Health Care Delivery Systems
Insurance for hospital stays, home health, and hospice (available to those 65 years of age or older and those who have permanent disabilities)
What is Medicare Part A?
assesses, plans for, and educates regarding nutrition needs.
What is registered dietitian?
Refers to the application of ethics to health and life.
What is bioethics?
A legal process by which a client or the client's legally appointed designee has given written permission for a procedure or treatment.
What is informed consent?
Confidential, permanent, and legal document that is admissible in court.
What is the medical record?
Sets quality standards for accreditation of health care facilities
What is The Joint Commission?
Works under direct supervision of an RN or PN
What is Assistive Personnel (AP)?
Four principles of ethics.
The failure of a person who has professional training to act in a reasonable and prudent manner.
What is professional negligence?
This rule requires that all nurses protect all written and verbal communication about clients.
What is the Privacy Rule?
Client choose from a list of contracted providers and hospitals.
What is a Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs)?
assesses, diagnoses, and treats disease and injury. includes (MDs), doctors of osteopathy (DOs), advanced practice nurses (APNs), and physician assistants (PAs)
What is provider?
Actions that promote good for others without any self-interest.
What is beneficence?
The conduct of one person makes another person fearful or apprehensive.
What is assault?
Document without derogatory words, judgments, or opinions. Should be descriptive and should include what the nurse sees, hears, feels, and smell.
What is objective data, element of documentation?
Involves intermediate follow-up care for restoring health and promoting self-care. Examples include home health care, rehab centers.
What is Restorative Health Care?
Members of the Interprofessional team work collaboratively to provide this to clients.
What is holistic care to clients?
A nurse is positioned in a difficult situation where the actions taken are different from what the nurse identifies as ethically correct.
What is moral distress?
A legal document that expresses the 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?
Occurrences that require completion of an incident report.
What is medication error, needle stick, and omission of prescription?
Increases access to health care for all individuals and instituting an individual mandate for health insurance
Shares appropriate information among team members; initiate referrals for client assistance, including health education; and identify community resources.
What is Registered Nurse?
A cumulative stress that develops from the desire to help those who are suffering combined with the inability to relieve that suffering.
What is compassion fatigue?
A document in which clients designate a health care proxy to make health care decisions for them if they are unable to do so.
What is a durable power of attorney?
Include significant objective information about the client’s health problems. Proceed in a logical sequence. Include no gossip or personal opinion.Relate recent changes in medications, treatments, procedures, and the discharge plan.
What is effective report?