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gnur 207 quiz 1Affordable Care Act (ACA) - ANS--two laws
-incremental by progressive change to the way that Americans access and pay for their
health care
allows nurses to act as full partners with other health professionals
lead in the improvement and redesign of the health care system and its practice
environment
-Banned lifetime limits on insurance coverage
-Young adults could remain on their parents insurance plan until the age of 26
-Prevents insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing
condition
-Coverage for preventative services
By 2015- 16 million Americans had a plan under ACA
What organization made enhancement of diversity of nursing a priority? - ANS-AACN
What did the AACN show in regard to entry level BSN programs? - ANS-30.1% were
from underrepresented backgrounds
What are the top three practice settings for professional nurses? - ANS-hospitals
ambulatory care
public and community health
Nursing practice shifted from ______ _____ and community settings to _______ within
the last 50 years - ANS-informal home
hospitals
medical center - ANS--a hospital designation
-Offers comprehensive specialty services, such as cancer centers, maternal-fetal
medicine services, and heart centers.
-Usually associated with university medical schools and have a complex array of
providers.
-1000 or more beds and has a huge nursing workforce
-"Level 1 Trauma Centers" offer highly specialized surgical and supportive care for the
most severely injured patients.
community based hospitals - ANS--Usually less severely ill
-More common
-Highly unstable patients may warrant transport to a larger hospital or a medical center.
, -Nursing roles:
Identify very sick patients
Help stabilize patients
Prepare for transport
specialty units - ANS-operating suites or emergency departments, intensive care units
(e.g., cardiac, neurology, medical), and step-down or progressive care units
CNS - ANS-clinical nurse specialists; advanced practice nurse such as oncology clinical
specialist, psychiatry
Evidence Based Practice - ANS-nursing care that is based on the best available
research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preference
What did Aiken's studies indicate? - ANS--nurses prepared at a higher level had better
outcomes
-good work environment and better staffing by pro nurses resulted in improving quality
and safety of care
Lillian Wald - ANS-Henry Street Settlement in NYC 1895
founder of community health services
Improve overall health of community by - ANS-Planning and implementing health
programs
Delivering care for individuals with chorionic health problems
Providing education, immunizations, screening clinics
Working with teachers parents physicians community leaders
Broad field of community health nursing - ANS-Care settings
Government and private agencies
Home health and cost-effectiveness
Knowledge and skills of the home health nurse
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Palliative Care - ANS-an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their
families facing the problem associated with life threatening illness, through the
prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable
assessment and treatment of pain and other problems physical psychosocial and
spiritual (chronic disease management); anything you know that will eventually be
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