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Chapter 1-6
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Health Care
Undergraduate 3
08/16/2014

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Empathy
Definition
understanding and acceptance of another persons feelings or experience
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Inside customers
Definition
patients who come to the radiology department from inside the hospital
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Outside customers
Definition
patients who come to the radiology department from outside the hospital
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Health
Definition
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
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epidemic
Definition
a widespread infectious disease within a given geographic area
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Fluoroscopy
Definition
a procedure using x-rays to image inner parts of the body in movement and motion
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Radioactivity
Definition
the property of certain elements to emit rays or subatomic particles spontaneously from matter
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Nuclear Radiology
Definition
the branch of radiology using radioactive materials for medical diagnosis and treatment
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Clinical Competency Evaluation
Definition
a method of standardizing the evaluation of a student radiologic technologist's performance in the clinical setting.
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Cognitive learning
Definition
refers to classroom lectures and demonstration of theories, as well as to the facts and background information necessary to understand a specific body of knowledge
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Psychomotor learning
Definition
the actual hands-on phase, the application of previously learned material
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Affective Learning
Definition
involves attitudes, values, and feelings
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Passive participation
Definition
assisting the practicing technologist and observing each detail of the radiographic procedure
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Independent Clinical Performance
Definition
performing all aspects of the procedure with remote supervision of a technologist
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Disease
Definition
the pattern of response of a living organism to some form of injury
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Mortality
Definition
death rate
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Morbidity
Definition
occurrence of disease or condition
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pandemic
Definition
an infectious disease of global proportions
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