HSC 317 STANDARD EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Population-based public health practice - ✔✔incorporates interventions aimed at
disease prevention and health promotion, specific protection, and a good share of case
findings.
✔✔Primary Care - ✔✔clinical preventive services, first contact treatment services, and
ongoing care for commonly encountered medical conditions
✔✔Secondary Medical Care - ✔✔specialized attention and ongoing management for
common and less frequently encountered medical conditions, including support services
for people with special challenges due to chronic or long-term conditions.
✔✔Tertiary Medical Care - ✔✔specialized and technologically sophisticated medical
and surgical care for those with unusual or complex conditions (generally no more than
a few percent of the need in any service category).
✔✔Restorative care - ✔✔care provided after successful treatment or when the progress
of an incurable disease has been arrested
✔✔Long-term care - ✔✔different kinds of help that people with chronic illnesses,
disabilities, or other conditions that limit them physically or mentally need.
✔✔End of life practice - ✔✔health care services provided to individuals shortly before
death.
✔✔Hospice Care - ✔✔a cluster of special services for the dying that blends medical,
spiritual, legal, financial, an family support services.
✔✔Independent providers - ✔✔health care professionals with the education and legal
authority to treat any health problem.
, ✔✔Allopathic Providers - ✔✔independent providers whose remedies for illnesses
produce effects different from those of the disease.
✔✔Osteopathic providers - ✔✔independent health care providers whose remedies
emphasize the interrelationships of the body's systems in prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment.
✔✔Intern - ✔✔a first year resident
✔✔Resident - ✔✔A physician who is training in a specialty
✔✔Nonallopathic providers - ✔✔independent providers who provide nontraditional
forms of health care.
✔✔CAM (complementary/alternative medicine) - ✔✔a group of diverse medical and
health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be a
part of conventional medicine.
✔✔Limited (restricted) care providers - ✔✔health care providers who provide care for a
specific part of the body.
✔✔LPN (Licensed practical nurse) - ✔✔those prepared in 1 to 2 year programs to
provide nontechnical bedside nursing care under the supervision of physicians or
registered nurses.
✔✔RN (registred nurse) - ✔✔one who has successfully completed an accredited
academic program and a state licensing examination.
✔✔professional nurse - ✔✔a registered nurse holding a bachelor of science degree in
nursing.
✔✔NPPs (nonphyscician practitioners) - ✔✔clinical professionals who practice in many
of the areas similar to those in which physicians practice, but do not have an MD or DO
degree.
✔✔Allied healthcare professionals - ✔✔health care workers who provide services that
assist, facilitate, and complement the work of physicians and other health care
specialists.
✔✔Public health care professionals - ✔✔a health care worker who works in a public
health organization.
✔✔private (proprietary) or investor-owned hospitals - ✔✔For-profit hospitals
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Population-based public health practice - ✔✔incorporates interventions aimed at
disease prevention and health promotion, specific protection, and a good share of case
findings.
✔✔Primary Care - ✔✔clinical preventive services, first contact treatment services, and
ongoing care for commonly encountered medical conditions
✔✔Secondary Medical Care - ✔✔specialized attention and ongoing management for
common and less frequently encountered medical conditions, including support services
for people with special challenges due to chronic or long-term conditions.
✔✔Tertiary Medical Care - ✔✔specialized and technologically sophisticated medical
and surgical care for those with unusual or complex conditions (generally no more than
a few percent of the need in any service category).
✔✔Restorative care - ✔✔care provided after successful treatment or when the progress
of an incurable disease has been arrested
✔✔Long-term care - ✔✔different kinds of help that people with chronic illnesses,
disabilities, or other conditions that limit them physically or mentally need.
✔✔End of life practice - ✔✔health care services provided to individuals shortly before
death.
✔✔Hospice Care - ✔✔a cluster of special services for the dying that blends medical,
spiritual, legal, financial, an family support services.
✔✔Independent providers - ✔✔health care professionals with the education and legal
authority to treat any health problem.
, ✔✔Allopathic Providers - ✔✔independent providers whose remedies for illnesses
produce effects different from those of the disease.
✔✔Osteopathic providers - ✔✔independent health care providers whose remedies
emphasize the interrelationships of the body's systems in prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment.
✔✔Intern - ✔✔a first year resident
✔✔Resident - ✔✔A physician who is training in a specialty
✔✔Nonallopathic providers - ✔✔independent providers who provide nontraditional
forms of health care.
✔✔CAM (complementary/alternative medicine) - ✔✔a group of diverse medical and
health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be a
part of conventional medicine.
✔✔Limited (restricted) care providers - ✔✔health care providers who provide care for a
specific part of the body.
✔✔LPN (Licensed practical nurse) - ✔✔those prepared in 1 to 2 year programs to
provide nontechnical bedside nursing care under the supervision of physicians or
registered nurses.
✔✔RN (registred nurse) - ✔✔one who has successfully completed an accredited
academic program and a state licensing examination.
✔✔professional nurse - ✔✔a registered nurse holding a bachelor of science degree in
nursing.
✔✔NPPs (nonphyscician practitioners) - ✔✔clinical professionals who practice in many
of the areas similar to those in which physicians practice, but do not have an MD or DO
degree.
✔✔Allied healthcare professionals - ✔✔health care workers who provide services that
assist, facilitate, and complement the work of physicians and other health care
specialists.
✔✔Public health care professionals - ✔✔a health care worker who works in a public
health organization.
✔✔private (proprietary) or investor-owned hospitals - ✔✔For-profit hospitals
