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When your hospital health care team says its safe for you to go home. You leave the hospital with instructions for how to keep recovering at home.
Discharged
When information is kept private . Anything you discuss with a health care provider is _________.
Confidential
To enter and sign in with a health care facility.
Admitted
The abbreviation for a department in the hospital where you can get medical help in an emergency or something life threatening such as a car accident or heart attack.
ER
Someone who is getting treatment in the hospital but doesn't have to stay overnight.
Outpatient
A health care provider who helps you manage safe and effective medication use. ( They can also do much more for you)
Pharmacist
A serious promise to yourself and others
Pledge
When you are sent to another doctor or health care provider who is specially trained in your health problems.
Referral
When you see another doctor about your health problem.
Second Opinion
A place where you can get help when you don't have a family doctor, or when you can't get an appointment with your family doctor soon enough.
Walk In Clinic
The beliefs or customs of a group of people
Culture
When a doctor or health provider can tell about your health from your symptoms, medical examinations and tests.
Diagnosis
Following a health care providers advice for how you should look after your health- especially when it comes to have you should take medication. Also known as adherence.
Compliance
Being able to get health information you need, understand it, make decisions based upon it, and put those decisions into action. ( 2 words)
Health Literacy
Words that describe how you are feeling
Symptoms
Steps you take to regain strength, relearn skills, and find new ways of doing things after being sick, getting injured, or having surgery. It can take place in a hospital, or in a community clinic.
Rehabilitation
A nurse trained to do many things only a doctor used to do, like ordering lab tests and treating some illness.
Nurse Practitioner.
A card that describes your important health information. You can show it to health care providers so they can give you advice based on your health history needs.
Medical History Card
A secondary, usually unwanted, effect of a medication or treatment, like dizziness or nausea.
Side Effect
Medications used to treat bacterial infections
Antibiotics
The process of obtaining and utilizing the food necessary for growth, health, and well-being.
Nutrition
A long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured, such as diabetes, heart disease, or asthma.
Chronic Disease
A chronic condition where the body has difficulty regulating blood sugar levels, leading to either high or low blood glucose.
Diabetes
A group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to spread to other parts of the body.
Cancer
A factor that increases the likelihood of developing a health problem, such as smoking or high cholesterol.
Health Risk