Historic Figures
The founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
Ancient times
What act led to regulations regarding long-term care and home health care?
This is the type of care received by people who live in nursing homes. It is a type of skilled care where they receive care from nurses and CNAs.
Long-term care
This is what it is called when you are required to stay at home because you have an illness.
Quarantine
She founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
During this time period smallpox, typhus, and the plague occurred.
The Dark and Middle Ages
This occurs when an outbreak of a disease occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a large proportion of the population.
Pandemic
A state where your social, emotional, physical, and mental health are healthy.
Wellness
Stem cell research started in this century.
21st century
Artist who used dissection to draw the human body
In what time period was dissection first allowed?
Renaissance
The care of the elderly.
Geriatrics
This century experienced the most growth/changes in healthcare
20th century
This type of medicine helps kill bacteria.
Antibiotics
He invented the Small Pox vaccine
Edward Jenner
During this time the microscope and thermometer was discovered.
16th, 17th, 18th Centuries
Methods of treatment used in conjunction with conventional medicine
Complementary therapies
Discuss Alternative
This is when you take care of the whole person; all aspects of their health.
Holistic care
This is another way to say that hospitals or healthcare organizations try to make adjustments to save money.
Cost containment
He invented the microscope.
Leeuwenhoek
19th Century
Using video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical care.
Telemedicine
This is care that someone receives out of the hospital such as at a clinic or a same-day surgery center.
Outpatient services
This is when a disease affects a people in a regional area.
Epidemic