Week 6 - 8 Flashcards
Early 20th Century Healthcare
- Nursing role started in homecare department
- People of lower class used hospitals
Early 1900’s Healthcare
- Distrust of experimenting physicians
- Hospital fee for services
- Criteria for admission, advanced tuberculosis
- Poor people had to consent for autopsy post death
Post World War 2 Healthcare
- Largely institution based
- Beginning of medicare
- Focused on hospital & position services
Healthcare Insurance System
- Government pays beforehand to guarantee certain level of care
- 1947 first hospital insurance plan
Medicare
- Canada health act
- 1984
- All residents have access to medically necessary services on prepaid basis
Canada Health Act
- Established in 1984
- Public admission
- Comprehensiveness
- Universality
- Portability
- Accessibility
Government Role in Healthcare
- Organization of health care
- Federal & provincial funding spilt when Medicare started quickly diminished
- Limited public policies
- Licensing body CNO & CNA
Pillars of Healthcare
- Teams
- Healthy living
- Barriers
- Information
Teams Pillar
- Interdisciplinary (different providers)
- Intersectoral (different professions)
Heath Living Pillar
- Environmental factors
- Upstream healthcare (prevention, wellness & promotion levels)
Barrier Pillar
- SDoH
Information Pillar
- Changes perspectives
- Uses resources (articles & media)
Levels of Care
- Health promotion
- Disease & injury prevention
- Diagnosis & treatment
- Rehabilitation
- Supportive care
Clients
- Individual, families & community
- Needs & contributions
- Focuses on relationship & processes of all
Family Centred Care
- Family-nurse relationship is essential
- Individual within context of family (vice versa)
- Provide information
- Maintain & manage health
Concept of Health
- State of complete physical, mental & social wellbeing
Approaches to Health
- Biomedical
- Behavioral
- Socioenvironmental
Biomedical Approach
- Focus on treatment
- Absence of disease
- Dominant approach
Behavioural Approach
- Product of making healthy life choices
Socioenvironmental Approach
- Product of individual, social, economic & environmental determinants
- Addresses barriers
- Promotes conditions of better health of individuals & communities
Levels of Profession
- Primary healthcare approach
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
Primary Prevention
- Reduces impact of risk factors to reduce occurrence of disease
Secondary Prevention
- Provides screening, detection & early treatment
Tertiary Prevention
- Reduces impacts of long-term disease & disability
Ottawa Charter
- Health promotion strategies
- Build health public policy
- Create supportive environments
- Strengthen community action
- Develop personal skills
- Reorient healthcare
Strengths Based Nursing Care
- View individuals as unique & holistic
- Recognize how strengths guide & promote health, recovery & healing
- Patient/family/community as collaborator
Healthcare Delivery
- Relationship centred care
- Patient empowered movement
- Health promotion, illness prevention & self-care
- Collaborative partnership
Domains of Wellbeing
- Community vitality
- Leisure
- Culture
- Democratic engagement
- Education
- Environment
- Living standards
- Time use
- Healthy population
Deficit Care
- Patient isolation
- Missing/wrong/fixed
- Fear based
- Objective
- Paternalistic/hierarchal
Healing
- Nursing is healing profession
- Key tool in holistic & caring for self
- Transformations & experiences
Self-Care
- Ability to recover from personal trauma & strive for wholeness
- Coping with suffering encountered & absorbed
- Holistic practice for self
- Burnout environment effects coworkers
Compassion Fatigue Components
- Mind
- Body
- Spirit
- Emotion
- Overall burnout in all aspects
Themes of Healing
- Multidimensional
- Caring connections & relationships
- Involves nurse presence
- Spirituality
- Use of complimentary & alternative healing modalities
Contemplative Practices
- Develops capacity for deep connection & mind quieting
- Aids exploration of meanings, purpose, values
- Way of knowing
- Complements rational & sensory
Benefits to Contemplative Practice
- Development of greater empathy & communication skills
- Enhances creativity, focus & attention
- Supports loving, compassionate life approach
- Reduces stress
- State of calm centeredness
Types of Contemplative Practice
- Stillness
- Generative
- Creative
- Activist
- Relational
- Movement
- Ritual
Obstacles to Contemplative Practice
- Perfectionism
- Boredom
- Busyness
- Change
- Impatience
- Arrogance
- Self-doubt