Health Care Trends and History
The Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
Agency that provides palliative care.
What is Hospice?
Degree awarded after four or more years in college.
What is a Bachelor's degree?
Cooperating and working well with others.
What is teamwork?
The law that provides strict guidelines for maintaining confidentiality of healthcare information.
What is HIPAA?
She started the professional education of nurses.
Who is Florence Nightengale?
Federal program that provides medical assistance to people with low income.
What is Medicaid?
Education required to renew certain certifications or licenses.
What is continuing education units (CEU's)?
Being qualified and capable of performing a task.
What is competence?
Being able to identify with another person's feelings.
What is empathy?
She founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Type of facility that provides long-term care for rehabilitation or to recover from a major illness.
What is an extended care facility?
Medical specialist who treats disease of the stomach and intestines.
Who is a gastroenterologist?
Having the ability to say or do the kindest or most fitting thing in a difficult situation.
What is tact?
An observation that you cannot measure.
What is a subjective observation (symptom)?
He invented the bifocals.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The agency sponsored by the United Nations that compiles statistics on disease and publishes health information.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Provides care to individuals with hearing problems.
Who is an audiologist?
Being prompt to work and completing assigned tasks.
What is dependable?
Provides total healthcare directed toward preventative health care.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?
This vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1952.
What is the polio vaccine?
Indicates the areas of responsibility in all healthcare facilities.
What is the organizational chart?
Registered nurse who provides total care for normal pregnancies.
Who is a certified nurse midwife?
What is a psychological barrier?
Studies tissues, fluids, and cells of the body to help determine the presence or cause of disease.
Who is a Medical/clinical laboratory technologist?