Healthcare Professions
Healthcare profession that focuses on the health of children
What is pediatrician?
These professionals help patients and healthcare workers communicate when they speak different languages
What are medical interpreters?
This condition happens when blood sugar levels are too high
What is diabetes?
Arthiritis describes...
What is joint inflammation? (arthr – joint; itis – inflammation)
These structures protect your vital organs and gives your body its shape; an adult human body contains 206 of these
What are bones?
Healthcare profession that focuses on helping patients regain daily living skills after injury
What is Occupational Therapy?
These professionals help children cope with being in the hospital
What are Child Life Specialists?
This condition happens when the brain’s blood supply is interrupted
What is a stroke?
Tachycardia describes...
What is fast heart rate? (tachy– fast; cardia – heart)
This organ is the largest internal organ in the body and detoxifies harmful substances and processes nutrients from your food
What is the liver?
Healthcare professional that specializes in diagnosing diseases by examining tissues and lab samples
What is a pathologist?
Social workers may help patients apply for insurance programs like this government healthcare program
What is Medicaid/Medicare?
This disease is caused by abnormal cell growth that can spread throughout the body
What is cancer?
Appendectomy describes...
What is removal of the appendix? (appen – appendix; ectomy - complete removal of an organ)
This structure acts as the “voice box"
What is the larynx?
Type of nurse that can diagnose illnesses and prescribe medications in many states
What is nurse practitioner?
This important clinical skill involves understanding another person’s feelings, associated with the saying “putting yourself in someone elses shoes"
What is empathy?
This inherited disease is more common in people with African and Mediterranean ancestry and can cause severe pain crises and anemia
What is sickle cell disease?
Hyperglycemia describes...
What is high blood sugar? (hyper - high; glyc - sugar; emia – blood)
This connective tissue structure connects bone to bone
What is a ligament?
CPR stands for...
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
Interpreters help patients provide informed this before procedures or surgeries
What is consent?
This neurological disease affects movement and is caused by loss of dopamine-producing brain cells
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Photophobia describes...
What is physical sensitivity or painful intolerance to light, often triggered by migraines? (photo - light; phobia - fear)
This vessel is the largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?