Radiology Tech - ✅✅ position clients +performs radiologic imaging to be
reviewed for diagnosis ex: a client with severe abdominal pain needs a CT scan
Respiratory therapist - ✅✅ evaluate respiratory status and provides breathing
treatments ex: a clients who needs neb.
Social worker - ✅✅ works with clients and their families to coordinate care and
community resources to ensure the client can recover and be discharged to a safe
environment.
Speech Language Pathologists - ✅✅ evaluate+ make recommendations
regarding impairments in speech language+ swallowing
Ex: a patient who has difficulty swallowing after a head injury.
Medicare - ✅✅ government health insurance for those above 65 years old
Medicaid - ✅✅ government health insurance for those with low income
Risk Management - ✅✅ limiting the unsafe practices in a healthcare system
Quality Improvement - ✅✅ research. To change and improve current policies
Professional Standards Review Organization - ✅✅ PSRO
Professional Standards Review Organization - ✅✅ government agency that
reviews the cost + quality of healthcare
Patient centered care - ✅✅ has control over their own care+ health decisions
Transparency exist with the patient and health care team.
Primary - ✅✅ health improvement screening + prevention
Secondary - ✅✅ diagnosis+ treatment of chronic/ temporary problems ex) ED
surgery
Tertiary - ✅✅ treatment of acute + long term disease ex.) ICU / subacute
, Levels of Care - ✅✅ primary, secondary, tertiary
Fiber - ✅✅ fruits, beans, veggies, wheat & Bran
Caduceus - ✅✅ symbol of modern medicine
Hippocratic oath - ✅✅ pledge physicians make to do no harm when they enter
medicine
Hippocrates - ✅✅ father of medicine
Holistic care - ✅✅ healthcare that emphasizes the whole mind body spirit
Mary E. Mahoney - ✅✅ 1st black graduate who advocated for fair treatment of
black patients
Mary Breckinridge - ✅✅ started one of the first midwifery schools in the us
Melinda Ann Richards - ✅✅ First trained nurse in the United States
Dorothea Dix - ✅✅ advocated for fair treatment of mentally ill
Florence Nightingale - ✅✅ Founder of modern nursing + infection control
Clara Barton - ✅✅ Founded the American Red Cross
Unlicensed assisted personnel - ✅✅ UAP
License practical nurse - ✅✅ LPN
Registered nurse - ✅✅ RN
Advanced practice registered nurse - ✅✅ APRN
Unlicensed assistive personnel - ✅✅ CNAs, medical assistants, dialysis techs+
phlebotomists
Can't assess, administer or educate