Infection Control
What is the best way to prevent the spread of infection?
What is handwashing?
A 2 year degree is known as an ______________
degree.
What is an associate's degree?
Permission given with full understanding of the procedure and risks is ?
What is informed consent?
What prefix pertains to the liver?
What is hepato?
An enlarged heart is called _______________.
What is cardiomegaly?
What is PPE?
What is personal protective equipment?
What career focuses on helping patients recover movement after an injury?
What is a physical therapist?
HIPAA protects patient privacy and medical records, but what does HIPAA stand for?
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
What organ lies in the right lower quadrant that if it ruptures can cause a patient to become septic? This organ has no true underlying function.
What is the appendix?
_________________ means slow and ______________ means fast.
What is brady -- and tachy--?
What agency provides guidelines to protect workers in healthcare?
What is OSHA?
What career assists surgeons by preparing instruments ?
What is a surgical technician?
Failure to perform your healthcare duties or failure to act is considered _____________.
What is negligence?
This organ stores and filters blood. It also makes blood cells that protect you from infection as part of the immune system.
What is the spleen?
-itis refers to ________________________.
What is inflammation?
What agency is the nation's leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public's Health?
What is the CDC?
What career focuses on helping individuals with daily living activities such as feeding oneself?
What is an occupational therapist?
___________________ is threatening someone verbally but ____________________ is when you physically place your hands - on someone without his or her permission, causing harm.
What is assault? What is battery?
Sudden and rapid intensifying pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen while having episodes of upper back pain, constant belching, severe bloating, nausea, and tenderness could be an issue with what organ?
What is the gallbladder?
A contusion or ecchymosis are also known as a _______
What is a bruise?
What are the 6 links in the chain of infection?
What are the susceptible host, reservoir, mode of transmission, portal of entry, portal of exit, and pathogen?
A _____________ ___________ is a medical doctor who investigatesunnatural or suspicious deaths by performing autopsies and analyzing evidence to determine the cause and manner of death.
What is a forensic pathologists?
What is the medical term for improper, illegal, or unethical professional behavior and actions?
What is malpractice?
This organ is a small, soft, lymphoid organ located in the upper chest, between the lungs and behind the breastbone. It plays a crucial role in the development of immune cells.
What is the thymus?
The study of the stomach and intestines is known as ______________________.
What is gastroenterology?