Healthcare, Past, Present, Future
These agencies determine whether a training program meets acceptable standards.
What are Agencies of accreditation?
Official authorization or approval.
What is accreditation?
Physical security, social concerns, self-respect, and self worth
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
May consist of using an autoclave as one tactic to remove of all micro-organisms.
What is sterilization?
Interaction with the sender, good listening skills, and clear feedback
What are active listening skills?
Passed in March 2010 and requires every state to establish a health insurance exchange or online marketplace that can be used by small business owners.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Working conditions, nature of the job, opportunities for advancement.
What are things to consider when choosing an occupation?
Status Quo
What is homeostais?
Contact, droplet, airborne, common vehicle, and vectors.
What are primary methods of transmitting infections?
Appearance, facial expression, body motions/gestures, tone of voice, and distance between sender and receiver.
What are non-verbal messages?
Established in 1984, greatly affect the healthcare industry, shortens the time allowed for treatment, provides a diagnosis to Medicare, and allow reimbursement for services based on the diagnosis rather than the actual cost
What are diagnosis-related groupings (DRGs)?
Training, experience, and education are the basis of this in healthcare.
What is career advancement?
Becoming large corporate facilities, forming partnerships with physicians for services, buying out smaller hospitals, and discharging patients earlier
What are cost reduction tactics used by larger hospitals?
CDC guidelines for infection control that apply to all patients with a known or suspected infection
What are Transmission-based precautions?
Consists of sender, message, and receiver.
A health program for people with End stage renal disease, for certain people with disabilities, and individuals 65 years or older.
What is Medicare?
Recognize and accept beliefs, values, and attitudes.
How does a healthcare worker provide adequate care to each unique person?
An equipment design feature that maximizes productivity by reducing fatigue and discomfort.
What is ergonomics?
A substance that deters the growth of micro-organisms
What is an antiseptic?
Mental position or feeling
What is attitude?
New medical discoveries, evolving health concerns, and technologic advances.
What are some leading causes of the ever changing healthcare industry?
Economic security, good working conditions and opportunities for advancement.
What are reasons to choose a career in healthcare?
Behavior, attitudes, and Values
What is a person's character?
Norovirus, Chicken pox, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, RSV
What are airborne diseases?
Manner of conducting oneself
What is behavior?