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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dietetic Technicians (DTs) | Individuals who work under the supervision of dietitians and assist with food preparation and service, help patients select menus, clean work areas, and assist other dietary workers; also called food service workers. |
| Dietitians (RDs) | Individuals who specializes in the science of diet and nutrition. |
| Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) | Classification of physician who focuses on ensuring proper alignment of the spine and optimal operation of the nervous and muscular systems to maintain health. |
| Doctor of Medicine (MD) | Classification of physician who diagnoses, treats, and prevents disease or disorders. |
| Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) | Classification of physician who treats diseases/disorders, placing special emphasis on the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems, and the relationship between the body, mind, and emotions. |
| Doctor of Podiatric medicine (DPM) | Classification of a physician who examines, diagnoses, and treats disease/disorders of the feet or the leg below the knee. |
| Doctorate/doctoral degree | Degree awarded by a college or university after completion of a prescribed course of study beyond a bachelor's or master's degree. |
| Electrocardiograph(ECG) technicians | Individuals who operate electrocardiograph machines, which record electrical impulses that originate in the heart. |
| Electroencephalographic (EEG) technologist | Individual who records the electrical activity of the brain as an electroencephalogram, which is used by neurologists and other physicians to diagnose and evaluate diseases and disorders of the brain. |
| Electroneurodiagnostic technologist (END) | An individual who performs nerve conduction tests, measures responses to stimuli, measures brain responses, and operates monitoring devices to assist with diagnosing disorders and diseases of the brain and nervous system. |
| Embalmers | Individuals who prepare the body of a deceased person for interment or burial. |
| Emergency medical responder (EMR) | The first person to arrive as the scene of an illness or injury; interviews and examines the victim to identify the illness or cause of injury, calls for emergency medical assistance as needed, maintains safety and infection control at the scene, and prov |
| Emergency medical technician (EMT) | An individual who provides emergency prehospital care to victims of accidents, injuries, or sudden illness. |
| Endodontics | Branch of dentistry involving treatment of the pulp chamber and root canals of the teeth; root canal treatment. |
| Entrepreneur | Individual who organized, manages, and assumes the risk of a business. |
| Environmental services facilities managers | Individuals who oversee buildings, grounds, equipment, and supplies. |
| Epidemiologists | Individuals who identify and tract diseases as they occur n a group of people. |
| Ethicists | Individuals who study and review the history, philosophy, theology, medical research, and sociology of health care to make judgements and out treatment options and the effectiveness of these options as they relate to ethical standards regarding patient ri |
| Forensic science technicians | Individuals who investigate crimes by collecting and analyzing physical evidence. |
| Funeral directors | Individuals who manage and operate a funeral home; also called morticians or undertakers. |
| Genetic counselor | Individuals who provide information to patients and/or their families on genetic diseases or inherited conditions. |
| Geneticists | Individuals who study genes and how they are inherited, mutated, and activated, or inactivated. |
| Geriatric aides/assistants | Individuals who acquire additional education to provide care for older patients in environments such as extended care facilities, nursing home, retirement centers, adult day care facilities, and other similar agencies. |
| Health care administrators | Individuals who plan, direct, coordinate, and supervises the delivery of health care in a health care facility. |
| Health care risk managers | Individuals who assess risks in order to reduce potential safety, financial, and patient problems. |
| Health educators | Individuals who teach people the behaviors that promote wellness by evaluating, designing, presenting, recommending, and disseminating culturally appropriate health education information and materials. |
| Health information administrators (HIAs) | Individuals who develop and manage the systems for storing and obtaining information from records, prepare information for legal actions and insurance claims, compile statistics for organizations and government agencies, manage medical records departments |
| Health information technicians (HITs) | Individuals who organize and code medical records, gather statistical information, and monitor records to ensure confidentiality. |
| Health science education (HSE) | Secondary education programs that prepare a student for immediate employment in many health care careers or for additional education after graduation. |
| Home health care assistants | Individuals who are trained to work in the patient's home and may perform additional duties such as meals preparation or cleaning. |
