Health System, Legal, Ethics
Failure to provide the care a competent professional would, causing harm to a patient.
What is negligence?
This largest artery in the body begins at the left ventricle and carries oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta?
This simple practice is the single most effective way to stop microorganisms from spreading between patients and providers.
What is handwashing?
These objective indicators of disease can be observed or measured, like fever, rash, or elevated blood pressure.
What are signs?
Anything that interferes with the clear exchange of information between a healthcare provider and a patient is called this.
What is a communication barrier?
Before any medical procedure, this process ensures that a patient understands the risks, benefits, and alternatives, and agrees voluntarily to proceed.
What is informed consent?
Air enters through the nose or mouth, passes the pharynx and larynx, travels down this tube into the bronchi, bronchioles, and finally the alveoli.
What is the trachea?
Infections that occur when the immune system is weakened, allowing normally harmless microbes to cause illness.
What are opportunistic infections?
The very first action you should take in an emergency
What is assess the scene for safety?
Gestures and expressions that indicate how a patient is feeling
What is nonverbal communication?
This principle emphasizes that every person, regardless of background or condition, deserves respect, dignity, and equitable treatment in healthcare settings.
What is the Philosophy of Individual Worth
When stress activates this system, heart rate increases, blood vessels in muscles dilate, pupils widen, and blood sugar rises
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The place where a pathogen lives and multiplies before finding a new host.
What is the reservoir?
This assessment technique involves listening to sounds within the body, typically with a stethoscope, to evaluate organs like the heart and lungs
What is auscultation?
Maintaining an appropriate emotional and relational boundary between healthcare providers and patients to ensure objectivity and ethical care.
What is professional distance?
To make a contract legally binding in healthcare, it must include these three elements
What are offer, consideration, and competent parties?
A chronic lung disease where alveoli lose elasticity and enlarge or rupture, reducing surface area for gas exchange and causing shortness of breath
What is emphysema?
By introducing an antigen without causing illness, this preventive measure helps the body create memory T and B cells for future protection
What is a vaccine?
The pressure in the arteries when the heart is at rest between beats.
What is diastolic blood pressure?
This defense mechanism involves attributing your own thoughts or feelings to someone else.
What is projection?
This legal document states a person’s wishes for medical care if they become unable to communicate those decisions themselves
What is an advance directive?
Chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart muscle, often triggered by exertion or stress.
What is angina pectoris?
These single-celled organisms often live in decayed matter and contaminated water, causing diseases like amoebic dysentery.
What are protozoa?
The primary portal of exit for the hepatitis A virus
What is the fecal route (via feces)?
This defense mechanism involves creating logical explanations to justify behaviors or feelings that might otherwise cause guilt or anxiety.
What is rationalization?