INTRODUCTION Medical Terminology is language that accurately describes the human body and associated components, conditions, processes and procedures in a science based manner. Medical terminology didn't start here in the United States. Most medical terms are derived from Greek and Latin roots. Greek, Roman, and Arabic physicians had developed medically useful concepts and associated vocabularies long before the 21st century. Medical terminology or language can be hard to understand or learn as we do not speak or use these words in every day life. It takes much practice to learn and incorporate it into our dialect if you plan on being in the health care field. Essentially it is very important and rewarding to know. But what makes up medical …show more content…
The prefix is the small part that is at the beginning of the word or term. Examples of prefixes are hypo which means below or under. Another example is pre which means before. Another important part of medical terms is the combining form. Combining forms are used with many different suffixes. If you can remember the meaning of the the combining form, then that will go a long way in helping you to understand the medical term as a whole. Examples of combining forms are derm/o which means skin and another is gastr/o which means stomach. All of these components help to make up the medical terms we learn. The root, suffix, prefix, combining vowel and combining form comes together to form the …show more content…
Patients are most sensitive about their health and speaking in words they don't understand can stress them out and cause them to think their condition is worse than it actually it. An example of this can be a patient needing surgery to remove their appendix. Saying it like that is fine but saying I'm going to perform a laparoscopy procedure in your abdominal to remove the appendix can sound very confusing and scary to a patient. Try to break it down as much as possible, thinking about how the patient is feeling at the present moment, as well as their loved ones. Same for new students, medical terminology must be broken down so it can be understood better. No one gets it on their first
How would you define standardized terminologies and why are they important? Provide an example in your answer.
In the healthcare setting, teach-back is used when patient education is required (Tamura-Lis, 2013, p. 270). Teach-back is defined as a non-shaming process of asking patients to repeat information in their own words (Tamura-Lis, 2013, p. 268). It involves teaching and learning between two participants. Patients who have low health literacy levels are at risked for the need of teach-back. These include patients who are older than 60 years old (Eadie, 2014, p. 9). Older adult patients may have sensory alterations that impair communication (Potter & Perry, 2013, p. 181). In addition, patients from low socioeconomic status and minority groups are more likely to have inadequate health literacy (Tamura-Lis, 2013, p. 267). Nevertheless, assessment tools are available to identify a patient’s health literacy level (Eadie, 2014, p. 11)
Eliminating abbreviations can reduce errors in the healthcare profession when it comes to medication errors, patients dealing with a life threatening medical error, and similar abbreviations.
The goal of this lesson is to explore how we can improve communication to eliminate language barriers between healthcare providers and patients in our organization and to establish culturally and linguistically appropriate goals, that provide safe, equal, and quality care to all our clients regardless of race, ethnic, or socioeconomic status. At the end of this lesson we should be
This is Brent Klemm. I am one of your students in your Basic Medical Terminology class.
An interview is a planned interpersonal conversation with a purpose between two people who interact largely through a question and answer format to achieve specific goals. Verbal communication is a way in which people communicate face to face. The key components of verbal communication are words and phrases, intonation and clarity and brevity. Different words and phrases have different meanings. The denotation meaning is shared by individuals who share a common language while connotative meaning is the interpretation of a word’s meaning influenced by feeling and thoughts of people. Therefore, Nurses should carefully select words that cannot be interpreted, especially when explaining a client’s medical condition (Taylor & Crisp, 2006).
Although abbreviations are an extremely common thing which are used every single day throughout the medical field, it does not mean that they are always a helpful thing. Health care professionals generally use abbreviations during their work days to try to help them do things a bit more quickly so that they are able to move on to the next patient faster. One of the most common problems with using abbreviations is that it can sometimes be very difficult to decipher another person's handwriting. When a doctor or other medical personnel reads a patient's chart they may or may not always be able to understand exactly what another person has tried to abbreviate, either because of their handwriting or they may have accidentally written the abbreviation down wrong. In other cases the abbreviation may have been confused with another similar abbreviation, and that may end up causing a great deal of problems, not only for the patient but for whoever is in charge of dealing with the patient as well. There are quite a few things that can be done to help reduce the errors that abbreviations can cause such as; completely eliminating medical abbreviations, having written policies for the usage of abbreviations, knowing who should use them and when it would be acceptable, and why someone should use them in the medical field.
