Staffing/Budgeting
Increasing this ratio leads to lower patient mortality rates (Must, 2021).
What is nurse to patient ratio?
3 steps to Lewin's change theory model (Wojciechowski, 2016).
What is unfreezing, movement, refreezing?
When flipped upside down can be a sign that the sender is in love with the recipient (Abeyta, 2023).
What is Postage Stamp?
Primarily for low income children and adults; used by 1 in 5 Americans (Abeyta, 2023).
What is Medicaid federal state health insurance plan?
legal term for the primary reason nurses get sued (Marquis, 2021).
What is malpractice?
Unit where an equal nurse to patient ratio is the most critical (Marquis, 2021).
What is operating room?
Term used to describe individuals participating in change? (Marquis, 2021).
What is a change agent?
Put in the top left corner of the envelope when sending it in the mail (United States Postal Service, 2023).
What is Return Address?
US Federal Government insurance program for adults 65 years and older (Abeyta, 2023).
What is Medicare?
Element of malpractice in which care is omitted (Marquis, 2021).
What is Negligence?
only state in U.S. that legally requires a nurse-to-patient ratio in every hospital unit (Nurse Journal, 2022).
What is California?
Theory centered around finding the underlying order in random data (Marquis, 2021).
What is the chaos theory
The generally accepted font when formatting professional letters (Purdue University, 2023).
What is Times New Roman size 12?
Reimbursement based on cost to provide service with no ceiling placed on amount (Abeyta, 2023).
What is fee for service (FFS)?
Records of Unusual or unexpected incidents that occur during a clients treatments (Marquis, 2021).
What is incident report or adverse event?
Employees are forced to work additional shifts (Marquis, 2021).
What is Mandatory Overtime?
Stage of Lewin's change theory where planning and implementing change take place (Marquis, 2021).
What is movement stage
A way to address the recipient in a letter, located after the address and before the letter body (Purdue University, 2023).
What is Salutation?
Introduced a new Patient's Bill of Rights related to insurance coverage in 2010 (Marquis, 2021).
What is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)?
Guarantee clients safe nursing care, include organizational policy and procedure statements, job descriptions, and student guidelines (Marquis, 2021).
What is standards of Care?
Type of accountability that meets needs of staff and patients; compatible with Fiscal Accountability (Marquis, 2021).
What is ethical accountability?
Another word for "barriers" in Lewin's change theories (Marquis, 2021).
What are restraining forces?
Placed after the senders name to indicate who typed the letter (Purdue University, 2023).
What is Typist Initials?
Process used by insurance companies to assess the need for medical care and to assure that payment will be provided for the care (Marquis, 2021).
What is utilization review?
legal wrong that is committed, independent of a contract, that renders the person who committed the crime liable (Marquis, 2021).
What is a tort?