| Housekeeping workers/Sanitary managers | Individuals who help maintain the cleanliness of the health care facility to provide a pleasant, sanitary environment; also called environmental service workers. |
| Industrial hygienists | Individuals who identify and analyze workplace hazards. |
| Licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPNs/LVNs) | Individuals who work under the supervision of physicians or registered nurses and provide patient care requiring basic technical knowledge. |
| Licensure | Process by which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given occupation. |
| Massage therapist | Individuals who use massage, body-work, and therapeutic touch to provide pain relief, improve circulation, and relieve stress and tension. |
| Master's degree | Degree awarded by a college or university after completion of one or more years of prescribed study beyond a bachelor's degree. |
| Medical administrative assistants | Individuals who perform general administrative duties as well as tasks that are specific to the healthcare industry. |
| Medical assistants (MAs) | Individuals who work under the supervision of physicians and perform tasks to assist physicians with patient care. |
| Medical coders | Individuals who identify diagnoses, procedures, and services shown in a patient's health care record and assign specific codes to each; also called coding specialists. |
| Medical illustrators | Individuals who use their artistic and creative talents to produce illustrations, charts, graphs, and diagrams for health textbooks, journals, magazines, and exhibits. |
| Medical interpreters/translators | Individuals who assist cross- cultural communication processes by converting one language to another. Interpreters convert the spoken word while translators convert written material. |
| Medical laboratory assistants | Individuals who work under the supervision of medical technologists, technicians, or pathologists- perform basic laboratory tests, prepare specimens for examination or testing, and perform other laboratory duties such a as cleaning and helping to maintain |
| Medical laboratory technicians (MLTs) | Individuals who perform many of the routine tests that do not require the advanced knowledge held by a medical technologist; also called clinical laboratory technicians (CLTs) |
| Medical laboratory technologists (MTs) | Individuals who study the tissues, fluids, and cells of the human body to help determine the presence and/ or cause of disease; perform complicated chemical, microscopic, and automated analyzer/computer tests; work under the supervision of pathologists |
| Medical librarians | Individuals who organize books, journals, and other print material to provide health information to other health care professionals; also called health science librarians. |
| Medical secretaries /health unit coordinators | Individuals who are employed in hospitals, extended care facilities, clinics, and other health facilities to record information in records, schedule procedures or tests, answer telephones, order supplies, and work with computers to record or obtain inform |
| Medical transcriptionists | Individuals who use a computer and word-processing software to enter data that has been dictated on a recorder by physicians or other health care professionals. |
| Medication aides/assistants | Individuals who receive special training such as a 40-hour or more sate-approved medication aide course to administer medications to patients or residents on long-term care facilities or patients recieving home health care. |
| Mortuary assistants | Individuals who, working under the supervision of the funeral director and/or embalmer, assist with preparation of the body or take it to the burial site, arrange flowers for the viewing, assist with preparations for the funeral service, help with filing |
| Multicompetent/ multiskilled health care provider | An individual who can perform a variety of health care tasks. |
| Nurse assistants | Individuals who work under the supervision of registered or licensed practical nurses to provide basic patient care. |
| Occupational therapists (OTs) | Individuals who help people who have physical, developmental, mental, or emotional disabilities overcome, correct, or adjust to their particular problems. |
| Occupational therapy assistants (OTAs) | Individuals who, working under the guidance of occupational therapists, help patients carry out programs of prescribed treatment- including arts and crafts projects, recreation, and social events; rehabilitation activities and exercises; games that develo |
| Ophthalmic assistants (OAs) | Individuals who work under the supervision of ophthalmologists, optometrists, and/ or ophthalmic medical technologists or technicians to prepare patients for examinations, measure visual acuity, perform receptionists duties, help patients with frame selec |
| Ophthalmic laboratory technicians | Individuals who cut, grind, finish, polish, and mount the lenses used in eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other optical instruments such as telescopes and binoculars. |
| Ophthalmic medical technologists (OMTs) | Individuals who, working under the supervision of ophthalmologists, obtain patient histories, perform routine eye tests and measurements, fit patients for contacts, admisiter prescribed treatments, assist with eye surgery, perform advanced diagnostic test |
