Chapter 18
Disease that spreads from person to person through droplets in the air.
What is an airborne disease?
Type of format orders by events that were presented
What is narrative format?
This career cluster determines the presence, absence, or extent of disease and provide data on the effectiveness of treatment
What is diagnostic services?
Dispenses prescription medicines, reads prescriptions from physicians, and fills them correctly
What is a pharmacist?
Refers to “by mouth”
What is P.O.?
Most common hospital infection
What is a nosocomial infection?
Formats groups by information instead of a problem
What is SOMR?
This is a hierarchy of careers in a field and in nearly all cases, a person needs more education or training to move from a lower career on the ladder to a higher one
What is a career ladder?
Creates a plan of treatment, helps perform and analyze diagnostic tests, give treatment, and help care for patients who cannot care for themselves.
What is an RN?
_____ signifies the amount of drug administered to the patient.
What is medication strength?
Virus that slowly wears down a person's immune system.
What is an HIV?
S.O.A.P stand for.....
What is Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan
This career cluster provide care for patients directly or indirectly or they create a therapeutic environment for providing health care.
What is support services?
Performs diagnostic tests for brain related injuries. They often use a paste to attach electrodes to the patient’s scalp.
What is an electroneurodiagnostic technologist?
____ is used to destroy most bacteria and viruses on surfaces other than the skin as it may be harmful to the skin.
What is disenfection?
U.S. government agency dedicated to the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability
What is the CDC?
The 3rd link in the chain of infection is the _______, which is the way by which the pathogen leaves the reservoir and spreads through the environment.
What is the vehicle of transmission?
This is the act of granting authority by the state
What is licensure.
Applies the principles of nutrition to food choice and meal preparation. They educate people about eating well.
People in _____ provide treatment for patients or animals
What are therapeutic services?
Main federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety of workers through the enforcement of safety and health legislation.
These are random reviews of patient records conducted by committees that record this, being completely random and sometimes an inconvenience.
What are Healthcare Audits?
This is the manipulation of genetic material in living organisms, or parts of living organisms, to make products and services
What is biotechnology?
Studies diseases and their nature and effects. They examine blood and tissue samples, check lab tests, and interpret the results.
What is a pathologist?
A(n) ____ designs, makes, and custom fits artificial limbs. A(n) ______ creates orthopedic devices such as leg braces.
What is a prosthetist/ orthotist?