Health Occupation Midterm study guide

Question 1

Joseph Lister

Answer 1

Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.

Question 2

Stressed healing of mind,body and soul

Answer 2

Ancient Chinese

Question 3

who recognized disease connected to filth,contaminated water etc?

Answer 3

Ancient Romans

Question 4

Hippocrates

Answer 4

Father of Medicine

Question 5

when were human dissection allowed?

Answer 5

Renaissance (1250-1650 AD)

Question 6

Florence Nightingale

Answer 6

founder of modern nursing

Question 7

Louis pasture

Answer 7

Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

Question 8

Edward Jenner

Answer 8

Made vaccine for smallpox

Question 9

Who drained swamps to reduce malaria?

Answer 9

Ancient Romans

Question 10

What time period did health care plans start?

Answer 10

20th century

Question 11

Who established disease was caused by natural causes?

Answer 11

Hippocrates

Question 12

Clara Barton

Answer 12

Founded the American Red Cross in 1881

Question 13

Flagellants

Answer 13

People who traveled town to town beating themselves as a penance of God

Question 14

Miasma

Answer 14

Noxious vapor

Question 15

Where did the plague begin?

Answer 15

Mongolia

Question 16

what was the vector and what was the reservoir of the plague?

Answer 16

Vector was fleas’s; reservoir was rats

Question 17

What did Mongolian Soldiers do with the bodies of their dead who had the plague?

Answer 17

Through them over rival city walls

Question 18

Which group was massacred in hopes of ending the plague?

Answer 18

Jewish

Question 19

What is a pandemic?

Answer 19

An infectious disease that has sudden increase in cases

Question 20

What are the parts of the government pandemic plan?

Answer 20

Surveillance and monitoring, develop, and release vaccines

Question 21

What did Europe do to ships that entered their harbor?

Answer 21

Banned ships

Question 22

Which bacteria caused the plague?

Answer 22

Yersinia Pestis

Question 23

Who did the plague effect?

Answer 23

everyone

Question 24

Quarantino

Answer 24

40 day quarantine

Question 25

Buboes

Answer 25

Swollen, inflamed lymph nodes in the groin, etc

Question 26

Be able to identify prefixes, suffixes, word roots, and combining vowels in medical terms .

Answer 26

prefixes; the beginning of a word. suffixes: the end of the world. Word root: the main part of a word. combining vowels: When you take a word root and add a vowel.

Question 27

know what the prefix, suffix, word root, and combining vowels are and what they do.

Answer 27

Prefixes: The beginning of a word. Suffixes: The end of the word. Word root: The main of a word. Combining vowels: when you take a word root and add a vowel

Question 28

know your 4 words part

Answer 28

prefixes, suffixes, word root, combining vowels

Question 29

know the rule for using combining vowels.

Answer 29

when you take a word root and add a vowel it becomes a combining form. the combining vowels is used before suffixes that begin with a consonant and before another word root.

Question 30

Be able to identify a combing vowels and know what the most common combing vowel is.

Answer 30

This vowels is usually an -0.

Question 31

Know the following word; -pathy, sub-, -itis

Answer 31

-pathy: disease. Sub-:under -itis: inflammation

Question 32

When defining a medical one usually starts with the

Answer 32

prefix

Question 33

What is a combining form made up of?

Answer 33

word roots with combining vowel attached separated by a vertical slash.

Question 34

Why is a combining vowel used?

Answer 34

ease pronunciation

Question 35

All medical terms have at least one

Answer 35

word root

Question 36

Mary Mallon’s handwriting

Answer 36

identified at hospital by handwriting

Question 37

Mallon’s fecal sample resMaryults

Answer 37

healthy carrier

Question 38

How old was Mary Mallon when she died?

Answer 38

69

Question 39

Two nick names for Mary Mallon

Answer 39

The Most Dangerous Woman in American & Typhoid Mary

Question 40

Results of the first court case?

Answer 40

called a menace to society and quarentined for 2 years

Question 41

Bacteria that caused Typhoid Fever?

Answer 41

Salmonella Typhi

Question 42

Healthy Carrier

Answer 42

Someone who has a disease but is not sick

Question 43

Name of the sanitation workers?

Answer 43

White wings

Question 44

How many years did Mary Mallon spend on North Brother Island?

Answer 44

28

Question 45

Who is Mrs. Brown?

Answer 45

Mary Mallon

Question 46

Name of the island Mary Mallon was quarantined on.

Answer 46

North Brother Island

Question 47

Moto of New York Sanitation Department

Answer 47

“cleanliness is next to Godlyness.”

Question 48

Know what is considered professional dress and mannerisms.

Answer 48

Business like clothing; clothing should be clean, neat, tidy, and not too revealing; shoes clean & low heeled; minimal jewelry and light make-up; look mature & confident.

Question 49

Health Information Management

Answer 49

Workers assemble and organize patients health info. to create a medical record

Question 50

Health Information Technology

Answer 50

Focuses on the systems that are used to manage health info. and secure exchange of health info in a digital format

Question 51

Health Informatics

Answer 51

Emerging at the intersection of health information management and health information technology

Question 52

Applied Informatics

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Examines how medical information moves in an electronic enviornment. It studies processes, policies, and technological solutionsabd it attracts HIM students

Question 53

What should be included in a medical record?

Answer 53

Medical history, Family Medical History,and personal identifying info.

Question 54

What goes in a career portfolio?

Answer 54

Introductory letter/ essay, resume, letters of recommendation, work experience,your skills, health certification, list of schools and community activities, scholastic/ professional rewards

Question 55

How patient records are filed

Answer 55

Alphabetically

Question 56

Educational requirements for Health Informatics

Answer 56

bachelors or masters

Question 57

Patient privacy and informing patient of rights

Answer 57

confidentiality

Question 58

What does the health informatics worker focus on? (patient or information?)

Answer 58

information

Question 59

Health Educator education requirements

Answer 59

bachelors degree

Question 60

What do skilled interdisciplinary healthcare workers do and who is included?

Answer 60

anything absolutely neccessarry; everyone

Question 61

What was the vaccine based on (virus or bacteria)?

Answer 61

bacteria

Question 62

Was the vaccine effective?

Answer 62

NO

Question 63

Why didn’t masks work?

Answer 63

Thin and porous

Question 64

When did the 1918 flu start?

Answer 64

March of 1918

Question 65

Another name for 1918 flu when it got overseas

Answer 65

“Kansas Sickness”

Question 66

Which soldiers got sick overseas?

Answer 66

American, English, French, and German

Question 67

Washington DC banned what?

Answer 67

All public gatherings

Question 68

Some thought the flu started from soldiers at Ft. Riley burning what?

Answer 68

Manure

Question 69

Why was the President conflicted about sending troops overseas?

Answer 69

b/c they didn’t want all troops dying

Question 70

10. What happened to the flu when it went overseas?

Answer 70

mutated rapidly

Question 71

How many Americans died of the 1918 flu?

Answer 71

550,000

Question 72

How many people died worldwide of the 1918 flu?

Answer 72

13 million

Question 73

What happened to coffins when the demand was high?

Answer 73

often stole, undertakers had to place armed guards around their coffins