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What is the name of the person who advocated handwashing after autopsies and before delivering babies?
IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS
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Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?
CLARA BARTON
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Who described the structure of DNA?
CRICK AND WATSON
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What term describes patients admitted to hospitals with certain diagnoses who are classified in one payment group as a method of managing health cost?
DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS (DRGS)
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Patients who obtain health care services outside hospitals are classified as ________?
OUTPATIENTS
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What were early pharmacists called?
APOTHECARIES
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What ancient population believed in treating the whole body?
THE CHINESE
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Components of most plans to protect populations in every county include vaccine production, antiviral drugs, international cooperation, protective public health measures and _________?
EDUCATION
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In holistic health care, treatment is directed toward _________ and _______________ of the body?
PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
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What name is applied to therapies that replace biomedical treatment methods?
ALTERNATIVE
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In primitive times, disease and illness were thought to be caused by what two things?
DEMONS AND EVIL SPIRITS
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What ancient population group was the first to record health records?
THE EGYPTIANS
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Use of video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical and health care services is called what?
TELEMEDICINE
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What is the name of the inventor of the stethoscope, often called the �Father of Pulmonary Diseases�
RENE LAENNEC
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Methods of treatment used in conjunction with conventional medical therapies is called ?
COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES
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Health care services to what population group is experiencing continued rapid growth?
OLDER ADULTS / ELDERLY
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What term is applied to the use of mainstream medical treatments and complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies?
INTEGRATIVE HELATH CARE
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What factor determines the broad classification of hospitals?
SOURCES OF FUNDING
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What types of services are provided in most medical offices?
DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, EXAMINATION, AND BASIC LABORATORY TESTING
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What type of health care facility provides care to patients who have physical and mental disabilities?
REHABILITATION
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Care provided to terminally ill persons whose life expectancy is no more than six months is known as what?
HOSPICE CARE
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What is Medicare?
A FEDERAL GOVERNMENTAL INSURANCE PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE AGE 65 OR OLDER
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Facilities that provide total health care directed toward preventive care are called what?
HEALTH MAINTAINENCE ORGANIZATIONS
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The American Heart Association is an example of what type of health agency?
NONPROFIT
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The health insurance plan that provides care for the military personnel and their families is called what?
TRICARE
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What type of health care facility provides care to older adults and those with disabilities or chronic illnesses?
LONG-TERM CARE
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What term describes a health insurance plan provided to employees by companies who contract with certain health care agencies to provide certain types of care at reduced rates?
PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATION
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A clinic providing care to acutely ill or emergency treatment is called emergency care or care clinic?
URGENT
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What is the basic principle behind managed care?
ALL HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO A PATIENT MUST HAVE A PURPOSE
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Veterans Administration hospitals are an example of what type of hospital?
GOVERNMENT
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To renew a license or maintain certification, persons in many states are required to obtain additional hours of education called what?
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
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Health care workers who perform tests or evaluations that aid in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, or other physical conditions belong to the category of what careers?
- DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES
- What nutrition service career involves managing food service systems, assessing patient�s nutritional needs, purchasing food and equipment, and nutritional education of patients?
- DIETICIANS / NUTRITIONISTS
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What National Health Care Skill Standards (NHCSS) cluster specifies the knowledge and skills required of workers in health career s who are involved with documentation of patient care?
HEALTH INFORMATICS
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Health care workers who can perform a variety of health care skills are called ____________ workers?
MULTISKILLED OR MULTICOMPETENT
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What type of technologists operate machines that record the electrical activity in the brain?
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC
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The physician who examines, diagnoses, and treat disease/disorder fo the foot or leg below the knee is called a (n) __________.
PODIATRIST
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A nurse assistant leaves a patient�s bedrail down and the patient falls out of bed. What charge can be brought against the assistant?
NEGLIGENCE
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When a patient is physically restrained without proper authorization or without justification, what kind of tort is involved?
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
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What are the three parts of a contract?
OFFER, ACCEPTANCE AND CONSIDERATION
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What happens if a health care worker fails to meet their legal responsibilities?
Legal action can be taken against the worker and their employer
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Residents in long term care facilities are guaranteed certain rights under what?
OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILITIAON ACT OF 1987
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What is defined as a threat or attempt to injure another?
ASSAULT
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When a patient signs a consent for a surgical procedure this is an example of what type of contract?
EXPRESSED CONTRACT
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What is an agreement between two or more persons?
CONTRACT
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What is a false statement that causes ridicule or damage to another person�s reputation called?
