Health Care Delivery Systems
Federally funded health care for clients 65 years of age or older
What is Medicare?
Team that works collaboratively to provide holistic care to clients
What is the interprofessional health care team?
Personal beliefs about ideas that determine standards that shape behavior
Defines the parameters of nursing practice and has the authority to adopt rules and regulations
What is the State Board of Nursing?
A confidential, permanent and legal document that is admissible in court
What is the medical record?
State-funded health care for clients who have low incomes.
What is Medicaid?
Member of the interprofessional team that assesses, plans for and educates regarding nutrition needs
What is the registered dietitian?
Personal values and beliefs about behavior and decision-making
What are morals?
The conduct of one person makes another person fearful and apprehensive
What is assault?
Data that comes from a client's statement
What is subjective data?
Coverage for uninsured children up to age 19 at low cost to parents
What is Children's Health Insurance Program or CHIP?
Member of the interprofessional team that assesses and plans for clients to increase musculoskeletal function
What is the physical therapist?
Supporting and defending client's health, wellness, safety, wishes, and personal rights, including privacy
What is advocacy?
A person is confined or restrained against their will
What is false imprisonment?
Stands for SOAP
Care the emphasizes health promotion and includes immunizations for disease control
What is primary health care?
Two things required to obtain in educational preparation for being a registered nurse
What are state board of nursing licensure and completion of a nursing program?
A commitment to tell the truth
What is veracity?
The legal process by which a client or the client's legally appointed designee has given written permission for a procedure or treatment
What is informed consent?
Rule that requires that nurses protect all written and verbal communication about clients
What is the privacy rule?
Care that involves the provision of specialized and highly technical care for an existing disease
What is tertiary health care?
Tasks that can be delegated by an RN to an AP (assistive personnel)
What are feeding, ambulating, and basic care?
Problems that involve more than one choice and stem for differences in the values and beliefs of the decision makers
What are ethical dilemmas?
A legal document that expresses the client's wishes regarding medical treatment in the event the client becomes incapacitated and is facing end-of-life issues
What is a living will?
Occurrence of an accident or an unusual event
What is an incident?