1. 4 categories of Health Care
Therapeutic & Treatment: nursing, physical therapy, surgery, dental, eye…
Diagnostic: laboratory, radiology
Research: Researcher
Environmental: Dietary, biomedical engineering

2. Symptoms Objective: Symptoms that are evident to the observer
Subjective: Symptoms perceptible only to the person

3. Scope of Practice
Defines the actions, procedures… that are permitted by law for a specific profession

4. Certification
The process of determining whether a person has met predetermined standards
Meet education requirements
Pass a professional examination

5. Licensure
The person has been granted permission to legally perform certain acts
Granted by government agency

6. Registration
Being placed on an official list after meeting the educational and testing requirements

7. Code of Ethics
Standards of professional conduct: ensures high quality of care
Hippocratic Oath

8. Integrity
Adherence to moral & ethical principles, good moral character, honesty

9. Autonomy
Self-determination: patients have the right to make their own decisions
Choose treatment
Be involved in care

10. Consent Grant Permission
Informed Consent: Verbal and written risks are reviewed and signed
Implied Consent: The actions of the parties creates the consent

11. Ethics
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality, concepts such as good & evil, right & wrong, virtue and vice, justice & crime

12. Ethics Is the study of values, of how we ought to live
Often used interchangeably with morals & values
A systematic, rational reflection upon a behavior

13. Values
Are defined as standards or ideals which serve as guides to conduct and decision making