Chapter 3, 5 & 6 Vocab

Question 1

Acute Care

Answer 1

urgent or emergency care

Question 2

Adult Day Care Centers

Answer 2

offers health and social services to specific patient populations who live alone or with family in the community; offered during the day and might offer transportation, assistance with personal care, nursing, and therapeutic services, therapies, etc

Question 3

Assisted Living

Answer 3

long term care setting but with a homier environment and greater resident autonomy than a nursing facility; nursing care is not provided but other services are

Question 4

Diagnosis-Related Group

Answer 4

Each case is put into one of these groups that has a payment weight assigned to it based on the average resources used to treat patients covered by Medicare in that DRG; regardless of how much the hospital spends on the patient, they still only get this set amount

Question 5

Discharge Planning

Answer 5

a coordinated, interdisciplinary process that develops a plan for continuing care after a patient leaves a health care agency

Question 6

Health Care Disparities

Answer 6

linked to inadequate resources, poor patient-provider communication, a lack of culturally competent care, and inadequate access to patient language services; these factors must be addressed to reduce their effect and ensure all patients receive equal treatment

Question 7

Home Care

Answer 7

provides medically related professional and paraprofessional services and equipment to patients and families in their home

Question 8

Hospice

Answer 8

a system of family centered care that enables patients with terminal illnesses to live with comfort, independence, and dignity while helping to manage the stress caused by illness; a patient receiving hospice is in the terminal phase of the illness and the focus is on palliative care (quality of life), not curative (quantity of life) care

Question 9

Patient-Centered Care

Answer 9

Care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, values, and ensures that patient values guide all clinical decisions

Question 10

Respite Care

Answer 10

Service that offers short term relief by providing family caregivers a temporary rest from caregiving; provided in many ways such as at home by a friend, family member, or volunteer, or paid service or in a community based setting such as adult daycare or a residential facility

Question 11

Restorative Care

Answer 11

helps a patient regain maximal function status, improving quality of life, and promoting independence and self-care; examples are home care and/or rehabillitation

Question 12

Skilled Nursing Facility

Answer 12

24-hour licensed nursing, rehab, medically related social services, dietary services that are individualized to each resident’ residents receive a planned systematic and interdisciplinary approach to care to help them reach and maintain their highest level of function

Question 13

Informed Consent

Answer 13

a patients agreement to allow a procedure such as surgery based on a full disclosure of the risks, benefits, alternatives, and consequences of refusal

Question 14

Living Wills

Answer 14

documents that provide instructions about a patients wishes in certain situations, including withholding or withdrawing life sustaining procedures in patients who are terminally ill

Question 15

Negligence

Answer 15

conduct that falls below the generally accepted standard of care

Question 16

Never Events

Answer 16

preventable errors that may include falls, catheter-associated UTIs, and health care pressure injuries; the government and insurance companies dont reimburse for these injuries

Question 17

Occurence Report/Incident Report

Answer 17

a form that gets completed when there is a deviation from the standard of care/anything unusual happens that could potentially cause harm to a patient, visitor, or employee; they do not get documented in nurses notes

Question 18

Risk Management

Answer 18

involves components of identifying possible risks, analyzing them, acting to reduce them and evaluating the measures taken to reduce them; patient safety and improved care are the goals

Question 19

Advocacy

Answer 19

involves speaking up for your patient; can also be in the form of engagement with public policy

Question 20

Autonomy

Answer 20

refers to a person’s independence, self-determination and self reliance; the respect refers to patients and providers

Question 21

Beneficence

Answer 21

Refers to taking positive action to help others; encourages you to do good for the patient and put their best interests above all else; understanding the patients needs and working actively to meet those needs

Question 22

Ethics

Answer 22

refers to standards of conduct and particularly right and wrong behavior

Question 23

Nonmaleficence

Answer 23

refers to the fundamental agreement to do no harm