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Chapter 1 - The Professional DH

Teacher: Prof Popa
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An action or ministration that produces an effect or is intended to alter the course of a pathologic process.
NURSING a patient's personal independence; of being self-governing.
1 The state of an organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease or abnormality. 2 A state characterized by anatomic, physiologic, and psychological integrity; ability to perform personally valued family, work, and community roles; ability to deal with physical, biologic, psychological, and social stress; a feeling of well-being; and freedom from the risk of disease and untimely death.
Systematic professional learning experiences designed to augment knowledge and skills of health care professionals; education completed after the initial educational program; required for relicensure in some fields.
1 The science of health and its maintenance. 2 Cleanliness that promotes health and well-being, especially of a personal nature.
The healing science and art concerned with the embryology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the oral-facial complex, and with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of deformities, diseases, and injuries thereof.
The statutorily protected right and duty of health professionals not to disclose information acquired during consultation with a patient.
Providing clients with information to enhance health and prevent disease. Lifestyles that influence good health are encouraged.
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A licensed, professional auxiliary in dentistry who is both an oral health educator and a clinician, and who uses preventive, therapeutic, and educational methods for the control of oral diseases.
1 Pertaining to the rightness or wrongness of an act. 2 Ethical; in accord with accepted rules of what is right. 3 Teaching or conveying a moral (i.e., a moral lession).
Knowledge and understanding of another person's culture; adapting interventions and approaches to health care to the specific culture of the patient, family, and social group.
Cleaning the mouth by brushing, flossing, irrigating, massaging, or the use of other devices.
A forecast of the probable course and/or outcome of a disease.
Ethical principle of doing no harm.
A set of beliefs, values, artistic, historical, and religious characteristics, and customs common to a community or nation.
1 The branch of philosophy that deals with the distinction between right and wrong, with the moral consequences of human actions. 2 NURSING philosophy or code about what is ideal in human character and conduct; principles of right or wrong accepted by individual or group; study of morals and moral choices.