Unit 3: Communication Flashcards
When a point of view prevents impartial judgment on issues relating to the subject.
Bias
Certain expressions, movements, and gestures that point to the physical and emotional state of the person.
Body Language
Document where you a person’s health conditions, specific care needs, and current treatments are summarized.
Care Plan
A popular or common sentence, phrase or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by overuse.
Cliche
When a person has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect their everyday life.
Cognitive Impairment
Means of sending or receiving information.
Communication
The customs, arts and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
Culture
Appreciating that society is made up of many different groups with different interests, skills, talents and needs.
Cultural Diversity
Being appropriately responsive to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of groups of people that share a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage”
Culturally Sensitive Care
Material that provides official information or evidence or that serves as a record.
Documentation
Being unable to hear as well as someone with normal hearing.
Hearing Impairment
A form that is filled out in order to record details of an unusual event that occurs at the facility, such as an injury to a patient.
Incident Report
Shortened words or phrases commonly used in the medical world to save time and space while writing in the patients’ medical records.
Medical Abbreviations
The document that explains all detail about the patient’s history, clinical findings, diagnostic tests and treatments
Medical Record
The vocabulary that medical professionals use to describe the body, what it does, and the treatments they prescribe.
Medical Terminology
