Health Care Delivery Flashcards
What is the strongest method to evaluate teaching?
Returned demonstration
What is the most powerful data collected from a patient?
Subjective data
What are the goals of Health People 2020?
- Increase the quality and years of healthy life
2. Eliminate health disparities among Americans
Who was Healthy People 2020 published by?
United States Department of Health and Human Services
What are NPs required to report?
- Gonorrhea
- Chlamydia
- Syphilis
- HIV
- TB
- Criminal acts and injury from a dangerous weapon
- Animal bites
- Suspected or actual child or elder abuse
- NOT required to report domestic violence in most states
What is the ANA social policy statement?
Collaboration is a true partnership in which all players have and desire power, share common goals, and recognize/accept separate areas of responsibility and activity
What are examples of third-party payers?
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Commercial indemnity insurers
- Commercial management organizations such as HMOs
- Business or schools wanting health services for employees or students
What is the purpose of case management?
To mobilize, monitor, and control resources that a patient uses during course of an illness while balancing quality and cost.
What is quality assurance/quality improvement/continuous process improvement?
A management process of monitoring, evaluation, continuous review, and improving the quality in providing health care
What is quality assurance?
A process for evaluating the care of patients using established standards of care to ensure quality
How can quality be improved?
By continually monitoring structure, process, and outcome
What are structures?
Inputs into care such as resources, equipment, or numbers and qualifications of staff
What are processes?
Assessments, planning, performing treatments, and managing complications
What are outcomes?
Complications, adverse events, short term results of treatment and long term results of patient health and functioning
What is a critical path?
Contains key patient care activities and time frames for those activities which are needed for a specific case type of diagnosis-related group
