Science
PLANTS USE SUNLIGHT TO MAKE THEIR OWN FOOD THROUGH THIS PROCESS
What is Photosynthesis?
THIS ORGAN PUMPS BLOOD THROUGHOUT YOUR BODY
What is Heart?
THE NAME OF UCI’S MASCOT
What is Peter the Anteater?
THIS IS WHAT THE ABBREVIATION “HCA” STANDS FOR
What is the Hospice Care Association?
HOSPICE CARE CAN TAKE PLACE IN A HOSPITAL, FACILITY, OR THE PATIENT’S…
What is Home?
THIS ELEMENT HAS THE CHEMICAL SYMBOL AU
What is Gold?
THIS IS THE BODY’S LARGEST ORGAN
What is Skin?
THIS IS THE NAME OF THE LARGE PARK LOCATED AT THE CENTER OF CAMPUS
What is Aldrich Park?
THIS IS THE NAME OF OUR INSTAGRAM PAGE
What is @hospicecareassociation_uci?
THESE ARE THE TWO ROLES YOU CAN HAVE AS A HOSPICE VOLUNTEER
What are Patient and Office Visits?
TABLE SALT IS COMMONLY KNOWN BY THIS CHEMICAL NAME
What is Sodium Chloride?
THIS INVENTION IS USED TO LISTEN TO A PATIENT’S HEART AND LUNGS
What is Stethoscope?
UCI'S MIDDLE EARTH UNDERGRADUATE HOUSING COMMUNITY FEATURES RESIDENCE HALLS NAMED AFTER PLACES LIKE HOBBITON, ROHAN, AND WHISPERING WOOD, WHICH ARE BASED ON THIS FAMOUS FANTASY BOOK SERIES BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN.
What is Lord of The Rings?
THE NAME OF THE LOCAL HOSPICE ORGANIZATION THAT COLLABORATES WITH HCA
What is Care Dimensions?
THIS TYPE OF SUPPORT MAY CONTINUE FOR LOVED ONES AFTER A PATIENT’S DEATH
What is Bereavement?
ON THE PH SCALE, ANY LIQUID SOLUTION WITH A VALUE LESS THAN 7 IS CLASSIFIED AS THIS TYPE OF SUBSTANCE.
What is an Acid (or Acidic)?
THIS MEDICAL SPECIALTY FOCUSES SPECIFICALLY ON THE MEDICAL CARE, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.
What is Pediatrics?
BEFORE PETER THE ANTEATER WON THE STUDY BODY MASCOT VOTE, THIS MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE WAS ONE OF THE POPULAR ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTIONS.
What is the Unicorn?
THESE ARE TWO REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A HOSPICE VOLUNTEER
Must be 18+
Copy of driver's license + valid car insurance
Background check
TB test and physical exam
TO QUALIFY FOR HOSPICE COVERAGE UNDER MEDICARE, A DOCTOR MUST ESTIMATE THAT A PATIENT HAS A LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THIS MANY MONTHS OR LESS.
What is 6 months?
HUMANS TYPICALLY HAVE THIS MANY CHROMOSOMES
What is 46?
THIS MEDICATION IS COMMONLY KNOWN AS TYLENOL
What is Acetaminophen?
UC IRVINE WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS YEAR AS PART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM'S MAJOR EXPANSION.
What is 1965?
THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE THREE FOUNDERS OF HCA
Who are Insiya, Hiba, and Zoha?
ORIGINATING FROM THE LATIN WORD HOSPES, WHICH MEANS "GUEST" AND "HOST", THE TERM HOSPICE ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO A PLACE OF SHELTER FOR THESE HISTORICAL TRAVELERS.
What are Pilgrims?