HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS
This type of health care is primarily funded and operated by government agencies.
What is public health care?
A patient who cannot afford routine care frequently uses this hospital department for health-care services.
What is the emergency department?
This federal program primarily provides health insurance for people age 65 and older and certain younger people with qualifying disabilities.
What is Medicare?
Laws and regulations that influence how health care is delivered are examples of this.
What is health policy?
What is direct knowledge of patient and health-care delivery needs?
What is public health care?
Local health departments are an example of this type of health-care system.
What is the public sector?
Lack of this resource can make it difficult for patients to obtain needed medical services.
What is the public sector?
A patient asks which part of Medicare provides prescription drug coverage.
What is Medicare Part D?
Nurses can influence health policy by participating in professional organizations and doing this.
What is advocacy?
A nurse leader who works to improve health outcomes for an entire community is thinking at this level rather than focusing only on one patient.
What is the population level?
Unlike public health agencies, most private health-care organizations depend heavily on this source of payment.
What is private insurance?
A low-income family needs childhood immunizations but cannot afford them. The nurse should direct the family to this community resource.
What is the county or local health department?
Most Americans who have private health insurance obtain it through this source
What is employment?
A nurse petitions community leaders to support a program designed to improve the health of local residents. This is an example of what type of policy involvement?
What is advocacy for health policy?
A nurse manager reviews health-care policies and considers how they affect the delivery of nursing care. This demonstrates the nurse's responsibility to understand this aspect of health care.
What is health policy?
A nurse comparing public and private health care recognizes that public-sector agencies receive much of their funding from this source.
What are taxpayer dollars?
When patients use emergency departments for minor illnesses because they cannot obtain timely primary care, this problem with the health-care system is being demonstrated
What is inadequate access to primary health care?
Medicare is divided into several parts. Part A is primarily associated with this type of coverage.
What is hospital insurance?
A nurse manager encourages staff to contact legislators about a proposed health-care bill. The manager is demonstrating the nurse's role in this area.
What is political and health-policy advocacy?
A nurse leader notices that patients from a low-income neighborhood have difficulty obtaining preventive services. Instead of blaming individual patients, the leader examines transportation, cost, availability, and other system factors. This demonstrates what leadership approach?
What is addressing health-care access through a systems perspective?
A community health nurse explains that public health agencies are designed primarily to protect and improve the health of populations rather than focus exclusively on individual treatment. This distinction reflects what fundamental difference between public and private health care?
What is the population-based focus of public health compared with the individual-focused services commonly provided by private health care?
A nurse leader wants to reduce inappropriate emergency-department use in a community. Which system-level strategy addresses the underlying problem rather than simply telling patients not to use the ED?
What is improving access to affordable, timely primary and preventive care?
A 65-year-old patient says, “I understand Medicare covers my hospital care, but I am especially concerned about paying for my prescription medications.” Which Medicare component should the nurse identify?
What is Medicare Part D?
A nurse recognizes that health policy decisions can influence reimbursement, access to care, quality, and patient outcomes. Therefore, nurses should participate in policy development because they possess this important perspective.
What is direct knowledge of patient and health-care delivery needs?
A nurse leader wants to influence a proposed state health policy that could affect access to care. The leader gathers evidence, collaborates with professional organizations, communicates with legislators, and advocates for patients. What combination of nursing responsibilities is being demonstrated?
What are evidence-informed leadership, collaboration, and advocacy?