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professionalism

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A cooperative or workplace experience or period of training for a student that is provided by student's educational facility   externship  
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A facility providing medical care on an outpatient basis. Many clinics have a specialty, such as ongoing care for diabetes or cancer   clinic  
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A field legally restricted to practioners with a specific professional qualification and/or provincial or territorial registration   regulated profession  
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A graduate from accredited health office administration program who assumes administrative, communication, and/or clinical responsibilities in a health-care setting   administrative health professional  
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A legal document, obtained after passing written and clinical examinations, that is required for health care practioners in regulated fields   licensure  
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A mentor who guides and supervises a student throughout a workplace experience   precepter  
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A moral obligation   duty  
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A moral, legal, cultural or traditional claim   right  
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A particular social role that an ill person adopts, which involves giing up normal responsibilities and accepting care. May sometimes involve uncharacteristically passive behaviour   sick role  
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A person seeking or receiving health care; synonomous with patient, but suggets a more active role   client  
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A person who hadles primarily administrative responsiblities but also some clinical duties in a health office   medical office administrator  
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A person who is trained to assist a physician with various climical tests, examinations, and procedures   medical assistant  
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A person's discernable responses and actions   behaviour  
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A person's right to self-determination. In health care it refers to a patient's/clients right to make his own decisions without coercion. Decisions for treatment for example, based on fact and going fully informed of all treatment options   autonomy  
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A position in life that carries expectations of responsibilities and of appropriate behaviour   role  
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A set of guidelines for ethical conduct   code of ethics  
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A state of physical and emotional well-being, broadly considered.   wellness  
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According to one definition " a relative state in which one is able to function well physicall, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living   health  
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After delivery   post partum  
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Allowing people to have their own beliefs, opinions, and way of doing things.   tolerance  
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Also known as amytrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehirgs disease. This is a progressive disease affefting the nerves taht are responsible for muscle stimulation. There is no known cure   ALS  
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An inborn person quality or characteristic   attribute  
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An individual who manages the administrative and communiaction needs of a client care unit. The title is being replaced with climical secretary or communications coordinator   ward clerk  
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Any duty or profession that supports primary health-care professionals, such as physicians, in delivering health-care services   allied health care  
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Assessing the seriousness of a client's presenting problem to dertermine who needs to have medical help first.   triage  
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Assuming that all members of a group will be alike   stereotype  
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Coming to comclusions about a person or group on the basis of untested assumptions, without regards for facts   prejudice  
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Considers concepts of fairness or entitlements, can involve oral or legal issues   justice  
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Creating a written copy of a dictated or recorded message   transcriptionist  
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Diagnosis and treatment   transitional phase  
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For some, means a belief in and dedication to a highter power, for others, it is a person, or interior quality, tied to emotions, value and morals   spiritual  
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Honesty and truthfulness   veracity  
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Involves our cognitive ablitiy to determine what is right and what is not   intellectual  
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Involves recognizing one's own strenghts and weaknesses, being able to analyze and deal with problems and recognize when one needs help   emotional  
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Is learned   skills  
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Manifested when a person belongs to a country with all its legal and social benefits   nationality  
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Meeting the seasonable expectations of others   faithfulness  
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Nontraditional methods and practices, based on a natural approach, including chriopracit, accupuncture, message, and aromatherapy   alternative health care  
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Occures when people are denied justice or treated unfairly because of the membership in a group   descrimination  
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Often used to refer to groups of people with similar physical characteristics and common ancestry   race  
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People with partners and strong social networks are more likely to be physically healthy   social  
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Putting yourself in other's shoes   empathy  
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Recovery/rehabilitation/death   resolution stage  
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Refers to a body's health and functioning   physical  
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Refers to the cultural characteristics of a particular ethnic group   ethnicity  
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Relating to groups of people with a common racial, religion, linguistic or cultural heritage   ethnic  
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Requires that we benefit others and act in the person's best interest   beneficence  
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Seeking medical intervention   action phase  
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Sustained clinical signs   acknowledgement phase  
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The ability to assess when something needs to be done and to do it   initiative  
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The appearance of clinical signs   preliminary phase  
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The basic or essential skills that one needs to succeed in a particular profession   core competency  
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The beliefs a person holds dear and that person's decisions and behaviour or conduct   values  
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The client continues to improve and is usually out of danger   satisfactory  
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The client has moved from critical toward wellness, condition is still volatile and subhect to change   guarded  
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The client is believed to be on firm footing and is expected to recover   good  
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The client is hanging in the balance between life and death and is receiving active intervention   critical  
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The client is near death but not receiving active intervention   poor  
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The clients condition has steadied, good news but doesn't indicate a sure recovery   stable  
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The languages, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next   culture  
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The parameters of duties, and responsibilityes outlined by one s professional training and skill set   scope of practice  
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The phase of a chronic disease characterized by a belief or absence of clinical signs or symptoms   remission  
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The phase of a chronic disease characterized by a return of climical signs or symptions   exacerbation  
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The philisophical study of standards accepted by society that determines what is right and wrong in human behaviour   ethics  
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The tendency to use our own culture's standards as the yardstick to judge everyone; the belief in the superiority of our own group or culture   ethnocentrism  
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The values and practices of a group that distinguish it from the larger culture   subculture  
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What a person believes to be right and wrong. Pertaining to how to act, treat others, and get along in an organzied society   morals  
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