Healthcare Career Roles
This is a document proving that one is qualified to do a certain job
What is certification
This is the federal agency that oversees and approves the distribution of medicines and medical devices
What is the Food and Drug administration (FDA)
These are basic survival needs, including air, food, water, shelter, clothing, and sleep
What are physiological needs
A communications technique used in many professions to listen with full attention to the person speaking
What is Active Listening
Written document that directs medical personnel to refrain from initiating lifesaving measures if the patient's heart or breathing has stopped
What is Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)
Career Track of jobs that work directly with improving the health of a patient over time and work directly with patients
What is Therapeutic Services
This is the part of the cost of healthcare that individuals pay, while the rest is covered by insurance payments
What is a copayment/copay
This is the state of being happy, healthy, and able to reach one's potential
What is wellbeing
Information gathered through a person's five senses or through laboratory or diagnostic tests
What is objective data
Legal document that lets patients express their wishes about their medical treatment
What is an advanced directive
This person performs technical diagnostic tests in a medical laboratory
What is a lab technician
The study of the moral and ethical questions that arise from new medical discoveries
What is bioethics
Independence, or the ability to make some decisions for oneself
What is autonomy
Measurements of the body's basic functions including temperature, pulse and respiratory rates, and blood pressure
What are vital signs?
Conduct of a professional that does not meet the standard of competence for the profession and has caused harm
What is malpractice
Healthcare setting that provides care for those in longer term recovery from disease or an accident
What is a skilled nursing facility?
This law was passed in 2010 to add new rules about health coverage for all Americans
What is the Affordable Care Act?
A psychological theory of how people are motivated to meet their most basic physical needs before seeking to meet their emotional needs
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Bits of information, especially facts and statistics, collected to analyze and assist in making decisions
What is data
Law passed by the US Congress in 1996 to reduce the administrative costs of healthcare and make sure patients could change insurance plans
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
This professional prepares and administers radioactive compounds for the treatment of disease
What is a nuclear medicine technologist
This is the oath taken by physicians to uphold ethical obligations to patients and society
What is the Hippocratic oath?
The name for an infant up to four weeks of age
Any communication that is not carried through the words we use
What is non-verbal communication
A set of guarantees given to people receiving health services
What is a Patient's Bill of Rights