This Allied Health Professional has on the job training or vocational training, may or may not take a National certification exam and has responsibilities both at the front desk and in the examination room.
What is a medical assistant?
100
This is an inflammation of the lymphatic tissue in your throat.
What is tonsillitis?
100
This is the longest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
100
This is a blood pressure cuff
What is a sphygmomanometer?
100
Gown, gloves, mask, goggles
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
200
This Allied Health Professional may obtain an Associates Degree or a Bachelors Degree and is involved in providing direct patient care in all health care environments.
What is a registered nurse?
200
This is an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by a "pounding heart"
What is palpatation?
200
This is the collarbone
What is the clavicle?
200
This is a machine used to sterilize with steam heat.
What is an autoclave?
200
These are recommendations by the CDC and enforced by OSHA to ensure that health care employees are safe when caring for ALL patients regardless of their diagnosis.
What are Standard Precautions?
300
This Allied Health Professional has earned a Master's Degree and provides therapy and assessments such as swallowing evaluations in schools and/or health care facilities.
What is speech/language therapist?
300
This is a bone in your hip--spelling counts!
What is an ilium?
300
This is the breast bone.
What is the sternum?
300
This is the small machine used to measure blood glucose
What is a glucometer?
300
This the the state of being free of all pathogenic microorganisms
What is asepsis?
400
This Allied Health Professional must earn a Doctorate and provides therapy aimed at restoring clients to their ultimate physical ability. They deal primarily with large muscle movement such as walking.
What is a physical therapist?
400
This is a method of examination that involves feeling an area with your hands.
What is palpation?
400
This is the number of bones in your wrist.
What is 8?
400
This is lab equipment which separates solid from liquid components using a spinning motion.
What is a centrifuge?
400
This is the single most effective means to prevent transfer of infection?
What is handwashing?
500
The Health care professional is responsible for assessing a client's nutritional status and determining the proper diet for their health and well being needs
What is a dietician?
500
This adjective refers to the possession of masculine traits
What is virile?
500
This is the type of fracture that often occurs in children
What is a greenstick fracture?
500
This is a monitor that measures a patient's oxygenation level and pulse rate?
What is a pulse oximeter?
500
This is the type of waste generated when performing procedures such as drawing blood.