Overview
Responsible for the overall medical or surgical care of individuals-attend medical school
What is a physician?
also referred to as advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), coordinate patient care and may provide primary and specialty healthcare.
What is a nurse practitioner?
Care for individuals who are ill, injured or unable to care for themselves in some other way.
What is a nurse?
dispense prescription medications to patients and offer expertise in the safe use of prescriptions.
What is a pharmacist?
produce black and white images that assist in the diagnosis of injury or illness.
What is an x-ray?
Educates people about eating well and incorporating food choices in the management of diseases.
What is a Registered Dietitian?
Medical professionals who diagnose illness, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medication, but are not physicians or nurses.
What is a physician assistant?
This type of nurse are the most likely nursing professional to supervise other RNs and supervise LPNs and CNAs.
What is a registered nurse?
examine patients for signs of oral diseases, such as gingivitis, and provide preventive care, including cleaning and polishing teeth. Not the dentist.
What is a dental hygienist?
uses computers and X-ray images that taken from different angles around the body to create cross-section images of bones, blood vessels and soft tissues inside the human body.
What is a CT scan (computerized tomography)?
provide emergency medical care at the scene of accidents, in homes, and in other places.
What is a paramedic?
clinical laboratory technicians who draw blood samples for testing, transfusions, research, or blood transfusions
What is a phlebotomist?
work under the direction of a registered nurse in providing basic patient care.
What is a licensed practical nurse?
collect samples and perform tests to analyze body fluids, tissue, and other substances
What is a clinical lab technologist or medical technologists?
utilizes a magnetic field and computer-generated radio waves to create detailed images of tissues and organs in the body.
What is a MRI?
assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in children and adults
What is a speech language pathologist?
prepare radioactive drugs and administer them to patients for imaging or treatment.
What is a nuclear medicine technologist?
the person who is most likely to assist a patient by setting up a bed bath or helping the patient with toileting and dressing.
What is a certified nursing assistant?
prepare slides of body cells and examine these cells under a microscope for abnormalities that may signal the beginning of a cancerous growth
What is a cytotechnologist?
records the electrical activity of the heart and records it in graph format.
What is an EKG?
recognition that a school or program is recognized by an outside agency as having the qualities needed to prepare graduates.
What is Accreditation?
Works in medical offices and handles administrative tasks and/or be delegated clinical tasks.
What is a medical assistant?
help care for patients by performing basic, simple functions like activities of daily living
What is a certified nursing assistant?
perform complex protein and nucleic acid tests on cell samples.
What is a molecular biology technologist?
is a portable EKG (electrocardiogram).
What is a holter monitor?