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.
- Accelerated
- Accredited
- Acute
- Adequate
- Administer
- Administered
- Administration
- Adn
- Advanced
- Advances
- Advice
- Agencies
- Aides
- Ambulatory
- Anatomy
- Anesthesia
- Anesthetists
- Approved
- Assist
- Assistance
- Assistant
- Assistants
- Bathing
- Blood
- Board
- Bsn
- Cancer
- Care
- Career
- Caring
- Centers
- Certified
- Clinical
- Clinics
- Columbia
- Communication
- Conditions
- Consulting
- Continuing
- Council
- Credentialing
- Critical
- Demand
- Determined
- Diabetes
- Diagnoses
- Diagnostic
- Difficulty
- Diploma
- Disabilities
- Disease
- Diseases
- Disorders
- District
- Dressing
- Duties
- Educational
- Elderly
- Eligibility
- Emergency
- Emotional
- Entry
- Environment
- Exam
- Examination
- Facilities
- Facility
- Faculty
- Follow
- Formally
- Geriatrics
- Gerontology
- Health
- Hold
- Home
- Hospital
- Hospitals
- Illness
- Illnesses
- Increase
- Infectious
- Injections
- Injuries
- Injury
- Internal
- Junior
- Laboratory
- Level
- License
- Licensed
- Licensure
- Lpns
- Manage
- Medical
- Medication
- Medications
- Medicine
- Members
- Mental
- Midwives
- Monitor
- Monitoring
- Moving
- Msn
- Nature
- Nclex
- Neonatology
- Nights
- Nurse
- Nurses
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Obtain
- Offer
- Offices
- Older
- Oncology
- Order
- Outpatient
- Pa
- Pas
- Pass
- Paths
- Patient
- Patients
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physical
- Physician
- Physicians
- Physiology
- Plan
- Planning
- Postoperative
- Practical
- Practice
- Practitioners
- Prenatal
- Prepare
- Prescribe
- Preventive
- Primary
- Procedures
- Program
- Prospects
- Provide
- Providers
- Psychiatric
- Public
- Qualified
- Radiation
- Rapid
- Record
- Registered
- Rehabilitation
- Remain
- Report
- Residential
- Response
- Retaining
- Rn
- Rns
- Routine
- Rural
- Scope
- Section
- Serve
- Services
- Setting
- Settings
- Signs
- Skin
- Specialists
- Specialize
- Specialized
- Specializing
- Specialties
- Specialty
- Specific
- Staff
- Students
- Supervised
- Supervising
- Supervision
- Surgeons
- Surgery
- Surgical
- Team
- Term
- Tests
- Therapeutic
- Therapy
- Training
- Treat
- Treatment
- Types
- Units
- Varies
- Vocational
- Walking
