Education & Careers
Degree awarded by a career/tech school or community college after 2 years of study:
What is "Associate's"?
This is the study of the form and structure of an organism:
What is "anatomy"?
Protection, Absorption, Body temp regulation, and Storage are functions of this body system:
What is "integumentary"?
This clearly defines the procedures, processes, and actions that providers are LEGALLY permitted to perform:
What is "scope of practice"?
A respiratory therapist falls into this career pathway:
What is "therapeutic"?
This is being able to identify with and understand another person's feelings, situation, and motives:
What is "empathy"?
This anatomical plane divides the body into superior and inferior parts:
What is "transverse"?
An organism capable of causing disease
What is a "pathogen"?
Lack of muscle use for long periods of time can lead to this:
What is "atrophy"?
The upper chambers of the heart are called:
What are "atrium/atria"?
This health career is involved with changing the health status of patient over time:
What is "therapeutic"?
This plane divides the body into equal right and left halves:
What is "midsagittal"?
This skeletal division contains the cranium, spinal column, sternum, and ribs:
What is the "axial skeleton"?
A wrongful act that does NOT involve a contract:
What is a "tort"?
This is having the ability to say or do the kindest or most fitting thing in a difficult situation:
What is "tact"?
The ability to be tolerant and understanding in difficult situations:
What is "patience"?
Also known as "frontal", this plane divides the body into front and back sections:
What is "coronal"?
Antibiotics should be given for this type of infection:
A group of diseases characterized by inflammation of the joints:
What is "arthritis"?
These are the largest veins in the body:
What are the "vena cava"?
This career is involved in "creating a picture" of the health status of patient at a specific point in time:
What is "diagnostic"?
This is formed when organs and other structures join together to perform a specific function:
What is a "system"?
The brain and spinal cord make up this nervous system division:
What is the "central nervous system"?
Occurs when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed and/or damages their reputation:
What is "defamation"?
The exchange of thoughts, ideas, and/or feelings:
What is "communication"?
This is the ability to begin or to follow through with a task:
What is "self-motivation"?
Directional term for body parts located AWAY from the point of reference/attachment:
What is "distal"?
Where a pathogen/infectious agent "lives" (2nd link in chain of infection):
What is "reservoir"?
FAST is used to assess this nervous system condition:
What is a "stroke/cerebrovascular accident"?
The valve that separates the right atria and right ventricle:
What is the "tricuspid valve"?
This career pathway focuses on creating a therapeutic environment in which to provide direct/indirect patient care:
What is "support"
Directional term for body parts close to the point of reference/attachment:
What is "proximal"?
The sympathetic and parasympathetic (fight or flight) response is part of this nervous system division:
What is the "autonomic" division?
The unlawful touching of another person without their consent:
What is "battery"?
Health care federal privacy law:
What is "HIPAA"?
You are qualified and capable of performing a task if you have this trait:
What is "competence"?
The opposite of anterior:
What is "dorsal"?
The most effective way to break the chain of infection:
What is "hand washing"?
A chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways; s/s include wheezing and dyspnea:
What is "asthma"?
This blood component is formed in red marrow and lymph, and lives approximately 120 days
What are "erythrocytes"?
Involved with the documentation of patient care (if you don't like blood and guts stuff):
What is "health informatics"?
Directional term for body parts located near the sacrum/lower spinal column area:
What is "caudal"?
This system contains the pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs, and alveoli:
What is the "respiratory system"?
The failure to give expected care and results in an injury:
What is "negligence"?
Asexual cellular reproduction:
What is "mitosis"?
This is using good judgment in what you say and do:
What is "discretion"?
This anterior body cavity contains the esophagus, lungs, heart, and large blood vessels:
What is the "thoracic" cavity?
Airborne, Droplet, Contact are examples of this link in the chain of infection:
What is "mode of transmission"?
Side-to-side/lateral curvature of the spine:
What is "scoliosis"?
The basic structural unit of the nervous system:
What is a "neuron"?
A phlebotomist belongs in this career pathway:
What is "diagnostic"?
The muscle that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities, and plays a vital role in breathing:
What is the "diaphragm"?
Protective membranes of the brain and spinal cord:
What are "meninges"?
Permission given voluntarily by a person of "sound mind" after risks and benefits have been explained:
What is "informed consent"?
What are "sebaceous glands"?
The ability to say/do the most fitting thing during a difficult situation:
What is "tact"?
This connective tissue connects bone to bone at a joint:
What are "ligaments"?
Coughing and sneezing are examples of this link in the chain of infection:
What is the "portal of exit"?
The most "dangerous" form of skin cancer:
What is "melanoma"?
Shaft portion of a long bone:
What is the "diaphysis"?