
operation in which a person whose own kidneys have failed receives a new kidney to take over the work of cleaning the blood
Health care levels
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.
Louis Pasteur
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
Marie Curie
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.
Objective data
not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased
Oncology hospital
Hospital specializing in cancer
Opthamologist
the branch of medicine dealing with the eye, including its anatomy, physiology, and pathology
Pediatric hospital
Specializes in children
Periodontist
periodontist is a dentist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of periodontal disease, and in the placement of dental implants
Polio vaccine
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
Professional
Following a profession for a means of livelihood
Professional characteristics
Appearance, demeanor, reliability, competence, ethics, poise, accountability, organized
Promotion
Raised in position or rank
Rene Laennec
1816 invented the stethoscope
Robert Koch
best known for isolating the tuberculosis bacterium
won the Nobel Prize in 1905
considered one of the founders of microbiology
Spiritual wellness
Seeking meaning and purpose in life
Stages of illness
- 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
Sympathy
Feeling of concern to another human
Technician
Animal health, biomed, biotech, dental lab, dialysis, diatetic, education, electrocardiograph, emergency med, forensic science, health info, med records, mental health, nurse, pharm, surgical, vet
Technologist
Animal health, cardiovascular, clinical lab, education, electroencephalograph, extracorporeal circulation, med lab, nuclear medicine, opthalmic med, radiologic, ultrasound, vet
Negligence
Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position
Neurologist
Disorders of the brain and nervous systems
Occupational therapist
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Oncologist
Diagnoses and treatment of tumors and cancer
Occupational therapists
Help carry out programs
Direct patient crafts and projects
Orthodontist
Aligns and straightens teeth
Orthopedic hospital
Specializes in diseases and disorders in the bones and muscles
Orthopedist
Diseases of the muscles and bones
Pathologists
Diseases of the changes in organs, tissues, and cells
Pediatrician
Diseases and disorders in children
Perfusionists
Extracorporeal circulation techs
Member of open heart surgeries
Operate heart-lung machines used in coronary bypass surgeries
Periodontics
Treatment and prevention of diseases in gums, bone, and teeth structures
Pharmacist
Dispense meds per written orders from physicians
Provide drug info, care, and directions
Phlebotomist
Venipuncture techs
Collect blood and prepare it for testing
Physical therapists
Work under physiatrists
Provide treatment for mobility and prevent permanent damage and disability
Physician assistant
Under supervision of physicians
Prepare patients for exams
Take vitals signs
Prep for labs, tests, procedures
Prevention
Providing care before acute or chronic disease occurs
Proctologist
Disease of lower part of large intestine
Pyschologist
Study human behavior and use is knowledge to help individuals deal with problems
Radiologist
Use of xrays and radiation to diagnose problems
Recreational therapists
Therapeutic recreation specialists
Use recreational and leisure activities as forms of treatment to minimize patients’ symptoms
Rehabilitative hospital
Extended care / skilled care
Designed to provide skilled nursing care and rehabilitative care to prepare patients
Self motivation
Ability to begin or follow through with a task
Slander
Spoken defamation
Small pox vaccine
Edward Jenner 1796
Social wellness
Showing concern, fairness, affection, tolerance, and respect
Sociologist
Study of humans, origins, organizations, and development of humans
Speech-language therapist
Speech therapists / speech scientists
Identify, evaluate, and treat patients with speech and language disorders
Subjective data
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
Tact
Having the ability to say or do fitting things in a particular situation
Team player
Working together with doctors and staff above and below you
Torts
Wrongful act that does not involve a contract
Civil wrong instead of a crime
Verbal abuse
Speaking harshly, swearing or shouting, inappropriate language, writing threats
Sigmund frued
developed psychoanalysis, a method through which an analyst unpacks unconscious conflicts based on the free associations, dreams and fantasies of the patient
Licensure
You have a license to practice a specific thing
NHCSS
Nation Health Care Skills Standards
Continuing educational units
nationally recognized method of quantifying the time spent in the classroom during professional development and training activities
HIPPA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information
AIDS
1984 by Dr. Robert Gallo
Nursing education
1800s
By American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses
Clara Barton
Founded and was president of the first ever American Red Cross
Hippocrates
“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
Joseph Lister
regarded as the founder of antiseptic medicine
learned of Louis Pasteur’s theory that microorganisms cause infection.
Sir Alexander Flemming
Discovered penicillin in 1928
William Harvey
English physician who was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart
William Roentgen
chiefly associated with his discovery of the rays that he called X-rays
