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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. EMR/EHR
Study of (word roots/combining forms)
Patient Support Associate
Carbohydrate
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record

2. clavico
Capsule
American Diabetic Association
Clavical or collarbone
Blood glucose monitoring

3. Ca or Ca+
Bad error/mistake/at fault/harm to pt
Wet/Reusable items (instruments etc.)
Calcium (Can also mean cancer)
Nausea & vomiting

4. Ruptured Disk
Head of bed
(cushion between the bones of vertebra)
Mini Stroke (TIA)
No Known Allergies

5. Medial Steinum
Epithelium (1st layer of skin) (word roots/combining forms)
Middle Breast Bone (Sternum)
Without development (a decrease in normal size of an organ)
Head of bed

6. -ology
Fever (above 99)
Nerves - Brain - Spinal Cord
Tumor (word roots/combining forms)
Study of (word roots/combining forms)

7. Trans- (prefix)
Through - Across - Beyond
Skin (word roots/combining forms)
The # of times the heart beats per minute (felt through the walls of the artery)
History

8. CPS
Medical
Rounded Mass of Food
Movement/Function
Child Protective Service

9. Hgb
Body
Midnight
Hemoglobin
Lateral chest

10. blepthro
Carbohydrate
Labels that contain individual pt info for identifying pt records or other personal items.
Full Strength or Fasting Sugars
Eyelid

11. ED
Pertaining to two (both sides) (body directional terms)
Flesh tumor (cancer)
History and Physical
Emergency Dept.

12. DRG
Eyelid
Long-Term Care
Chloride
Diagnosis-Related Groups

13. ambu bag
Needed when pt stops breathing (usually w/a black mouth covering)
The thickest muscular middle layer of the heart
Treatment
Blood vessel

14. mcg
End of word
No Known Food Allergies
Microgram
Farther from the surface (body directional terms)

15. 'arrow down'
Labels affixed to the front cover of a pt's paper chart that indicated pt has allergy.
Fast - rapid
Chloride
Decreased - lower - below

16. Orthopedist
Diagnoses/Treats disorders of a newborn
Taking fluid from somewhere
Epithelium (1st layer of skin) (word roots/combining forms)
Diagnoses/Treats diseases or fractures of the musculoskeletal system

17. HMO
Health Maintenance Organization
Form used to record admissions/discharges/and transfers on a nursing unit daily.
Producing
Total parenteral nutrition

18. C&S
No Known Food Allergies
Culture & Sensitivity
Hemoglobin
The thickest muscular middle layer of the heart

19. Standing Order

20. Medication Administration Record (MAR)
Liver
Diagnoses/Treats disorders of a newborn
Cells/Inside/How they work
List of meds that each individual pt is currently taking

21. Pedal Pulse
Located withing the cranial cavity and is the main center for coordinating body activities.
Phosphate or phosphorus
Hidden
The pulse rate obtained on the top of the foot

22. CT
Computed tomography
The # of times the heart beats per minute (felt through the walls of the artery)
Surgical incision or to cut into
Recovery Room

23. qh or q_h
Rounded mass of food formed in the mouth and ready to be swallowed; also defined as concentrated dose of medication or fluid (frequently given intravenously.
Hospital Base Specialist
Post cibrum (after meals)
Every hour or every (fill in #) hour

24. Guaiac
Mouth
A method of finding hidden blood in stool
Joint Commission of Accreditation of Health Care Organization
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (reflux disease)

25. DAT
Circulation - motion - sensation
Diet as tolerated
Labels affixed to the front cover of a pt's paper chart that indicated pt has allergy.
Condition of

26. NICU
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Sternum (breastbone)
Obstetrics
Identification Labels

27. Anesthesiologist
Administers drugs or gases to produce loss of consciousness or sensation in the pt. Care during/after surgery as well.
Result of adding a medication to a container or iv solution
Surgical repair of joint
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

