Healthcare Careers
This person takes and interprets X-rays.
What is a radiologist?
BMI is short for this.
What is body mass index?
The prefix "cardio" refers to this organ.
What is the heart?
This disease is caused by too much sugar in the blood.
What is diabetes?
The ethnical duty to keep patient information private.
What is confidentiality?
This type of therapist helps patients regain movement after injury.
What is a physical therapist?
ICU is short for this type of hospital unit.
What is intensive care unit?
What is blood?
This disease is spread by mosquitoes and can cause fevers, sweating, headaches, fatigue, nausea, or vomiting.
What is malaria?
Getting permission from a patient before treatment is known as this.
What is informed consent?
This profession provides emergency medical care before patients arrive at a hospital.
What is a paramedic/EMT?
What is shortness of breath?
"Hypo" means this, while "hyper" means the opposite.
What is below/low and above/high?
This infectious disease was declared eradicated in 1980.
What is smallpox?
When a healthcare worker refuses to perform a procedure because it goes against their morals, it's called this.
What is conscientious objection?
This career involves in examining tissues under a microscope to diagnose a disease.
What is a pathologist?
CPR stands for this.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
"Nephro" relates to this body part.
What is the kidney?
This childhood disease, prevented by the MMR vaccine, causes red rashes and fevers.
What is measles?
This principle emphasizes that resources should be distributed fairly among patients.
What is distributive justice?
This type of nurse has advanced training and can prescribe medications in many states.
What is a nurse practitioner?
AED refers to this life-saving device often found in schools and hospitals.
What is an automated external defibrillator?
The prefix "brady" means this, while "tachy" means the opposite.
What is slow and fast.
This neurodegenerative disorder is marked by tremors, low dopamine levels, and can affect movement or balance.
What is Parkinson's disease?
This principle requires that healthcare providers refrain from acts of omissions that would foreseeably result in harm to others, especially in cases in which the individuals are particularly vulnerable to the risk.
What is the harm principle?