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therapeutic career example | nursing |
diagnostic career example | radiology |
iniformational career example | medical records |
environmental career example | housekeeping |
chaplain | works with patients on spiritual needs |
dental hygienist | focuses on prevention of dental disorders, works under dentist |
dentist | prevents and treats dental disorders and disease |
dietician | assess and plans for nutritional needs |
LVN/LPN | Works under RN, provides direct patient care |
Medical laboratory technician | collects samples and performs lab test on blood, urine and other body fluids |
Nursing assistant | Assist RN/LVN, gives direct bedside care |
Pharmacist | fills medication and prescription orders |
Audiologist | tests hearing and prescribes hearing aids |
Physical therapist | assist person with musculoskeletal problems and focuses on restoring function |
Physician | Diagnoses and treats disease and injuries |
Podiatrist | prevents, diagnoses, treats foot disorders |
Physician's assistant | assists physician in diagnosis and treatment of ill and injured persons |
Registered nurse | Assess, makes nursing diagnosis, plans and gives nursing care |
Radiographer | Takes x-rays |
quackery | untrained person who practices false medicine |
stethoscope | instrument to hear sounds in the body |
superstitious | trusting in magic or chance |
dissection | dividing or taking apart |
noninvasive | to perform tests that do not penetrate the body |
geriatric | pertaining to old age |
What does digitalis do to body | strengthen and slow heart |
Quinine does what to body | controls fever and muscle spasm |
Morphine comes from what | opium poppy |
In Egypt, what were prescriptions written on? | papyrus |
Hippocrates | father of medicine |
Who were first to have army medicine | Romans |
Leonardo da Vinci | studied and painted anatomy of body |
Anton van Leeuwekhoek | invented microscope |
Gabriele Fallopian | Discovered fallopian tube |
Bartholomew Eustachus | discovered the eustachian tube |
Edward Jenner | Invented smallpox vaccination |
Laennec | invented stethoscope |
Louis Pasteur | Discovered the microorganisms cause disease |
Joseph Lister | First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery |
Robert Koch | Father of Microbiology |
Alexander Fleming | discovered penicillian |
Jonas Salk | discovered immunity to polio |
trepanation | hole drilled in head to release evil spirits |
Hippocrates believed this occur because of excess of black bile | depression |
melancholy | "black" "bile" |
Period where they believed madness was from movement of moon and stars | Renaissance |
Special institutions in 1500's for mentally ill | insane asylums |
Philippe Pineal | Believed mentally ill needed fresh air and exercise |
Dorothea Dix | American school teacher the got legislature passed to help mental institutions |
Emil Kraepelin | developed system for diagnosing and classifying mental illness |
Sigmund Freud | Introduced concepts of id, ego and superego |
B.F. Skinner | Introduced principles of reinforement |
Abraham Maslow | Came up with hierachy of needs |