DEFAMATION
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What is the name of the legal document where a person states what medical care they want or do not want if incapacitated?
ADVANCED DIRECTIVES
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When a person has limitations that does not allow them to enter into a contract they have a ____________.
LEGAL DISABILITY
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What is it called when threats or attempts to injure another person?
ASSAULT
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This is the set of principles relating to what is morally wrong or right.
EHTICS
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A false spoken comment that causes a person to be ridiculed or damage�s a persons reputation.
SLANDER
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Failure to give care that is normally expected that results in injury to another person.
NEGLIGENCE
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Professional negligence is called what?
MALPRACTICE
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Permission for treatment granted voluntarily by a person who is aware of all factors involved.
INFORMED CONSENT
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Any care that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish
ABUSE
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This is a false written statement causing a person to be ridiculed or damages a person reputation.
LIBEL
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Wrongful act that does not involve a contract.
TORT
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Factors of care that all patients can expect to receive.
PATIENT RIGHTS
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Body weight 20% or more above average recommended weight.
OBESITY
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What vitamin is important for protein metabolism, maturation of red blood cells, and formation of hemoglobin?
FOLIC ACID
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This is the rate at which the body uses energy just for maintaining its own tissue.
BASAL
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These are the 22 building blocks that make up proteins.
AMINO ACIDS
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This type of diet eliminates foods that are high in bulk and fiber.
LOW RESIDUE
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What is the state of poor nutrition?
MALNUTRITION
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The term for high blood pressure
HYPERTENSION
- This is a state of good health with optimal body function.
- WELLNESS
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What is a diet of foods that require little chewing and are easy to digest?
SOFT DIET
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What is the fibrous indigestible form of carbohydrate?
CELLULOSE
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What is a diet that contains easily digested foods that do not irritate the digestive tract?
BLAND
- What is a vitamin found in meats, poultry, fish, and peanuts and promotes healthy skin and nerves?
- NIACIN
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Organic proteins essential to life are called what?
VITAMINS
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The process whereby blood capillaries pick up digested nutrients is called what?
ABSORBTION
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What is the applied science used to promote safety by adapting the environment to the human body using techniques to prevent injury?
ERGONOMICS
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What is the way in which the body moves and maintains balance?
BODY MECHANICS
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What rule of body mechanics should be used to get close to an object?
BEND FROM THE HIPS AND KNEES
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What is the acronym and what does it stand for when using a fire extinguisher?
- P- pull the pin
- A � aim
- S � squeeze the handle
- S - sweep
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What is the acronym and what does it stand for when dealing with a fire?
- R � rescue
- A � alarm
- C- confine
- E � extinguish
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What is the common bacterium that causes a severe sore throat and rheumatic fever?
STREPTOCOCCUS
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If a sterile towel or article gets wet, the field is considered to be what?
CONTAMINATED
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What is the process that destroys all microorganisms, both pathogenic and nonpathogenic, including spores and viruses?
STERILIZATION
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Which is the largest of the endocrine glands?
Thyroid
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Name the medical specialist who diagnoses and treats the disease through the use of radiant energy.
Radiologist
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What form is used to introduce complex motions?
A Resolution
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Where is spermatozoa manufactured?
In the testes
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What part of the brain controls the heartbeat, blood pressure, and respirations?
Medulla
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What anesthetic was first used by Dr. James Simpson in 1847?
Chloroform
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Who was the scientist who first demonstrated his theory about the circulation of blood?
William Harvey
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When can corrections to an organizations minutes be made?
Anytime a mistake is discovered
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What is the medical term for the tailbone?
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What is the medical name for German or three day measles?
Rubella
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What is the minimum grade level required to be considered for a National HOSA Officer?
Tenth Grade (10)
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What is the term when the power of attorney is given by one member to another, to vote in his/her stead?
Proxy Vote
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Name the serous membrane that covers most of the organs in the abdominal cavity.
Peritoneum
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Name the test discovered in the 20th century to diagnose cervical cancer?
Papanicolaou test or Pap test
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Name an instrument that is used to measure eye�s refractive power.
Optometer
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Who is credited with beginning humane treatment for mental illness.
Dr. Philippe Pinel
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What is a contagious infection of the parotid glands called?
Mumps
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How many questions are included in the written knowledge tests.
100 Multiple choice and 1 essay tie breaker
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What is the basic structure unit of all living organisms?
Cell
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If you have type A blood, what type of antigen is in your blood?
A
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What food nutrient does a person with gallbladder disease have problems digesting?
Fat
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