Careers in Health Care
It is the Health Care career that typically takes the most time in training.
🟢 What is a doctor or physician?
This part of the exam checks your eyes, ears, and throat.
🟢 What is HEENT?
It is purpose or goal of suturing.
🟢 What is to close the skin together so that it will heal?
It is the “O” in OLD CARTS.
🟢 What is “Onset”?
It is is a fast way to assess if someone had a stroke.
🟢 What is the FAST test (Face, Arms, Speech, Time)?
This professional assesses, plans, delivers and evaluates care to patients while working with doctors.
🟢 What is a Registered Nurse?
This assessment checks how alert and oriented a patient is.
🟢 What is a mental status exam?
It is a way to be sure hand-washing is done long enough.
🟢 What is the Happy Birthday Song sung twice?
It is the “S” in OLD CARTS and is usually based on a 0 – 10 scale.
🟢 What is severity?
It is what a normal, healthy heart rhythm is called.
🟢What is a sinus rhythm (or normal sinus rhythm)?
An individual who works mostly with regaining or improving body movements (like walking after an accident)
🟢 What is a Physical Therapist?
It is the part of the exam that tests balance, reflexes and movement?
🟢 What is the neurologic exam?
It is the state of being very clean and free of germs.
🟢 What is aseptic (or sterile)?
It is when pain moves from one place to another.
🟢 What is Radiating pain?
It is the medical term for the heart rhythm with the heart has stopped beating.
🟢 What is Asystole?
With extra education and training, this nurse can do physical exams, create treatment plans, and help manage chronic illnesses.
🟢 What is a Nurse Practitioner?
It is a score that tells how awake a person is after a head injury.
🟢 What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
It is the providing of support and comfort care at any stage even when the illness cannot be cured.
🟢 What is Palliative Care?
It is the “C” in OLD CARTS and describes how the pain feels.
🟢What is Characteristic?
It is the type of stroke caused by bleeding into the brain.
🟢 What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
This department's main focus is on keeping the health care setting safe for patients.
🟢 What is Compliance and Risk Management?
It is the medical term for listening to the body (as with a stethoscope).
🟢 What is auscultation?
It is the insertion of a tube into the airway to provide oxygen directly into the lungs.
🟢 What is intubation?
It is a possible cause of pain in the calf and can be dangerous.
🟢 What is a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?
It is the phrase which summarizes the concept that every minute of a stroke without treatment causes brain damage?
🟢 What is “Time is Brain”?