Foundations
This is the oldest and largest system of independent health insurers in the US.
What is BC/BS?
This organ system is responsible for sympathetic response.
What is the nervous system?
This is the route used for nitroglycerin.
This model is intended to improve the effectiveness of primary care.
What is patient-centered medical home (PCMH)?
This is a specified sum of money based on the patient's insurance policy benefits due at the time of service.
What is a copay?
This is the process of exchanging information via verbal or nonverbal methods.
What is communication?
These are laws that deal with crimes and their punishments.
What is criminal law?
Medical professional that specializes in diagnoses related to infants through adolescents.
What is a pediatrician?
This connective tissue is responsible for transport of oxygen and wastes.
What is blood?
Examples of this are gloves, masks, face shields and gowns.
What is PPE (personal protective equipment)?
What is comprehensive patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person.
What is holistic health care?
This is an explanation of benefits sent to the provider from the insurance carrier.
What is RA (remittance advice)?
This is the expected conduct, behaviors, and characteristics of those in a particular profession.
What is professionalism?
This is a person who is being sued or accused of a crime in a court of law.
What is the defendant?
This describes anatomical direction of a structure that is further from the trunk of the body.
What is distal?
This mechanism involves parasympathetic function.
What is homeostasis?
OSHA implemented to treat all substances as infected.
What are standard precautions?
This is a provider that diagnoses and treats conditions that require a specific area of expertise and knowledge.
What is a specialist?
This are five-digit numeric codes used to describe an E/M service rendered by providers.
What are CPT (current procedural terminology) codes?
These are questions that require the respondent to use her own words to describe the answer.
What are open-ended questions?
This is a legal agreement between two or more parties (people, companies).
What is a contract?
This is the abbreviation used for the directions for the patient on a prescription bottle.
What is sig (signa)?
This organ is responsible for concentration bile from the liver.
What is the gallbladder?
This disease is indicated by increased number of nitrites, WBCs and protein.
What is a UTI (urinary tract infection)?
This means that all specialty care, hospitals, home health care, and community services are overseen by the provider-directed medical practice.
What is coordinated care?
This is how long it takes for regular referrals to process.
What is 3 to 10 business days?
This is the act of being actively engaged while listening to another person share information to increase comprehension of the delivered information.
What is active listening?
This is the failure to do something that a reasonably prudent individual would do under similar circumstances.
What is negligence?
Methyl salicylate liniment is administered through this route.
What is topical?
This equipment is used to prepare the site of venipuncture for non-blood culture collections.
What are isopropyl alcohol wipes?
This is meeting the standards and regulations of the medical practice's established policies and procedures.
What is compliance?
These are debts incurred, not yet paid.
What are accounts payable?
This defense mechanism is displaying verbal or physical actions aimed at releasing the anger.
What is displacement?
What is litigation?
This theorist developed stages which describes psychosocial theory per age group.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This type of cerebrovascular accident causes blood to seep into surrounding tissues due to the clot(s) present.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
This indicator on the EKG is where the difference of millivolts is measured to indicate electrical activity.
What is a baseline or isoelectric line?
This involves movement or performing the task to learn the skill or action.
What is kinesthetic learning?
This details vital information about any product or chemical used in the medical facility.
What are SDS (safety data sheets)?
This is an unhealthy mechanism used to protect the individual from remembering devastating events.
What is repression?
A doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that allows an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence.
What is res ipsa loquitur?