Module 1
History, Organizations & Ethics
History, Organizations & Ethics
This organization administers national credentialing examinations for respiratory therapists.
What is the NBRC?
These two pieces of PPE are routinely required for contact precautions.
What are a gown and gloves?
This section of the medical record identifies the primary reason a patient seeks medical attention.
What is the chief complaint?
This body cavity contains the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This organ circulates blood through the pulmonary and systemic circulations.
What is the heart?
This is considered the entry level respiratory therapy credential.
What is CRT (Certified Respiratory Therapist)?
This body position is where the patient is lying in bed with their face down.
What is prone?
This term describes a patient's ability to obtain, understand, and use health information.
What is health literacy?
This directional term describes a structure located toward the head.
What is cephalad or superior?
This chamber receives deoxygenated blood returning from the systemic circulation.
What is the right atrium?
A therapist protects a patient's right to accept or refuse treatment by respecting this ethical principle.
What is autonomy?
This term describes an infection acquired during a hospital stay.
What is a nosocomial infection?
This communication method requires repeating an instruction and confirming when the task is complete.
What is closed-loop communication?
This anatomical landmark identifies where the trachea branches into the right and left mainstem bronchi.
What is the carina?
These small blood vessels allow exchange of gases, nutrients, and wastes with body tissues.
What are capillaries?
Discussing a patient's private medical information in a public elevator violates this professional obligation and may violate HIPAA.
What is patient confidentiality?
This type of transmission-based precaution requires an N95 respirator and a negative-pressure room.
What are airborne precautions?
This describes when students or professionals from two or more healthcare professions learn with, from, and about one another.
What is Interprofessional Education (IPE)?
This airway structure, commonly known as the windpipe, extends from the larynx and divides into the right and left mainstem bronchi.
What is the trachea?
This valve separates the left atrium and the left ventricle.
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve?
This ethical principle requires healthcare professionals to be truthful and honest when communicating with patients.
What is veracity?
Unlike disinfection, this equipment-processing method destroys all microorganisms, including bacterial spores.
What is sterilization?
Education, environmental conditions, healthcare access, and economic stability are examples of these nonmedical factors that influence an individual's health outcomes.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
These respiratory structures are the primary location for gas exchange between air and pulmonary capillary blood.
What are the alveoli?
During this phase of the cardiac cycle, the ventricles contract and eject blood into the arteries.
What is systole?