Exam 1 Flashcards
When was the Institute of medicine IOM established and by who?
1970 by the National Academies
What is the new name of the I OM
NAM national Academy of medicine
What is the mission of the NAM?
To improve health for all
By advancing science, accelerating health, equity in providing independent, authoritative, interested, advice, nationally and globally
What was in the I0M’s first report
It began the patient safety movement presented a strategy to improve healthcare quality over the following 10 years, and identified three domains of quality
What was the patient safety movement identifying
Medical errors as the leading cause of injury in the United States
What are the three domains of quality identified by IOM’s first report
Patient safety
Practice, consistent with current medical knowledge
Meeting customer, specific values and expectations 
 What are the key I OM outline six aims for healthcare improvement
Healthcare should be safe effective. Patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.
What are the four tiered approach to quality improvement that that IOM outlined?
Establish a national focus
Identifying and learning from errors
Racing performance, standards, and expectations for improvements and safety
Implementing safety systems in healthcare organizations
What are the six aims for healthcare in the 21st-century?
Safe
Effective
Patient centered
Timely
Efficient
Equitable
What does safe mean in the six aims for healthcare in the 21st-century
Avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them
What does effective mean in the six aims for healthcare in the 21st-century
Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit in refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit, avoiding over, use underuse and miss use of care
Why did the IOM call for an overhaul by outlining six aims for healthcare improvement in the 21st-century
They needed major reconstructing in, addressing these performance characteristics, would leave to narrowing the quality gap
What is patient centered mean in the six aims for healthcare in the 21st-century
Providing care that is respectful of unresponsive to individual patients preferences needs and values in ensuring that patience values guide all decisions
What is timely mean in the six aims for healthcare in the 21st-century
Reducing weight and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive in those who give care
What does efficient mean in the six aims for healthcare in the 21st-century
Avoiding waste in particular of equipment supplies ideas and energy
What does equitable mean in the six aims for healthcare in the 21st century
Providing care of that does not very good quality because of the personal characteristics, such as gender, ethnic city, geographic location, and socioeconomic status
Why did the IOM identify 10 rules to redesign and improve health care in the 21st-century
These rules are necessary to achieve significant improvement in quality. They are implemented to have an impact on healthcare, workforce and in turn require change in accountability standards of care and relationships between patients and healthcare professionals.
What is the goal of the QSEN core competencies?
To prepare future nurses with the knowledge, skills and attitudes, necessary to continuously, improve the quality and safety of healthcare
What are the five competencies of the QSEN core competencies
Provide patient centered care
Work in interdisciplinary teams
Employee evidence base practice
Apply quality improvement
Utilize informatics
Safety
What is important and patient centered care
Advocacy
Empowerment
Self-management
Health literacy
Cultural competence
Optimal healing environment
What is the strongest level of evidence in nursing research?
Evidence from a systematic review, or meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
What is quality improvement in structure of care environment
Focusing on where nursing care is provided
What is quality improvement in the Kara process?
Focusing on how nursing care is provided
What is quality improvement in outcomes of care?
Focusing on the results of nursing care
What are the five principles of creating and maintaining a safety culture?
Providing leader ship
Respecting human limits in the design process
Promoting effective team functioning
Anticipating the unexpected
Creating a learning environment 
What is private healthcare?
Momentarily compensated health care provided to individual seeking care
Includes companies for profit and nonprofit, not associated directly with the government
Predominate form of healthcare for persons in United States
What is public health care?
Funded by tax dollars
Include state and county public health department in US government health agencies
Reduced payment options, or free care offered
What is government health care?
Refers to government provided health insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid
Not provided directly by the government
The VA
What is national or universal healthcare?
Healthcare or health insurance provider to citizens through their government without involvement of private health insurers
Not available in US
What does access to healthcare?
The ability to obtain health care services, when needed
US is low in comparison to other countries in regard to prevention and care of chronic condition
What is uninsured mean?
Those without healthcare insurance coverage
What is underinsured mean?
