Unit 1: Intro
What is "health"?
Health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being.
Which employees are included in the nursing department?
What are values?
-ideals or principles that are highly regarded by society
What is Jordan's Principle?
-a patient first principle that calls for the government - federal or provincial- of 1st contact to pay for a service for a First Nations child ordinarily residing on-reserve. Governments are then later to settle responsibility for costs.
What are ethics?
Rules of conduct that guide the actions of an individual or society.
What is "wellness"?
Wellness is the achievement of the best health possible in all dimensions of one's life.
Who should a HCA talk to if they have a question about a patient?
-a nurse
-a rule or standard which helps to control behavior
What is battery?
-actually carrying out a threat to do bodily harm to another person or the act of touching another person without their consent.
What are the 5 basic principles of the Canadian health care system?
-public administration
-comprehensiveness
-universality
-accessibility
-portability
What is team nursing?
-a type of nursing care delivery which involves staff being divided into teams led by a RN team leader who distributes the patient care assignments according to the patients' needs and the capability of the team members
What is culture?
-shared values, beliefs, practices of a particular group of people
What is defamation?
- harming of a person's reputation either verbally or in written form
What are some challenges which confront health care providers?
-disadvantages groups have lower life expectancy, poorer health and higher prevalence of disability
-various forms of preventable diseases and injuries continue to undermine the health and quality of life
-the lack of community support to help Canadians cope and live meaningful, productive lives
-rapid and irreversible social change, shifting family structures, aging population and wider participation by women in the paid work force (create the need for new kinds of social support)
What type of communication is involved in formal lines of communication?
-horizontal and vertical communication
True or false: use touch 1st and then speak loud when communicating with someone from a different culture & language
False
Define reconciliation according to the TRC of Canada
1. An ongoing process of establishing and maintaining respectful relationships.
2. A critical part of this process involves repairing damaged trust by making apologies.
3. Providing individual and collective reparations (make amends).
4. Following through with concrete actions that demonstrate real societal change.
What is non-maleficence?
-above all do no harm
-active in a such a way to prevent or remove harm from our patients
What are the goals of health care agencies?
-health promotion
-detection and treatment of disease
-rehabilitation of existing concerns
What is the main purpose of a team conference?
-to develop or revise a patient care plan
What are implications of culture for the HCA?
- adapt to the patient's cultural background & practices whenever possible
-must be sensitive to an individual's culture
- try to learn more about their patient's culture
-convey compassion & comfort in their actions and tone of voice
What are some troubling disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians?
-higher rates of: infant mortality, diabetes, suicides, and maternal mortality and morbidity rates
-shortened life expectancies
-heavy infectious disease burdens
What is fidelity?
-loyalty, keeping promises and being faithful to our patients