Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician

Affordable Care Act

• A law that provides free healthcare for all Americans
• The landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and generally referred to as Obamacare.

• Strategies that aim at keeping a person healthy from the beginning.

• A law that bans private health insurance in the United States

Ombudsman

• A type of bird
• A legal term for a judge
• Someone who is appointed to represent a person to ensure that the rights of the person are being maintained.

• A type of musical instrument

Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)

• Strategies that focus on the prevention of injuries in the first place.

• Standards for long-term care facilities and nursing homes or assisted living facilities to ensure that residents would be able to achieve their highest level of well-being possible

• A system of comprehensive or total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of a person.

• A network of agencies, facilities, and providers involved with healthcare in a specified geographic area.

Maslow believed an individual's behavior is formed by their attempts to meet essential human needs.

• Health Promotion

• Affordable Care Act

• Health Disparity

• Abraham Maslow's Theory of Wellness

Strategies that focus on the prevention of injuries in the first place.

• Health Maintenance

• Injury Prevention

• MVA Prevention

• Intentional Injuries

A person who provides and practices medicine.

• Physician

• Nurse

• Pharmacist

• Patient

The state of being in good physical and mental health

• Illness

• Wellness

• Physician

• Health

Patient

• A person trained to care for the sick.

• A person who is receiving medical treatment.

• A health technician who works under the supervision of a registered nurse, physician, or other health professional to provide basic basic patient care.

• Someone who helps patients with healthcare needs under the direction of a nurse.

Enacted in 1996 as a way to protect everyone's privacy.

• Americans with disabilities act (ada)

• Patient Protection And affordable Care Act (ppaca)

• Health promotion

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

A greater difference that has been discovered between one group compared with another group, meaning that one group is suffering more than another group.

• Health Equity

• Social Health

• Health Disparity

• Social Determinant