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Team nursing
A system in which the care of a group of patients is assigned to a team of four or five health workers, led by a professional nurse who assigns them various tasks. They meet at the beginning and end of each shift to exchange information.
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Team
A group of people who work together. A group of individuals working together to perform a common task.
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Teach
To give lessons in something. To show someone how to do something.
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T bandage
A bandage shaped like the letter T, used for bandaging the area between the legs.
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Taxis
The procedure of pushing or massaging dislocated bones or hernias to make them return to their usual position. In surgery, restoration by manipulation only of a dislocated organ or part to its normal position. The returning to a normal position of displaced bones, organs, or other parts by manipulation only, unaided by mechanical devices. The…
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Task allocation
A system in which patient care is divided into tasks which are given to different nurses with specific skills.
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Tartrazine
A yellow substance (E102) added to food to give it an attractive colour. Although widely used, tartrazine provokes reactions in hypersensitive people and is banned in some countries. A pyrazole aniline dye widely used to color foods, cosmetics, drugs, and textiles. Its use has been linked to hives and other allergic type reactions in some…
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Tarsotomy
An incision of the tarsus of the eyelid. A surgical cut made into the tarsus of the foot or into an eyelid.
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Tarsorrhaphy
An operation to join the two eyelids together to protect the eye after an operation. A surgical procedure to narrow the opening between the upper and lower eyelids. Tarsorrhaphy is used to treat various conditions of the eye, especially those of the cornea caused by too much exposure to air (if the eyelids do not…
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Tarsitis
An inflammation of the edge of the eyelid. Inflammation affecting the tarsal plate in the upper eyelid.
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