questions and answers
Integrity ✅✅Honesty
Certification ✅✅A person has met predetermined standards
Registration ✅✅Being placed on an official list (registry) after meeting the educational and testing
requirements for the profession
Licensure ✅✅A designation that means the person has been granted permission to legally
perform certain acts
Career ladders ✅✅The various levels within an occupational area that require different amounts
of education and training
Therapeutic ✅✅Relating to healing and assisting patients to regain or attain maximum wellness
Diagnostic ✅✅Pertaining to identifying and determining the cause and extent of diseases and
injuries
Manual dexterity ✅✅Skill working with the hands
Learning styles ✅✅A theory proposing that individuals learn in different ways
Visual learner ✅✅Learns best from seeing printed materials, images, colors, drawings, diagrams,
maps, and films
Auditory learner ✅✅Learns best from hearing lectures, music, tapes, or rhythms
, Kinesthetic learner ✅✅Learns best from hands-on activities such as labs, practice, experiments,
projects, games, and movement
Biases ✅✅Opinions made before facts are known
Scope of practice ✅✅Understanding exactly what one is legally allowed to do in one's profession
Problem-solving process ✅✅A sequence of organized steps to follow when making decisions
Opinions ✅✅Beliefs not based on facts or knowledge
Assessment ✅✅Gathering information
Objective data ✅✅Direct observations made by health care professional to evaluate a patient's
condition
Subjective data ✅✅Information the patient tells the health care professional about his or her
condition., which can not be directly observed
Symptoms ✅✅Cannot be directly observed or measured by the health care professional
Reliable ✅✅Trustworthy
Pandemic ✅✅A rapidly spreading disease that attacks many people at the same time
Gene therapy ✅✅The insertion of normal DNA into cells to correct a genetic defect or to treat
certain diseases
Targeted drug therapy ✅✅Use of drugs to block the growth and spread of cancer cells by
preventing them from dividing or by destroying them
Psychiatric hospitals ✅✅Offer treatment to individuals with psychiatric and behavioral disorders