Allied Health Unit 2

5 key qualities of professionalism

Competance, integrity, reliability, respect, self-regulation

Competence

Quality of having sufficient knowledge, judgement, skill, or strength

Integrity

Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values (doing right thing always)

Reliability

Ability too trust something/one will work, perform, or behave the same way every single time for a period of time

Respect

Positive feeling/polite behavior shown toward someone

Self-regulation

The ability to control oneself in hard and stressful situations

Critical thinking

Purposeful, outcome directed thinking

Altruism

Concern for the welfare of others

Autonomy

Right to self determination

Human dignity

Inherent worth and uniqueness of individual and populations

Integrity

Acting in accordance to ethics

Unprofessional behaviors

Breach of confidentiality and abuse off power

Process of communication

Sender, message, channel, receiver, response

Things to consider for verbal communication

Pace, timing, simplicity, clarity/brevity,

Intrapersonal communication

You and yourself

Interpersonal communication

One on one conversation

Public communication

you and a group

Health

State of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing

Healthcare delivery systems

Organization network of individuals and resources that work together to provide health systems

Wellness

Active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle promoting health

Wellbeing

Precense of positive emotions an functioning (a component of health)

Health promotion

A way of thinking or acting in order to increase individuals overall health and wellbeing

Levels of preventative medicine

Primordial level, primary prevention level, secondary prevention even, tertiary level, quaternary level

Primordial level

Eliminate conditions contributing to disease risk before they cause a serious risk

Prevention level

Stopping the disease ex. Vaccines

Secondary prevention level

Detecting possible disease ex. Mammograms

Tertiary level

Decrease impact of disease

Quartemary level

Protect patients from getting billed for unnessecary things

Illness

Response to disease

Disease

Altered bodily functions

Long term care

Assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, adult foster care, etc.

Outpatient care services

Minute clinics, urgent care, etc.

Home health

Many people wish to age in place

Palliative care

Focus on comfort (relief of pain), no life expectancy, goal is to improve quality of life

Hospice care

Focus on comfort, life expectancy is six months