We will work on the vocabulary that is part of the health sector. Therefore, we will list some of the most important English vocabulary words used in the nursing and health care industry. Each vocabulary item includes the correct part of speech to assist in use.
Nursing Vocabulary Words – A to Z
Following are some common words related to nursing:
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specialize |
prenatal |
services |
oncology |
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specialty |
skin |
School nursing |
nursing |
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routine |
specialists |
suckle |
outpatient |
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Nursing ethics |
treat |
supervise |
medicine |
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scope |
prescribe |
Health care |
harbor |
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program |
preventive |
psychiatric |
medication |
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specific |
Registered nurse |
District nursing |
nutrition |
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staff |
Midwife |
surgical |
medical |
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prospect |
Serve |
therapeutic |
license |
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Nurse practitioner |
procedure |
qualified |
health |
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team |
supervision |
treatment |
laboratory |
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term |
Treat |
Nanny |
illness |
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test |
Surgeon |
therapy |
infection |
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surgery |
Training |
examination |
dressing |
Following are some other words a nurse should know:
- Abnormal: Not normal for the human body.
- Acute: A severe.
- Antibiotics: Medicine prescribed by a doctor killing bacteria and cures infection.
- Arthritis: A disease which cause the joints and become swollen and crippled.
- Biopsy: To remove human tissue for conducting certain medical tests.
- Blood Pressure: The rate at which blood flows through the body.
- Benign: Not harmful
- Critical Condition: Immediate attention is required with constant medical observation.
- Crutches: Support which is used people with injured feet/legs for walking
- Deficiency: Lack of inside body elements that is vital for good health.
- Diagnosis: Medical explanation for illness.
- Dislocated: A bone separated from its joint.
- Emergency Room: Hospital room for admitting and treating patients with life-threatening injuries.
- Family History: Medical background of a patient and family members.
- Genetic: A medical condition which is travelled from family history.
- Incision: Cut in the body made for surgery.
- Intensive Care Unit: Where patients are admitted for constant observation and attention.
- Operating Room: The room for conducting major surgeries
- Pharmacy: A place to buy medicines
- Prescription: A list of medicines prescribed by doctor for a patient towards his / her illness.
- Routine Checkup: To check person’s general and routine health.
- Seizure: Sudden violent movements with unconsciousness caused by an electrical signal malfunction in the brain.
- Ultrasound: A test to inspect the body’s internal organs using high frequency sound waves.
- Virus: A infectious agent that causes the spread of minor and major diseases around the world.
- Aerobics: Exercise increases one’s dependence on oxygen
- Calorie: The amount of energy used to increase the temperature of 1g of water by 1 degree Celsius
- Diet: Restricting the food to eat for some period of time, usually for losing weight
- Excess: Having too much of something
- Function: What something can be used for
- Growth: Irreversible increase in the size of an organism
- Gymnasium: A place to do physical exercise by lifting weights
- Gym: It is gymnasium
- Habit: Which a person is in a habit to do constantly
- Harmful: Which can cause damage
- Health: A state of well-being, without disease
- Hygiene: Practices that contribute preventing the disease, particularly with sanitation and cleanliness
- Over The Counter Drugs: Medicines that can be purchased without a prescription
- Posture: The position of the body
- Respiration: Act of breathing
- Working Out: Exercise
- Addiction: Habitual, cannot control to avoid taking
- Allergy: A hypersensitive reaction to something
- Ache: A persistent pain
- Calcium: Which strengthens the bones
- Clinical Trial: It is a Research that is done to check how well a health product works
- Hormone: A regulatory substance released by a gland in an organism that influences the body’s emotions, growth, digestion, and other processes
- Immunization: The act of protecting a person from infectious disease
- Insurance: Guarantee taken by an insurance company or government to pay all incidental medical charges as covered in insurance
- Vital Signs: Clinical measurements that indicate the state of a patient’s body functions
- Weight: The mass of a person
Lastly, we must consider the 6c’s for good nurse:
- Caring
- Compassion
- Courage
- Communication
- Commitment
- Competence
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