Medical Science/History
This has become the recognized symbol for medicine, depicts a healing staff with two snakes coiled around it.
What is a caduceus?
Treats injuries, growths, and infections relating to the skin.
What is a Dermatologist?
Provides both routine and specialized care, such as intensive care units and emergency departments.
What is a General Hospital?
Their work ranges from managed care organizations providing direct patient care, to teaching and supervising other staff, performing research, and managing agencies.
What is an Registered Nurse?
The ability to make sound judgement.
What is Discretion?
He is considered the "Father of Western Medicine".
Who is Hippocrates?
Is trained to administer drugs both locally and generally to induce partial or complete loss of feeling.
What is an Anesthesiologist?
Treats nonemergent but urgent situations, such as sports physicals, setting fractures, etc.
What is an urgent care center?
Provides patient care such as bed baths, measuring vital signs, feeding, and ambulation.
What is a Certified Nursing Assistant?
The ability to maintain privacy and safeguard patient confidences.
What is Confidentiality?
The founder of modern medicine.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders.
What is a Podiatrist?
Shelter for an elderly adult that cannot care for themselves.
What is a nursing home?
Provides treatment to people who are physically, mentally, developmentally, or emotionally disabled. Evaluates the patient's skills for self-care, work, and leisure.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
The ability and willingness to show compassion, understanding, and sympathy... To stand in the shoes of other.
What is Empathy?
First female physician in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Treats conditions of the bones, joints, and muscles, including arthritis and joint inflammation.
What is a Rheumatologist?
Provides patient care and conducts research to combat disease.
What is a research hospital?
Treatment of diseases or disabilities of the joints, bones, and nerves by massage, therapeutic exercises, and heat and cold treatments.
What is a Physical Therapist?
Honesty and truthfulness.
What is Integrity?
Invented the stethoscope.
Who is Rene Laennec?
Specializes in diagnosing abnormal changes in tissues that are removed during a surgical operation and in postmortem examinations.
What is a Pathologist?
Living arrangements for the older adult who require minimal assitance.
What is assisted-living facility?
Evaluates, treats, and cares for patients with breathing problems.
What is a Respiratory Therapist?
Keeping your skills and knowledge current.
What is Competence?