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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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Aide

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Like an assistant, lowest level of job

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Ancient Romans added what?

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Aqueducts- carried clean water to series

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Anton van Leeucoenhoek

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Invented microscopes in 1666- allowed physicians to see organisms

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Assault

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Physical or verbal attack on another person; treatment or care given to a person without obtaining proper consent

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Battery

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Unlawfully touching another person without proper consent

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Associates degree

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Degree awarded by a vocational technician school with community college after successful completion of a two year course of study or it’s equivalent

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Athletic trainer

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Prevents and treat athletic injuries and provide rehabilitative services to athletes

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Audiologist

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Provide care to individuals who have hearing impairments

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Bachelors degree

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Degree awarded by a college or university after a person has completed a four year course of study or it’s equivalent

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Behaviors associated with wellness

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Exercise, balanced diet, being creative, being happy, satisfied

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Biomedical engineer

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Assist in the operation of health facilities, they design and build sensor systems that can be used got diagnostic tests

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Biomedical equipment technician

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Worth with machines to diagnose, treat, and monitor patients

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Birth control pills

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Pills taken to prevent from getting pregnant

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Cardiologist

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A specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart

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Central/sterile supply worker

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Are involved in ordering and maintaining and supplying all the equipment and supplies used by other departments in a health care facility

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Christian barnyard

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South African surgeon who performed the worlds first successful human to human heart transporting

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Competence

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Being qualified and capable of performance a task, follow instructions

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Confidentiality

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Means that information about a patient must remain private

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Contracts

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An agreement between two or more parties, three parties

  1. Offer- offers to be a patient
  2. Acceptance- treats the patient
  3. Consideration- given from patient for services provided
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Defamation

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When false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the persons rep

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Health care

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Prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the prevention of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical health professions

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Dental hygienist

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Remove stains and deposits from teeth, they also perform preliminary examination of the line teeth and mouth

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Dental laboratory technician

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Make and repair dental prosthesis (artificial devices) ex. Dentures

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Dependability

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When patients and employers rely on you must accept responsibility

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Dermatologist

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Skin specialist

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Dialysis technician

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Operate the kidney hemodialysis machines used to treat patients with limited or no kidney function

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Dietion

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Manage food service systems and develop recommendations based n research

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Doctors degree

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Two or more years of work beyond a bachelors or masters degree. Some need 4-6 years

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Dorthea dix

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Created the first mental asylum

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Electrocardiograph technician

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Operates electrocardiograph machines, which record electrical impulses that originate in the heart

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Electroencephalograph technologist

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Operates electroencephalograph, which records the electrical activity of the brain

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First women with a medical degree

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Emergency medical technician

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Provides emergency prehospital care to victims of accidents

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Emotional wellness

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Understanding personal feelings and expressing them appropriately

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Empathy

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Being able to understand and identify with another persons feelings. You have to be interested in the patient you work on

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Endocrinologist

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Hormones

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Endodontics

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

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Identify diseases as they occur in a group of people, determine risk factors

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Ethics

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A set of principles relating to what in morally right or wrong

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42
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False imprisonment

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Restraining an individual of restricting there freedom

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43
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First test tube baby

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Louise joy brown 1978

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44
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Five dimensions of humans

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  1. Physical wellness
  2. Emotional wellness
  3. Social wellness
  4. Mental wellness
  5. Spiritual wellness
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Florence nightingale

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Founder of modern nursing

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46
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Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714

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Gastroenterologist

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Disorders of the digestive system

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48
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Genetic counselor

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Provide info to people about genetic diseases

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Geriatric assistant

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Provide health care for the elderly

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50
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Geriatrician

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Distinguish between diseases and the affects of normal aging

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Gerontologist

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Works with diseases of the elderly

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Gynecologist

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Works with the diseases of the reproductive organs

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53
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Health

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Dynamic state in which individuals adapt to changes in his or he external and internal environments so that he or she maintains a state of well being

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Health care administrator

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

55
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Verbal abuse

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Speaking harshly or swearing at a patient

56
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Sigmund Freud

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Father of psychoanalysis

57
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Licenser

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A practice that requires a license

58
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What does NHCSS stand for?

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National health care skill standards

59
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What is continuing educational units!

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Required to renew licenses or maintain certification or registration

60
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What is HIPAA?

