Level of Health Care
Focused on educating and equipping patients to reduce and control risk factors of disease. Examples include programs that promote immunization, stress management, and seat belt use.
What is preventative health care?
Avoidance of harm or pain as much as possible when giving treatments/providing care.
What is nonmaleficience?
Intentional and wrongful physical contact with a person that involves an inquiry or offensive contact (restraining a patient and administering an injection against his/her wishes).
A person confined or restrained against his/her will (using restraints on a competent client to prevent them form leaving the facility).
What are intentional torts? (assault, battery, false imprisonment)
Patient designates health care proxy to make medical decisions for them if they become incapacitated.
What is durable power of attorney?
Identify patient needs, learning style, abilities, available resources.
What is assessment?
Involves the provision or specialized highly technical care. Examples include oncology centers and burn centers.
What is tertiary health care?
Fair treatment in matters related to physical and psychosocial care and use of resources.
What is justice?
A nurse fails to implement safety measures for a patient who has been identified as at risk for falls.
A nurse administers a larger dose of medication due to a calculation error. The patient has a cardiac arrest and dies.
What are examples of unintentional torts? (negligence and malpractice).
(Didn't intend to harm patient but you did).
Communicates patient's wishes regarding medical treatment if patient becomes incapacitated.
What is living will?
Do not use medical jargon. Make sure materials are at sixth grade level or below.
What is implementation?
Includes the diagnosis and treatment of emergency, acute illness, or injury. Examples include care that is given in hospital settings (inpatient and emergency departments), diagnostic centers, or emergent care centers.
What is secondary healthcare?
Agreement that the care given is in the best interest of the patient; taking positive actions to help others.
What is beneficence?
Willingness to respect obligations and follow through on promises.
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Protection of privacy without diminishing access to quality care.
What is responsibility and confidentiality?
Prescription for DNR (do not resuscitated) or AND allow natural death.
What is provider's order?
Develop mutually agreeable goals/outcomes.
What is planning?
Emphasizes health promotion, and include prenatal and well-baby care, nutrition counseling, and disease control. This level of care is based on a sustained partnership between the patient and the provider. Examples include office or clinic visits and scheduled school or work-centered screenings (Vision, hearing, obesity).
What is primary health?
Agreement to keep ones promise to the patient about care that was offered.
What is fidelity?
Support of the cause of the patient regarding health, safety, and personal rights.
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Ability to answer one's own actions.
Suspicion of abuse (child, elderly, domestic violence). Communicable diseases to local/state health department.
What is mandated reporting?
The nurse demonstrates the process for injection of insulin and has the patient teach back/demonstrate the process.
What is an example of evaluation?
Involves intermediate follow up care for restoring health. Examples include home health care, rehabilitation centers, and in-home respite care.
What is restorative healthcare?
Ability of the patient to make personal decisions, even when those decisions may not be in the patients own best interest.
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It is the basis of the trust relationship established between a patient and a health care provider.
What is autonomy and veracity?
Communicate the purpose of procedure and complete description of procedure in the patient's primary language. Explain risk and benefits. Describe other options to treat the condition.
What is the responsibilities of the provider for informed consent?
You fill this out when an accident occurs (falls or medication error). Not a part of the patient's record and should not be referenced in the patient's record.
What is an incident report?
Impaired gas exchanged r/t damaged alveoli aeb dyspnea, oxygen saturation 89% on room air
What is an example of nursing diagnosis?