28. peri-
Surrounding
Baby Red Blood Cells (When you have to many - usually means something is wrong w/bone marrow)
Diagnoses/Treats diseases of the skin.
Increase

29. hyper
Kidney
Tasks performed away from the bedside
Clot (stationary=thrombosis) (moving=embolism)
Increase

30. Allergy
3 or more pt's with similar last name (need to write 'Name Alert')
Usually meds - food - tape - and many other items
A cavity that contains pus. Usually cause by pathogenic microorganisms that invade the tissue through a break in the skin. Abscesses are formed by the body to wall off the pathogenic microorganisms and keep them from spreading throughout the body.
Computer Physician Order Entry

31. Types of Strokes
Ischemic and hemmoragic
Usual - Customary - and Reasonable
Out of bed
Lab - Rad - Pharm - PT - Respt. - OT - etc.

32. Thymus Gland

33. RD
Hair (word roots/combining forms)
Registered dietician
Fever (above 99)
Pass to pt's nurse

34. Endocrinologist
Diagnoses/Treats disease of the internal organs that secrete hormones
UA in charge of this sheet. Keep up to date so that can inform family who is assigned to pt.
Diet as tolerated
Cells/Inside/How they work

35. PT (Upper Case)
Physical Therapy
Nothing by mouth
'Shaking Palsy'. Degeneration of the dopamine-releasing neurons.
Pediatrics

36. Recommended Dietary allowance (RDA)
A pt medical record that may be dated back 5+ yrs re: if pt was admitted in past etc. Requested through Medical Secretaries.
Confidence and respect for oneself.
Average daily intake of a nutrient meeting requirements of nearly all healthy people of a given age/gender
Diagnoses/Treats disease of the internal organs that secrete hormones

37. ambulate
Walk
A form that is initiated to charge a discharged pt for any items used during their hospital stay that were not charged at the time of of use.
Plastic Bracelet (usually red) that is worn by a pt to indicate allergy.
Gynecology

38. Neurologist
Process in which tumor cells spread to distant parts of the body
No information - No publication
Diagnoses/Treats diseases of the nervous system
Neurological vital signs/checks degree or hour

39. -emia
Phosphatase (chemistry)
Respiratory rate
Condition of the blood
Abdomen

40. stat
Immediately
Connective tissue - flesh (word roots/combining forms)
Lateral chest
Hour of sleep

41. ischeimia
(usually young women) Autoimmune disease. Degeneration of the joints - with permanent damage.
Phosphatase (chemistry)
Blood being held back
Process in which tumor cells spread to distant parts of the body

42. TNA
Rapid flow of blood
Night
Tonsils & adenoids
Skilled Nursing Facility

43. GYN
Gynecology
A Dr's order that remains in effect and is executed according to the pt's needs.
Vein
Above

44. PSA
Medication Administration Record
Midnight
Patient Support Associate
Pertaining to in front of (body directional terms)

45. Meninges
Below normal
Made up of 3 layers of connective tissue that completely surround and protect the spinal cord and brain.
Abdomen
Forms parts of the nervous system - which conducts electrochemical impulses and helps to coordinate body activities.

46. chol
Sodium
Diagnoses/Treats disease of the internal organs that secrete hormones
Cholesterol
Pathway of an opening/wound that spreads

47. endo-
Inside
Armpit reading of temp
(mainly women who have had children) and abnormal decrease in bone mass. Lead cause of fractures and thin brittle bones. 'silent crippler'
Calorie

48. Blasts
Study of (word roots/combining forms)
Carbon dioxide
Baby Red Blood Cells (When you have to many - usually means something is wrong w/bone marrow)
While awake

49. EEG
Student Health Unit Coordinatoor
Electroencephalogram (test to check electricity in the brain)
Suspected non-accidental Trauma
Heart - Blood Vessels - Blood

50. HO
(MAR) List of meds that each individual pt is currently taking; it is used by the RN to administer meds.
Lab where biopsies are sent to
House Officer
Lumbar Puncture