Ethics
This committee provides structure and guidelines for potential problems arising from ethical dilemmas in patient care.
What is the ethics committee? (pg. 77)
Personnel and supplies are line items in this budget.
What is an operating budget?
Established in 1965, this is the country's larges and most influential health insurance program, providing funding for more than 55 million individuals.
What is Medicare? (pg. 207)
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) emerged as a result of this legislation, promoted by President Obama?
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010? (pg. 202-203)
(Will also accept Affordable Care Act)
These organizations are usually controlled by voluntary boards or trustees.
What are not-for-profit healthcare organizations?
This ethical principle is rooted in the nurses' responsibility to treat each patient fairly.
What is justice? (pg. 74)
People often mention FTEs when discussing payroll expenses. What are FTEs?
What are full-time equivalents?
This state-level program provides care for medically indigent people and children with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
The amended Civil Rights Act of 1991 broadened the issue of __________ ____________ in the workplace.
What is sexual harassment? (pg. 66)
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), The Joint Commission (TJC), and The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) are examples of what type of organization?
What is accreditation? (pg. 203)
This occurs when two ethical principles compete.
What is moral distress? (pg. 76)
Unnecessary care, healthcare financing, and pharmaceutical usage are just three examples of factors that ___________ the cost of healthcare.
What is increase?
The scope of nursing practice is defined and guided by each state in the ______ _______ ____?
What is the nurse practice act? (pg. 50)
This type of healthcare organization has a centralized administration that directs and pays salaries for physician practice. To be federally qualified, it must offer inpatient and outpatient services, treatment and referral for drug and alcohol problems, and preventative dental services for children younger than 12.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization? (HMO) (pg. 204)
This ethical principle addresses personal freedom and self-determination.
What is autonomy? (pg. 73)
These costs, on a nursing unit, do not change as the volume of the patients change - things like expenses related to renting, utilities, loan payments, and administrative salaries.
What are fixed costs? (pg. 423)
This Medicare plan covers inpatient care and hospice care.
What is Part A? (pg. 208)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an example of a what type of organization?
What is regulatory? (pg. 207)
These formal statements articulate values and beliefs of a given profession.
What are Professional Codes of Ethics?
This expense is the largest line item on a hospital's general budget.
What is personnel? (pg. 425)
This regulatory organization administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
What is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)? (pg. 207)