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term/definition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| regulated profession | a field legally restricted to practitioners with a specific professional qualification and/or provincial or territorial registration. |
| administrative health professional (AHP) | a graduate from an accredited health office administration program who assumes administrative, communication, and/or clinical responsibilities in a health-care setting. |
| right | a moral, legal, cultural, or traditional claim. |
| medical office assistant/administrator (MOA) | a person who handles primarily administrative responsibilities but also some clinical duties in a health care office (titles vary) |
| medical assistant | a person who is trained to assist a physician with various clinical tests, examinations, and procedures. |
| role | a position in life that carries expectations of responsibilities and of appropriate behaviour. |
| allied health care | any duty or profession that supports primary health-care professionals, such as physicians, in delivering health-care services (i.e. nurse practitioners or midwives) |
| justice | considers concepts of fairness and entitlements; can involve oral or legal issues |
| emotional | involves recognizing one's own strengths and weaknesses, being able to analyze and deal with problems and recognize when one needs help. |
| race | often used to refer to groups of people with similar physical characteristics and a common ancestry. |
| ethnicity | refers to the cultural characteristics of a particular ethnic group. |
| culture | the languages, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next. |
| ethics | the philosophical study of standards accepted by society that determine what is right and wrong in human behaviour. |
| subculture | the values and practices of a group that distinguish it from a larger culture. |
| transitional phase | diagnosis and treatment |
| resolution phase | recovery/ rehabilitation/ death |
| acknowledgement phase | sustained clinical signs. |
| action phase | seeking medical intervention. |
| preliminary phase | the appearance of clinical signs. |
| satisfactory | the client continues to improve and is usually out of danger. |
| guarded | the client has moved from critical toward wellness; condition is still volatile and subject to change. |
| 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 receiving active intervention. |
| stable | the client's condition has steadied; good news but doesn't indicate a sure recovery. |
| ethnic | relating to groups of people with a common racial, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage. |
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