Hospital
The largest type of healthcare organization (HCO).
What is the acute care hospital?
The largest employee pool in hospitals.
What is nursing?
They work with patients to help resolve dietary and nutritional needs.
What is a dietitian?
An organization that must cover their operation costs, reinvest money in the hospital for maintenance, expand space and renovate, develop new services, purchase equipment and supplies, and pay their stockholders/shareholders.
What is a for-profit hospital?
The nursing leader may be called the chief nursing executive or _____________.
Who is the Chief Nursing Officer?
They assist patients and their families with such issues as reimbursement, discharge concerns, housing, and transportation.
Who is a Social Worker?
Admission and discharge
Medical records
Infection control
Dietary
What are typical departments in the hospital?
A member of the nursing staff who has completed a 1-year nursing program and successfully passed the licensing exam.
Who is a LPN/LVN?
They are trained to provide specific types of treatments. They may be assigned to work solely in intensive care units, and are also part of the team that responds to codes when patients experience cardiac or respiratory arrests.
Who is the Respiratory Therapist?
Hospitals that do not bring in enough money to pay their bills are said to be operating __________.
What is “in the red" ?
Responsible for establishing goals, objectives, and strategic plans for the organization. The highest-level nurse leader like the DON, VPN, vice president of patient services positions.
What is Upper level management?
The typical team includes faculty/attending, the chief resident, residents, interns, and medical students.
Who are the medical or physican team?
The expenses, such as staff salaries and benefits, equipment, supplies, utilities, pharmaceutical needs, facility maintenance, dietary needs, administrative services, clinical care, HIT, QI, staff education, and legal fees.
What is the budget?
A nurse has a master’s degree and is a provider and a manager of care at the point of care to individuals and cohorts (groups of patients) but is not in an administrative or manager position. They are involved in care planning and coordination and working with the nursing team and interprofessional teams to better ensure quality care and outcomes.
Who is a Clinical nurse leader (CNL)?
A physician and especially an internist who specializes in providing and managing the care and treatment of patients in the hospital; they act like the primary provider while the patient is in the hospital
Who is a hospitalist?