History & Trends
This ancient civilization is known for building public sanitation systems and influencing modern public health practices.
What is Rome?
The type of facility where patients receive emergency care, surgeries, and inpatient services.
What is a (general) hospital?
This professional assesses patient symptoms, develops treatment plans, and can work in many specialties; most require medical school.
Who is a physician/doctor?
This professional quality means keeping patient information private
What is confidentiality?
This term describes a patient’s right to make their own health care decisions.
What is autonomy?
The 20th‑century discovery that led to widespread treatment of bacterial infections and major reduction in mortality.
What are antibiotics/penicillin?
A health care setting that provides ongoing, long‑term nursing care for patients who cannot be cared for at home.
What is a long term care facility or nursing home?
The first is a general practitioner for overall oral health, the second is a dental specialist focusing on teeth alignment and bite correction
What are a dentist and orthodontist?
This quality involves being on time, prepared, and reliable at work.
What is punctuality or dependability?
An agreement between two or more parties.
What is a contract?
This 19th‑century nurse is famous for pioneering modern nursing practices during the Crimean War and founding a nursing school.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This federal health insurance program provides coverage for people 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
The difference between a technician and technologist
Name two examples of professional appearance standards in health care.
What are wearing a clean uniform and following hygiene/grooming policies?
These are two types of defamation: written and spoken. Must be in order.
What are libel and slander?
The scientific method breakthrough in the 1800s that linked microorganisms to disease, supporting sterilization and antiseptic techniques.
What is germ theory?
The type of insurance program that provides health coverage based on income eligibility, often run by state governments for low‑income individuals and families.
What is Medicaid?
Name three educational pathways to enter health care (short answer).
What are certificate programs, associate degrees, and bachelor's degrees? (also accept apprenticeships, master's, doctorate)
Describe in one sentence why teamwork is important in health care.
What is it improves patient outcomes by coordinating care and using multiple disciplines?
A signed document giving another person authority to make medical decisions if a patient becomes unable to do so.
What is durable power of attorney (POA)?
The major 20th‑century public health achievement that drastically reduced child mortality through widespread ____________.
What are immunization/vaccination programs?
Explain the difference between HMO and PPO plans in one sentence.
What is an HMO requires choosing in‑network providers and referrals, while a PPO allows out‑of‑network care with higher cost?
Credits for coursework that some professionals need to maintain their credentials
What are CEUs (Continuing Education Units)? or CEC (Continuing Education Credits)
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy?
Explain the difference between implied consent and informed consent.
What is implied consent is assumed by patient actions in an emergency; informed consent is explicit, documented agreement after explaining risks/benefits/alternatives?