Critical Pathways of Care Flashcards
● Multidisciplinary healthcare management tool
based on healthcare plans for a specific group of
patients with a predictable clinical course
CARE PATHWAY
a type of abbreviated plan of
care that provides outcome-based guidelines for
goal achievement within a designated length of
stay
CRITICAL PATHWAY
route or path a patient will take if they
are referred for treatment
○ Gives an outline what is likely to happen on the
patient’s journey
Pathways
● Represents the ideal way
to manage a patient
population with a specific problem or
long-term condition
CARE PATHWAYS
● For an individual
● Relevant information
about a patient’s diagnosis, the goals of
treatment, the specific
nursing orders
CARE PLAN
● Focused primarily
on changing the
health status of
patients over
time through
direct care,
treatment,
counseling, or
health education
information
Therapeutic
Services
● Includes
occupations
related to the
tests and
evaluations that
aid in the
detection,
diagnosis and
treatment of
diseases, injuries
or other physical
conditions
Diagnostic
Services
● Includes
occupations that
interact with
patients or the
public to provide
a therapeutic
environment for
the delivery of
health care.
Includes
technical and
professional
careers
Support
Services
● Includes workers
involved in all
aspects of
managing health
care agencies,
patient data and
information,
financial
information, and
computer
applications
related to health
care processes
and procedures
Health
Informatics
● Includes
occupations
involved in
bioscience
research and
development
Biotechnology Research and Development
Structured, multidisciplinary plans of care
design to support the implementation of clinical
guidelines and protocols
CRITICAL PATHWAY IN NURSING MANAGEMENT
● Technique that can be used to facilitate prompt
and appropriate communication
● Communication model as gained popularity in
healthcare settings, especially amongst professions
such as physicians and nursing
SBAR TOOL
(SITUATION, BACKGROUND, ASSESSMENT, AND RECOMMENDATION)
● Method of documentation employed by healthcare
providers to write out notes in patient’s chart, along
with other common formats, such as the admission
not
SOAP
(SUBJECTIVE, OBJECTIVE, ASSESSMENT, AND PLAN)
WRITING A NURSING CARE PLAN
Step 1: Data Collection or Assessment
Step 2: Data Analysis and Organization
Step 3: Formulating Your Nursing Diagnoses
Step 4: Setting Priorities
Step 5: Establishing Client Goals and Desired Outcomes
Step 6: Selecting Nursing Interventions
Step 7: Providing Rationale
Step 8: Evaluation
Informatics offers strategies that enhance access,
communication, and evaluation of clinical guidelines
through three key functions identified by ________:
1.) Benson
○ knowledge browsing
○ Messaging
○ counting
Clinical Practice Guidelines provide
_______________ for healthcare
providers about the care of patients with specific
diseases or conditions
evidence-based recommendations
Encode evidence-based
recommendations and can automatically generate
tailored medical procedures for individual
patients. They offer benefits beyond those provided
by paper-based guidelines
COMPUTERISED GUIDELINES
A periodical publication
which is published in electronic format, usually on
the Internet.
E-JOURNALS
ADVANTAGES OVER TRADITIONAL PRINTED
JOURNALS
- You can search the contents pages and/or the
full text of journals to find articles on a certain
subject. - You can read journal articles on your desktop,
you don’t have to be in the Library. - You can e-mail articles to yourself or download
them for printing. - The article that you want to read will always be
available, even when the Library is closed - Journals can include more images and
audio-visual material.
SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC JOURNALS CURRENTLY
OR WILL SOON INCLUDE THESE FORMS
● Print Mimic
● Selected Sections
● Enhancements to The Articles
● Supporting Material
● Individual Articles
● Brief Extracts
