History
Patients seen in the hospital for less than 24 hours
What is an outpatient?
A table outlining the hierarchy of careers in a field.
What is a career ladder?
Also referred to as advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), coordinate patient care, and may provide primary and specialty healthcare.
What is a nurse practitioner?
Care for individuals who are ill, injured or unable to care for themselves in some other way.
What is a nurse?
A cap for broken teeth.
What is a crown?
Aka the Physician's Pledge to abide by ethical standards in the workplace
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Obtained by a school to show it has met the standards that qualify graduates for professional practice.
What is accreditation?
Medical professionals who diagnose illness, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medication, but are not physicians or nurses.
What is a physician assistant?
A nurse who has completed a 2-, 3-, or 4-year nursing program & passed a licensing exam.
What is a registered nurse?
What is periodontal?
Disease used to develop first vaccines
What is smallpox?
A document that demonstrates a worker has met the requirements set by an organization to demonstrate mastery of the job.
What is certification?
Works in medical offices and handles administrative tasks and/or be delegated clinical tasks.
What is a medical assistant?
Work under the direction of a registered nurse in providing basic patient care.
What is a licensed practical nurse?
Appliance designed to replace missing teeth.
What are dentures?
A medical opinion about the likely outcome of a condition or disease.
What is prognosis?
Having graduated from an accredited school & passed a standardized national exam administered by a non-governmental agency.
What is registration?
Care that involves hands-on contact with patients.
What is direct patient care?
The person who is most likely to assist a patient by setting up a bed bath or helping the patient with toileting and dressing.
What is a certified nursing assistant?
The pulp-filled cavity in the root of a tooth.
What is the root canal?
Therapies that promote healing through nutrition, exercise, or relaxation.
What are complementary and alternative medicines?
State grants authority to a professional to practice her job according to the guidelines & limitations set by that state.
What is licensure?
Provide emergency medical care at the scene of accidents, in homes, and in other places.
What is a paramedic?
List the 4 examples of a advanced practice nursing.
Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP)
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)
Surgery that involves an operation to correct a disease, injury or defect of your face, jaw or mouth.
What is maxillofacial?