Unit 1 Exam Flashcards
Abuse
Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish
Aide
Like an assistant, lowest level of job
Ancient Romans added what?
Aqueducts- carried clean water to series
Anton van Leeucoenhoek
Invented microscopes in 1666- allowed physicians to see organisms
Assault
Physical or verbal attack on another person; treatment or care given to a person without obtaining proper consent
Battery
Unlawfully touching another person without proper consent
Associates degree
Degree awarded by a vocational technician school with community college after successful completion of a two year course of study or it’s equivalent
Athletic trainer
Prevents and treat athletic injuries and provide rehabilitative services to athletes
Audiologist
Provide care to individuals who have hearing impairments
Bachelors degree
Degree awarded by a college or university after a person has completed a four year course of study or it’s equivalent
Behaviors associated with wellness
Exercise, balanced diet, being creative, being happy, satisfied
Biomedical engineer
Assist in the operation of health facilities, they design and build sensor systems that can be used got diagnostic tests
Biomedical equipment technician
Worth with machines to diagnose, treat, and monitor patients
Birth control pills
Pills taken to prevent from getting pregnant
Cardiologist
A specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart
Central/sterile supply worker
Are involved in ordering and maintaining and supplying all the equipment and supplies used by other departments in a health care facility
Christian barnyard
South African surgeon who performed the worlds first successful human to human heart transporting
Competence
Being qualified and capable of performance a task, follow instructions
Confidentiality
Means that information about a patient must remain private
Contracts
An agreement between two or more parties, three parties
- Offer- offers to be a patient
- Acceptance- treats the patient
- Consideration- given from patient for services provided
Defamation
When false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the persons rep
Health care
Prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the prevention of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical health professions
Dental hygienist
Remove stains and deposits from teeth, they also perform preliminary examination of the line teeth and mouth
Dental laboratory technician
Make and repair dental prosthesis (artificial devices) ex. Dentures
Dependability
When patients and employers rely on you must accept responsibility
Dermatologist
Skin specialist
Dialysis technician
Operate the kidney hemodialysis machines used to treat patients with limited or no kidney function
Dietion
Manage food service systems and develop recommendations based n research
Doctors degree
Two or more years of work beyond a bachelors or masters degree. Some need 4-6 years
Dorthea dix
Created the first mental asylum
Electrocardiograph technician
Operates electrocardiograph machines, which record electrical impulses that originate in the heart
Electroencephalograph technologist
Operates electroencephalograph, which records the electrical activity of the brain
Elizabeth Blackwell
First women with a medical degree
Emergency medical technician
Provides emergency prehospital care to victims of accidents
Emotional wellness
Understanding personal feelings and expressing them appropriately
Empathy
Being able to understand and identify with another persons feelings. You have to be interested in the patient you work on
Endocrinologist
Hormones
Endodontics
Treatment of diseases of the pulp, nerves, blood vessels, and roots of the teeth
Entrepreneur
Individual who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business
Epidemiologist
Identify diseases as they occur in a group of people, determine risk factors
Ethics
A set of principles relating to what in morally right or wrong
False imprisonment
Restraining an individual of restricting there freedom
First test tube baby
Louise joy brown 1978
Five dimensions of humans
- Physical wellness
- Emotional wellness
- Social wellness
- Mental wellness
- Spiritual wellness
Florence nightingale
Founder of modern nursing
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
Gastroenterologist
Disorders of the digestive system
Genetic counselor
Provide info to people about genetic diseases
Geriatric assistant
Provide health care for the elderly
Geriatrician
Distinguish between diseases and the affects of normal aging
Gerontologist
Works with diseases of the elderly
Gynecologist
Works with the diseases of the reproductive organs