Quality, safety, cost, and access
How much money was spent on health care in the United States in 2013?
$2.9 trillion
What are some reasons why health care costs have gone up?
prescription drugs, medical malpractice lawsuits, and medical technology.
1.Define restructuring.How does this improve the healthcare system
Restructuring is changing something that is not working out as planned.
Who is looked at as the "doers" and "thinkers"?
Licensed practical nurse
What year was the Affordable Care Act(Obamacare) established?
2010
What is the Institute of Medicine?
An independent nonprofit organization that serves as an adviser to improve nation’s health
What funds Medicare Part A and does it cost anything for the patient?
Healthcare system that has undergone restructuring and what was restructured.
Oklahoma University: A new nonprofit entity will assume ownership and management of OU Medical System hospitals sometime this fall 2019.
Who resist change but still go along for the ride?
Survivors
What provides information on programs that help people with low to moderate income and resources pay for coverage?
The Health Insurance Marketplace
What is Continuous Quality Improvement focus on?
Preventing problems or adverse events
What funds Medicare Part B?
Medicare B is funded by monthly premiums that are income related.
Differentiate between alliance or patnership and consolidated system of healthcare.
Alliance is a patnership formed amongs hospitals,clinics,laboratories,healthcare systems and physicians. While Consolidated system of health care that includes hospital systems found nationwide.
Victims
What does not pay for long term care, private rooms, telephones or TV provided by hospitals or skilled nursing facilities?
Part A Medicare
What are the six aims of the Institute of Medicine to improve quality in health care?
Safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care
What is cost containment?
The need to hold cost within fixed limits while remaining competitive.
How does restructuring affect the employment opportunities for LPNs/LVNs.
Frequent changes in responsibility for nursing care can affect patient's health adversely. Their displacement in the professional work force.
Who believes they have some control over change than being controlled by change?
Navigators
A monthly fee a person must pay for health care insurance coverage?
Premium
How can an LPN help reduce the cost of health care?
By reducing waste, charging patients for all supplies used in their care, and being efficient with the care they giving.
What is the LPNs/LVNs job concerning improving cost and quality?
Their job is to identify wasteful practices and inefficient routines in their work settings while maintaining quality of care.
How does the healthcare system survive financially?
The healthcare system survives through negotation with insurance companies. The healthcare system acquires mergers and secures capital for strategic inititatives.
What kind of social life will you have outside of nursing school?
Non-existent
What organizations main goal to promote safety first?
Joint commission