Vocabulary Week 1 Flashcards
Pharmacy
Legal drug distributor
Laboratory
A place where tissues are tested and examined
Dietary
Patient nutrition services
Bariatric medicine
Overweight health services
Radiology
Diagnostic imaging
Biomedical
Anything pertaining to a patient
Magnetic resonance imaging
Visualizing inside of the body via magnets
Rehabilitation
Trying to get the patients healthy enough to leave the hospital
Preoperative
Getting a patient ready for surgery
Postoperative
After surgery care
Infectious
Contagious; anything that can spread disease
DON
Director of nursing
SICU
Surgical intensive care unit
ICU
Intensive care unit
Preop
Preoperative
Postop
Postoperative
MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging
CT
Computerized tomogram
IV
Intravenous
PO
By mouth
PR
By rectum
NPO
Nothing by mouth
Q2H
Every two hours
Q4H
Every four hours