Health Care Delivery Systems
A public federally and state funded program for clients who have low incomes
What is Medicaid?
This is a term for the process in nursing where professionals from different disciplines work together to provide comprehensive care.
What is interprofessional collaboration?
The term that describes the fundamental principles that guide ethical decision-making in nursing.
What is nursing ethics?
This is the term for when a nurse fails to provide standard of care resulting in the harm of a patient.
What is nursing malpractice?
These reports should include demographic information. Medical diagnosis, providers, an overview of health status, plan of care, recent progress, and any urgent or emergent alterations.
What is transfer (hand-off) report?
This is the part of Medicare that provides insurance coverage for outpatient and provider services
What is Part B of Medicare?
The members of the interprofessional team that provides spiritual care
Who are the spiritual support staff (pastors, rabbis, priests)?
This ethical principle emphasizes respecting a patient's right to make their own healthcare decisions even if the provider disagrees.
What is patient autonomy?
This law was enacted to govern nursing practice and define the scope of nursing care within a specific state or jurisdiction
What are nurse practice acts?
These reports include the occurrence of an accident or an unusual event.
What is an incident report?
This level of health care emphasizes health promotion and includes prenatal and well-baby care, family planning, nutrition counseling, and disease control.
What is Primary health care?
The members of the interprofessional team that assesses, plans for, and educates regarding nutritional needs
Who are registered dietitians?
Before performing a medical procedure, nurses must obtain this from the patients, ensuring they fully understand the risks and benefits.
What is informed consent?
This legal document will express the patient’s client’s wishes regarding medical treatment in the event the client becomes incapacitated and is facing end-of-life issues.
What is a living will?
An element of documentation that nurses should record as direct quotes, within quotation marks, or summarize and identify the information as the client’s statement.
What is subjective data?
This is a type of private insurance plan where clients choose from a list of providers and hospitals within a contracted organization with no out-of-network coverage.
What are Exclusive provider organizations (EPOs)?
These members of the interprofessional team use exercises, stretching, equipment, and hands-on therapy to manage patients' pain, increase mobility, and prevent further pain and injury.
Who are physical therapists?
This is something nurses may face when two ethical principles conflict
What are ethical dilemmas?
These two Quasi-intentional torts pertain to personal patient information.
What are breach of confidentiality and defamation of character?
A major component of HIPAA, that requires nurses to protect all written and verbal communication about clients.
What is the privacy rule?
This is a federal statute aimed at providing opportunities for uninsured people to become insured at an affordable cost.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010?
The member of the interprofessional team you would refer a patient who has difficulty swallowing a regular diet after a stroke
Who is the speech-language pathologist?
This term focuses on maximizing overall happiness and minimizing harm.
What is utilitarianism?
A individual under the age of 18, that is capable of performing informed consent for their own medical decisions.
What is an emancipated minor?
A problem-oriented medical record acronym that utilizes focus charting.
What is DAR - Data, Action, and Response?