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--- hospitals, university
--- schools, medical
--- ambulatory care facilities --- community health centers
--- substance abuse treatment centers --- community mental health centers --- child guidance clinics --- maternal-child health centers --- outpatient clinics, hospital --- pain clinics --- pain clinics --- surgicenters --- bed occupancy --- biological specimen banks --- blood banks --- milk banks --- sperm banks --- tissue banks --- bone banks --- eye banks --- birthing center
s --- dental facilities --- dental clinics --- dental offices --- laboratories, dental --- facility design and construction --- building codes --- hospital design and construction --- fitness centers --- health facilities, proprietary --- hospitals, proprietary --- health facility closure --- health facility environment --- patients' rooms --- health facility merger --- health facility moving --- health facility size --- hospital bed capacity --- hospital bed capacity, under 100 --- hospital bed capacity, 100 to 299 --- hospital bed capacity, 300 to 499 --- hospital bed capacity, 500 and over --- hospital administration --- ancillary services, hospital --- centralized hospital services --- financial management, hospital --- hospital communication systems --- hospital departments --- admitting department, hospital --- anesthesia department, hospital --- cardiology service, hospital --- central supply, hospital --- chaplaincy service, hospital --- dental service, hospital --- education department, hospital --- emergency service, hospital --- trauma center
s --- food service, hospital --- housekeeping, hospital --- laboratories, hospital --- laundry service, hospital --- maintenance and engineering, hospital --- medical records department, hospital --- nuclear medicine department, hospital --- nursing service, hospital --- obstetrics and gynecology department, hospital --- occupational therapy department, hospital --- oncology service, hospital --- outpatient clinics, hospital --- pain clinics --- pathology department, hospital --- personnel administration, hospital --- pharmacy service, hospital --- physical therapy department, hospital --- psychiatric department, hospital --- purchasing, hospital --- group purchasing --- radiology department, hospital --- respiratory therapy department, hospital --- social work department, hospital --- surgery department, hospital --- urology department, hospital --- hospital distribution systems --- hospital-patient relations --- hospital-physician relations --- medical staff privileges --- hospital restructuring --- hospital-physician joint ventures --- physician self-referral
--- hospital shared services --- hospital shops --- libraries, hospital --- materials management, hospital --- inventories, hospital --- medication systems, hospital --- product line management --- hospital units --- delivery rooms --- hemodialysis units, hospital --- intensive care units --- burn units --- coronary care units --- intensive care units, pediatric --- intensive care units, neonatal --- recovery room --- respiratory care units --- nurseries
, hospital
--- operating rooms --- self-care units --- hospitals --- hospitals, community --- hospitals, general --- hospitals, group practice --- hospitals, packaged --- hospitals, private --- hospitals, proprietary --- hospitals, religious --- hospitals, voluntary --- hospitals, public --- hospitals, county --- hospitals, district --- hospitals, federal --- hospitals, military --- hospitals, veterans --- hospitals, municipal --- hospitals, state --- hospitals, rural --- hospitals, satellite --- hospitals, special --- cancer care facilities --- cardiac care facilities --- hospice
s --- hospitals, chronic disease --- hospitals, convalescent --- hospitals, maternity --- hospitals, osteopathic --- hospitals, pediatric
--- hospitals, psychiatric
--- surgicenters --- hospitals, teaching --- hospitals, university --- hospitals, urban --- hospitals, municipal --- laboratories
--- laboratories, hospital --- leper colonies
--- medical office buildings --- nurseries
--- nurseries
, hospital
--- pharmacies
--- physicians' offices --- poison control center
s --- rehabilitation centers --- sheltered workshops --- substance abuse treatment centers --- residential facilities --- assisted living facilities
--- group homes --- halfway house
s --- homes for the aged
--- nursing home
s --- intermediate care facilities --- skilled nursing facilities
--- orphanage
s
--- animal technicians --- community health aides --- dental auxiliaries --- dental assistants --- dental hygienists --- dental technicians --- denturist
s --- emergency medical technician
s --- home health aides --- medical record administrators --- medical secretaries --- medical receptionists --- nurses' aides --- psychiatric aides --- operating room technicians --- pharmacists' aides --- physician assistant
s --- ophthalmic assistants --- pediatric assistants --- caregiver
s --- coroner
s and medical examiner
s --- dental staff --- dental staff, hospital --- dentist
s --- dentists, women --- faculty, dental --- faculty, medical --- faculty, nursing --- health facility administrators --- hospital administrators --- chief executive officers, hospital --- infection control practitioners --- laboratory personnel --- medical staff --- medical staff, hospital --- hospitalists --- nurses --- nurse administrators --- nurse anesthetist
s --- nurse clinicians --- nurse midwives
--- nurse practitioner
