Health Careers and Degrees
This degree can be obtained after 2 years at a community college
What is an associate's degree?
If signed this document states that the patient SHOULD NOT receive CPR or any form of advanced life supirt if they stop breathing or their heart stops.
What is a DNR document?
surgical excision of a portion of the skull
What is a craniectomy?
This disorder effects the islets of langerhans in the pancreas, resulting in reduced insulin production or an ineffective use of insulin.
What is diabetes?
Antibiotics work on what class of microorganisms?
What are bacteria?
To become a technician this many years is required.
What is 2?
Civil law is also known as this
What is tort law?
This is the term used to describe a condition in which a person has more than the normal number of fingers and toes.
What is polydactyly?
A mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, concentration, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
What is bipolar disorder?
This is the first link in the chain of infection.
This degree can be obtained after a 4 year bachlor's degree at a professional school
What is an MD/DO degree?
These laws protect people from legal action after preforming life-saving medical aid while using reasonable care (usually in a public setting).
What are the Good Samaritan Laws?
This is a group of signs and symptoms occurring together that characterize a specific disease or pathological condition.
What is a syndrome?
This is the leading cause of death in the United States causing about one in four deaths. (Hint: it is effects a vital body organ and the term is coined after that organ)
What is heart disease?
Name any 3 types of microgranisms
Possible answers: bacteria, fungus, protozoa, virus, helminths, rickettsia
A person who has this job is responsible for monitoring a patient's condition, performing medical procedures and administering medicine. THEY CANNOT DIAGNOSE THE PATIENT.
What is a nurse/registered nurse?
This is also known as professional liability; defined as any misconduct or lack of skill that results in patient injury.
What is malpractice?
This is the term used to describe movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration by means of a semi-permeable membrane?
What is osmosis?
Condition in which intraocular pressure within the eye damages the optic nerve causing defects in vision and often blindness
What is Glaucoma?
The ability of micrrorganisms to produce disease is known as...
What is pathogenicity?
This term refers to the services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform, and permitted to undertake. (You cannot work/perform outside of this..)
What is scope of practice?
The acronym HIPAA stands for this
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What is acute, painful nodule formed in the subcutaneous layers of the skin, gland, or hair follicle; most often caused by the invasion of staphylococci?
What is a boil?
This is the most common form of skin cancer.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
An N-95, N-100, or more powerful filtering mask such as a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) mask must be worn for this type of procaution.
What are airborne precautions?