Introduction to Healthcare

Hsc 1113

LO4 - Revision Sheet 1

Answer the following questions:

1. What is meant by healthcare team?

“ a group of health care workers who are members of different disciplines, each providing specific
services to the patient.”

2. In your opinion, why do you think healthcare team is important?

Healthcare team helps to ensure a collaborative effort to provide better care to patients.

3. Mention 3 examples from the medical main health sciences professions and allied health
sciences profession.
Medical main health sciences:
Medicine, pharmacy and nursing.
Allied Health sciences profession:
 Physiotherapist
 Artificial Limb Technician
 Dietician
 Phlebotomist
 Medical radiation scientist
 Music Therapist
 Electrocardiogram technician ECG Technician
 Social worker
 Respiratory therapist
 Occupational therapist
4. Define the following healthcare professions.
- ECG technician: A technician who operates the ECG which is used to record the conduction of
the heart.
- Physiotherapist: a person qualified to treat disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such
as massage, heat treatment, and exercise.
- Occupational therapist: works with a client to help them achieve a fulfilled and satisfied state
in life through the use of "purposeful activity or interventions designed to achieve functional
outcomes which promote health, prevent injury or disability and which develop, improve, sustain or
restore the highest possible level of independence.
- Respiratory therapist: specialized healthcare practitioner trained in pulmonary medicine in order to
work therapeutically with people suffering from pulmonary disease, who has graduated from a
university and passed a national board certifying examination.

5. What are the general roles and responsibilities of healthcare team? Discuss the three major
roles.

Assessment

 Evaluation of the patient’s condition

 Look for signs & symptoms

Treatment & management

Treatment

 Therapy

 Remediation of a health problem

Management

 Develop a plan

 Define goals of therapy

 Educate & counsel the patient

Education & advocacy

Education

 Provide information or training to the patient & family members to effect the mind, skills &
values

Advocacy

 Support for the patient

6. Match the speciality with the suitable definition:
Specialist Definition
Pulmonologist 9 1. Specialist Doctor looking after Cancer Patients
Radiographer 8 2. Specialist doctor who studies body tissues for diseases

Neuro-Surgeon 10 3. Educating patients on eating & special diets

Neonatologist 6 4. Nurses specifically trained to care for patients with all different
kinds of wounds, from acute to chronic.

Gynecologist & 5 5. Specialist doctor for female diseases & delivery

Obstetrician
Health information 12 6. Specialist doctor looking after newborns.
managers
Pharmacist 11 7. Specialized nurse providing nursing practice occurring outside a
hospital.
Pathologist 2 8. Technologist taking x-rays

Community nurse 7 9. Specialist Doctor looking after patients with problems of the
respiratory system.
Wound Nurse 4 10. Specialist Doctor for brain operations.
Specialist
Oncologist 1 11. Specialist in charge of medicine, provides information on drugs.
Dietitian 3 12. Manage health information by acquiring, analyzing & protecting
digital & traditional medical information vital to provide quality
patient care

7. What is the main difference between a psychologist and psychiatric?