Health Policy & Advocacy
Defines the legal scope of nursing practice in the state of Maryland.
What is the primary purpose of the Maryland Nurse Practice Act?
T or F
When designing a program, the evaluations should be in place after the program has been implemented.
F
Evaluations should be in place before program implementation.
The _________ ______________ nurse identifies resources to meet the multiple service needs of individuals and families.
What is case management?
Multidisciplinary group of employees who work together to develop, prioritize, and implement initiatives that improve the environmental health of patients, staff and the community.
What is a Green Team?
On-site all- hazards system that provides a set of personnel, policies, procedures, facilities, and equipment integrated into a common organizational structure that is designed to improve emergency response.
What is the Incident Command System?
Local, state, federal policies and laws to regulate/support healthy actions.
What are the structures, policies, and systems of the Ecological Model of Health?
Assess Needs
Set Goals & Objectives
Develop an Intervention
Implement the Intervention
Evaluate the Results
What is the program planning process?
Bonus:
What process is it similar to?
Promote quality of services provided
Reduce institutional care while preserving quality
Manage resource utilization through use of protocols, evidence-based decision-making, guidelines, and disease management programs
Control expenses by managing care processes and outcomes
What are the goals of case management?
The 2nd leading cause of lung cancer, after tobacco smoke
What is Radon?
Developed and utilizes the National Response Framework (NRF), which provides the principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters.
What is Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
This profession has been the number 1 trusted profession for years, except in 2001 when firefighters got it.
What are nurses?
Nurses were ranked as the most trusted profession in the United States, with 79% of respondents saying they had "high" or "very high" honesty and ethical standards. They have held this distinction for multiple decades
_______ & ________ are a broad statement of intent for program outcomes and the steps to reach the goal.
What are a programs goals and objectives?
Summarize visit with family
Plan for future visits
Leave contact information with family
Plan for next visit
What is the termination phase of a home visit?
T or F
DEHP-free medical equipment should be used in hospitals and other health systems.
T
DEHP can leach out from products like IV tubing, directly into the body of the patient. Medical associations and government agencies in several countries now acknowledge that there are risks, especially to the most vulnerable patients, and advocate replacing PVC and DEHP-containing products with alternatives.
Establishes teams of local volunteer medical and public health professionals
What is the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)?
Referred to as the assembly line approach.
What is Christoffel’s Model of Advocacy?
Health behavior change involves progress through six stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination.
What is the Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change?
Document the visit and the services provided.
Plan for next visit.
Share information with team members.
Consult and collaborate with team.
Care coordination/follow-up activities.
Initiation of referrals.
What is the post visit phase of a home visit?
The national professional organization that works with nurses to promote healthier environments and policies
What is the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE)?
>2 and <100 affected
What is Multiple Casualty?
Laws that govern nursing practice.
What are statutory laws?
T or F
People model the behavior of others in their social circle is a feature of the Health Belief Model?
F
People model the behavior of others in their social circle is a feature of Social Cognitive Theory.
People have to believe that they are personally susceptible to harm from an action before they are willing to change their behavior is a feature of the Health Belief Model
T or F
Coordinating with members of the community is not necessary when developing a health promotion program.
F
Coordinating with members of the community is important to the success of the program.
Goals include clean water and sanitation, reduced inequalities, sustainable cities & communities, and quality education.
What are sustainable developmental goals?
Predictability
Frequency
Controllability
Time
Scope and Severity
What are the Dimensions of a Disaster?