Hospitals
Patients are under strict monitoring for a critical condition
What is ICU (Intensive Care Unit)?
Health professional who supports the work of physicians, physician assistants and other health professionals, usually in a clinic setting.
What is a Medical Assistant?
Treatment of Elderly
What is Geriatrics?
locally-operated, short term facility mainly used for detaining inmates awaiting trial or sentencing. They can also house inmates who have been sentenced for less than a year.
What is Jail?
Branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents.
What is Pediatrics?
Branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery.
What is Acute Care?
Process of making a puncture in a vein usually in the arm, with a cannula, for the purpose of drawing blood. The procedure itself is known as a venipuncture.
What is Phlebotomy?
Skills required to manage one's basic physical needs including personal hygiene or grooming, dressing, toileting, transferring or ambulating, and eating
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) ?
"Control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure levels of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.
What is a Maximum Security Prison?
Someone who works with children and youths who have a variety of disabilities.
What is a Special Education Teacher (SPED Teacher)?
Clinicians care for a variety of patients with medical issues for those recovering from different types of surgery
What is Med Surg?
Medical care provided on an outpatient basis, including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation services.
What is Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care?
The appointed position of a nurse that specialises in mental health, and cares for people of all ages experiencing mental illnesses or distress
What is a Psychiatric Nurse?
Nurse who cares for people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled. In the United States, LPNs work under the direction of physicians, mid-level practitioners, and registered nurses
What is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)?
Assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
What is Speech Language Pathology?
Branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
What is Oncology?
Systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format.
What is Electronic Medical Records (EMR)?
Form used by Nurses to document medication administration; includes date, time, medication, dosage, and route
What is Medication Administration Record (MAR)?
Long term facilities used after sentencing, where felons and inmates are housed for more than a year. These sentencing guidelines may vary by state.
What is Prison?
The use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities, or occupations, of individuals, groups, or communities.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Unit of a hospital, patients are often in critical condition and need constant monitoring and care. These nurses review data from special equipment to track a patient's heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and other vitals.
What is a Telemetry Nurse?
Pertains to the conditions of the bones or joints. The study & care of the musculoskeletal system
What is Orthopedics?
a mechanical lifting device using a strap or sling lifts the patient form one area and moves them to another
What is a Hoyer Lift?
When individuals are incarcerated, they undergo an initial physical assessment to determine what needs they will have during their time in custody, including chronic health issues, mental health and substance abuse.
What is an Intake Exam?
Scientific technique concerned with applying empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior of social significance.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)?