Health Policy
Why policy is important to nursing?
National prevention initiative focusing on improving health in the U.S. by providing measurable prevention goals and objectives.
What is Healthy People?
Relates to decisions and behaviors related to life-and-death issues.
What is bioethics?
Rising healthcare costs
Shortage of health care providers
Lack of access to care
Increasing cost of technology
What are factors influencing the hospital today?
Addressed lack of content covered in nursing programs, the inexperience of nursing instructors, and recommended separating nursing schools from hospitals.
What is the Goldmark report?
Cost, quality, disparities, reimbursement concerns, a declining nursing workforce.
What are some key health care policy issues?
Focuses on changing lifestyle to maximize health.
What is health promotion?
Patient's right to make a decision regarding matters that impact them as a patient.
What is autonomy?
Ownership
Number of beds
Licensure
Length of stay
What are classifications of hospitals?
Patient-centered care, interdisciplinary/professional teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics
What are the Institute of Medicine core competencies for health care providers?
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Health model considering individual characteristics and experiences to create interventions aimed at behavior specific connotations and affect in order to produce desired behavioral outcome promoting health.
What is Pender's Health Model?
Situation in which a person is forced to choose between two or more alternatives. Often highly emotionally charged.
What is an ethical dilemma?
The individual in the health care system who evaluates a patient's ability to swallow and corrects speech impediments.
What is a speech therapist?
Process in which an organization is assessed regarding how it meets established standards.
What is accreditation?
Advanced practice nurses allowed admitting privileges to the hospital.
How did the ACA affect advanced practice nurses?
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decision regarding their health.
What is health literacy?
Document outlining the professional ethics required by professional nurses expected by society.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics?
Government reimbursement program assisting low-income individuals.
What is Medicaid?
What is the state board of nursing?
Course of action that affects a large number of people and is inspired by a specific need to achieve certain outcomes.
What is policy?
Prevention after an illness aimed at maintaining or improving function.
What is tertiary prevention?
Legal act outlining the scope of practice in each state written by the state legislature.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Positive organization culture that establishes clear staff and department expectations, is organized to serve consumers, and provides excellent education and training to the staff.
What is a consonant organizational culture?
Protection of the public.
What is the purpose of licensure and regulation?