INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE STUDY GUIDE

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Review: information can be comprehensive (will ask things that are particularly important) - level of competency that licensing is to ensure: minimally safe practice - SBAR!!!! Situation (subjective... ??)-chief complaint, background, assessment, recommendation - legal authority to delegate as a nurse: State Nurse Practice Act (SNP Act) -prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary prevention/care ROLE ACCESS (LAST SLIDE) DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE 1. Community and Population health -community: caring for people withing the community -more direct care: school nurses, home visits -population: protecting the ENTIRE community (bigger picture)—Ex: covid, TB 2. Accrediting agencies: -THE JOINT COMMISSION: accredits private organizations (come in every 3 years; labs every 2 years) 3. Finance stuff: **MEDICARE & MEDICAID - Medicare: -Type A: hospitalizations -Type B: primary/ physician care -Type C: special programs -Type D: pharmacy prescriptions (medications) -Medicaid: pays for majority of nursing homes (because they stay for a long time) -Medicare pays for nursing home for 100 days and then either YOU have to pay, or Medicaid pays for it. 1. Define community health nursing and community-based nursing  Community health nursing:  practices in the community that focus on health care of individual, families, and groups in a community  Goal is to promote, preserve, and maintain health - increase quality of life and health care in community  Emphasis on improving the quality of health & life of the community  Can include direct care- the difference between this and population health - providing specific care o Ex: schools, hospitals, home health care, case management, wellness care, hospice, health clinicals, outreach, churches, nonprofit.  What you should know in your community o Age, ethnicity, culture, language, do not use families as interpreters - may not give correct info, socioeconomical, local industries/factories, occupational injuries, outreach programs/churches  Risk [Show More]

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