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Professionalism- Reverse Definations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| externship | A cooperative or workplace experience or period of training for a student that is provided by the students educational facility |
| clinic | A facility providing medical care on an outpatient basis. Many clinics have a specialty such as ongoing care for diabetes or cancer. |
| regulated profession | A field legally restricted to practitioners with a specific professional qualification and/or provincial or territorial registration. |
| administrative health professional | A graduate from an accredited health office administration program who assumes administrative, communication, and/or clinical responsibilities in a health-care settings. |
| licensure | A legal document, obtained after passing written and clinical exams, that is required for health care practitioners in regulated fields. |
| preceptor | a mentor who guides and supervises a student throughout a workplace experience |
| duty | a moral obligation |
| right | a moral, legal, cultural, or traditional claim |
| sick role | a particular social role that an ill person adopts, which involves giving up normal responsibilities and accepting care. May sometimes involve uncharacteristically passive behaviour. |
| client | a person seeking or receiving health care; synonymous with patient, but suggests a more active role |
| medical office assistant | a person who handles primarily administrative but also some clinical duties in a health office |
| medical assistant | a person who is trained to assist a physician with various clinical tests, examinations and procedures. |
| behaviour | a persons discernible responses and actions. |
| autonomy | a persons right to self-determination. In health care it refers to a clients right to make his own decisions without coercion-decisions for treatment for example, based on fact and going fully informed of all treatment options. |
| role | a position in life that carries expectations of responsibilities and of appropriate behaviour. |
| code of ethics | a set of guidelines for ethical conduct |
| wellness | a state of physical and emotional well-being, broadly considered |
| health | according to one definition "a relative state in qhich one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range or ones unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living |
| postpartum | after delivery |
| tolerance | allowing people to have their own beliefs, opinions and way of doing things |
| ALS | also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehirg's disease. This is a progressive disease affecting the nerves that are responsible for muscle stimulation. There is no known cure. |
| attribute | an inborn personal quality or characteristic |
| ward clerk | an individual who manages the administrative and communication needs of a client care unit. The title is being replace with clinical secretary or communications coordinator. |
| allied healthcare | any duty or profession that supports primary healthcare professionals, such as physicans, in delivering health care services |
| triage | assessing the seriousness of a clients presenting problem to determine who needs to have medical help first |
| sterotyping | assuming that all members of a group will be alike |
| prejudice | coming conclusions about a person or group on the basis of untested assumptions, without regard for facts |
| justice | considers concepts of fairness and entitlements, can involve moral or legal issues |
| transcription | creating a written copy of a dictated or recorded message |
| transitional phase | diagnosis and treatment |
| spiritual | for some, means a belief in and dedication to a higher power; for others, it is a personal, or interior quality, tied to emotions, values and morals |
| veracity | honest or truthfulness |
| intellectual | involves our cognitive ability to determine what is right and what is not |
| emotional | involves recognizing ones own strengths and weaknesses, being able to analyze and deal with problems and recognize when one needs help |
| skill | is learned |
| nationality | manifested when a person belongs to a country with all its legal and social benefits |
| faithfullness | meeting the reasonable expectations of others |
| alternative healthcare | nontraditional methods and practices, based on a natural approach, including chiropractic, acupuncture, massage and aromatherapy |
| discrimination | occurs when people are denied justice or treated unfairly because of their membership to a group |
| race | often used to refer to groups of people with similar physical characteristics and a common ancestry |
| social | people with partners and strong social networks are more likely to be physically health |
| empathy | putting yourself in others shoes |
| resolution phase | recovery/rehab/death |
| physical | refers to the body's health and functioning |
| ethnicity | refers to the cultural characteristics of a particular ethnic group |
| ethnic | relating to groups of people with a common racial, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage |
| beneficence | requires that we benefit others and act in the persons best interest |
| action phase | seeking medical intervention |
| acknowledgment phase | sustained clinical signs |
| initiative | the ability to assess when something needs to be done and to do it |
| preliminary phase | the appearance of clinical signs |
| core competency | the basic or essential skills that one needs to succeed in a particular profession |
| values | the beliefs a person holds dear and that persons decisions and behaviour or conduct |
| satisfactory | the client constinues to improve and is usually out of danger |
| guarded | the client has moved from critical toward wellness |
| good | the client is believed to be on firm footing and is expected to recover |
| critical | the client is hanging in the balance between life and death and is receiving active intervention |
| poor | the client is near death but not recievcing active intervention |
| stable | the clients condition has steadied; good news but doesn't indicate a sure recovery |
| culture | the languages, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next |
| scope of practice | the parameters of duties and responsibilities outlined by ones professional training and skill set |
| remission | the phase of a chronic disease characterized by a relief or absence of clinical signs or symptoms |
| exacerbation | the phase of a chronic disease characterized by a return of clinical signs or symptoms |
| ethics | the philosophical study of standards accepted by society that determine what is right and wrong in human behaviour |
| ehnocentrism | the tendency to use our own cultures standards as the yardstick to judge everyone; the belief in superiority of our own group or culture |
| subculture | the values and practices of a group that distinguish it from the larger culture |
| morals | what a person believes to be right and wrong pertaining to how to act, treat others, and get along in a organized society |
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