Clinical Secretary Reverse Defs
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A blood clot under the dura mater, the fibrous membrane forming the outer envelope of the brain and spinal cord, usually resulting from trauma to the head | show 🗑
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show | electronic health record or patient intervention screen (PI screen)
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A device that amplifies sound, used by doctors and other health care professionals to listen to the heart and to take blood pressure | show 🗑
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show | otoscope
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A device used to examine the eyes | show 🗑
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A device used to take blood pressure | show 🗑
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show | provisional diagnosis or admitting diagnosis
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show | prophylactic
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A medication ordered as a single-order stat medication with a dose that is higher than the usual or routine dose | show 🗑
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show | Pchart
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show | credentialling
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A process wherein clients who are books for surgery receive preoperative and postoperative teaching and fill in documents ahead of time | show 🗑
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A small basin, usually kidney shaped, used for clients to vomit into or couch up sputum or phlegm. It is also used to hold solutions for a variety of purposes. It may be ordered sterile or just clean | show 🗑
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A special assessment for a client who has had head trauma or surgery, including checks on neurological functioning, such as verbal response and pupil dilation | show 🗑
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A specially prepared sterile tray containing the basic equipment to change a dressing on a wound or surgical incision. It contains a k-basin, 4x4 gauze dressings, a galley cup and usually two sets of disposable forceps | show 🗑
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A specially prepared tray similar to the dressing tray, but containing suture removal scissors or clip removers. Some facilities use a dressing tray, and nurses add a disposable suture removal blade or prepackaged clip removers | show 🗑
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show | ultrasonographer
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show | critical value
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show | terminal cleaning
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show | laparoscope
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unique number assigned to each client admitted to hospital | show 🗑
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Acronym means "against medical advice". This refers to a patient discharging himself from hospital without the physician's approval | show 🗑
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show | clinical secretary (CS) or ward clerk (WC)
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An electronic chart | show 🗑
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show | discharge
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Care for a client who is acutely ill, that is, very ill but with an illness expected to run a short course. Acute care is provided for clients with a variety of health problems | show 🗑
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Care for a person with a terminal illness who is in hospital to die, to have the condition stabilized or for pain control | show 🗑
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Care for someone with a chronic illness, that is, one that typically progresses slowly but lasts for a long time, often lifelong | show 🗑
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show | rationalization of services
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show | shift report
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show | Kardex
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Examination of a canal, such as the colon, with an endoscope: a thin tube with lenses to allow visualization | show 🗑
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show | critically ill
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Medical and nursing care less intensive than traditional acute-care hospital treatment | show 🗑
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Moving from one care unit to another, or covering two units | show 🗑
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show | elective surgery
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show | day surgery
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The act of moving a client from one place to another within the same healthcare facility | show 🗑
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The bed and other furniture used by the client are thoroughly cleaned with a specifically selected disinfectant solution | show 🗑
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show | order entry
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show | collaborative partnership
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The usually rapid infusion of additional IV fluids in addition to the base amount ordered for the client | show 🗑
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To draw attention to a new entry by sticking a coloured marker in, placing a coloured sticker on the back, or using some other device to visually draw attention | show 🗑
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Written or oral directions given by a physician to the nursing staff and other health professionals regarding the care, medications, treatment, and laboratory and diagnostic tests a patient is to receive while in the hospital | show 🗑
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