Careers
Someone you see when you are sick.
What is a Doctor?
Law that is broken when confidential information is shared.
What is HIPAA?
length of time respirations is measured.
What is a minute?
This common respiratory viral illness is often confused with a cold but brings sudden high fevers, body aches, and fatigue.
What is the Flu?
Prefix for slow.
What is brady-?
Someone you see when you get your tonsils removed.
What is an ENT specialist
Ones ability to make decisions over their own self.
Vital signs taken at admission to use as a baseline.
What is height and weight?
An illness that is long term.
What is a Chronic disease?
This suffix means surgical removal of.
What is -ectomy?
What is the MCAT?
A legal document that allows patients to state their preferences for life-sustaining treatments and nutritional support before they become incapacitated.
What is a Living will?
Chemical in early thermometers.
What is Mercury?
In medicine, if a disease or tumor is non-cancerous and does not spread to other parts of the body, it is given this descriptor.
This term means a rapid heart rate (usually over 100 beats per minute).
What is Tachycardic?
Administers medications that aid in loss of sensation or consciousness.
What is an anesthesiologist?
The ethical rule requiring that healthcare providers do no harm.
What is Non-maleficence?
temperature taken here is called tympanic temperature.
What is an ear?
What is Dialysis?
This root word indicates the color blue.
What is cyan-?
Exam that a nurse takes to become licensed.
What is the NCLEX?
Religious text that dates back to 400 B.C. used as a professional covenant.
What is the Hippocratic oath?
Blood pressure is measured by these.
What is systolic and diastolic?
This ancient bacterial disease, spread by fleas on rats, wiped out roughly one-third of Europe’s population during the 1300s.
What is the Bubonic plague?
Abbreviation for nothing by mouth.
What is NPO?