Accreditation
Recognition to an educational program, maintaining standards, to qualify grad?s for professional practice
Ambulatory care setting
Clinics, urgent care facilities- where health care services are offered.
Attribute
Inherent characteristic
Bachelor?s Degree
4-year academic degree
Certification
Guarantees as being true or as represented by or as meeting standard
Certified Medical Assistant (CMA aama)
Successfully completed the AAMA?s national certification exam
Competency
Legally qualified or adequate
Compliance
Conformity in fulfilling official requirements
Credentialed
Testimonials showing personis entitled to credit or has a right to exercise power
Dexterity
Skill and ease in using the hands
Diploma
Document bearing record of graduation from or a degree conferred by educational institute
Disposition
Temperament, character, personality
Empathy
Insight into others feelings, emotions, being aware of the significance and meaning to that person
Facilitate
To make an action or process easer
Improvise
To make, invent or arrange in an unplanned / spontaneous manner
Integrate
Incorporate into a lager unit/ form or blend into a whole
License
Permission by competent authority to engage in a profession
Licensure
Granting of licenses to practice a profession
Litigious
Prone to engage in lawsuits
Practicum
Transitional stage providing opportunity to apply theory learned in class to health care setting
Professionalism
Qualities that characterize or distinguish a professional person who conforms to the technical and ethical standards of profession
Proprietary
Privately owned / profit making
Registered medical assistant
Credentials awarded for successfully passing the AMT exam
Scope of practice
The range of clinical procedures and activities that are allowed by law of a profession
Acupuncture
Treatment to relieve pain by puncturing the skin at specific pointsHeath Maintenance OrganizationManaged care operation / for profit corp with salaried ee?s
Integrative medicine
Bringing together of two or more treatments to function as a whole
Managed Care Operation
Healthcare setting to reduce cost of care while still providing access to care
Asepsis
Protecting against infection
Malaria ( female mosquito bites)
Acute infectious disease caused by presence of protozoan parasites? within red blood cells
Moxibustion
Ancient Chinese method of treatment uses powdered plant substance on skin to raise a blister
Opiates
Opiates are so named because they are constituents or derivatives of constituents found in opium, which is processed from the latex sap of the opium poppy
Pharmacopoeia
Book describing drugs and their preparation , collection stck of drugs
Septicemia
Invasion of pathogenic bacteria into bloodstream
Trephination
Round holes in the skull are referred to as this
Typhus (typhoid)
Acute infectious disease severe headaches, rash, high fever, unsanitary conditions
Yellow fever
Acute infectious disease where a person develops jaundice, vomits hemorrhage and has a fever mostly caused by mosquitoes.