...using words your patient is used to and will understand. Clarify your message with body language, tone of voice, facial expression touch and gestures.
By understanding the values, goals of the nursing community, it gave me a better proficiency as to why my anatomy and chemistry classes strive for preparing us to being dedicated to what we do. Being able to understand how the communication between other medical co-workers and patients differ, has help me relate to the discussions we have had in class about using layman terms for patients, and learning various types of terminology that we are learning now and are going to have to use in the future. Understanding the concept of accuracy and need for conciseness in nursing, has also allowed me to relate to my anatomy class, as one mistake in terminology usage or diagnosis can harm the patient based on the medication or treatment they receive based on the misdiagnosis. Another advantage to the change in knowledge about how nurses communicate based on the concepts of communication, has allowed me to understand why my anatomy class is so rigorous and why the professor’s expect a lot out of the students. If we don’t have the knowledge of the lexis within our community, if we don’t provide accuracy and if we don’t understand the values of the community, not only does it create bad intercommunication within the field, but also reflect badly on the
Communication in the nursing practice and in healthcare is important because when talking with patients, their families, and staff, the nurse and the nursing student needs to be able to efficiently express the information that they want the other person to understand. “Verbal communication is a primary way of transmitting vital information concerning patient issues in hospital settings” (Raica, 2009, para. 1). When proper communication skills are lacking in nursing practice, the chances of errors and risks to the patient’s safety increases. One crucial aspect of communication that affects the patient care outcome is how the nurse and the nursing student interacts and communicates with the physicians and other staff members. If the nurse is not clear and concise when relaying patient information to other members of the healthcare team the patient care may be below the expected quality.
Ball, Dains, Flynn, Solomon, & Stewart (2015) suggested to adapt to the level of patient’s education when conversing with
Kant’s radical evil is the foundation of his book, Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In part one of the Religion, there are reflections of the Catholic doctrine of original sin, but also a deviation away from this doctrine. We should be able to see that Kant took liberties with the doctrine to make it his own, and this new interpretation becomes a framework for the rest of his book. It seems to me that Kant is taking the traditional Catholic teaching of original sin and trying to reexplain it after removing the metaphysical aspects of the teaching (i.e. God). After Kant removes the metaphysical from original sin to develop his radical evil, his argument becomes contradictory and circular in areas.
Effective communication is indispensable in the line of work of newly graduated nurse. According to Sheldon (2004, p.132) a nurse's words can do so much: It can place a patient at ease, set up a productive relationship, and carry out interventions. There is no other skill that is used more in nursing than communication. Therefore, this section of the core competencies that all health care professionals should achieve is integral in the delivery of utmost care to the patient. In communication, there will be a language barrier if one or both parties cannot effectively convey in the universal language of the world, which is English.
A suffix is an affix that is attached to a stem. All English affixes (at least under the most common analyses of English morphology) are either prefixes or suffixes. Indeed, most affixes in most languages are either prefixes or suffixes. A circumfix is a combination of a prefix and a suffix, functioning as a unit with a single meaning. Forms like Malay ke-.-an and peng-.-an.
Surgeons have a lot on their plate when it comes to their work. Surgeons are doctors who are specialized in certain surgeries and operations. While being a surgeon there are many subspecialties that one surgeon could pursue (Field). Surgeons will diagnose and treat patients depending on their condition. They will perform a variety of surgeries on the every single part of the human body (“Surgeon”). It’s important for a surgeon to know everything about a patient’s medical history so they can perform their job to the best of their ability and also decide whether or not the patient needs surgery. They also ...