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Teamwork
-Define - (answer)- Ability to work towards a common vision
- Ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives
Scope of Practice
-Define - (answer)The duties or services that a particular health care practitioner is authorized to
perform
(Limited based on education, clinical experiences, and verification of competency)
What is the Scope of Practice for a Health Scholar? - (answer)DO:
- Assist the nurse in transporting, repositioning, or toileting tasks
- Assist the unit secretary with paperwork, telephones, or call lights
- Assist hospital staff and physicians as requested
- Assist the patient and family
- Engage in basic patient care tasks and gain invaluable experience in communicating with patients and
interacting with the patient care team
- Gain solid understanding of desired profession and demonstrate commitment and dedicated to career
goals
- ** Help provide better patient care! :) **
DONT:
- Chart vital signs
- Read patient charts
- Enter restricted isolation rooms
- Transport certain patients alone
- Handle narcotics or medications
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(These are only a few examples)
Allied Health
- Define - (answer)- Mid-level health care professionals who support, complement, or supplement the
work done by physicians and nurses
- 'Allied Heath' is a broad term used to identify a cluster of health care professionals of over 100
occupational titles
Nursing
- Define - (answer)The use of clinical judgement to
- Enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health
- Help patients cope wth health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life
Physician Extenders
- Define - (answer)- Health care professionals who carry out certain duties typically associated with a
physician
- Usually a Physician's Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
- Not only filling the gap but adding genuine value
- Provide increased access to medical care (important for the *Triple Aim*)
What is the Triple Aim? - (answer)Cost
Quality
Access
Cost - Reduce the amount of money required for health care
Quality - Increase the quality of customer service and PERFORMANCE (i.e. Successful surgery, etc.) that a
patient receives
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Access - Make health care more accessible (i.e. More affordable and more resources available, more
hospitals/community clinics, etc).
Anatomical Position
-Define - (answer)- Patient's body is erect
- Head, eyes, toes, and palms are directed forward with the limbs at sides of the body
Medial and Lateral
-Define - (answer)Medial
- Toward the midline of the body
Lateral
- Away from the midline of the body
Anterior/Ventral and Posterior/Dorsal
-Define - (answer)Anterior/Ventral
- Face or front side
Posterior/Dorsal
- Back side
Proximal and Distal
-Define - (answer)Proximal
- Close to the middle of the body, toward torso
Distal
- Away from the midline of the body, away from the torso
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Cranial and Caudal
-Define - (answer)Cranial
- Toward the top of the head
Caudal
- Away from the top of the head, toward the hind parts
Superior and Inferior
-Define - (answer)Superior
- Above or over something, based on a reference point
Inferior
- Below or under something, based on a reference point
Flexion and Extension
-Define - (answer)Flexion
- Closing of a joint
Extension
- Opening of a joint
Supination and Pronation
-Define - (answer)Supination
- Palm of hand faces forward/ventrally
Pronation