VITAL SIGNS
Collect on adults annually with shoes off.
What is height?
Cardio- means.
What is Heart?
A healthcare professional trained in standards of privacy and confidently, who, by mutal agreement, is present during an examination.
What is a Chaperone.
Test used to test glucose concentration in the blood. Particularly important in the care of diabetes mellitus.
What is Capillary Blood Glucose (CBG) Monitoring?
Is any type of specialized clothing (water resistant jackets), eye shield or facial barrier and gloves that are used to protect the wearer from serious injuries or illnesses.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
Designed to wash away stains, rust or fingerprints from the stainless steel instruments to keep the surface looking shiny and new.
What is Sklar Instrument Polish?
HTN Means.
What is Hypertension?
Hypo Means.
What is Below, Low, Decreased?
The study of the heart.
What is Cardiology?
Test is used to monitor long-term glucose control in people with diabetes.
What is a Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)?
Machine used to test and measure a person's hearing acuity or hearing level.
What is a Audiometer?
A process that eliminates many or all pathogenic microorganisms, except bacterial spores, on inanimate objects.
What is Disinfection?
Normal adult blood pressure.
What is 120/80?
CBC Means.
What is Complete Blood Count?
CHF Means.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
Test may be used to screen for, diagnose, or monitor a number of conditions and diseases that affect red blood cells (RBCs).
What is Hemoglobin?
Medical test used to determine a patient's visual acuity.
What is the Snellen chart?
A process designed to remove or destroy all viable forms of microbial life, including bacterial spores, to achieve an acceptable sterility assurance level.
What is Sterilization?
Refers to deep rapid respiration.
What is Hyperventilation?
SOAP stands for.
What is Subjective, Assessment, Objective and Planning?
Diabetes Affects What Body System.
What is Endocrine?
Basic diagnostic instrument used to determine pathological changes in the urine.
What is a Urinalysis?
The purpose of this system is to remove earwax that is obstructing the ear canal or to remove a foreign object lodged in the ear canal.
What is Ear Irrigation System?
Placed with every load on the outside/inside of each packaged to visibly show they have been processed.
What is Chemical Indicators?
The most common location to read an adult's pulse is this artery.
What is the radial artery?
What does NPO stand for.
What is Nothing by Mouth?
Asthma affects what body system.
What is Respiratory?
Tests are looking for evidence of an infection in the gastrointestinal tract.
What Is Helicobacter Pylori Urea (H. Pylori) Breath Test?
A test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart.
What is Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)?
OSHA Regulates.
What is Occupational Safety in the Workplace?
The least accurate method of taking a temperature?
What is Axillary?
The suffix "itis" means this.
What is Inflammation?
These are the fundamental units of all living things.
What are cells?
Instruct the patient to note the exact time of the final collection, even if it is not the same time as when collection began on day one.
What is a 24 Hour Urine Collection?
Equipment that is used to measure and analyze lung functions.
What is a Spirometer?
This is the most important law to be familiar with for anyone that handles a patient's protected health information.
What is HIPAA?
When taking a blood pressure, the "top" or first number is called this.
What is Systolic?
Located or occurring between the ribs.
What is Intercostal?
The two nodules located on top of the kidney.
What is Adrenal Glands?
Regulates laboratory testing and requires clinical laboratories to be certificated by their state as well as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) before they can accept human samples for diagnostic testing.
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)?
Portable, handheld device that measures how air comes out of the lungs when you exhale forcefully after inhaling fully.
What is Peak Flow Meet?
Diagnosing a patient or attempting to prescribe treatment is an example of a medical assisting operating outside of this.
What is Scope of Practice?