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Externship   A cooperative or workplace experience or period of training for a student that is provided by the students educational facility  
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Clinic   A facility providing medical care on an outpatient basis. Many clinics have a specialty, such as ongoing care for diabetes or cancer  
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Regulated profession   a field legally restricted to practitioners with a specific professional qualificationand/or provincial or territorial registration  
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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  
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License   a legal document obtained after passing written and clinical examinations, that is required for a health- care practitioners in regulated fields  
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preceptor   a mentor who guides and supervises a student throughout the workplace experience  
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duty   a moral obligation  
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right   a moral, legal, cultural, or tradional claim  
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sick role   a particular social role ill people adapt, which involves givingup normal responsibilities and accepting care. May sometimes involve uncharacteristically passive behaviour  
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client   a person seeking or receiving health care; synonymous with patient, but suggests a more active role  
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MOA medical office administration   a person who handles primarily administrative but also some clinical duties in a health office  
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medical assistant   a person who is trained to assist a physician with various clinical tests, examinations, and procedures  
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behaviour   a persons discernible responses and actions  
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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  
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role   a position in life that carries expectations of responsibilities and of appropriate behaviour  
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code of ethics   a set of guidelines for ethical conduct  
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wellness   a state of physical and emotional well being broadly considered  
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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  
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post pardum   after delivery  
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tolerance   allowing people to have their own beliefs opinions and way of doing things  
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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  
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attribute   an inborn personal quality or characteristic  
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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  
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allied health care   any duty or profession that supports primary health care professionals such as physicians in deliveringhealth care services  
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triage   assessing the seriousness of a clients presenting problem to determine who needs to have medical help first  
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stereo typing   assuming that all members of a group will be alike  
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prejudice   coming to a conclusion about a person or group on the basis of untested assumptions, without regard for facts  
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justice   considers concepts of fairness and entitlements, can involve oral or legal issues  
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transciptionist   creating a written copy of a dictated or recorded message  
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transitional phase   diagnosis treatment  
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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  
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veracity   honesty and truthfulness  
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intellectual   involves our cognitive ability to determine what is right and what is not  
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emotional   involves recognizing ones own stregths and weaknesses being able to analyze and deal with problems and recognize when one needs help  
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skill   is leanred  
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nationality   manifested when a person belongs to a country with all its legal and social benefits  
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faithfullness   meeting the reasonable expectations of others  
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alternative health care   non traditional methods and practices based on a natural approach including chirpractor acupuncture message aromatherapy  
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discrimination   occurs when people are denied justice or treated unfairly because of their membership in a group  
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Race   Often used to refer to groups of people with similar physical characteristics and a common ancestry  
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Social   People with partners and a strong social networks are more likely to be physically healthy  
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Empathy   Putting yourself in someone else shoes  
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Resolution Phase   Recovery/rehabilitation/death  
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Physical   refers to the body's health and functioning  
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Ethnicity   Refers to cultural characteristics of a particular ethnic group  
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Ethnic   Relating to groups of people with a common racial, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage  
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Beneficience   requires that we benefit others and act in the persons best interest  
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action   seeking medical intervention  
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acknowledge phase   sustained clinical signs  
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Initiative   the ability to assess when something needs to be done  
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Preliminary phase   the appearance of clinical signs  
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Core compentency   the basic or essential skills that one needs to succeed in a particular profession  
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values   the belief a person holds dear and that persons decisions and behaviour or conduct  
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satisfactory   the client continues to improve and is usually out of danger  
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guarded   the client has moved from critical toward wellness; condition is still volatile and subject to change  
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good   the client is believed to be on firm ground and is expected to recover  
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critical   the client is hanging in the balance between life and death and is receiving active intervention  
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poor   the client is near death but not receiving active intervention  
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stable   the client"s condition has steadied good news but doesn't indicate a sure recovery  
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culture   the languages beliefs values norms bahaviours and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next  
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scope of practice   the parameters of duties and responsibilities outlined by ones professional training and skill set  
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remission   the phase of a chronic disease characterized by arelief or absence of clinical signs or symptoms  
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exacerbation   the phase of chronic disease characterized by the return of clinical signs  
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ethics   the philosophical study of standards accepted by society that determine what is right and what is wrong in human behaviour  
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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  
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subculture   the values and practices of a group that distinguish it from the larger culture  
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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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