Vocabulary
This term means the right of a patient to make their own decisions.
What is autonomy?
The first level of nursing, providing basic care such as bathing and vital signs.
What is a CNA?
This type of care focuses on screenings, vaccines, and checkups to stop illness before it starts.
What is preventive care?
Performing a procedure without a patient’s consent.
What is medical battery?
Washing your hands before and after patient care is an example of this.
What are standard precautions?
The rate of death in a population.
What is mortality?
This nurse level can give medications and care for more complex patients than a CNA.
What is an LPN?
A facility where patients receive outpatient medical services such as checkups or minor procedures.
What is a clinic?
The law that protects patient health information and privacy.
What is HIPAA?
The U.S. agency that ensures workplace safety in healthcare.
What is OSHA?
Healthcare workers who are not doctors or nurses but provide support, like dietitians and lab techs.
What are allied health professionals?
A nurse at this level supervises others and provides advanced patient care.
What is an RN?
This government program expanded insurance coverage and increased focus on preventive care in the U.S.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Leaving a patient without notice or care.
What is abandonment?
A disease that spreads throughout the whole body.
What is a systemic infection?
The study of how diseases spread and are controlled.
What is epidemiology?
This advanced role allows nurses to diagnose patients and prescribe medications.
What is a Nurse Practitioner?
Highly specialized hospital care such as neurosurgery or advanced cancer treatment.
What is tertiary care?
Legal permission by the state to practice a healthcare profession.
What is licensure?
The correct way to dispose of an uncapped needle found on a bedside tray.
What is put on gloves, place in sharps container, and report it?
The legal range of activities that a healthcare worker is allowed to perform.
What is scope of practice?
The difference between a technician and a technologist.
What is a technician usually has 2 years of education, while a technologist has 4 years?
A system where one public agency handles healthcare financing while providers may remain private.
What is single payer?
The difference between civil law and criminal law in healthcare.
What is civil law deals with disputes (like malpractice) while criminal law involves crimes (like fraud)?)
Proper lifting and moving techniques used to prevent worker injury.
What are good body mechanics?