Medical Terminology
Recording of the heart using echoes
Echocardiogram
prefix meaning: having to do w/electricity
Electro-
Federally funded but state administered insurance plan for individuals who qualify due to low income
Medicaid
An example of a theory of development that you read about last week. It describes stages of cognitive development in children.
Piaget's Cognitive Stages
the absence of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms...
asepsis
Enlargement of the liver
Hepatomegaly
prefix meting: less than normal
hypo-
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is called....
HIPAA
Yes or No
Chemicals in the workplace are a potential source of toxic hazards
yes
BP, temperature, pulse, pain and restorations are
Vital Signs
plea is related to what?
breathing
prefix meaning many or much
Poly
When principles of an ETHICAL system appear to contradict each other and no clear answer emerges
Ethical Dilemma
True or False
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a model that categorizes and ranks basic human needs to describe how humans are motivated
True
When you gather patient information you are conducting what?
Assessment
a condition created by less than normal levels of thyroid hormones
hypothyroidism
of the heart
Card/Cardi
A law that protects individuals from liability then they stop to assist someone
Good Samaritan Act
Paralysis of all four extremities
Quadriplegia
Acupuncture, yoga, chiropractic, homeopathy are types of what kind of medicine
Alternative or Holistic
condition of slow blood flow in the veins
Venous stasis or Venostasis
Prefix meaning many
Poly
A type of software that performs specialized tasks
Application Program
Pleg means what
Paralysis
A set of characteristics and behaviors that enables one to do the best job possible to provide and maintain high-quality service to patients and employers
Professionalism