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1. Osteoarthritis
Pro re nata (as needed)
O+ o- a+ a- b+ b- ab+ (cannot donate blood) ab- (cannot donate blood)
(usually older) Most common form - usually in weight bearing joints (hips - knees) Chronic inflammation of the bone and joints due to degenerative changes in the cartilage.
Creatinine clearance

2. pathy or pathic
Usually meds - food - tape - and many other items
Disease (pertaining to)
Licenses Practical Nurse
Spontaneous collapse of lung

3. Pedal Pulse
A temporary lowering of BP usually due to standing suddenly - also called postural hypotension
Incision
Red
The pulse rate obtained on the top of the foot

4. RUQ
Moving clot
Connects and holds tissue together - to transport substances - and to protect against foreign invaders. Forms and protects bones - fat - blood cells - and cartilage and provides immunity.
Total parenteral nutrition
Right upper quadrant

5. CFO
Bone
Chief Financial Officer
Liquid
Labor & Delivery

6. osis
Rapid eyelid movement
(the egg white) The main body of the cell
Post-anesthesia Care Unit
Condition of

7. Change of Shift Report
Bile - gall
Communication process between shifts - in which nursing personnel who are leaving report nursing unit activities to coming on duty.
Connects and holds tissue together - to transport substances - and to protect against foreign invaders. Forms and protects bones - fat - blood cells - and cartilage and provides immunity.
Calorie

8. Radiologist
Pertaining to
Hemoglobin & hematocrit (HGB & crit or HCT)
Health Unit Coordinator
Diagnoses/Treats diseases w/the use of various methods of imaging such as x-ray - ultrasound - radioactive materials - and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

9. Internist
Diet as tolerated
Myocardial infarction
Diagnosis/Treats diseases and disorders of the internal organs of adults
Arterial blood gas

10. Physiology
Circulation - motion - sensation
Brain
Flesh tumor (cancer)
Cells/Inside/How they work

11. MED
A tubular instrument (rigid or flexible) with a light source and a viewing lens for observation that can be inserted through a body orifice or through a small incision.
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrotomy
Medical
Right

12. cerebr/o
Surgical
Brain
Preferred Provider Organization
Blue

13. orrhagia
Nail (word roots/combining forms)
Artery
Microgram
Rapid flow of blood

14. qh or q_h
A measurement of energy or heat
Bone that goes through the skin (open)
Every hour or every (fill in #) hour
History

15. What is the purpose of the skeletal system?
To support/protect (framework)
Increased - above - elevated
Nail (word roots/combining forms)
Calcium (Can also mean cancer)

16. trans
Vital signs
Across or through
Labels affixed to the front cover of a pt's paper chart that indicated pt has allergy.
No added salt

17. RN
Practice of continuously improving quality of each function at each level of every dept. of the health care organization.
Treats cancer through the use of radiation
Electroencephalogram (test to check electricity in the brain)
Registered Nurse

18. ICU
3x a day
Intensive Care Unit
Without development (a decrease in normal size of an organ)
Pertaining to away from (body directional terms)

19. cal or Kcal
Calorie
Flesh tumor (cancer)
Tablet
Blue

20. APS
No Information No Publication
Labels that contain individual pt info for identifying pt records or other personal items.
As necessary
Adult protective Services

21. ADA
American Diabetic Association
Study of
Tonsils & adenoids
Registered dietician

22. ED
Fat (word roots/combining forms)
Condition of the blood
Emergency Dept.
Rapid eyelid movement

23. c (with line above it)
With
Slow heart rate
Happening now
Minute

24. intra- (prefix)
Book to record all admissions/discharges/and transfers on a nursing unit
Liter
Within
Milliequivalent

25. bid
2x per day
Chest x-ray
(usually older) Most common form - usually in weight bearing joints (hips - knees) Chronic inflammation of the bone and joints due to degenerative changes in the cartilage.
The # of times a pt breaths per minute (in & out)

