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Also referred to as advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), coordinate patient care, and may provide primary and specialty healthcare.
What is a nurse practitioner?
Care for individuals who are ill, injured or unable to care for themselves in some other way.
What is a nurse?
A cap for broken teeth.
What is a crown?
A table outlining the hierarchy of careers in a field.
What is a career ladder?
Medical professionals who diagnose illness, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medication, but are not physicians or nurses.
What is a physician assistant?
A nurse who has completed a 2-, 3-, or 4-year nursing program & passed a licensing exam.
What is a registered nurse?
What is periodontal?
Obtained by a school to show it has met the standards that qualify graduates for professional practice.
What is accreditation?
Works in medical offices and handles administrative tasks and/or be delegated clinical tasks.
What is a medical assistant?
Work under the direction of a registered nurse in providing basic patient care.
What is a licensed practical nurse?
Appliance designed to replace missing teeth.
What are dentures?
A document that demonstrates a worker has met the requirements set by an organization to demonstrate mastery of the job.
What is certification?
Care that involves hands-on contact with patients.
What is direct patient care?
The person who is most likely to assist a patient by setting up a bed bath or helping the patient with toileting and dressing.
What is a certified nursing assistant?
The pulp-filled cavity in the root of a tooth.
What is the root canal?
Having graduated from an accredited school & passed a standardized national exam administered by a non-governmental agency.
What is registration?
Provide emergency medical care at the scene of accidents, in homes, and in other places.
What is a paramedic?
List the 4 examples of a advanced practice nursing.
Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP)
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)
Surgery that involves an operation to correct a disease, injury or defect of your face, jaw or mouth.
What is maxillofacial?
State grants authority to a professional to practice her job according to the guidelines & limitations set by that state.
What is licensure?