Medical Services
Believed to be caused by irritation in blood vessels in the brain in preindustrial America
What is mental illness?
System to make cash payments to workers for wages lost due to job-related injuries and disease and compensation for medical expenses and death benefits
What is worker's compensation?
Graduate medical education in a specialty, involving on-the-job training
What is residency?
Licensure requirements for a nurse
What is graduation from an approved nursing program and satisfactory completion of a national examination?
People who receive less than 2 years of postsecondary education and are trained to perform procedures
What are technicians and assistants?
Old-age facility that provided inmates with food, shelter, and basic nursing care
What is an almshouse?
Another term for private health insurance
What is voluntary health insurance?
Physician that stresses preventative medicine such as diet and the environment as factors that might influence natural resistance
What is a doctor of osteopathic medicine?
One who has education and clinical experience beyond that required of an RN
What is an advanced-practice nurse?
Those who help people improve their ability to perform tasks in their daily living and work environments
What are occupational therapists?
Led to the concentration of medical practice in cities and towns
What is urbanization?
Plan created to pay physician's fees in 1939
What is Blue Shield?
Physician in a non-primary care specialty that deals with particular diseases or organ systems
What is a specialist?
Primary source of support for nursing schools
What is state funding?
The credentialing association for audiologists and speech/language pathologists
What is the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association?
Court case that directed states to provide community-based services to people with mental illness
What is Olmstead v. L.C.?
Term for any large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance
What is socialized medicine?
Age of about 40% of doctors
What is at least 55 years old?
Three factors that contribute to lack of attraction and retainment of nurses
What is slow growth in wages, low job satisfaction, and inadequate career mobility?
Person who helps patients and families cope with problems from long-term illness, injury and rehabilitation, and other issues
What is a social worker?
University that opened its medical school in Baltimore, Maryland in 1893
What is John Hopkins University?
A means-tested program available to people below a predetermined income level
What is Medicaid?
The imbalance between primary and specialty care in the U.S.
What is specialty maldistribution?
Four areas of specialization for advanced-practice nurses
What are clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse-midwives?
Two broad categories of allied health professionals
What are technicians and/or assistants and therapists and/or technologists?