Good Health
Eating a well-balanced meal and nutritious foods providing the body with the materials needed for optimum health?
What is, Diet?
Required uniforms for many health care careers.
What is, scrubs?
Being able to identify with and understand another person's feelings, situation and motives.
What is Empathy?
Being qualified and capable of preforming a task effectively.
What is, competence?
Consistency with between verbal and nonverbal communication isn't important.
What is, False?
A key characteristic of effective nonverbal communication is consistency with verbal messages.
Maintains circulation, improves muscle tone, enhances mental attitude, aids in wt. control, and contributes to more restful sleep.
What is, exercise?
States the name, title, and department of the health care team member.
What is, Name badge or Identification Tag?
Being tolerant and understanding, learning to deal with frustration and overcome obstacles.
What is, Patience?
The use of facial expressions, body language, gestures, eye contact, and touch to convey messages or ideas; communication that is not spoken.
What is, nonverbal communication?
Cultural Diversity in healthcare primarily involves understanding only language differences.
What is, False?
Cultural diversity in healthcare primarily involves understanding various beliefs about heath and illness.
Prevents fatigue by putting less stress on muscles.
What is, good posture?
Should fit well and provide good support to prevent fatigue. Need to be made of nonabsorbent material such as leather.
What is, Shoes?
Enjoying work and display a positive attitude.
What is, enthusiasm?
The body's reaction to any stimulus that requires a person to adjust to a changing environment.
What is, stress?
The primary purpose of an incident report is to assign blame for mistakes.
What is, False?
The primary purpose of an incident report is to document important events accurately.
Impairs mental function, decreases the ability to make decisions, affects the function of the many body systems.
What is, Harmful Substances?
Must be pinned back and kept off the shoulders to prevent touching the pt/resident.
What is hair?
Truthfulness and integrity, being able to be trusted at all times, and admitting mistakes.
What is, Honesty?
A blending of many different personal qualities to meet the standards expected in a health care career.
What is, Professionalism?
A common phycological barrier to communication is personal prejudices.
What is, True?
Routine medical exams to promote good health and prevent disease.
What is, Preventative screenings?
Is usually not permitted with a uniform because it can cause injury to the pt. and transmit germs or pathogens.
What is Jewelry?
The ability to begin or follow through with a task without constant direction.
What is, Self-motivation or initiative?
Factors that impede clear communication, such as physical disabilities, psychological attitudes, and cultural diversity.
What is, Barriers to communication?
The primary purpose of feedback in healthcare communication is to discipline staff members.
What is, False.
The primary purpose of feedback in healthcare communication is to determine if communication was successful.