Health Care Systems
Health Care Careers
Legal and Ethical
Medical Terminology
Infection Control
100
Medical assistance provided by the federal government is known as
What is Medicare
100
What specialty area is engaged in treatment and prevention of diseases of the gums, bones and structures supporting the teeth
What is Peridontics?
100
Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person!
What is Negligence?
100
The medical abbreviation which means twice daily
What is BID?
100
This is used by the health care rofessional toprevent blood or OPIM from contacting employee's eyes, skin, mucous membranes or clothing
What is personal protective equipment or PPE?
200
A Career awarded by a college that usually lasts four years or more
What is a Bachelor' Degree
200
What physician treats diseases / disorders, placing special emphasis on the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems, and the relationship between the body, mind and emotions
What is Doctor of Osteopathic
200
A threat or attempt to injure another person!
What is an assault?
200
The medical abbreviation meaning by mouth.
What is P.O.
200
Treating all patients as if they were potentially infectious is known as
What is Universal Precautions?
300
Educational requirements that many licenses require before licenses are renewed
What is a CEU
300
What career uses various activities to assist the patient in learning skills or activites in ADL'S?
What is Occupational Therapist
300
Actually touching another person without their consent.
What is Battery?
300
THE medical abbreviation which describes an heart attack.
What is MI
300
OSHA is typically concerned about the safety of this group of people.
What is employees?
400
A Doctor that focuses on ensuring proper alignment of the spine and optimal operation of the nervous system to maintain health
What is Doctor of Chiropractic
400
What occupation requires a license (CCC-SLP) in most state AND a Masters Degree with 9 months postgraduate clinical experience
What is a Speech Language Pathologist
400
A legal document that allow individuals to state what medical treatment they do/do not want in the event that they become incapacitated and are unable to express their wishes regarding medical care!
What is an Advanced Directive?
400
The medical abbreviation for a heart that is not functioning properly.
What is CHF?
400
Contaminated sharps, pathologic or microbiologic wastes containing blood or OPIM, liquid or semiliquid blood or OPIM, and contaminated items that would release blood if compressed are all considered to be
What is regulated waste?
500
This therapy uses very minute, dilute, doses of drugs made from natural substances to produced symtpoms of the disease being treated
What is Homeopathy
500
What medical team member specializes in human behavior and uses this knowledge to help individuals deal with everyday living
What is a psychologist?
500
A document that allows individuals to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when their conditions are terminal; death expected!
What is a living will?
500
The medical abbreviation describing a bleed inside Tthe cranial cavity or a blood clot in a brain vessel is called
What is a CVA
500
When a infection is acquired at a hospital it may be known as a
What is a Nosocomial Infection?