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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
When patients and employers rely on you must accept responsibility
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Dermatologist
Skin specialist
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Dialysis technician
Operate the kidney hemodialysis machines used to treat patients with limited or no kidney function
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Dietion
Manage food service systems and develop recommendations based n research
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Doctors degree
Two or more years of work beyond a bachelors or masters degree. Some need 4-6 years
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Dorthea dix
Created the first mental asylum
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Electrocardiograph technician
Operates electrocardiograph machines, which record electrical impulses that originate in the heart
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Electroencephalograph technologist
Operates electroencephalograph, which records the electrical activity of the brain
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Elizabeth Blackwell
First women with a medical degree
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Emergency medical technician
Provides emergency prehospital care to victims of accidents
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Emotional wellness
Understanding personal feelings and expressing them appropriately
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Empathy
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
Hormones
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Endodontics
Treatment of diseases of the pulp, nerves, blood vessels, and roots of the teeth
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Entrepreneur
Individual who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business
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Epidemiologist
Identify diseases as they occur in a group of people, determine risk factors
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Ethics
A set of principles relating to what in morally right or wrong
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False imprisonment
Restraining an individual of restricting there freedom
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First test tube baby
Louise joy brown 1978
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Five dimensions of humans
1. Physical wellness 2. Emotional wellness 3. Social wellness 4. Mental wellness 5. Spiritual wellness
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Florence nightingale
Founder of modern nursing
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
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Gastroenterologist
Disorders of the digestive system
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Genetic counselor
Provide info to people about genetic diseases
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Geriatric assistant
Provide health care for the elderly
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Geriatrician
Distinguish between diseases and the affects of normal aging
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Gerontologist
Works with diseases of the elderly
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Gynecologist
Works with the diseases of the reproductive organs
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Health
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
Plan, direct, and coordinate the delivery of health care and manage the operation of health care facilities
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Verbal abuse
Speaking harshly or swearing at a patient
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Sigmund Freud
Father of psychoanalysis
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Licenser
A practice that requires a license
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What does NHCSS stand for?
National health care skill standards
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What is continuing educational units!
Required to renew licenses or maintain certification or registration
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What is HIPAA?
Has established standards for maintain confidentiality
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When was aids identified?
1981
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Clara barton
Founder of American red cross
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Joseph lister
Promoted the idea of sterile surgery
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Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin
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William harvey
Described the circulation of blood
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Health information technician
Code patient records, gather data,
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Homeopathic care
Treatment using dilute natural drugs so that the body will heal itself
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Illness
An abnormal process which leads to decrease functioning
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Informed consent
Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and aware of all factors involed
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Integrative care
Form of health care that uses mainstream treatments and complementary and alternative therapies
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Intellectual wellness
Wellness of the mind
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Internist
Doctor of internal medicine
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Invasion of privacy
Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing something about them
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Joseph priestly
Discovered oxygen
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Kidney transplant
Joseph murray did the first one in 1954
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Levels of health care
1. Acute health care 2. Long term 3. Primary 4. Specialized care
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Libel
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
Provide patient care requiring technical knowledge
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Living will
Documents that state what measures should or should not be taken when conditions are terminal
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Louis pasture
Germ theory
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Malpractice
Providing improper and unprofessional care
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Marie curie
Isolated radium
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Masters degree
One or more years of work beyond a bachelors
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Medical clinical laboratory technologist
Study tissues, fluids, and cells of the human body
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Medical illustrator
Use artistic ability to draw stuff for books
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Medical translator
Translate things from one language to another
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Mental wellnes
Wellness of the mind
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Negligence
Failure to give care that is normally expected and results in injury
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Neurologist
Specializes in disorders of the brain and nervous system
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Objective data
Data you can measure with senses
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Occupational therapist
Help people with physical, developmental, mental, or emotional disabilities
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Oncologist
Diagnose and treat cancerous tumors
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Oncology hospital
Cancer hospital
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Ophthalmologist
Specializes in diseases and disorders of the eye
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Orthopedic hospital
Bone and mussel hospitals
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Orthopedist
Specializes in diseases and disorders of the bone
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Pathologist
Diagnoses diseases by studying changes in organs, tissues, and cells
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Pediatric hospitals
Childrens hospital
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Pediatrician
Children's doctor
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Perfusionist
Members of open heart surgery team
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Periodontics
Treats and prevents disease in the gum, bones, and teeth
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Pharmacist
Dispenses medications
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Phlebotomist
Collect blood and prepare it for testing
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Physical therapist
Provide treatment to improve mobility
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Physicians assistant
Do minor things
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Polio vaccine
Janas Salk made it in 1952
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Prevention
Protect from disease
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Protocologist
Specialize in disease of the lower part of the large intestine
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Professional characteristics
Nice appearance, high education, good ethics
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Professional
4 or more years of college with a degree above associates
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Promotion
Help the individuals maintain or enhance present level
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Psychologist
Study human behavior and use this knowledge to help people
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Radiologist
Use X-rays and radiation to diagnose and treat diseases
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Recreational therapist
Use recreational or leisure activities to help people
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Rehabilitative hospital
Where people rehabilitate
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Rene lennec
Invented the sethescope
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Robert Koch
Culture and plate method
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Self motivation
Ability to do begin or follow through with something without someone's help
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Slander
Spoken comment that hurts someone's rep
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Small pox vaccine
Edward Jenner discovered it in 1796
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Social wellness
Communication
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Speech language therapist
Helps people with speech impediments
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Spiritual wellnes
Using values, ethics, and the purpose to life
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Stages of illness
1. Something is wrong 2. Assumption of sick role 3. Medical care contact 4. Dependent patient role 5. Recovery, rehab, death
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Subjective data
How the patient feels
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Sympathy
Feeling sorry
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Tact
Having the ability to do or say the kindest thing or most fitting thing in a difficult situation
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Team player
Being able to be fair and nice in a group of people
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Technician
Level of careers
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Technologist/therapist
Level of careers
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Torts
A wrongful or illegal act of civil law not involving a contract

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