s --- nurses, male
--- nursing staff --- nursing staff, hospital --- personnel, hospital --- dental staff, hospital]] --- hospital administrators --- chief executive officer
s, hospital --- hospital volunteer
s --- hospital auxiliaries --- patient escort service --- medical staff, hospital --- hospitalists
--- nursing staff, hospital --- pharmacist
s --- physician executives --- physician
s --- foreign medical graduates --- hospitalists
--- physicians, family --- physicians, women --- veterinarian
s
--- health promotion
--- healthy people programs
--- counseling --- sex counseling --- family planning services --- foster home care --- home care services --- hemodialysis, home --- home care services, hospital-based --- home infusion therapy --- home nursing --- respite care
--- homemaker services --- parenteral nutrition, home --- parenteral nutrition, home total --- hospices --- maternal health services --- postnatal care --- preconception care --- prenatal care
--- occupational health services --- preventive health services --- diagnostic services --- mass screening --- anonymous testing --- genetic screening --- mass chest x-ray --- multiphasic screening --- neonatal screening --- mobile health units --- early intervention (education) --- health education
--- health education, dental --- health fairs --- patient education
--- immunization programs --- mass immunization --- needle-exchange programs --- School Health Services
--- school dentistry --- school nursing
--- dental health services --- dental care
--- dental care for aged --- dental care for children --- dental care for chronically ill --- dental care for disabled --- dental service, hospital --- dietary services --- food service, hospital --- menu planning --- emergency medical services
--- emergency medical service communication systems --- emergency service, hospital --- trauma centers --- emergency services, psychiatric --- poison control centers --- transportation of patients --- ambulances --- air ambulances --- triage
--- genetic services --- genetic counseling
--- genetic screening --- health services for the aged --- health services, indigenous --- health services misuse --- unnecessary procedures --- medical errors --- diagnostic errors --- medication errors --- observer variation --- mental health services --- community mental health services --- counseling --- directive counseling --- sex counseling --- social work, psychiatric --- nursing care --- emergency nursing
--- geriatric nursing
--- holistic nursing --- home nursing --- respite care
--- maternal-child nursing
--- neonatal nursing
--- nursing, practical --- obstetrical nursing
--- occupational health nursing --- oncologic nursing --- orthopedic nursing --- pediatric nursing --- neonatal nursing
--- perioperative nursing
--- operating room nursing --- postanesthesia nursing --- primary nursing care --- psychiatric nursing
--- rehabilitation nursing --- nursing services --- home care services --- nursing service, hospital --- patient care --- aftercare
--- ambulatory care
--- peritoneal dialysis, continuous ambulatory --- critical care --- intensive care --- intensive care, neonatal --- custodial care --- day care
--- episode of care --- foster home care --- hospitalization
--- length of stay
--- patient admission --- patient discharge --- patient readmission --- patient transfer --- institutionalization --- deinstitutionalization --- life support care --- long-term care
--- night care --- nursing care --- home nursing --- respite care
--- palliative care
--- perinatal care --- perioperative care --- intraoperative care --- perioperative nursing
--- postoperative care --- postnatal care --- preconception care --- prenatal care
--- preoperative care --- subacute care --- terminal care --- euthanasia
--- euthanasia, active --- euthanasia, active, voluntary --- euthanasia, animal --- euthanasia, passive --- hospice care --- resuscitation orders --- suicide, assisted --- withholding treatment --- euthanasia, passive --- personal health services --- pharmaceutical services --- community pharmacy services --- drug information services --- adverse drug reaction reporting systems --- clinical pharmacy information systems --- pharmacy service, hospital --- preventive health services --- diagnostic services --- mass screening --- anonymous testing --- mass chest x-ray --- multiphasic screening --- mobile health units --- early intervention (education) --- health education
--- health education, dental --- health fairs --- patient education
--- health promotion
--- healthy people programs --- immunization programs --- mass immunization --- needle-exchange programs --- primary prevention --- immunization
--- mass immunization --- vaccination
--- school health services
--- school dentistry --- school nursing
--- physical rehabilitation --- activities of daily living
--- rehabilitation, vocational --- employment, supported --- self care --- reproductive health services --- family planning services --- maternal health services --- rural health services --- social work
--- social work, psychiatric --- student health services --- suburban health services --- tissue and organ procurement --- directed tissue donation --- donor selection --- urban health services --- women's health services --- preconception care
--- maintenance
--- maintenance and engineering, hospital
Mesh
Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to web or net in that it has many attached or woven strands.-Types of mesh:...
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--- health care facilities, manpower, and services
--- health facilities
--- academic medical centers --- hospitals, teachingTeaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...
--- hospitals, university
Teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...
--- schools, medical
Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine. Degree programs offered at medical schools often include Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Bachelor/Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, master's degree, or other post-secondary...
--- ambulatory care facilities --- community health centers
Community health centers in the United States
A Community health center in the United States is a Community health center in the United States.Community Health Centers are unique in that at least 51 percent of all Governing Board Members must be patients at the CHC. Access to care is improved by decreasing the cost of care with a sliding fee...
--- substance abuse treatment centers --- community mental health centers --- child guidance clinics --- maternal-child health centers --- outpatient clinics, hospital --- pain clinics --- pain clinics --- surgicenters --- bed occupancy --- biological specimen banks --- blood banks --- milk banks --- sperm banks --- tissue banks --- bone banks --- eye banks --- birthing center
Birthing center
A birthing center or centre is a healthcare facility, staffed by nurse-midwives, midwives and/or obstetricians, for mothers in labor, who may be assisted by doulas and coaches. By attending the laboring mother, the doulas can assist the midwives and make the birth easier. The midwives monitor the...
s --- dental facilities --- dental clinics --- dental offices --- laboratories, dental --- facility design and construction --- building codes --- hospital design and construction --- fitness centers --- health facilities, proprietary --- hospitals, proprietary --- health facility closure --- health facility environment --- patients' rooms --- health facility merger --- health facility moving --- health facility size --- hospital bed capacity --- hospital bed capacity, under 100 --- hospital bed capacity, 100 to 299 --- hospital bed capacity, 300 to 499 --- hospital bed capacity, 500 and over --- hospital administration --- ancillary services, hospital --- centralized hospital services --- financial management, hospital --- hospital communication systems --- hospital departments --- admitting department, hospital --- anesthesia department, hospital --- cardiology service, hospital --- central supply, hospital --- chaplaincy service, hospital --- dental service, hospital --- education department, hospital --- emergency service, hospital --- trauma center
Trauma center
A trauma center is a hospital equipped to provide comprehensive emergency medical services to patients suffering traumatic injuries. Trauma centers grew into existence out of the realization that traumatic injury is a disease process unto itself requiring specialized and experienced...
s --- food service, hospital --- housekeeping, hospital --- laboratories, hospital --- laundry service, hospital --- maintenance and engineering, hospital --- medical records department, hospital --- nuclear medicine department, hospital --- nursing service, hospital --- obstetrics and gynecology department, hospital --- occupational therapy department, hospital --- oncology service, hospital --- outpatient clinics, hospital --- pain clinics --- pathology department, hospital --- personnel administration, hospital --- pharmacy service, hospital --- physical therapy department, hospital --- psychiatric department, hospital --- purchasing, hospital --- group purchasing --- radiology department, hospital --- respiratory therapy department, hospital --- social work department, hospital --- surgery department, hospital --- urology department, hospital --- hospital distribution systems --- hospital-patient relations --- hospital-physician relations --- medical staff privileges --- hospital restructuring --- hospital-physician joint ventures --- physician self-referral
Physician self-referral
Physician self-referral is a term describing the practice of a physician ordering tests on a patient and having them performed either by themselves or by a facility from which they receive a financial incentive for the referral....
--- hospital shared services --- hospital shops --- libraries, hospital --- materials management, hospital --- inventories, hospital --- medication systems, hospital --- product line management --- hospital units --- delivery rooms --- hemodialysis units, hospital --- intensive care units --- burn units --- coronary care units --- intensive care units, pediatric --- intensive care units, neonatal --- recovery room --- respiratory care units --- nurseries
Nursery school
A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of one and five years, staffed by suitably qualified and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare...
, hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
--- operating rooms --- self-care units --- hospitals --- hospitals, community --- hospitals, general --- hospitals, group practice --- hospitals, packaged --- hospitals, private --- hospitals, proprietary --- hospitals, religious --- hospitals, voluntary --- hospitals, public --- hospitals, county --- hospitals, district --- hospitals, federal --- hospitals, military --- hospitals, veterans --- hospitals, municipal --- hospitals, state --- hospitals, rural --- hospitals, satellite --- hospitals, special --- cancer care facilities --- cardiac care facilities --- hospice
Hospice
Hospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms.In the United States and Canada:*Gentiva Health Services, national provider of hospice and home health services...
s --- hospitals, chronic disease --- hospitals, convalescent --- hospitals, maternity --- hospitals, osteopathic --- hospitals, pediatric
Children's hospital
A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children . The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties...
--- hospitals, psychiatric
Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are hospitals specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialise only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients...
--- surgicenters --- hospitals, teaching --- hospitals, university --- hospitals, urban --- hospitals, municipal --- laboratories
Medical laboratory
A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are done on clinical specimens in order to get information about the health of a patient as pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.-Departments:...
--- laboratories, hospital --- leper colonies
Leper colony
A leper colony, leprosarium, or lazar house is a place to quarantine leprous people.-History:Leper colonies or houses became widespread in the Middle Ages, particularly in Europe and India, and often run by monastic orders...
--- medical office buildings --- nurseries
Nursery school
A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of one and five years, staffed by suitably qualified and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare...
--- nurseries
Nursery school
A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of one and five years, staffed by suitably qualified and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare...
, hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
--- pharmacies
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
--- physicians' offices --- poison control center
Poison control center
A poison control center is a medical facility that is able to provide immediate, free, and expert treatment advice and assistance over the telephone in case of exposure to poisonous or hazardous substances...
s --- rehabilitation centers --- sheltered workshops --- substance abuse treatment centers --- residential facilities --- assisted living facilities
Assisted living
Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living ; coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being.Assistance may...
--- group homes --- halfway house
Halfway house
The purpose of a halfway house, also called a recovery house or sober house, is generally to allow people to begin the process of reintegration with society, while still providing monitoring and support; this is generally believed to reduce the risk of recidivism or relapse when compared to a...
s --- homes for the aged
Retirement home
A retirement home is a multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens. Typically each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Additional facilities are provided within the building, including facilities for meals, gathering, recreation, and some...
--- nursing home
Nursing home
A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...
s --- intermediate care facilities --- skilled nursing facilities
Nursing home
A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...
--- orphanage
Orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...
s
--- health personnel
--- allied health personnelAllied health professions
Allied health professions are clinical health care professions distinct from dentistry, nursing and medicine. One estimate reported allied health professionals make up 60 percent of the total health workforce...
--- animal technicians --- community health aides --- dental auxiliaries --- dental assistants --- dental hygienists --- dental technicians --- denturist
Denturist
A denturist, clinical dental technician or a dental prosthetist, is a member of the oral health care team who provides an oral health examination, takes impressions of the surrounding oral tissues, constructs and delivers removable oral prosthesis directly to the patient.They differ from...
s --- emergency medical technician
Emergency medical technician
Emergency Medical Technician or Ambulance Technician are terms used in some countries to denote a healthcare provider of emergency medical services...
s --- home health aides --- medical record administrators --- medical secretaries --- medical receptionists --- nurses' aides --- psychiatric aides --- operating room technicians --- pharmacists' aides --- physician assistant
Physician assistant
A physician assistant/associate ' is a healthcare professional trained and licensed to practice medicine with limited supervision by a physician.-General description:...
s --- ophthalmic assistants --- pediatric assistants --- caregiver
Caregiver
Caregiver may refer to:* Caregiver or carer - an unpaid person who cares for someone requiring support due to a disability, frailty, mental health problem, learning disability or old age...
s --- coroner
Coroner
A coroner is a government official who* Investigates human deaths* Determines cause of death* Issues death certificates* Maintains death records* Responds to deaths in mass disasters* Identifies unknown dead* Other functions depending on local laws...
s and medical examiner
Medical examiner
A medical examiner is a medically qualified government officer whose duty is to investigate deaths and injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests....
s --- dental staff --- dental staff, hospital --- dentist
Dentist
A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a doctor that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services...
s --- dentists, women --- faculty, dental --- faculty, medical --- faculty, nursing --- health facility administrators --- hospital administrators --- chief executive officers, hospital --- infection control practitioners --- laboratory personnel --- medical staff --- medical staff, hospital --- hospitalists --- nurses --- nurse administrators --- nurse anesthetist
Nurse anesthetist
A nurse anesthetist is a nurse who specializes in the administration of anesthesia.In the United States, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist is an advanced practice registered nurse who has acquired graduate-level education and board certification in anesthesia...
s --- nurse clinicians --- nurse midwives
Nurse midwife
In the United States, a Certified Nurse-Midwife is an Advanced Practice Nurse who has specialized education and training in both Nursing and Midwifery. CNM's function as primary healthcare providers for women and most often provide medical care for relatively healthy women, whose birth is...
--- nurse practitioner
Nurse practitioner
A Nurse Practitioner is an Advanced practice registered nurse who has completed graduate-level education . Additional APRN roles include the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist s, CNMs, and CNSs...
s --- nurses, male
Men in nursing
Nurses are traditionally and predominantly female; of the 2.1 million registered nurses in the United States, for example, only 5.4% are men. Men also make up only 13% of all new nursing students.-Historical perspective:...
--- nursing staff --- nursing staff, hospital --- personnel, hospital --- dental staff, hospital]] --- hospital administrators --- chief executive officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
s, hospital --- hospital volunteer
Hospital volunteer
Hospital volunteers work without regular pay in a variety of health care settings, usually under the supervision of a nurse. Most hospitals train and supervise volunteers through a specialized non-profit organization called an auxiliary. The director of the auxiliary is usually a paid employee of...
s --- hospital auxiliaries --- patient escort service --- medical staff, hospital --- hospitalists
Hospital medicine
Hospital medicine in the United States is the discipline concerned with the medical care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is hospital medicine are called hospitalists; this type of medical practice has extended beyond the US into Canada...
--- nursing staff, hospital --- pharmacist
Pharmacist
Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...
s --- physician executives --- physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
s --- foreign medical graduates --- hospitalists
Hospital medicine
Hospital medicine in the United States is the discipline concerned with the medical care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is hospital medicine are called hospitalists; this type of medical practice has extended beyond the US into Canada...
--- physicians, family --- physicians, women --- veterinarian
Veterinarian
A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from veterinarian or veterinary surgeon , is a professional who treats disease, disorder and injury in animals....
s
--- health promotionHealth promotionHealth promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health"...
--- healthy people programs--- health services
--- adolescent health services --- child care --- infant care --- intensive care, neonatal --- perinatal care --- rooming-in care --- community health services --- child health services --- early intervention (education) --- community health nursing --- community mental health services --- community networks --- community pharmacy services --- consumer participation --- patient participationPatient participation
Patient participation, also called shared decision making, is "patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health"....
--- counseling --- sex counseling --- family planning services --- foster home care --- home care services --- hemodialysis, home --- home care services, hospital-based --- home infusion therapy --- home nursing --- respite care
Respite care
Respite care is the provision of short-term, temporary relief to those who are caring for family members who might otherwise require permanent placement in a facility outside the home....
--- homemaker services --- parenteral nutrition, home --- parenteral nutrition, home total --- hospices --- maternal health services --- postnatal care --- preconception care --- prenatal care
Prenatal care
Prenatal care refers to the medical and nursing care recommended for women before and during pregnancy. The aim of good prenatal care is to detect any potential problems early, to prevent them if possible , and to direct the woman to appropriate specialists, hospitals, etc...
--- occupational health services --- preventive health services --- diagnostic services --- mass screening --- anonymous testing --- genetic screening --- mass chest x-ray --- multiphasic screening --- neonatal screening --- mobile health units --- early intervention (education) --- health education
Health education
Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health...
--- health education, dental --- health fairs --- patient education
Patient education
Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status...
--- immunization programs --- mass immunization --- needle-exchange programs --- School Health Services
School health services
School health services are services from medical, teaching and other professionals applied in or out of school to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families...
--- school dentistry --- school nursing
School nursing
School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students...
--- dental health services --- dental care
Dental care
Dental care is the maintenance of healthy teeth. Forms include:* Oral hygiene, the practice of keeping the mouth and teeth clean in order to prevent cavities , gum disease, and other dental disorders....
--- dental care for aged --- dental care for children --- dental care for chronically ill --- dental care for disabled --- dental service, hospital --- dietary services --- food service, hospital --- menu planning --- emergency medical services
Emergency medical services
Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency...
--- emergency medical service communication systems --- emergency service, hospital --- trauma centers --- emergency services, psychiatric --- poison control centers --- transportation of patients --- ambulances --- air ambulances --- triage
Triage
Triage or ) is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately. The term comes from the French verb trier, meaning to separate,...
--- genetic services --- genetic counseling
Genetic counseling
Genetic counseling or traveling is the process by which patients or relatives, at risk of an inherited disorder, are advised of the consequences and nature of the disorder, the probability of developing or transmitting it, and the options open to them in management and family planning...
--- genetic screening --- health services for the aged --- health services, indigenous --- health services misuse --- unnecessary procedures --- medical errors --- diagnostic errors --- medication errors --- observer variation --- mental health services --- community mental health services --- counseling --- directive counseling --- sex counseling --- social work, psychiatric --- nursing care --- emergency nursing
Emergency nursing
Emergency Nursing is a nursing specialty in which nurses care for patients in the emergency or critical phase of their illness or injury.While this is common to many nursing specialties, the key difference is that an emergency nurse is skilled at dealing with people in the phase when a diagnosis...
--- geriatric nursing
Geriatric nursing
Geriatric nursing is the specialty that concerns itself with the provision of nursing services to geriatric or aged individuals.-Geriatric nursing:...
--- holistic nursing --- home nursing --- respite care
Respite care
Respite care is the provision of short-term, temporary relief to those who are caring for family members who might otherwise require permanent placement in a facility outside the home....
--- maternal-child nursing
Maternal-child nursing
Maternal-child nursing refers to the combined nursing specialties of obstetrical nursing, pediatric nursing, and neonatal nursing....
--- neonatal nursing
Neonatal nursing
Neonatal nursing is the provision of nursing care for newborn infants up to 28 days after birth. The term neonatal comes from neo, "new", and natal, "pertaining to birth or origin"...
--- nursing, practical --- obstetrical nursing
Obstetrical nursing
Obstetrical nursing, also called perinatal nursing, is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are attempting to become pregnant, are currently pregnant, or are recently delivered. Obstetrical nurses help provide prenatal care and testing, care of patients experiencing pregnancy...
--- occupational health nursing --- oncologic nursing --- orthopedic nursing --- pediatric nursing --- neonatal nursing
Neonatal nursing
Neonatal nursing is the provision of nursing care for newborn infants up to 28 days after birth. The term neonatal comes from neo, "new", and natal, "pertaining to birth or origin"...
--- perioperative nursing
Perioperative nursing
Perioperative nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures. Perioperative nurses work closely with surgeons, nurse anesthetists, surgical technologists, and nurse practitioners...
