PATIENT CARE

system that enrolls or assigns patients to interventions across the continuum of health and illness. It includes wellness exams and routine screenings, utilization reviews, event focus, shortterm case management, and the management of long-term chronic conditions.

consists of health care providers, physicians, nurses, allied medical workers, assistive personnel and a variety of interprofessional team members.

Provide ongoing care, Elicit patient history and conducting physical assessments to inform care decisions. Administering medications, vaccines, treatments and other interventions

€™ top priority is to deliver the best care service, ensure safety and hygiene for patients. Coordinate with regulatory bodies and ensure compliance to regulations set therewith

Assess and manage medical treatment. Performs surgical procedures.

Provide services to help with diagnosis and treatment

a crucial component in all steps of the health care process. It can empower patients and their family members to participate as full partners in their care.

The process of “correctly matching a patient to appropriately intended interventions and communicating information about the patient’s identity accurately and reliably throughout the continuum of care

Involve patients in decision-making, recognizing they are individuals with their own unique values and preferences.

In order for a patient to be engaged in their treatment plans, make informed decisions, and ask questions, they have to have an understanding of their health. In order to do this, we need to put an emphasis on patient education

This means your tone, facial expressions, body language, hand movements, and eye contact.

A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

Delivering of information and messages by way of graphical representations or visual aids.

A hypothetical point around which the force of gravity appears to act

The Coordinated effort of musculoskeletal and nervous system to maintain balance, posture, and body alignment

How the head, shoulders, spine, hips, knees and. ankles relate and line up with each other.

Ability to remain in an upright, and stable position. A person with good balance will demonstrate good postural control of their center of gravity within their base of support

The ability to walk from place to place independently, with or without assistive devices.

A wheeled cot/bed or a stretcher used for transport of patient that needs to lie flat

Used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, problems related to old age, or disability

moves the mandible away from the midline, toward either the right or left side.

Complex movements that involve the multiple plane joints among the tarsal bones of the posterior foot (intertarsal joints) and thus are not motions that take place at the ankle joint.

Movement of a body region in a circular manner, in which one end of the body region being moved stays relatively stationary while the other end describes a circle.

Can occur within the vertebral column, at a pivot joint, or at a ball-and-socket joint.

Is a range of practices that support skin integrity, enhance its appearance, and relieve skin conditions

Is the state of being free from disease causing microorganisms. It is concerned with eliminating the spread of microorganisms through facility practices.

Basic but essential first step in maintaining and promoting optimal skin health

skin routinely, especially after bathing, with creams or lotions is an important second step which can help avoid skin complications such as dry skin, skin tears and skin breakdown.

- Is an organism that is microscopic (too small to be seen by the naked human eye).

One-celled microorganisms without a typical nucleus. â—� It contains both DNA and RNA.

Needs aerobic environment to live and reproduce â—� They are the smallest microorganisms known to produce disease in man. â—� Has either DNA orRNA

Requires moisture and darkness to survive *cause skin infections, such as athlete's foot and ringworm â—� Respiratory infections, such as histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis; and â—� Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and pharyngeal and oesophageal candidiasis in individuals with compromised immune systems.

Contamination often occurs when an infectious individual coughs, sneezes, speaks, or singsin the vicinity of a susceptible host

insects and animals are the carrier of disease - Some examples of vectors are mosquitoes that transmit malaria or dengue fever, fleas that carry bubonic plague, and ticks that spread Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Tiny droplet nuclei that remain suspended in air. - Tuberculosis, Rubeola, Varicella Viruses

- Transmitted indirectly by materials contaminated with the infectious microbes - Food, water, drug and blood

Symptoms diminish and eventually disappear.

Pathogen enters the body and begins to produce non-specific Si&So

Disease process begins; microbe reproduces

Most communicable. Disease at its fullest extent

Includes all practices that destroy microbes and spores

Is a method that totally excludes all microbes

- Includes all practices intended to confine specific microbes to a specific areas

Means that as many as possible microorganisms are eliminated. Spores are not destroyed.

It is the best method of preventing the spread of microorganisms.

During medical hand washing

During surgical hand washing

Used for items that CANNOT withstand moisture and high temperatures.

