HEALTH CARE SETTINGS
Care provided to a client with less than 6 months to live
What is hospice?
When an agency evaluates and approves a facility for compliance with standards
What is accreditation?
A law to improve healthcare while lowering costs
A positive state of health
What is wellness?
A client's system of beliefs, values, and rules
What is culture?
Setting that only requires a brief or short admission to treat illness
What is acute care setting?
What is a compact license?
An event that results in a client's death or harm
What is a sentinel event?
Changeable behaviors that can affect a client's risk for disease
What are modifiable risk factors?
Helping people take charge of and improve their health
What is health promotion?
Setting for clients who cannot care for themselves and need somewhere to live
What is long-term care facility?
The law that each state has that governs the scope and standards of nursing practice
What is the Nursing Practice Act?
Award that identifies contributions that affect nurses' well-being
What is Pathway to Excellence?
Unchangeable things like gender and genetics that increase a person's chances for developing a disease
What are nonmodifiable risk factors?
Insurance for children who don't qualify for Medicaid
What is CHIP?
Setting that provides short term rehab like PT or OT
What is skilled nursing facility?
Speaking uo for client's needs when the clients are unable to
What is advocacy?
An emailed survey that evaluates patient satisfaction with healthcare
What is Press Ganey?
The ability to receive, understand, and apply health information
What is health literacy?
Activities a nurse can do to promote their own mental health and overall well-being
This allows the patient to be cared for so that the caregiver can take a break
What is respite care?
Government healthcare for people over 65 years old
Medicare
This part of Medicare covers medical insurance
What is Part B?
This type of prevention includes teaching things like wearing seatbelts when driving
What is primary prevention?
The government agency that regulates medications, food, and cosmetics.
What is the FDA?