--- operating room nursing --- postanesthesia nursing --- primary nursing care --- psychiatric nursing
Psychiatric Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing is a 1958 documentary film directed by Lee R. Bobker. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....
--- rehabilitation nursing --- nursing services --- home care services --- nursing service, hospital --- patient care --- aftercare
Convalescence
Convalescence is the gradual recovery and of health and strength after illness. It refers to the later stage of an infectious disease or illness when the patient recovers and returns to normal, but may continue to be a source of infection even if feeling better...
--- ambulatory care
Ambulatory care
Ambulatory care is a personal health care consultation, treatment or intervention using advanced medical technology or procedures delivered on an outpatient basis Ambulatory care is a personal health care consultation, treatment or intervention using advanced medical technology or procedures...
--- peritoneal dialysis, continuous ambulatory --- critical care --- intensive care --- intensive care, neonatal --- custodial care --- day care
Day care
Child care or day care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's legal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the child's immediate family...
--- episode of care --- foster home care --- hospitalization
Inpatient care
Inpatient care is the care of patients whose condition requires admission to a hospital. Progress in modern medicine and the advent of comprehensive out-patient clinics ensure that patients are only admitted to a hospital when they are extremely ill or are have severe physical...
--- length of stay
Length of stay
Length of stay is a term commonly used to measure the duration of a single episode of hospitalization. Inpatient days are calculated by subtracting day of admission from day of discharge. However, persons entering and leaving a hospital on the same day have a length of stay of one...
--- patient admission --- patient discharge --- patient readmission --- patient transfer --- institutionalization --- deinstitutionalization --- life support care --- long-term care
Long-term care
Long-term care is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical need of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods of time....
--- night care --- nursing care --- home nursing --- respite care
Respite care
Respite care is the provision of short-term, temporary relief to those who are caring for family members who might otherwise require permanent placement in a facility outside the home....
--- palliative care
Palliative care
Palliative care is a specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients...
--- perinatal care --- perioperative care --- intraoperative care --- perioperative nursing
Perioperative nursing
Perioperative nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures. Perioperative nurses work closely with surgeons, nurse anesthetists, surgical technologists, and nurse practitioners...
--- postoperative care --- postnatal care --- preconception care --- prenatal care
Prenatal care
Prenatal care refers to the medical and nursing care recommended for women before and during pregnancy. The aim of good prenatal care is to detect any potential problems early, to prevent them if possible , and to direct the woman to appropriate specialists, hospitals, etc...
--- preoperative care --- subacute care --- terminal care --- euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....
--- euthanasia, active --- euthanasia, active, voluntary --- euthanasia, animal --- euthanasia, passive --- hospice care --- resuscitation orders --- suicide, assisted --- withholding treatment --- euthanasia, passive --- personal health services --- pharmaceutical services --- community pharmacy services --- drug information services --- adverse drug reaction reporting systems --- clinical pharmacy information systems --- pharmacy service, hospital --- preventive health services --- diagnostic services --- mass screening --- anonymous testing --- mass chest x-ray --- multiphasic screening --- mobile health units --- early intervention (education) --- health education
Health education
Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health...
--- health education, dental --- health fairs --- patient education
Patient education
Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status...
--- health promotion
Health promotion
Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health"...
--- healthy people programs --- immunization programs --- mass immunization --- needle-exchange programs --- primary prevention --- immunization
Immunization
Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an agent ....
--- mass immunization --- vaccination
Vaccination
Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate the immune system of an individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by many pathogens...
--- school health services
School health services
School health services are services from medical, teaching and other professionals applied in or out of school to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families...
--- school dentistry --- school nursing
School nursing
School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students...
--- physical rehabilitation --- activities of daily living
Activities of daily living
Activities of Daily Living is a term used in healthcare to refer to daily self-care activities within an individual's place of residence, in outdoor environments, or both...
--- rehabilitation, vocational --- employment, supported --- self care --- reproductive health services --- family planning services --- maternal health services --- rural health services --- social work
Social work
Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...
--- social work, psychiatric --- student health services --- suburban health services --- tissue and organ procurement --- directed tissue donation --- donor selection --- urban health services --- women's health services --- preconception care