Main focus is prevention.
What is your local health department?
Protects confidentiality in healthcare.
What is HIPAA?
Operates like a driver's license.
What is Nurse Licensure Compact?
Aims to extend coverage for people who don't qualify for public assistance or employer provided insurance.
Because of this, insurance cannot deny you coverage for pre-existing conditions.
What is OSHA?
Requires password authentication to protect patient information.
What is Electronic Medical Record?
Northwest college is accredited under...
What is ACEN (Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing)?
Provides instructions for medical treatment when the patient can no longer make those decisions.
What is living will?
Insurance provided for 65 and older.
Advocates for the nursing profession as well as quality patient care.
What is the American Nurse's Association (ANA)?
Requires the provider to educate patient about procedure, expectations, outcomes, purpose, and risks.
What is informed consent?
Sets standards for and accredits healthcare provider organizations.
What is The Joint Commission?
These three concepts are related to healthcare policy.
What is healthcare systems, legal issues, and quality improvement?
Income based insurance for children that do not qualify for Medicaid.
What is Kid Care CHIP?
What is National Association of Student Nurses (NSNA)?
Prevents facilities from refusing life saving care to uninsured patients.
What is Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)?
Addresses the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
What is QSEN?
The principal federal health agency.
What is U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services?
Increased visits to Emergency department that are not emergencies cause what in healthcare.
What is increased costs of healthcare?
Responsible for defining professional standards and investigation violations in nurse practice act.
What is Wyoming State Board of Nursing?
Advanced directive gives authority to who...
What is surrogate decision maker?
Accredidates LPN, LVN, Diploma, and BSN programs.
What is National League of Nursing?
A written law passed by a federal agency.
What is a statute?
This state is one of the poorest and worst states in healthcare. Their needs in healthcare continue to rise.
What is Mississippi?