Legal & Ethical
The ability to understand someone else's feelings is known as:
Empathy
Patients must have _________________ while being questioned.
privacy
Admitting to a mistake demonstrates:
Responsibility
The type of post-secondary degree that requires 2 years of education is:
Associate degree
The type of post-secondary degree that requires 4 years of education is:
Bachelors degree
Restricting an individual’s freedom without legal authorization is called:
False Imprisonment
A spoken false statement that causes damage to a person's reputation:
Slander
The Father of Medicine is:
Hippocrates
What group of people are covered under Medicare?
People over age 65
Type of healthcare facility that provide assistance and care for elderly patients, individuals with disabilities, handicaps, chronic or long term illnesses is:
Long-term care facilities
The type of healthcare facility that provide assistance to help patients with physical or mental disabilities care for themselves is:
Rehabilitation facilities
Language, customs, values, art, and social norms are all societal aspects of:
Culture
What group of people are covered under Medicaid?
children of low-income families under age 18
The type of healthcare facility that provide vision examinations, prescribe glasses or contact lenses, and check for the presence of eye diseases is:
Optical centers
The term used to describe wrongful acts that do not involve contracts is:
Torts
Which of the following discoveries did Louis Pasteur contribute to the practices of medicine?
Pasteurized milk to kill bacteria
This person discovered penicillin in 1928.
Sir Alexander Fleming
Founder of Modern Nursing is:
Florence Nightingale
How should a documentation error be corrected if not using the electronic medical record?
1.Draw a line through the error
2. Add the correct information
3. Initial and date the error
What is the name of the organization that is concerned with the causes, spread, and control of diseases in populations?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
What are legal documents that allow people to state what medical treatments they want or do not want in the event that they are unable to make decisions or communicate?
Advance Directives
The organization that compiles statistics and information on disease, publishes health information, investigates and addresses serious health problems throughout the world is:
World Health Organization (WHO)
Developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796.
Edward Jenner