Misc
What is thick mucous coughed up from the lungs?
What is sputum
What is a condition that is long-term, long lasting, even possibly a lifetime?
What is chronic?
What is a federal law that requires health information to be kept private and secure and that organizations take extreme caution in ensuring that this law is abided by?
What is HIPAA?
What is the condition in which all of the body's systems are working at their best and are in balance?
What is homeostasis?
What is the federal statute signed into law and designed to expand access to affordable health coverage in the US?
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? (Obama Care)
What is the inability to control your bowels or bladder?
What is incontinence?
What is the knowledge of right and wrong?
What is ethics?
What medical condition occurs when the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen and tissues begin to die?
What is a Myocardial infaction?
What is a disease or condition that will eventually cause death soon?
What is a terminal illness?
Which body system is responsible for removing certain wastes and excess water from the body and for maintaining the body's acid-base or pH balance?
What is the urinary system
What is swelling caused by excess fluid in body tissues?
What is edema?
What is unlawful restraint or someone that affects a person's freedom of movement
What is false imprisonment?
What is a medical condition that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures inside the brain?
What is a Cerebrovascular accident?
What is to widen/enlarge?
What is dilate?
Which body system consists of the heart, blood vessels and blood?
What is the Cardiovascular system, also known as the Circulatory system?
What is the state of being frightened, excited, confused, in danger, or irritated?
What is stress?
What is an action, or failure to act to provide the proper care, that results in injury to a person?
What is negligence?
What are microorganisms found in human blood, body fluid, draining wounds, or mucous membranes that can cause infection and disease in humans?
What are bloodborne pathogens?
What is the term for the body position in which the head and shoulder are elevated to at least 45 degrees?
What is Fowler's position?
What is the name of the body system that is responsible for taking in oxygen and removing carbon dioxide?
What is the respiratory system?
What is holistic, compassionate care given to people who have approximately six months or less to live?
What is hospice care?
What is an injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill?
What is malpractice?
What is a document that outlines the medical care a person wants or does not want in case he/she is unable to speak for himself/herself later?
What is a living will?
What is the name of the pulse site that is located inside the elbow and used to measure your blood pressure?
What is your brachial pulse?
What is the name of the body system that is responsible for the breakdown of food so that is can be taken into the blood stream and used cells and tissues?
What is the Digestive system?