26. Rheumatoid Arthritis
Registered dietician
(usually young women) Autoimmune disease. Degeneration of the joints - with permanent damage.
End of word
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record

27. TNA
Tonsils & adenoids
2x per day
Kidney
Protective covering on skin or lines the body cavities

28. ischeimia
Right lower quadrant
Diagnoses/Treats mental illness
Blood being held back
Pertaining to above (body directional terms)

29. stomat/o
Penicillin
Mouth
Diagnoses/Treats diseases and problems w/aging
Diagnoses/Treats disorders of a newborn

30. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrotomy
Potassium chloride
Practice of continuously improving quality of each function at each level of every dept. of the health care organization.
Forms parts of the nervous system - which conducts electrochemical impulses and helps to coordinate body activities.

31. SHUC
Nothing by mouth
Student Health Unit Coordinatoor
Pertaining to in front of (body directional terms)
Cap gas - arterial gas - venous gas

32. leuk/o
White
Middle layer of the meninges (web like structure)
Extends from brainstem through spinal cavity to between the 1st and 2nd lumbar verebrae. It's the patway for conducting sensory impulses up to the brain and motor impulses back down from the brain.
Penicillin

33. derm / o
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record
Shortness of breath
Skin (word roots/combining forms)
Cardiac Monitor Tech

34. Superior (cranial)
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Pertaining to the brain and spine
Pertaining to above (body directional terms)
Transmits impulses to the brain and spinal cord

35. 5 items that make up a pt's chart
Tumor
Blood being held back
Face sheet - orders - progress notes - DNR - Advance Directives - Meds - Labs
Rapid flow of blood

36. Supine
Upper gastrointestinal
Lying of the back - Face Up (body directional terms)
Cancer (word roots/combining forms)
No added salt

37. -graphy
Intestine
A graphic recording of the electrical impulses that the heart generated during the cardiac cycle.
Process of recording an x-ray - imaging - taking a picture
Process in which tumor cells spread to distant parts of the body

38. 'arrow up'
Certified Health Unit Coordinator
Rapid flow
Increased - above - elevated
Over the counter

39. Deep
Farther from the surface (body directional terms)
2x per day
Fast - rapid
Rule out

40. algia
Inner lining of heart - also forms the heart valves
Medication Administration Record
Pain
Creatinine clearance

41. myelorrhagia
Post cibrum (after meals)
Date in which a specific category of meds must discontinue unless review by a Dr.
Rapid flow of blood into the spinal cord
Red

42. CHO
Electroencephalography
Narrowing
Sclera (white part of eye)
Carbohydrate

43. CNS
Liver
Labor & Delivery
Muscle (myo)
Central Nervous System

44. Atrophy
Femur (thigh bone)
Diagnoses/Treats diseases of the skin.
Without development (a decrease in normal size of an organ)
Heart - Blood Vessels - Blood

45. -gram
Extends from brainstem through spinal cavity to between the 1st and 2nd lumbar verebrae. It's the patway for conducting sensory impulses up to the brain and motor impulses back down from the brain.
Tounge
Respiratory syncytial virus (can live on surface for 7 days)
Record x-ray - image - or picture

46. Calorie
Surgical
Minimal Standard (5 rights)
A measurement of energy or heat
Vein

47. -pexy
Specialist (Pertaining to)
Intensive Care Unit
Surgical fixation
Between

48. Metastasis
3x a day
A tubular instrument (rigid or flexible) with a light source and a viewing lens for observation that can be inserted through a body orifice or through a small incision.
Biopsy
Process in which tumor cells spread to distant parts of the body

49. pc
Culture & Sensitivity
Post cibrum (after meals)
Death of body tissue due to lack of blood supply - often a result of infection or injury.
Nerves - Brain - Spinal Cord

50. SDS
Cartilage
Same-day Surgery
A diagnostic study to measure arterial blood gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) to attain info needed to asses & manage a pt's respiratory status.
Pertaining to between the vertebrae