NURSING
What healthcare professional provides direct patient care, monitors patients, gives medications, and works with doctors and other healthcare professionals?
What is a nurse (RN)?
What organ pumps blood throughout your body?
What is the heart?
What medical specialty focuses on the health and development of children?
What is pediatrics?
What healthcare professional performs operations to treat injuries, diseases, or other medical conditions?
What is a surgeon?
This healthcare professional helps patients improve movement, strength, balance, and physical function after an injury or illness.
What is a physical therapist (PT)?
This type of nurse specializes in caring for babies who are premature, critically ill, or need extra medical support after birth.
What is a NICU nurse?
What medical specialty focuses on the heart and blood vessels?
What is cardiology?
What does NICU stand for?
What is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
Before many surgeries, patients receive medication designed to prevent them from feeling pain and may be given medication to make them unconscious. What is this field called?
What is anesthesiology?
This professional helps people participate in everyday activities after illness, injury, or disability, sometimes using adaptive equipment or techniques.
What is an occupational therapist (OT)?
This advanced practice nurse can examine patients, diagnose certain conditions, order tests, and prescribe medications depending on state laws.
What is a nurse practitioner (NP)?
What test records the electrical activity of the heart and is commonly abbreviated ECG or EKG?
What is an electrocardiogram?
OB/GYN combines two areas of medicine. What do the "OB" and "GYN" stand for?
What are obstetrics and gynecology?
What does a CRNA provide during medical procedures?
What is anesthesia care?
This healthcare professional focuses on food, nutrition, and how diet can affect health and disease.
What is a registered dietitian (RDN)?
A nurse who works in a hospital's emergency department may care for patients with injuries, sudden illnesses, and other urgent medical problems. What is this specialty commonly called?
What is emergency nursing?
A surgeon who performs operations on the heart and major blood vessels works in this specialty.
What is cardiothoracic or cardiovascular surgery?
A doctor who specializes in pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive health may work in this field.
What is OB/GYN?
A doctor who specializes in operations involving the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system is called what?
What is a neurosurgeon
This medical professional uses sound waves to create images of structures inside the body, such as during pregnancy.
What is a sonographer/ultrasound technologist?
A nurse who travels between hospitals or healthcare facilities for temporary assignments is commonly known by what name?
What is a travel nurse?
During a coronary artery bypass procedure, a surgeon creates a new route for blood to flow around a blocked or narrowed coronary artery. What is this commonly called?
What is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)?
A newborn is having difficulty breathing and requires specialized monitoring and treatment immediately after birth. Which hospital unit is specifically designed to care for critically ill newborns?
What is the NICU?
During surgery, an anesthesiologist may monitor a patient's breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and other vital signs. Why is this monitoring important?
To help maintain the patient's safety and manage their response to anesthesia and the procedure.
A medical professional who studies tissues and cells to help identify diseases, often by examining specimens in a laboratory, works in this specialty.
What is pathology?