Careers in Healthcare
This industry is one of the largest in the U.S. and continues to grow due to increased demand.
What is the health care industry?
This is the first step in the problem-solving process.
What is Identifying the Problem?
A doctor orders 750 mg of medicine for a patient. Each tablet contains 250 mg. How many tablets should the patient take?
What are 3 tablets?
This is the term referring to the body process where organisms maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
What is growth?
This concept describes moving up through health care jobs that require increasing levels of education and training.
What is a career ladder?
This type of patient data includes patient's self-reported feelings such as pain or dizziness.
What is subjective data?
A nurse needs to give 5 grams of medication. How many milligrams is that?
What is 5000 milligrams?
This organ system is primarily responsible for providing protection and regulating body temperature.
What is the Integumentary system?
Crawling is this kind of development.
(Gross motor, fine motor, sensory, language, cognitive)
What is gross motor development?
This type of health care worker typically requires the least amount of formal education.
What is an aide or assistant?
This term refers to legal permission from a government agency to practice a profession.
What is licensure?
A child takes 5 mL of cough syrup every 8 hours. How much will the child take in one day?
What is 15 mL?
This body system brings oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to body cells while removing waste.
What is the circulatory system?
Use of a pincer grasp is a milestone for this age range.
What is 8-12 months?
This type of health care worker typically requires the most amount of formal education, which is four or more years.
What is a professional?
This term refers to placement on an official list after meeting standards.
What is registration?
A patient's temperature is 102.3 F. What is this in Celsius?
C = (F - 32) / 1.8
F = 1.8(F) + 32
What is 39.06 C?
This type of tissue transmits nerve impulses throughout the body.
What is nervous tissue?
Sitting with support is a milestone for this age range.
What is 4-8 months?
This activity involves gaining work experience and skill development but is unpaid.
What is volunteering?
This term refers to meeting predetermined standards and passing a professional exam.
What is certification?
A patient is to receive 200 mL of fluid over 4 hours. How many mL per hour should they be given?
What is 50 mL/hr?
This is the order of organization in the human body from simplest to most complex, starting with cells.
Cells -> Tissues -> Organs -> Organ Systems
Erik Erikson believed that development occurs through a series of these kinds of stages.
What are psychosocial stages?