Term | Definition |
Accuracy | Being careful to preform with quality and efficiency |
Courteous | being polite, considerate, and helpful |
respectful | treating others with honor, esteem, courteous regard, and thoughtful consideration |
dependable | being reliable and trustworthy |
flexible | adaptable to change |
tactfulness | being able to respond to others with sensitivity and courtesy to avoid giving offense |
accountability | taking responsibility for you actions. |
reactive | responds without considering the situation, resulting in actions or words regretted later. |
Acute care hospital | Healthcare for patients who suddenly become ill. (AKA hospital) |
Teaching hospital | affiliated with medical schools and employ residents on staff |
Long-term care facility | provide skilled nursing care for people who are medically stable, yet need assistants with daily activities. (AKA Nursing homes) |
Subacute care | temporary care is provided with the goal of helping the patient regain strength, mobility, and function in order to return home or to assisted-living setting (between acute and long term care) |
Home care | private nurses, aids, and others so people can remain in their own homes. |
assisted living- facilities | adult homes |
Ambulatory care | medical care to non-residential patients who DO NOT stay over night |
Corporation | artificially created body with legal and business status regulated by the state |
associate practice | physicians that join together to share resources |
Partnership | when two or more physicians create a legal agreement that specifies rights, obligations, and responsibilities of each. |
Sole Proprietor | in charge of his or her own practice |
group practice | partnership with three or more licensed physicians |
Physician | Qualified to diagnose and treat patients for illness, prescribe medication, and preform surgery |
Physician Assistant | assist physician |
registered nurse | designs plan of nursing care and provides care to all types of patients |
Licenses Practical Nurse | Assists nurse or Physician with care of noncritical patients |
nurse practitioner ( advanced practice nurse) | provided advanced care to patients in specialty areas. may include diagnosis, medication, and treatment |
physical therapist | restores strength, mobility, and function |
occupational therapist | helps patients preform Activities of Daily living and occupational tasks. |
radiologist tech | created images of organs, tissues, and bones. |
Medical Lab Tech | tests blood, body fluid, and tissues |
Coding specialist | reads and analyzes documents to translate care given into procedural and diagnostic codes for reimbursements |
Medical Transcription | translates drs dictation of medical history, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis into written form |