Effective and convenience means of sterilization for items that CAN withstand high temperature and moisture - Autoclave chamber provides the necessary pressure

Used for anhydrous oils,petroleum products, and bulkpowders. - It may also be used on delicate cutting instruments that may be decolorized by other sterilization means

Referred to as low-temperature sterilization. A maximum temperature of 54 C to 60 C.

may be used when no other methods of sterilization are available but many spores are able to resist

This method uses low-pressure steam and non-ionizing radiation of microwaves to destroy microbes.

kills microorganisms when they come in direct contact. This is not a practical means of disinfection for hospitals because there is no assurance t

To reduce the contact of large-particle droplets (greater than 5 microns) with the conjunctivae or with mucous membranes of the nose and mouth of a susceptible person

The system is based on the use of barriers for all contacts with blood and certain body fluids known to carry bloodborne pathogens, rather than focusing on the isolation of a patient with a diagnosed bloodborne disease

To prevent diseases such as tuberculosis and measles (rubeola). - Health care workers and visitors entering the room of an infectious person must wear particulate respirators

Health care workers and visitors coming in close contact with these patients must wear surgical masks, but no special air circulation is required in these rooms

depends upon the mode of transmission of pathogens and patient reliability to disease

Member of the team positions the patient - places the IR appropriately, making certain that the exposure side is toward the x-ray tube

Has no direct contact with the patient, the bed, or any items the patient may have touched. - Positions the machine, sets the controls, and makes the exposure.

The compromised requires special precautions to avoid exposure to potential infection

A wave of blood created by contraction of the left ventricle of the heart

lets you know the degree of warmth your patient's body is

Process of measuring a patient's breath in and out

The force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries in the body

NORMAL PULSE RANGE

NORMAL RESPIRATION

BLOOD PRESSURE SYSTOLE

BLOOD PRESSURE DIASTOLE

Increase oxygen saturation in tissues where the saturation levels are too low due to illness or injury

A plastic disposable device with two hollow prongs that deliver oxygen to the nostrils. - It is the most common and inexpensive device used to administer oxygen.

French-tip catheter is inserted into one nostril until it reaches the oral pharynx

- a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body is not getting enough blood flow. - This can damage multiple organs

Losing about 1/5 or more of the normal amount of blood in your body causes ____

a state in which the heart has been damaged so much that it is unable to supply enough blood to the organs of the body

A serious condition that occurs when an overwhelming infection leads to life-threatening low blood pressure.

Occurs when concussion, spinal cord injury, psychic trauma or spinal anaesthesia causes abnormal dilatation of the peripheral blood vessels. - This causes a fall in blood pressure as blood pools in the veins.

It is a result of an exaggerated hypersensitivity reaction. - The common causes are drugs, iodinated contrast agents, chemotherapeutic agents, anaesthetics,certain foods and insect venoms.

chronic disease involving disorder of carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism.

it is caused by hormone secreted by the placenta that prevent the action of insulin.

Results from insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to use insulin properly, sometimes combined with an absolute insulin deficiency.

occurs usually in person younger than 30 years of age - body's failure to produce insulin

Pancreatic diseases or hormonal abnormalities may produce diabetic symptoms

unsystemic discharge of neurons of the cerebrum that result in adrupt alteration in brain function

A DM patient had an excessive insulin or oral hypoglycemic drug - Also caused by inadequate intake of food utilizing insulin and/or increase metabolism of glucose

Is the transient loss consciousness usually caused by insufficiency in the supply of blood to the brain

Also termed Stroke or Brain attacks - Caused by occlusion of the blood supply to the brain, rupture of the blood supply or cerebral artery

Caused by disruption of the electrical activity of the heart

result from airway obstruction caused by patient’s position, tongue, disease, drug overdose,foreign object, injury, or coma

. To reduce the back strain associated with transferring patients from stretcher to x-ray table, you should:

. A patient who is diaphoretic has:

A patient’s feeling of spinning, or the room spinning about him, is called:

. Term for mild convulsion that may or may not be associated with loss of consciousness:

What is the radiographer/s initial response to patient who is in a state of hypovolemic shock?

What is the radiographer/s initial response to patient who is in a state of cardiogenic shock?

. Proper treatment for contrast media extravasation into tissues around a vein includes:1. Application of cold wet towel to affected area 2. Application of moist heat to affected area 3. Application of pressure to injection site