Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Structures and Divisions HCS/120 Version 1
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Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Structures and Divisions
Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines:
In the space provided, write each term’s definition as used in health care. You must define the term in your words; do not simply copy the definition from a textbook.
In the space provided after each term’s definition, provide a sentence that illustrates the
importance of the skill, concept, procedure, organization, or tool to which the term refers. In your explanation, you may wish to consider the following:
How has it influenced health care?
Why is it important to understand the appropriate application of the term or concept?
Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name.
Submit the file to your facilitator.
Note. You must define 30 basic health care terms related to health care structures and divisions in this worksheet. Therefore, also in the terms already provided for you below, finish the additional spaces on the worksheet with terms from your reading or discussion you were not previously familiar with and had to research.
Terms:
- Hospital
- Ambulatory care facility
- Wellness Center
- Physician’s Office
- Hospice care facility
- Long-term care facility
- Home health care
- Mental health facility
- Nonprofit facility
- Public health
- CCRC
- Emergency room
- Physical therapy
- Radiology
- Pediatrics
- Surgical ward
- Oncology
- Ultrasound
- Hematology
- Cardiology
- ICU
- Orthopedics
- Neurology
- OB/GYN
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Pharmacology
- Proprietary
- Hospitals
- Nervous System
- Health Promotion Services