Healthcare Terms
This is another word for "doctor".
What is physician?
This is an area where family and friends can wait while a patient is having some testing done.
What is a waiting room?
In healthcare, this room is referred to as "OR" for short. It's a sterile room and is restricted to OR personnel only.
What is the Operating Room?
The abbreviation for Licensed Practical Nurse.
What is LPN?
These include blood pressure, pulse, respirations, and temperature.
What are vital signs?
This person can also be referred to as a resident or client.
What is a patient?
To be moved from one place to another in the hospital to receive the appropriate treatment and care.
What is to transfer?
Material with which two surfaces are held together.
What are sutures?
The abbreviation for "Activities of Daily Living."
What are ADLs?
This is an institution that provides supportive care to dying patients.
What is hospice?
A person who speaks on behalf of a patient- such as a family member, lawyer, doctor, etc.
What is a Patient Advocate?
A licensed physician who treats disease, injury, and deformity by operation.
What is a surgeon?
The care of elderly people.
What is geriatrics?
A trained professional responsible for drawing blood from patients.
What is a phlebotomist?
We call this SNF for short.
What is a skilled nursing facility?
The order in which authority is passed down from superior (highest) to subordinate (lowest) level.
What is the chain of command?
"Recovery Room". This is where patients are brought directly from the OR to wake up from their anesthesia.
What is the PACU?
To walk a patient around.
What is to ambulate?
The final outcome from a medical test.
What are results?
We use the acronym HIPAA as a short way to say this.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
In health care, this means "to be legally responsible for."
What is a liability?
What is malignant?
You can use this word to describe a patient who is unable to move- often due to a stroke or brain injury.
What is paralyzed?
A piece of laboratory equipment that spins specimens in test tubes to separate the particles in the fluid for further testing.
What is a centrifuge?