The Healthcare Workforce

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  1. 2. Uses a holistic approach to treat their patients. They believe the body can heal itself without medication or surgery and treat the whole body without the use of drugs or surgery.
  2. 6. Prevents, diagnoses, and treats tooth, gum, and mouth diseases.
  3. 9. A type of mid-level provider, or physician extender, are nurses who have education and experience beyond the requirements of an RN.
  4. 10. Refers to organizational policies that support equal opportunities and fairness for everyone in the organization.
  5. 12. RNs who complete a 1- or 2-year master's degree program in nurse midwifery that has been accredited by the American College of Nurse-Midwives Division of Accreditation.
  6. 14. Refers to understanding, accepting, and valuing individual differences such as experience, skills, knowledge, gender, race, culture, age, sexu-ality, disability, education, religion, class, and many other dimensions.
  7. 16. Systematically developed protocols used to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care by defining the roles of specific diagnostic and treatment modalities in patient diagnosis and management.
  8. 18. A process whereby a professional organization or nongovernmental agency grants recognition to a school, educational program, or healthcare institution for demonstrated ability to meet predetermined criteria for established stan-dards.
  9. 19. Represent a varied and complex array of healthcare disciplines that support, complement, or supplement the professional functions of physicians, nurses, dentists, or other health professionals in delivering health care to patients.
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  1. 1. A physician, typically board certified in internal medicine, who specializes in the care of hospital patients.
  2. 3. use an allopathic approach, which views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to neutralize the effects of disease.
  3. 4. type of advanced practice nursing role.
  4. 5. Behavioral scientists include professionals in social work, health education, community mental health, alcoholism and drug abuse services, and other health and human service areas.
  5. 7. Integrates the best available scientific knowledge (i.e., clinical practice guidelines) with clinical skills and experience while considering the unique needs and preferences of a patient.
  6. 8. Views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to neutralize the effects of disease.
  7. 11. physicians trained in family medicine/ general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics in the United States.
  8. 13. A regulatory process, much less stringent than licensure, under which a state or professional organization attests to an individual's advanced training and performance abilities in a field of healthcare practice.
  9. 15. The certification and licensing of health professionals, typically by state boards and recognized institutions.
  10. 17. use an osteopathic approach that takes a more holistic approach to health and stresses preventive medicine in their treatment plans by considering how diet, environment, and other factors influence health and treatment.