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Inpatient care unit - ✔✔A unit that provides care for patients admitted to a facility for
treatment requiring at least one overnight stay.
Patient care equipment - ✔✔Equipment intended for use in treatments, diagnosis,
monitoring, life sustaining or resuscitating functions or for the provision of therapy to patients
because of their medical condition or illness. Examples include defibrillators, infusion devices,
traction or feeding pumps.
Outpatient surgery center - ✔✔Healthcare facilities where staff perform scheduled surgical
procedures that do not require an overnight stay.
Post Anesthesia Recovery Unit - ✔✔A unit within the Operating Room department where
patients recover from anesthesia under close supervision, also called the Post-Anesthesia Care
Unit (PACU).
Computerized tomography (CT) scan - ✔✔A process in which several x-ray beams create a
cross-section through the patient's body to determine the relative density of the tissues that
are examined.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan - ✔✔A process that uses high-frequency radio
waves and a computer to visualize organs in a patient's body.
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab) - ✔✔A procedure room with diagnostic
imaging equipment used to visualize the arteries and chambers of the heart and tree any
stenosis or abnormality found.
,Outpatient care services - ✔✔Services provided by a hospital to patients who are not
admitted to the facility.
Gerontology - ✔✔The field related to the care of aging patients.
Triage - ✔✔The act of determining which patients are in most need of medical assistance
and then providing it to those with the most need.
Defend-in-place - ✔✔A strategy in which occupants (patients and staff) are relocated to a
safe location on the same floor rather than being evacuated during an emergency.
Chain of Command - ✔✔The formal organizational structure that traces responsibilities from
the highest to lowest levels within a healthcare facility.
Superordinate - ✔✔The person or position to whom someone reports.
Supervisor - ✔✔A person in the first line of management who monitors and regulates
employees in their performance of assigned and delegated tasks.
Manager - ✔✔A person who manages or oversees something. Mangers can control
departments in organizations or guide the people who work in them.
Intrapreneur - ✔✔A creative and innovative person within an organization who is directly
responsible for successfully managing an aspect of the organization's business.
Communication (Formal) - ✔✔Formal communication relates to the organization of
information in the healthcare facility and the official relationship of the individuals sending and
receiving the information
, Communication (Informal) - ✔✔Informal communication flows through unofficial channels
not directly connected with a healthcare organization and is based upon unofficial (social)
affiliation of members; see also "grapevine."
Sender - ✔✔A person who sends a message through a communication channel.
Receiver - ✔✔A person who receives a message through a communication channel.
Feedback - ✔✔Information provided by the receiver of a message in response to the person
(sender) who transmitted it.
Open-ended question - ✔✔A question that requires the receiver to respond in an
unstructured way. Senders use these questions to solicit opinions and ideas and verify
understanding. Open-ended questions may not be answered with one word, such as a simple
"yes" or "no."
Diversity - ✔✔The concept that people are unique with individual differences stemming
from age, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, physical ability, religious beliefs and
other lifestyle preferences.
Writing style - ✔✔The manner in which a writer addresses a topic. The style helps to reveal
the writer's personality or "voice."
Cyberspace - ✔✔The world of information available online, through the Internet, an
intranet, email or social media platforms.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - ✔✔This act provides a privacy
rule that protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information and a patient safety
rule that protects identifiable information from being used to analyze patient safety events and
improve patient safety.
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