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Has established standards for maintain confidentiality

61
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When was aids identified?

62
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Clara barton

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Founder of American red cross

63
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Joseph lister

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Promoted the idea of sterile surgery

64
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Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin

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William harvey

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Described the circulation of blood

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Health information technician

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Code patient records, gather data,

67
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Homeopathic care

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Treatment using dilute natural drugs so that the body will heal itself

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Illness

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An abnormal process which leads to decrease functioning

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Informed consent

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Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and aware of all factors involed

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Integrative care

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Form of health care that uses mainstream treatments and complementary and alternative therapies

71
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Intellectual wellness

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Wellness of the mind

72
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Internist

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Doctor of internal medicine

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Invasion of privacy

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Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing something about them

74
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Joseph priestly

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Discovered oxygen

75
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Kidney transplant

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Joseph murray did the first one in 1954

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Levels of health care

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  1. Acute health care 2. Long term 3. Primary 4. Specialized care
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Libel

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False written statement that causes a person ridicule or contempt or causes damage to a persons rep

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Licensed practical/vocational nurse

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Provide patient care requiring technical knowledge

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Living will

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Documents that state what measures should or should not be taken when conditions are terminal

80
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Louis pasture

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Germ theory

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Malpractice

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Providing improper and unprofessional care

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Marie curie

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Isolated radium

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Masters degree

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One or more years of work beyond a bachelors

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Medical clinical laboratory technologist

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Study tissues, fluids, and cells of the human body

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Medical illustrator

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Use artistic ability to draw stuff for books

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Medical translator

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Translate things from one language to another

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Mental wellnes

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Wellness of the mind

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Negligence

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Failure to give care that is normally expected and results in injury

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Neurologist

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Specializes in disorders of the brain and nervous system

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Objective data

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Data you can measure with senses

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Occupational therapist

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Help people with physical, developmental, mental, or emotional disabilities

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Oncologist

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Diagnose and treat cancerous tumors

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Oncology hospital

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Cancer hospital

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Ophthalmologist

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Specializes in diseases and disorders of the eye

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Orthopedic hospital

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Bone and mussel hospitals

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Orthopedist

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Specializes in diseases and disorders of the bone

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Pathologist

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Diagnoses diseases by studying changes in organs, tissues, and cells

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Pediatric hospitals

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Childrens hospital

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Pediatrician

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Children’s doctor

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Perfusionist

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Members of open heart surgery team

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Periodontics

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Treats and prevents disease in the gum, bones, and teeth

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Pharmacist

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Dispenses medications

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Phlebotomist

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Collect blood and prepare it for testing

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Physical therapist

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Provide treatment to improve mobility

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Physicians assistant

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Do minor things

106
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Polio vaccine

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Janas Salk made it in 1952

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Prevention

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Protect from disease

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Protocologist

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Specialize in disease of the lower part of the large intestine

109
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Professional characteristics

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Nice appearance, high education, good ethics

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Professional

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4 or more years of college with a degree above associates

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Promotion

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Help the individuals maintain or enhance present level

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Psychologist

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Study human behavior and use this knowledge to help people

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Radiologist

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Use X-rays and radiation to diagnose and treat diseases

114
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Recreational therapist

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Use recreational or leisure activities to help people

115
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Rehabilitative hospital

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Where people rehabilitate

116
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Rene lennec

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Invented the sethescope

117
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Robert Koch

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Culture and plate method

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Self motivation

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Ability to do begin or follow through with something without someone’s help

119
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Slander

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Spoken comment that hurts someone’s rep

120
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Small pox vaccine

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Edward Jenner discovered it in 1796

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Social wellness

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Communication

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Speech language therapist

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Helps people with speech impediments

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Spiritual wellnes

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Using values, ethics, and the purpose to life

124
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Stages of illness

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  1. Something is wrong 2. Assumption of sick role 3. Medical care contact 4. Dependent patient role 5. Recovery, rehab, death
125
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Subjective data

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How the patient feels

126
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Sympathy

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Feeling sorry

127
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Tact

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Having the ability to do or say the kindest thing or most fitting thing in a difficult situation

128
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Team player

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Being able to be fair and nice in a group of people

129
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Technician

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Level of careers

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Technologist/therapist

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Level of careers

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Torts

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A wrongful or illegal act of civil law not involving a contract

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