Trends in Healthcare (Ch. 15-18) Flashcards
Health
The level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living organism.
Healthcare System
The organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.
Functional Nursing
An organizational mode for assigning nursing personnel tasks: Medication administration, dressing changes, treatments, etc. Tasks are assigned to each nurse based of level of difficulty.Nursing assignments are task-based. Nurses are assigned to tasks rather than patients.
Primary Nursing
A system for delivering nursing care that is based on the four elements: 1. Responsibility for Relationship and decision-making. 2. Work allocation and assignments. 3. Communication with the healthcare team. An RN is assigned to a patient and remains with the patient as long as the patient remains on the unit.
Partnership Model
Working with individuals, families, and communities toward a new vision of health.
Patient-Centered Care
Providing care that is respectful and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
Medicare
a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. Federal Government. Part A (Hospital insurance), Part B (Medial Insurance).
Medicaid
A social health care program for families and individuals with low income and limited resource.
HMO
HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) gives you access to certain doctors and hospitals within a network plan. A network is a group of providers who have agreed to lower their rates for plan members while meeting quality standards.
PPO
PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) gives you more flexibility. A person does NOT need a Primary Care Physician. This allows individuals to go to any physician of their choice without a referral-inside or outside of the network.
Political Process
An approach of social movements heavily influenced by political sociology.
Collective Bargaining
The process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements to regulate working conditions.
Philosophy of Nursing
A personal statement representing a nurses responsibility to the public to provide safe, holistic, patient-centered care.
Affordable Care Act of 2010
New consumer protections
Improving quality and lower costs
Increased access to affordable care
Managed Care
A fixed fee paid to hospitals according to a preset reimbursement rate for diagnosis given at dischagre.
