Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
When the focus is for the best of the patient.
What is beneficence?
This method of charting an exam include subjective, objective, assessment, and plan.
What is the SOAP method?
These organisms benefit at the risk of another living organism.
What are parasites?
Any inflammation of the epidermis
What is dermatitis?
Foundation of the word
What is the root?
A patient must agree to a procedure by providing this.
What is consent?
This is represented by the letter 'D' in the CHEDDAR method of documentation.
What are details?
The procedures are taken in the healthcare setting to prevent the spread of disease.
What is infection control?
Two fluids produced by the skin
What are sebum and sweat?
This is often added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
A civil wrong or a wrongful act resulting in an injury to another person.
What is a tort?
This Act established security standards for all electronic health information.
Whati is HIPAA?
This treatment relieves symptoms rather than curing disease.
What is palliative?
A cut, tear or puncture of the skin.
What is a laceration?
This system consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Another name for malpractice.
What is medical liability?
The reason the patient is seeking care.
What is the chief complaint?
This is commonly referred to as athlete's foot.
What is tinea pedis?
Chronic inflammatory condition of the airways
What is asthma?
This is the top number of the blood pressure.
What is systole?
Statutes that vary from state to state that protect healthcare professionals during an emergency.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
The physical distance at which we feel comfortable from others.
What is personal space?
This precaution should be used with patient with TB, measles or chicken pox.
What are airborne precautions?
The study of acute and chronic lung diseases
What is pulmonology?
When the body wants to maintain normal physiological limits.
What is homeostasis?