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Health Sciences

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What is pyrexia?   A term for a fever  
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What is a apical pusle?   Pulse taken with a stethoscope at the apex of the heart.  
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What is the normal range for body temp.?    
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How to prepare for the patient?   Room is neat, supplies are avaliable, review the patient's chart to anticipate patient needs  
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What does financial policy of the practice include?   Billing, insurance billing, co-payments, finance charges  
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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  
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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.  
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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  
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What does medical history imclude?   Cheif complaint, present illness, medical history, family history, social history, rewiew of systems.  
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What is a patient interview?   Demographic data, finanical data, privacy data, release of information, medical history  
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What is an assessment?   Determination of normal versus abnormal values based on pateint resluts  
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What is an ausculation?   Listening to sounds produced by the body as the organs perform their functions  
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What is an objective?   Perceptible to the external senses; results that are measurbale.  
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What is an observation?   Using the sense of sight to determine characteristcis of a patient  
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What is an opthalmoscope?   Instrument used to examine the interior of the eyes?  
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What is an otoscope?   Intrument used for inspection of the ears  
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What is a palpation?   Using touch(fingers) to determine physcial charcateristics of tissues or organs  
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What is penlight?   Flashlight used to observe size and reaction of the pateint's pupils  
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What is a percussion?   Tapping a prat of thw body with the fingers to determine the sieze,postion, and denstiy of the organs underneath  
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What is a plan?   How the pateint results are used?  
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What is a record?   Documentation of pateint reults  
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What is a reflex hammer?   Instrumnet used to test pateint results  
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What is a report?   Telling the appropriate person information regarind a pateint's condition  
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What is a sphygmomanometer?   Instrument used to measure arterial blood pressure  
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What is a stethoscope?   Used to hear and amplify sounds produced by the heart and other organs  
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What is subjective?   Percieved by the person involved; the patient's description of condition(not measurable)  
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What is a tonometer?   Instrument used to measure introacular  
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What is a scale?   Used to measure weight  
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