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professional review
Review for professional exam(medix college)
| 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 qualificationand/or provincial or territorial registration |
| AHP administrative health profession | a graduate from an accredited health office administration program who assumes administrative, communication, and or clinical responsibilities in a health care setting |
| License | a legal document obtained after passing written and clinical examinations, that is required for a health- care practitioners in regulated fields |
| preceptor | a mentor who guides and supervises a student throughout the workplace experience |
| duty | a moral obligation |
| right | a moral, legal, cultural, or tradional claim |
| sick role | a particular social role ill people adapt, which involves givingup 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 |
| MOA medical office administration | 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 patients clients right to make his own decision without coercion decisons 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 relativestate in which one is able to function well physically mentally socially and spiritually in order to express the full range of ones unique potentialities within the envirnoment in which one is living |
| post pardum | 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 gehirgs 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 replaced with clinical secretary or cummincations cordinator |
| allied health care | any duty or profession that supports primary health care professionals such as physicians in deliveringhealth care services |
| triage | assessing the seriousness of a clients presenting problem to determine who needs to have medical help first |
| stereo typing | assuming that all members of a group will be alike |
| prejudice | coming to a conclusion about a person or group on the basis of untested assumptions, without regard for facts |
| justice | considers concepts of fairness and entitlements, can involve oral or legal issues |
| transciptionist | creating a written copy of a dictated or recorded message |
| transitional phase | diagnosis treatment |
| spiritual | for some means a belief in and deciation to a higher power for others it is a personal or interior quality tied to emotions values and morals |
| veracity | honesty and truthfulness |
| intellectual | involves our cognitive ability to determine what is right and what is not |
| emotional | involves recognizing ones own stregths and weaknesses being able to analyze and deal with problems and recognize when one needs help |
| skill | is leanred |
| nationality | manifested when a person belongs to a country with all its legal and social benefits |
| faithfullness | meeting the reasonable expectations of others |
| alternative health care | non traditional methods and practices based on a natural approach including chirpractor acupuncture message aromatherapy |
| discrimination | occurs when people are denied justice or treated unfairly because of their membership in a group |
| Race | Often used to refer to groups of people with similar physical characteristics and a common ancestry |
| Social | People with partners and a strong social networks are more likely to be physically healthy |
| Empathy | Putting yourself in someone else shoes |
| Resolution Phase | Recovery/rehabilitation/death |
| Physical | refers to the body's health and functioning |
| Ethnicity | Refers to cultural characteristics of a particular ethnic group |
| Ethnic | Relating to groups of people with a common racial, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage |
| Beneficience | requires that we benefit others and act in the persons best interest |
| action | seeking medical intervention |
| acknowledge phase | sustained clinical signs |
| Initiative | the ability to assess when something needs to be done |
| Preliminary phase | the appearance of clinical signs |
| Core compentency | the basic or essential skills that one needs to succeed in a particular profession |
| values | the belief a person holds dear and that persons decisions and behaviour or conduct |
| 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 ground 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 |
| culture | the languages beliefs values norms bahaviours 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 arelief or absence of clinical signs or symptoms |
| exacerbation | the phase of chronic disease characterized by the return of clinical signs |
| ethics | the philosophical study of standards accepted by society that determine what is right and what is wrong in human behaviour |
| ethnocentrism | the tendancy to use our own cultures standards as the yard stick to judge everyone; the belief in the 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 an organized society |
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