Across
- 6. List of items a provider should recommend their patient in effort to prevent and identify common health problems (two words)
- 7. Something a provider should obtain before making physical contact with the patient, performing a procedure, or letting a PA student interact with the patient in a clinic setting
- 9. Vocabulary that a provider should avoid when giving an explanation to a patient (two words)
- 11. The ability to make one’s own informed choices, made by patients in a health care setting
Down
- 1. The type of environment a provider should create to make their patients feel welcome, safe, and without judgment of their background or identity
- 2. Acronym for law that medical staff must follow to protect a patient’s private health information
- 3. Section of the patient encounter where the providers informs the patient about their treatment plan
- 4. The number one thing a provider should do when a patient is speaking, instead of charting or making assumptions about the chief complaint
- 5. Item used to maintain the patient's dignity at time when their body could be exposed
- 6. Simple task a provider should complete soon after starting the patient encounter to keep the patient safe from pathogens (two words)
- 8. Positive relationship built between the patient and provider based on mutual understanding
- 10. An emotion that a provider feels when they put themselves in the patient’s shoes and tries to understand how they feel, when breaking bad news, for example