Chapter 1-3 key words

Accreditation

• Official authorization or approval

• Occupation or profession

• Documentation of meeting certain standards

• Legal dispute

Profession

• Legal authority to perform an activity

• Official record of qualifications to perform certain services

• Vocation, activity in which one participates

• Occupation that requires specialized knowledge, often long intensive training

Attitude

• Manner of conducting oneself

• Mental position or feeling with regard to a fact or situation

• Quality of being different

• Set of traits, characteristics, and behaviors that make each person unique

Value

• Quality of being different

• Sum of the socially gained patterns that guide a person's way of life

• Series of changes or growth that occur over a life time

• Rate of usefulness, importance, or general worth

Hierarchy

• Maslow's Self esteem

• Exchange of information

• Graded or ranked series

• Manner of conducting oneself

HIPAA

• Health Insurance Practice Association of America

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• Health Insurance Program and Accountability Action

• Health Insurance Programs of Alabama and Arkansas

Asepsis

• Substance that deters the growth of microorganisms

• Free from living microorganisms

• Freedom from infection; methods used to prevent spread of microorganisms

• Substance that kills microorganisms and some viruses and spores

Standard precautions

• Precautions applied to anyone with known or suspected infections

• Precautions applied to all body fluids of all patients all the time

• Precautions used for antibiotic-resistant microorganisms

• Precautions used for immunosuppressed patients

Quackery

• Shark Cartilage to reduce tumors

• Treatment that pretends to cure disease

• Unconventional medical therapy

• Hypnosis to speed bone healing

Licensure

• Official record of individuals qualified to perform certain services

• Documentation of having met certain standards

• Official authorization or approval

• Legal authority to perform an activity