Those who have insurance coverage, but lack an adequate income to facilitate access to care
What is EMTALA?
Emergency medical treatment in labor act
What does the emergency medical treatment in labor act require?
All Medicare participating hospitals, with emergency departments providing stabilizing emergency care for a patient seeking help regardless, their insurance status, or ability to pay
What are the two avenues of healthcare?
Through a physician or care provider practice who not required to accept patient who cannot pay
Through Hospital emergency Department
What are barriers to access of care?
Living in an area with an adequate service
Lack of health insurance
Kos prohibitions
Why would a patient repeatedly comes to the ER for issues that could be treated at PMD
Lack of insurance
What is better quality of care and hospitals of the US acute or chronic
Acute
Strategies for cost containment
Restriction on expenditures
Press control
Utilization controls
Cost sharing
 What is Medicare?
Provides health insurance for disabled people over the age of 65 and disability
What is Medicaid?
Provide coverage to low income people primarily for children through chip non-disable adults and pregnant women
Who can a healthcare policy be developed by?
Citizen, action, local policies, proceedings, legislation, at the state or federal level, WHO
Our leadership and management interchangeable
No
What is leadership?
Process of influencing others through effective relationship skills
What does management?
A formal position with a specific function
What are the three behavioral theories characteristics of leaders
Autocratic democratic laissez-faire
What is an autocratic leader?
Makes decisions without input from team
Does not consider valuable suggestions from team members input
Potentially demoralizes team members
What is a democratic leader?
Expects team members to contribute to decision making process
Encourage team input
Enables individual growth and development
Analyzes and makes final decisions
Increase his participation in projects and creative solutions
Brings about higher production and satisfaction
What is a laissez-faire leader?
Provides advice support and timelines with low level involvement
Lex focus or time management resulting in high job satisfaction with risk of low productivity
Risks the potential of team members not having the knowledge to execute the tasks
May find intro theme, disagreements common, which may produce disharmony
What is the trait theory of leader ship?
Focused on traits of leaders and noted certain men were born leaders
Looked to be able to identify potential leaders more quickly
What is situational leadership theory?
Situational factors contribute to the leadership style, and the leader may be effective in certain situations and less effective in others
What is the contingency leadership theory?
A complex process of evaluating a leader style, the relationship with followers and the task to be completed
What is the contemporary theories of leadership?
4 leaders to be effective, the values and beliefs of the environment need to be considered
Relationship within the organization, need to be cultivated in order to promote a productive and healthy environment
What are the five relational leadership theories?
Quantum leader ship
Transactional leadership
Transformational leadership
Connective leader ship
Complexity, leadership
What is the attribution leadership theories?
Authentic leadership
Servant leadership 
What is a relational leader ship theory
Focus primarily on the relationship that occurs between the leader in team member
Put more emphasis on the leaders, relationship with others and less emphasis on the leader traits, situation, context or end result
What is quantum leadership?
Focuses on holistic and relational perspectives
Looks at system processes and relationship between workers and tasks to determine efficiency and job performance
What is transactional leadership?
Focuses on the goals of the orcas the nation with a directive style, establishing expectations for team members, and motivating with rewards
Has no shared vision between the leader and team member, but both gained some thing from interaction
Limits innovation focus on task completion in concrete rewards
What does the leader in team member focus on in a transactional leadership?
Leader focuses on getting job done while team member, motivated by reward
What is a transformational leader ship?
Involves active involvement of both the leader and team members they motivate each other
Affective type of leader ship to lead the change necessary to meet the demands of current health system
Everyone is involved
What is a connective leadership?
Focuses on caring
Incorporates the needs of diverse stakeholders within healthcare
Identifies and foster strength of team members by including them in the process of change within the organization
What is complexity, leader ship?
Focuses on learning creative, an adaptive capacity of complex system with the contacts of organizations
These leaders cultivate relationships, except feedback, Tolerate uncertain situation, seek diverse opinions, and listen to multiple points of views
Effective in fast pace world encourages flexibility