| Ophthalmic technicians (OTs) | Individuals who, working under the supervision or ophthalmologists and optometrists, prepare patients for examinations, obtain medical histories, take ocular measurements, administer basic vision tests, maintain opthalmic and surgical instruments, adjust |
| Opthalmologists (MD) | Medical doctors specializing in diseases, disorders ,and injuries of the eyes. |
| Opticians | An individual who makes or sells lenses, eyeglasses, and other optical supplies. |
| Optometrists (ODs) | A licensed, non medical practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of vision defects. |
| Oral surgery | Surgery on the teeth, mouth, and/or jaw and facial bones; also called maxillofacial surgery. |
| Orthodontics | The branch of dentistry dealing with prevention and correction of irregularities of the alignment of teeth. |
| Paramedic (EMT-P) | An individual who can perform all the basic emergency medical technicians duties in addition to in-depth patient assessment and care; the highest level of an emergency medical technician. |
| Patient care technicians (PCTs) | Individuals who, working under the supervision of RNs or LPNs/ LVNs, provide patient care such as baths, bed making, and feeding; assist in transfer and ambulation; and administer basic treatments. |
| Pedodontics | The branch of dentistry dealing with treatment of teeth and oral conditions of children. |
| Perfusionists | Individuals who are members of the open-heart surgical team and operate the heart-lung machines used in coronary bypass surgery. |
| Periodontics | The branch of dentistry dealing with the treatments of the gingiva (gum) and periodontium (support tissues) surrounding the teeth. |
| Pharmaceutical/ clinical project managers | Individuals who plan and manage all aspects of scientific research studies. Pharmaceutical project managers direct drug clinical trials while clinical project managers direct trials to obtain information to help prevent, screen, diagnose, and/ or treat di |
| Pharmacists | Individuals who disease medications per written order from physicians, dentists, and other health care professionals authorized to prescribe medications. |
| Pharmacologists | Medical researchers that work with patients and doctors to test and evaluate effectiveness as well as safety of new drugs. |
| Pharmacy technicians | Individuals who work under the supervision of pharmacists to help prepare medication for dispensing and perform other duties as directed by pharmacists. |
| Phlebotomists | Also called a venipuncture technician; individual who collects blood and prepares it for tests. |
| Physical therapist assistants (PTAs) | Individuals who, working under the supervision of physical therapists, help carry out prescribed plans of treatment. They perform exercises and massages; administer applications of heat, cold, and/ or water; assist patients to ambulate with canes, crutche |
| Physical therapists (PTs) | Individuals who provide treatments to improve mobility and prevent or limit permanent disability or patients who have disabled joints, bone, muscle, and/or nerve injuries or diseases; often work under the direction of a physiatrist. |
| Physician assistants (PAs) | Individuals who work under the supervision of physicians and take medical histories, perform routine physical examinations and basic diagnostic tests, make preliminary diagnoses, threat monor injuries, and prescribe and administer treatments. |
| Physicians | Doctors who examine patients, obtain medical histories, order tests, make diagnoses, perform surgery, treat diseases/ disorders, and teach preventive health. |
| Process technicians | Individuals who operate and monitor the machinery that is used to produce biotechnology products. |
| Prosthodontics | The branch of dentistry dealing with the construction of artificial appliances for the mouth. |
| Psychiatric/mental health technicians | Individuals who, working under the supervision of psychiatrists or psychologists |
| Psychiatrists | |
| Psychologists | |
| Quality control technicians | |
| Radiologic technologists (RTs) | |
| Recreational therapists (TRs) | |
| Recreational therapy assistants | |
| Registered nurse (RN) | |
| Registration | |
| Respiratory therapists (RTs) | |
| Respiratory therapy technicians (RTTs) | |
| Scope or practice | |
| Social worker (SWs) | |
| Speech-language pathologist | |
| Surgical technologists/technicians (STs) | |
| Toxicologists | |
| Transport technicians | |
| Veterinarians (DVMs or VMDs) | |
| Veterinary assistants | |
| Veterinary technologists/ technicians (VTs) | |
| Admitting officers/ clerks | |
| Associate's degree | |
| Athletic trainer certified (ATCs) | |
| Audiologists | |
| Bachelor's degree | |
| Biological scientists | |
| Biomedical/Clinical engineers | |
| Biomedical equipment technicians (BETs)(CBETs certified) | |
| Cardiovascular technologists | |
| Central/ Sterile service/ supply technicians | |
| Certification | |
| Clinical account managers | |
| Clinical account technicians (CATs) | |
| Clinical laboratory scientists (CLSs) | |
| Clinical laboratory technicians (CLTs) | |
| Continuing education units (CEUs) | |
| Dental assistants (DAs) | |
| Dental hygienist (DHs) | |
| Dental laboratory technicians (DLTs) | |
| Dentists (DMDs or DDSs) | |
| Dialysis technicians | |
| Dietetic Assistants |
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