1. Respiratory Therapist Carol has two patients scheduled to get albuterol treatments. Patient 1 has treatments at 12:30pm, 8:30pm and 4:30am Patient 2 has treatment at 8:30am, 4:30pm and 12:30am. RT Carol charts in her notes: Albuterol treatment given to patient 1 at 4:30am, pt. tol. well, VS stable Albuterol treatment given to patient 2 at 4:30am, pt. tol well but noted increased HR at the end of treatment. Will monitor HR closely. What error do you note in RT Carol’s notes? On a sheet of paper, brainstorm ways of preventing this error from happening.

2. Principles of Health Science

3.  We use military time in healthcare in order to tell the difference between AM and PM more easily.  Using military time decreases errors in patient care ◦ If a doctor tells you to give medications at 9:00, 3:00 and 11:00, does he mean AM or PM? ◦ It’s more precise to say that these medications are due at 0900, 1500 and 2300.

4.  You will write military time without the colon between the hours and minutes  Example - Midnight is 2400, 12noon is 1200  If the time is before 10:00 AM, put a zero in front of the time ◦ Ex: 9:00 AM is 0900 ◦ No zero is needed for 10:00 and 11:00am and 12:00pm (1000, 1100 and 1200)

5.  After 12:00 noon, you must add “12” to the hour column in the given time Example: 2:35 pm is 1435 Let’s Practice!!!!!!

7. ◦ 4:28 PM ◦ 2:30 AM ◦ 12:00 midnight ◦ 10:17 PM ◦ 6:30 PM ◦ 7:00 AM ◦ 11:35 AM

8.  12 noon  0925  1820  0126  1530  1745  2245

9.  Suffix – majority of medical terms will have one. They usually have a dash (-) in front of the word part ◦ Example: -itis  Prefix – not all medical terms will have one. They usually have a dash after the word part ◦ Example: dys-  Root Word – all medical terms will have at least one. Some medical words will have more than one. They tell you what part of the body is involved. ◦ Example: oste/o  Combining vowel – usually an “o”, has no meaning of it’s own  Combining forms – root word plus a combining vowel ◦ Example: hepat/o

10. Rules for combining word parts:  If the ending of the root word and the beginning of the suffix are both consonants, use a combining vowel. ◦ Example – hemat/o/logy  When the ending of the root word is a consonant, and the beginning of the suffix is a vowel, do not use a combining vowel. ◦ Example – col/ectomy  A combining vowel is always used when two root words are joined. ◦ Example – cardi/o/thorac/ic  A prefix does not require a combining vowel. ◦ Example – hypo/therm/ia

11.  Look at the definitions of the word parts on Med Term list #1 and #2  How many prefixes are on the list? Circle all of the prefixes in one color  How many root words? Underline all root words in a different color crayon  How many suffices? Circle all suffices in a third color crayon

12. Group Activity  Working with your 4 o’clock partner, create 10 legitimate medical words using the word parts from Med Term list #1 and list #2  Write the definition of the word and make sure the word makes sense (that way you will know if it is a legitimate medical word or not).  We will share with the class in 10 minutes.