MD Lesson 1 Vocab 16-30

Specialized clothing or equipment that an employee wears for protection against infectious materials (as defined by OSHA). This includes safety goggles, gloves, and laboratory aprons.

• personal protective equipment

• aseptic technique

• advanced practice provider

• microbiologist

A group or individual used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment.

• control

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• team norms

Group or sample expected to produce a positive result.

• positive control

• negative control

• collaboration

• valid

Group or sample expected to produce a negative result.

• negative control

• positive control

• control

• valid

A medical practitioner specializing in children and their diseases.

• pediatrician

• advanced practice provider

• microbiologist

• team norms

A clinical provider who is not a physician but who has undergone specialized education, training, certification, and licensure that allows them to provide some healthcare-related services, perform certain procedures, and prescribe some medications.

• advanced practice provider

• pediatrician

• microbiologist

• radiologic technicians

Working together on a common purpose.

• collaboration

• team norms

• valid

• agent

Guidelines that are developed by a team regarding how they are to interact, communicate, and conduct themselves as part of the team.

• team norms

• collaboration

• valid

• experiment

The time between contact and onset of illness.

• incubation period

• fatigue

• symptom

• diagnosis

Tiredness

• fatigue

• encephalitis

• conjunctivitis

• symptom