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Nursing Vocabulary

in Business English Vocabulary

Here is a list of the top 200 English vocabulary items for the nursing / health-care industry. This selection of vocabulary is based on the Occupational Handbook provided by the United States Department of Labor.

 

  1. Accelerated
  2. Accredited
  3. Acute
  4. Adequate
  5. Administer
  6. Administered
  7. Administration
  8. Adn
  9. Advanced
  10. Advances
  11. Advice
  12. Agencies
  13. Aides
  14. Ambulatory
  15. Anatomy
  16. Anesthesia
  17. Anesthetists
  18. Approved
  19. Assist
  20. Assistance
  21. Assistant
  22. Assistants
  23. Bathing
  24. Blood
  25. Board
  26. Bsn
  27. Cancer
  28. Care
  29. Career
  30. Caring
  31. Centers
  32. Certified
  33. Clinical
  34. Clinics
  35. Columbia
  36. Communication
  37. Conditions
  38. Consulting
  39. Continuing
  40. Council
  41. Credentialing
  42. Critical
  43. Demand
  44. Determined
  45. Diabetes
  46. Diagnoses
  47. Diagnostic
  48. Difficulty
  49. Diploma
  50. Disabilities
  1. Disease
  2. Diseases
  3. Disorders
  4. District
  5. Dressing
  6. Duties
  7. Educational
  8. Elderly
  9. Eligibility
  10. Emergency
  11. Emotional
  12. Entry
  13. Environment
  14. Exam
  15. Examination
  16. Facilities
  17. Facility
  18. Faculty
  19. Follow
  20. Formally
  21. Geriatrics
  22. Gerontology
  23. Health
  24. Hold
  25. Home
  26. Hospital
  27. Hospitals
  28. Illness
  29. Illnesses
  30. Increase
  31. Infectious
  32. Injections
  33. Injuries
  34. Injury
  35. Internal
  36. Junior
  37. Laboratory
  38. Level
  39. License
  40. Licensed
  41. Licensure
  42. Lpns
  43. Manage
  44. Medical
  45. Medication
  46. Medications
  47. Medicine
  48. Members
  49. Mental

100.      Midwives

101.  Monitor

102.  Monitoring

103.  Moving

104.  Msn

105.  Nature

106.  Nclex

107.  Neonatology

108.  Nights

109.  Nurse

110.  Nurses

111.  Nursing

112.  Nutrition

113.  Obtain

114.  Offer

115.  Offices

116.  Older

117.  Oncology

118.  Order

119.  Outpatient

120.  Pa

121.  Pas

122.  Pass

123.  Paths

124.  Patient

125.  Patients

126.  Pediatrics

127.  Pharmacology

128.  Physical

129.  Physician

130.  Physicians

131.  Physiology

132.  Plan

133.  Planning

134.  Postoperative

135.  Practical

136.  Practice

137.  Practitioners

138.  Prenatal

139.  Prepare

140.  Prescribe

141.  Preventive

142.  Primary

143.  Procedures

144.  Program

145.  Prospects

146.  Provide

147.  Providers

148.  Psychiatric

149.  Public

150.  Qualified

151.        Radiation

152.        Rapid

153.        Record

154.        Registered

155.        Rehabilitation

156.        Remain

157.        Report

158.        Residential

159.        Response

160.        Retaining

161.        Rn

162.        Rns

163.        Routine

164.        Rural

165.        Scope

166.        Section

167.        Serve

168.        Services

169.        Setting

170.        Settings

171.        Signs

172.        Skin

173.        Specialists

174.        Specialize

175.        Specialized

176.        Specializing

177.        Specialties

178.        Specialty

179.        Specific

180.        Staff

181.        Students

182.        Supervised

183.        Supervising

184.        Supervision

185.        Surgeons

186.        Surgery

187.        Surgical

188.        Team

189.        Term

190.        Tests

191.        Therapeutic

192.        Therapy

193.        Training

194.        Treat

195.        Treatment

196.        Types

197.        Units

198.        Varies

199.        Vocational

200.        Walking

By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide