Terms
Requires two years of education after high school
What is an Associate's Degree?
Medical specialist who treats diseases and disorders of children
Who is a Pediatrician?
Care for the elderly, extended recovery for the physically ill and handicapped.
What is a Long Term Care Facility?
To be able to identify with and understand another person's feelings and situations.
What is Empathy?
Trying to control the rising cost of healthcare
What is cost containment?
Process in which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given occupation.
What is licensure?
Provides information to individuals and families on inherited diseases and conditions.
Who is a Genetic Counselor?
The agency sponsored by the United Nations that compiles statistics on diseases and publishes health information.
What is the World Health Organization?
The ability to say or do the kindest or most fitting thing in a different situation.
What is Tact?
Due to the high cost of healthcare, workers are hired who can perform in a variety of occupations. What are these workers called?
What are multi-skilled workers?
Person who assumes the risk of business.
What is an entrepreneur?
Manages the operation of health care facilities. Determines budgets, finances, and supervises.
Who is a Health Care Administrator?
Provides public education, immunizations, public health nursing, and control and reporting of communicable diseases.
What is the Health Department?
Being willing to be held accountable for your actions.
What is Responsibility?
Patients admitted to hospitals are classified into certain payment groups according to their diagnosis.
What are Diagnostic-Related Groups?
What is certification?
A medical specialist who treats diseases and disorders of the eye.
Who is an Ophthalmologist?
Provides total health care that is directed toward preventative care.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization?
The ability to be tolerant, understanding, and control temper
What is Patience?
An approach whose principle is that money should be spent efficiently rather than wastefully. Gatekeeper doctors decide on what services the insurance plan will pay for.
What is Managed Care?
What are the two purposes of an organizational chart?
Chain of command and line of authority
What is the career cluster involved with the documentation of patient care?
What is Health Informatics?
Industry or a company forms a contract with certain hospitals/dentists to provide certain types of health care at reduced rates.
What is a Preferred Provider Organization?
Being qualified and capable of performing a task while striving for accuracy in all you do.
What is competence?
A legal document prepared when a patient is of sound mind, identifying the type of medical treatment desired if the patient should become incurably ill or lose the ability to communicate effectively.
What is a Living Will?