System Based Practice

Question 1

Primary prevention

Answer 1

Focuses on health promotion and illness prevention

Question 2

Secondary prevention

Answer 2

Focuses on diagnosis and treatment of a disease
Aimed at early diseases detection, treatment for prevention of disease and symptoms
Screenings are done

Question 3

Tertiary prevention

Answer 3

Focuses on restoration of health after illness
Decreaseubg disease-related complications of already established disease
Rehabilitation is done

Question 4

Primary care setting & what it involves

Answer 4

Often the entry for managed care
Delivered in physicians office, hospital based clinics, community health centers and Public Health Service organizations
Involves, routine physicals, immunizations, treatment of common acute illnesses and support for phsycosocial needs

Question 5

Secondary and Tertiary care settings

Answer 5

Hospitals, Rural hospitals, Intensive car, Mental health facilities, Discharge planning

Question 6

Restorative care setting

Answer 6

Home care, Rehabilitation center, extended care facility

Question 7

What factors affect the delivery of health care

Answer 7

Changing demographics:more older adults, life expectancy increases
Advances in tech:special personal required
Health literacy: capacity to obtain, communicate and understand basic health info, patients need print, oral literacy and ability to use and understand numbers
Tech: virtual patient portals and websites that provide info and resources

Question 8

High quality healthcare is beyond reach to who

Answer 8

unemployed, underemployed, self-employed, poor or members of unserved minorities

Question 9

3 steps to accessing healthcare

Answer 9

gaining entry into the healthcare system
getting access to sites of care where patient can receive needed services
finding providers who patient can communicate, trust and have needs met

Question 10

Solutions for care for all

Answer 10

medicare for older adults and those with low incomes
CHIP
ACA funded services

Question 11

Resource Allocation levels

Answer 11

1: allocating resources to healthcare versus other social needs
2:allocations resources within the healthcare sector
3:allocating resources among individual patients

Question 12

UNOS

Answer 12

Organ procurement and transplant network
Maintains national patient waiting list for organ transplantation
Multiple factors determine who receives donor organ
:blood and tissue type, medical urgency, geographic location of donor and recipient

Question 13

Preventive care

Answer 13

Focused on reducing and controlling risks factors for disease

Question 14

4 challenges facing nursing

Answer 14

Aging baby boomer generation
Shortage and uneven distribution of physicians
Rate of nurses retirement
Uncertainty of health care reform

Question 15

What are some Continuing care settings

Answer 15

Nursing centers, Assisted living, Respire care, Adult day care centers, Palliative and hospice care

Question 16

What does the future of health care hold

Answer 16

Current system is in constant change
Future healthcare system will be consumer centered
Use of telehealth and digital care will increase
Office visits will decrease
Artificial intelligence will be increasingly used for early detection and understanding disease progression