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Chapter 2 -Working In The Healthcare System Flashcards

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Acute care setting

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Specialize in providing care to people sick, injured, other conditions, delivering baby. So I term healthcare

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Patient

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A person who receives care in a hospital or other acute care setting is call the patient

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In patient care

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Patients who stay overnight in the hospital

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Outpatient care

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Patients that received specific therapy and go home the same day

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Medical

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People who have conditions that are treated medically for example with drugs or other non-surgical therapy’s

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Neonatal

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New horns

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Obstetric

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Pregnant woman and new borns

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Oncology

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People with cancer

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Operating room

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People who are having surgery

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Orthopedic

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People with bone and joint problems

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Pediatric

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Children up to 18 years of age

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Physician/mental health

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People with mental illness

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Intravenous

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IV

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Sub acute care setting

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Special unit of a hospital or nursing or a separate facility such as a long-term acute care hospital LTACH

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Long-term care settings

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People receive assistance meeting at their medical, personally and a social needs over the extended period of time

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Resident

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Used to refer the person who receives Karen in a long term settings

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Cognitive impairment

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Impairment is difficult with thinking processes involving memories, reasoning, judgment and languages, such as that caused by disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.

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Nursing home and assisting-living facilities

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Two major types of long-term care settings. People who cared for in assisted living facilities require some assistance with tasks such as activities of daily living ADL or reminders of taking medications, but otherwise fairly independent.

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Nursing homes

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People who are cared for in nursing homes require much higher level of nursing care and supervision as compared with those who live in assisted living facilities

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Assisted living facilities

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People who care for an assisted living facilities require some assistance with test such as activities of daily living or reminders of medication but otherwise fairly independent most live on their own apartment so I have access to shared in the buildings on campus such as restaurants dining in areas recreation

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Client

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A person who receives home health care

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Medicare

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Government program for health insurance a federal funded insurance program for people who are 65 age or older

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Medicaid

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A insurance program for people with low incomes jointly funded by federal and state government

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OMNIBUS budget reconciliation act of 1987 OBRA

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Affect in the 90s guaranteed people being cared for in nursing homes received a certain level of care OBRA legislation emphasize the responsibility for nursing homes to provide comfort for filling life style and promote mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being to the highest degree possible

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Ombudsmen

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Our volunteers who advocate for nursing home residents and their family members to resolve problem related to quality of care has the same goal that you have to make sure the needs of people in your care are met and that their rights are respected

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Accreditation

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Official recognition that the facility provides care to a certain standard. Is another way for recipients of healthcare to have confidence that they are receiving quality care

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JAYCO

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Joint commission on Accreditation of healthcare organizations

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Home healthcare

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Agencies that provide service for a client of all ages with many different types of health care needs

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Chronic illnesses

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Conditions that affect their physical abilities, such as heart disease, lung disease, or arthritis

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OSHA

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Occupational safety and health administration

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