These submicroscopic infectious parcels of genetic material can only grow and multiply within the living cells of bacteria, plants, and animals.
What are viruses?
Involves a person's right to receive adequate information about "the consequences and risks" of a medical procedure or treatment process, evaluate alternatives, and give permission for a procedure before it's begun.
What is informed consent?
This person is the Master Healer
Who is Jesus Christ?
It takes this number of social workers to change a lightbulb.
What is one? *but the lightbulb has to want to change
What is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
Manages the most extensive healthcare operation in the country.
What is the US Department of Veteran Affairs?
This refers to the efficient ongoing provision of services by different or the same agencies to meet clients' needs as their circumstances and needs change.
What is Continuity of care?
This social worker said, "I do this for the money."
Who is No Social Worker Ever?
This disease is caused by HIV. It is diagnosed when the T-cell count is below 200 (healthy people have between 500-1600). It destroys the body’s immune system leading it to be susceptible to other diseases and infections and is one of the most deadly global health problems today. [Give the FULL NAME]
What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)?
This cost containment feature in a managed care setting specifies an amount paid periodically to the provider for a group of specified services, regardless of quantity rendered.
What is capitation?
A brief and time-limited therapeutic intervention through which a social worker helps clients learn to cope with or adjust to extreme external pressures.
What is Crisis Intervention?
Sometimes I have to remind people that I am a social worker and not this type of worker.
What is a miracle worker?
Conditions and infections that themselves are usually not life threatening but that take advantage of a weakened immune system and use this opportunity to invade it.
What are opportunistic diseases?
Written, witnessed, signed instructions regarding what individuals wish to have done in the event that they are unable to make decisions.
What are advance directives?
A generic label for a health-care system where the provider is expected to provide all elements of health care covered in the enrollee's contract in return for a fixed monthly or annual payment per person. It seeks to retain quality and access while controlling the cost of services by governing the care that is allowed to be provided and setting limits on medical visits or treatments.
What is Managed care?
Being a social worker is easy. It's like riding this.
What is a bike...except the bike is on fire, you're on fire, everything is on fire!
HIV is an example of this special type of virus which invades normal cells and causes them to reproduce more of the virus rather than reproduce themselves like other normal cells.
What is a retrovirus?
This organization provides a wide range of healthcare services for participants and employers, who typically pay an established monthly fee for these services. Services must be provided by facilities and practitioners within the network.
What are Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)?
A publicly funded program that would expand the current system of health-care provision to give some level of coverage to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
What is National Health Insurance?
This holiday movie about child abandonment and multiple agency failings was a box office smash.
What is "Home Alone?"