Global Health and Nursing
This term refers to health issues that transcend national boundaries and governments and call for actions on the global forces that determine the health of people.
What is global health?
A potential nurse must attend a nursing school that has received accreditation by one of the nursing education accreditors and take this national examination.
What is National Council Licensure Examination [NCLEX]?
The ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged.
What is interoperability?
This is a norm, often developed through consensus or authoritative guidance, that defines the expected structure, process, or outcome in a particular context.
What is a standard?
This term refers to healthcare professionals from different disciplines working together to improve outcomes.
What is interprofessional collaboration?
This international organization sets standards for global health and coordinates international public health responses.
What is the World Health Organization?
Are experts at managing clinical patient care and are the most trusted profession by the public
Who are Nurses?
The Kerr-Mills amendments of 1965 added which public health care insurance
What is Medicaid?
This term refers to a point of comparison used to evaluate performance and is sometimes used interchangeably with ‘standard’.
What is a benchmark?
This profession is often included in interprofessional teams to address the social determinants of health
What is social worker?
Name two major global health challenges that nurses can address through advocacy.
What are any two of the following: infectious diseases, maternal mortality, access to clean water, chronic diseases, mental health?
This strengths-based approach to change, often used in leadership and advocacy, focuses on identifying what works well in a system and building on those successes rather than fixing problems.
What is Appreciative Inquiry?
As part of the Affordable Care Act, this type of hospital must conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment every three years and maintain community programs to keep it's tax status.
What is a non-profit hospital?
This federal law protects the privacy and security of patient health information and includes rules about confidentiality, data breaches, and patient access to medical records.
What is HIPAA – the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This collaborative approach involves patients and healthcare providers working together to make healthcare decisions, balancing clinical evidence with patient preferences and values.
What is shared decision-making?
This term refers to the health outcomes of a group of individuals and how those outcomes are distributed within the group.
What is population health?
This four-part model is used to analyze health policy by examining the influence of concepts, stakeholders, data, and moral principles.
What is the I2E2 model?
This workforce issue contributes to nurse burnout and patient safety risks, and is a major driver of the current nursing shortage. It can be addressed through policy initiatives that expand education capacity, retain current nurses, and support a diverse workforce.
What is Understaffing?
To protect the public from harm and ensure that patients receive safe, high-quality care is the role of....
What is a regulation?
This essential communication tool is often used during patient handoffs to ensure all team members are on the same page.
What is SBAR—Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation?
Nurses working in global health often address this challenge, which involves limited healthcare resources, workforce shortages, and barriers to care in low-income countries.
What is tuberculosis?
This 2001 report identified six domains of healthcare quality: safety, timely, effective, equitable, efficient, and this last domain focused on respecting patient preferences.
What is patient-centered care?
This state implemented in 2004 a law that established the nation’s first minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for RNs and LPNs in hospitals.
What is California?
Nurses help prevent adverse events by participating in this process that investigates root causes
What is root cause analysis?
An innovative effort to improve the health of Americans and health care system performance is Title XII of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5). This act is known as the.....
What is the HITECH (Health Information Technology for the Economic and Clinical Health Act)