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| the failure of a professional to provide care that is commonly expected in a profession resulting in injury, loss, or damage to the patient |
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| failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in that particular position |
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| Tort (assault and battery) |
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| assult is a treat or attempt injury; battery includes that the unlawful touching someone |
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| Tort (invasion of privacy) |
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| unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal health information about the patient |
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| Tort (False imprisonment) |
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| restraining individual or restricting their freedom |
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| care that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish; physical, verbal, psychological, sexual |
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| occurs when false statements cause an individual to be ridiculed or damage a persons reputation; slander(spoken) and libel (written) |
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| wrongful act that results in a patient being harmed or injured because a health care provider did not meet the expected standards of care |
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| Advanced Directives (living will) |
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| document that gives specific instructions regarding what measures should and should not be taken to prolong life |
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| Advanced Directives (durable power of attorney) |
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| (health care proxy) allows an individual to appoint another person to make decisions about their medical care in the event they are unable to do themselves |
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| care and consideration that a patient can expect to receive from health care facilities |
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| Health insurance portability accountability act; law that is enacted that protects patients health information |
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| patient need to give in order to provide anything needed |
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| last step before getting or being denied a particular position of employment |
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| record or information about an individual |
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| introduction about your self |
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| Vital signs (Temperature) |
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| balance between heat that is produced in body and heat lost |
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| wave of blood flow created by a contraction of the heart |
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| Vital signs (respiration) |
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| Vital signs (blood pressure) |
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| pressure or tension exerted on the arterial walls as blood pulsates through the, |
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| oral, axillary, tympanic, rectal |
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| temporal, formal, popliteal, posterior tibial, carotid, brachial, radial, dorsalis pedis |
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| chest movement up and down |
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| location for blood pressure |
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| equation to convert F* to C* |
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| equation to convert C* to F* |
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| pulse rate faster than normal |
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| pulse rate slower than normal |
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| Ranges for Blood pressure |
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SBP: 100 to 140 mm Hg
DBP: 60 to 90 mm Hg |
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| Dorsal, Ventral, Abdominal, Abdominopelvic, Diaphram |
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midsagittal
transverse
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| toward the head end or upper structure or the body; above |
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| away from the head or toward the lower part of a structure or the body; below |
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| toward or at the front of the body; in front of |
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| toward or at the back of the body; behind |
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| toward or at the mid-line of body; on innerside |
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| away from the mid-line of the body; outerside |
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| closer to the origin of the body part or the point of attachment of limb to the body and trunk |
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| farther from the origin of body part or point of attachment of a limb to the body and trunk |
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