Question | Answer |
What is pyrexia? | A term for a fever |
What is a apical pusle? | Pulse taken with a stethoscope at the apex of the heart. |
What is the normal range for body temp.? | |
How to prepare for the patient? | Room is neat, supplies are avaliable, review the patient's chart to anticipate patient needs |
What does financial policy of the practice include? | Billing, insurance billing, co-payments, finance charges |
What is democratic data? | Patient's full name, address, mailing address, if different, Telephone number(home, work), Date of birth, social security, insurance information emergency contact person |
What is HIPPA? | Privacy rule liminting the relasese of patient infromation, infomation to the patient must include:Statement of patient's rights, facility's practices releated to privacym where/how to file a complaint, receipt of information must be signed by patient. |
How can one request infromation? | To request info. from previous providers to obtain medical records, to allow sharing of info. with family members at patient's request |
What does medical history imclude? | Cheif complaint, present illness, medical history, family history, social history, rewiew of systems. |
What is a patient interview? | Demographic data, finanical data, privacy data, release of information, medical history |
What is an assessment? | Determination of normal versus abnormal values based on pateint resluts |
What is an ausculation? | Listening to sounds produced by the body as the organs perform their functions |
What is an objective? | Perceptible to the external senses; results that are measurbale. |
What is an observation? | Using the sense of sight to determine characteristcis of a patient |
What is an opthalmoscope? | Instrument used to examine the interior of the eyes? |
What is an otoscope? | Intrument used for inspection of the ears |
What is a palpation? | Using touch(fingers) to determine physcial charcateristics of tissues or organs |
What is penlight? | Flashlight used to observe size and reaction of the pateint's pupils |
What is a percussion? | Tapping a prat of thw body with the fingers to determine the sieze,postion, and denstiy of the organs underneath |
What is a plan? | How the pateint results are used? |
What is a record? | Documentation of pateint reults |
What is a reflex hammer? | Instrumnet used to test pateint results |
What is a report? | Telling the appropriate person information regarind a pateint's condition |
What is a sphygmomanometer? | Instrument used to measure arterial blood pressure |
What is a stethoscope? | Used to hear and amplify sounds produced by the heart and other organs |
What is subjective? | Percieved by the person involved; the patient's description of condition(not measurable) |
What is a tonometer? | Instrument used to measure introacular |
What is a scale? | Used to measure weight |