NURSING EDUCATION Flashcards
Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
IOM report
Recommendations on how nursing could provide
better client care in new systems
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
Six core competencies needed by nurses ( and health
professionals in general) to continuously improve the
quality standard of health care:
Patient-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice
Quality improvement
Safety
Informatics
QUALITY AND SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE
- Consumers more aware of others’ needs for care
Minority groups, poor
Changing public concepts of health
Right of all people, not a privilege for the rich
Active participants in making decisions about health and
nursing care
CONSUMER DEMANDS
Need for and provision of nursing services in context of
new structures
Single parents rearing children
Young families living far from own parents
Adolescent mothers need specialized nursing services.
FAMILY STRUCTURE
Actions of new drug therapies, genetic technology
Some nurses required to be highly specialized
Space program technology adapted into health care aids
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Internet’s influence on health care
Telehealth
Medical information exchanged via electronic
communications to improve patient’s health status
* Telenursing
Provide nursing practice at a distance
No state boundaries
Licensure issues
INFORMATION, TELEHEALTH & TELENURSING
Medical information exchanged via electronic
communications to improve patient’s health status
TELEHEALTH
Provide nursing practice at a distance
TELENURSING
Licensure issues
NO STATE BOUNDARIES
Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
Each patient’s rights to accept or refuse medical care,
use advance directives
Wide variation in state regulation of nurse practitioner
practice
NPs cannot easily move from state to state
Consensus Model in 2008
LEGISLATION
Study of population
Statistics about distribution by age, place of residence,
mortality, morbidity
Total population in North America increasing
Population shifting from rural to urban
Many risk factors for death can be prevented.
DEMOGRAPHY
Projected to intensify as baby boomers age by 2022 *
Depends on location, setting
Difficulty in declining U.S. economy
New graduates not being interviewed at hospitals
High turnover rate
THE CURRENT NURSING SHORTAGE
ANA participates on behalf of nurses through economic,
welfare programs
Economic concerns
Issues about safe care for clients, selves
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Voluntary accreditation
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
* American Nurses Association—Political Action Committee
Organization to lobby for legislation affecting health
NURSING ASSOCIATIONS
Organization to lobby for legislation affecting health
American Nurses Association—Political Action Committee
National professional organization for nursing in the
U.S. founded 1896
Official journal American Nurse Today
Official newspaper The American Nurse
AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Formed 1952
Individuals and agencies
Continuing education services
NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING
Established 1899
National organizations working together for mission of
representing nursing worldwide
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NURSES
Formed in 1953
Student must be in state-approved nursing education
program to qualify
NATIONAL STUDENT NURSES ASSOCIATION
Founded 1922
Professional rather than social
Potential members hold bachelor’s degree minimum,
demonstrate achievement in nursing
INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY: SIGMA THETA TAU
Every person has a right to health and medical care corresponding to his state of health, without any discrimination
and within the limits of the resources, manpower and competence
RIGHT TO APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CARE AND HUMANE TREATMENT
The patient has a right to a clear, truthful and substantial explanation, in a manner and language understandable to the patient, of all proposed procedures, whether diagnostic, preventive, curative, rehabilitative or therapeutic, wherein the person who will perform the said procedure shall provide his name and credentials to the patient, possibilities of any risk of mortality or serious side effects, problems related to recuperation, and probability of success and reasonable risks involved
RIGHT TO INFORMED CONSENT
If a patient is a minor, consent shall be obtained from his
parents, or legal guardian
The patient has the right to
avail himself/herself of any recommended diagnostic and treatment procedures
RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION
The patient is entitled to a summary of his medical history and condition
RIGHT TO MEDICAL RECORDS
The patient has the right to communicate with relatives and other persons and to receive visitors subject to
reasonable limits prescribed by the rules and regulations of the health care institution.
RIGHT TO CORRESPONDENCE AND TO RECEIVE VISITORS
The patient has the right to express complaints and grievances about the care and services received
RIGHT TO EXPRESS GRIEVANCES
otherwise known as the Data privacy
Act is a law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal or sensitive
It is meant to cover both natural and judicial persons involved in the processing of personal information
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10173
Protects individuals from unauthorized processing of personal
information that is:
1. Private , not publicly available
2. Identifiable, where the identity of the individual is apparent either through direct attribution or when put together with other available information
RA 10173 or the DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
It ensures that the Philippines complies with international standards set for data protection through __
National Privacy Commission (NPC)