The Health Care Team
Education
Health Care Units
Potpourri
100
Team member resposnible for basic nutrition of patients/residents
Who is the dietician
100
Length of educational program preparing the LPN
What is 9 to 12 months
100
Place where surgery is performed
What is the operating room
100
Teaching non professional personnel to perform new duties
What is cross training
200
Team member who diagnoses and treats the patient/resident illness
Who is the doctor
200
The profession that requires 8 years of college level courses before taking licensing examination and an additional 1 to 5 years of clinical practice
What is the profession of medicine
200
Place where patients are closely monitored after surgery
What is the PACU
200
Nurses with Masters Degree who pursue expanded roles
What is advanced practice nurses
300
Team member who dispenses medication prescribed by physicians
Who is the pharmacist
300
College background in business and supervisory experience. On the job training can lead to this position as well
Who is a unit manager
300
Unit in which seriously ill un stable patients go
What is the ICU
300
Often the front line manager in long term care while still functioning in a dependent role
What is a LPN
400
Team member who by law never functions independently
Who is the LPN
400
On the job training prepares this person to be in an assistive role to the RN or LPN
Who is the nursing assistant
400
Unit that specializes in sub acute care or rehabilitation following hospital discharge
What is short term rehab
400
A guideline for safe, effective care established by health care professionals
What is the standard of care
500
Team member responsible for diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems
Who is the RN
500
Individual who can obtain a license after 2, 3, or 4 years of specialized training
Who is the RN
500
Place where triage takes place
What is the emergency room
500
Using nurses in ways that correspond to their educational preparation
What is differientiated practice
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