History of Healthcare
This was thought to cause disease in Ancient times.
What is Evil Spirits?
Ultrasound, CT, and MRI are all examples of this medical technology.
What is Medical Imaging?
This is the primary reason healthcare opportunities are on the rise.
What is aging population and longer life expectancy.
These are the 5 pathways in the Health Science career cluster.
What are "Therapeutic Services, Diagnostic Services, Support Services, Health Informatics, and Biotechnology"?
These are healthcare practices that minimize or avoid the use of surgery or drugs.
What is "alternative, complementary, or integrative therapies"?
This person was a nurse who is started the first nursing school and is considered the "Founder of Modern Nursing".
Who is Florence Nightingale
This is the technology that uses computer software to access patient records, record vital signs, and update treatments for a specific patient.
What is Electronic Health Records?
This is the main cause of insurance accessibility issues.
What is "increasing cost of healthcare"?
Any education past high school, such as community colleges, technical schools, or universities.
What is "Postsecondary Education"?
These are therapies that treat the patient as a whole, taking into account their mental, social, spiritual, and physical needs.
What is "holistic care"?
This person is known as the "Father of Medicine".
Hippocrates
This is personalized medical care that uses a patient's unique combination of genes and chromosomes.
What is "genomic medicine"?
These are the 2 types of government funded insurance programs.
What is "Medicaid and Medicare"?
Medical knowledge is estimated to do this every 6-8 years.
What is "doubles"?
These are groups of similar occupations that share a core set of basic knowledge.
A century ago, this profession was able to treat the pain or symptoms involved with an illness but not cure the disease. Often they prepared their patient for death from an illness that could not be treated.
What are "Physicians/Doctors"?
This is a form of medical care that creates living tissue to replace tissue or organ functions lost due to illness or injury.
What is "regenerative medicine"?
This is the Act that calls for major changes in the US healthcare system that will provide care to a larger number of citizens.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
These are documents proving a person's qualifications for a particular occupation.
What are "credentials"?
This is the most common form of medical care in the United States, which uses medication and surgery to treat the signs and symptoms of disease.
What is "Western Medicine"?
Last century, this greatly reduced the incidence of illness due to Smallpox or Tetanus.
What are "Smallpox and Tetanus vaccinations"?
This is a field of science that uses atoms and molecules to create devices that are thousands of times smaller that what technology currently has. (nanobots entering the cells)
What is "Nanotechnology"?
This type of insurance allows the patient to pick his/her own hospital or doctor.
What is a "PPO"?
This is a sequence of job positions that progress from entry-level to higher levels of authority.
What is "career ladder"?
This is the official recognition from a professional association that an educational program meets the standards for an occupation.
What is "accreditation"?