Vocabulary Chapter 2 Flashcards
Involves the insertion of tiny needles into specific points in the body to relieve energy blocks.
Acupuncture
Provides 24-hour personal care and supervision for a small number of residents in a family-type home or similar setting.
Adult Foster Home
Health care systems, practices, and products that have not traditionally been performed by practitioners of Western medicine; practices used instead of conventional medicine
Alternative Medicine
Progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain’s nerve cells resulting in memory loss, impaired thinking and language skills, and changes in behavior.
Alzheimer’s disease
They provide diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation services for patients who do not require hospitalization
Ambulatory services
Provides housing, meals, and personal care to individuals who need help with daily living activities but do not need daily nursing care.
Assisted Living Residence
Health care practice based on the belief that pressure on the nerves leaving the spinal column causes pain and dysfunction of the body part served by that nerve.
Chiropractic
Health care practices, products, and approaches to health care that have not traditionally been performed in conventional medical offices; practices used together with conventional medicine.
Complementary medicine
A condition marked by a decline in memory and/or other thinking skills, caused by damage to the nerve cells in the brain.
Dementia
A theory developed by Margaret Newman, RN, to assist patients in making their lives as meaningful as possible by focusing on their possibilities rather than their limitations.
Expanding Consciousness
The transplantation of normal genes into cells in place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders.
Gene Therapy
Differences in the health status of different groups of people.
Health Disparities
The most famous Greek physician of ancient times. He stressed observation and conservative treatment.
Hippocrates
A general term to designate the belief that the traditional view of medicine must be expanded.
Holistic Medicine
A method of treatment developed by a German physician in the early 1800s based on the idea of stimulating the body’s own healing responses.
Homeopathy
Provides palliative care and support to patients who are expected to die within 6 months and their families.
Hospice
Outside of our consciousness. It helps to eliminate racism by acknowledging that it exists.
Implicit Racism
Hospitalized
Inpatient
A health care provider offers a combination of Western Medicine with complementary and alternative medicine.
Integrative medicine
Provides personal care, social services, and nursing supervision for at least 8 hours per day. Igt provides care for individuals who do not require 24-hour nursing, but are unable to care for themselves.
Intermediate nursing care facility (INCF)
Widely recognized, when administered by a trained practitioner, as a beneficial health practice. It involves using pressure or friction on the body.
Massage Therapy
Federally funded but state-administered insurance plan for individuals who qualify due to low income.
Medicaid
Facilities that provide a variety of outpatient services, some of which were previously provided by the hospitals.
Medical Malls
Taking medications correctly: the right dosage at the right time and as often as prescribed.
Medication Adherence
