Health Care Agencies
Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home like setting to persons needing some help with daily activities.
What is assisted living residence (ALR)?
Changes in mental, emotional, and social function.
Basic unit of body structure.
What is a cell?
A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection.
What is a pathogen?
An emergency procedure performed when the heart and breathing stop.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?
What is a prefix?
Health promotion, Disease prevention, Detection and treatment of diseases, Rehabilitation and restorative care
What is purposes of health care?
Is a period of time (age range) in which a person learns a certain skill.
What is a stage?
Anything that excites or causes a body part to function, become excited or respond.
What is stimulus?
OPIM
What is other potentially infectious material?
A burn that involves the epidermis and part of the dermis. They are very painful. Nerve endings are exposed. There is redness, swelling, and blistering.
What is a partial thickness (second degree) burn?
RUQ
What is the right upper quadrant (RUQ)?
What is a skilled nursing facility?
What is the moro reflex (startle reflex)?
Strong, tough connective tissue connect muscles to bones.
What is a tendon?
Is the process, procedures, and chemical treatments that kill microbes or prevent them from causing an infection.
What is antisepsis?
Breathing stop but heart action continues for several minutes.
What is respiratory arrest?
At or toward the front of the body or body part.
What is anterior (ventral)?
PPS
What is the Step (dance) reflex?
The tube connects the middle ear and throat.
What is the eustachian tube?
Is a carrier (animal, insect) that transmits disease.
What is a vector?
A life threatening sensitivity to an antigen.
What is anaphylaxis?
What is atrophy?
Services are moved from the departments to the bedside.
What is patient focused care?
A behavior or skill that occurs in a stage of development.
What is a milestone?
What is vitreous humor?
The absence of disease producing microbes.
What is asepsis?
Is an abnormal heart rhythm.
What is ventricular fibrillation (VF, V-fib)?
The part farthest from the center or from the point of attachment.
What is distal?