Ch 1 People
This nurse is known as the founder of modern nursing and helped train future nurses.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This type of care focuses on keeping people healthy through checkups, screenings, education, and immunizations.
What is preventive care?
This facility provides immediate care for a sudden life-threatening illness or injury.
What is the Emergency Room/ER?
This federal agency regulates the food and drug products sold to the public.
What is the FDA?
This is the amount you pay regularly, usually each month, to keep your health insurance coverage.
What is a premium?
This scientist proved that microorganisms can cause disease and developed a process for killing harmful bacteria in milk.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A patient uses massage therapy along with treatment prescribed by their doctor. This is this type of therapy.
What is complementary therapy?
An older adult can still care for themselves but needs some help with daily activities, medications, meals, or other services. They may live in this type of facility.
What is an Assisted Living Facility (ALF)?
This agency establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is OSHA?
This is the amount a patient must pay before their insurance begins paying for covered services.
What is a deductible?
This physician invented the stethoscope, giving healthcare workers a new way to listen to the heart and lungs.
Who is René Laennec?
A patient chooses acupuncture instead of traditional medical treatment. This is this type of therapy.
What is alternative therapy?
A patient needs a higher level of nursing care and may require help with most ADLs, medications, and ongoing medical needs. This long-term care setting provides 24-hour nursing care.
What is a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)?
This agency focuses on the causes, spread, prevention, and control of diseases in populations.
What is the CDC?
This government health insurance program primarily covers people age 65 and older and certain younger people with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
This healthcare pioneer promoted the use of antiseptics and disinfectants during surgery to prevent infection.
Who is Joseph Lister?
In this cost-control system, hospitals receive a set amount of money based on a patient's diagnosis instead of being paid for every individual service.
What are Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs)?
A homebound patient with a stable chronic condition receives nursing care or therapy in their own home.
What is home health care?
This agency is part of the USDHHS and focuses heavily on disease research and scientific studies.
What is the NIH?
This type of insurance provides medical treatment and benefits to employees who are injured or become ill because of their job.
What is Workers Compensation?
Known as the father of genetics, this scientist studied heredity using pea plants and established basic principles of inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This rapidly growing field uses biology and genetics to improve medicine and includes gene therapy, stem-cell research, pharmacogenomics, and proteomics.
What is biotechnology?
This type of care focuses on comfort and quality of life for a patient with a terminal illness, generally with a life expectancy of six months or less if the illness follows its usual course.
What is hospice care?
This nonprofit organization evaluates healthcare facilities to determine whether they meet established quality and safety standards for accreditation.
What is the Joint Commission (JCO)?
This federal law protects the privacy and security of patients' health information and establishes rules for how protected health information can be used and shared.
What is HIPAA?