Strategies to prevent medical errors - ANS - utilizing quality improvement tools to reduce waste
and improve safety.
- improving transitions across settings.
- making the delivery of medical services more efficient and less costly.
- eliminating unnecessary costs such as fraud and abuse.
- improving population health.
PPACA - ANS Stands for patient protection and affordable care act goals.
Levels of Care - ANS primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary - ANS Community classes/education. Tx for common health problems.
Secondary health care - ANS Screenings/immunizations. Tx of problems requiring more
specialized clinical expertise.
Tertiary Health Care - ANS Management of rare and complex disorders. Ex. Chemo, PT.
Trends in healthcare delivery - ANS Preventative care
Knowledge consumers
Provide mobile care
Racial justice and equity
Roles of Nurses in Hospitals - ANS Direct care providers
Manager of other members of health care team
Administrator
Nurse practitioner
Clinical nurse specialist
Patient educator
In-service educator
Researcher
Healthcare services for the ill and dying - ANS Respite care
Hospice care
Palliative care
respite care - ANS a type of care provided for caregivers of homebound ill, disabled, or elderly
patients.
, palliative care - ANS Care designed not to treat an illness but to provide physical and emotional
comfort to the patient and family.
hospice care - ANS Provides physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying
persons.
Advanced directives - ANS Communicate client's end-of-life care wishes for them if they
become unable to. Ex. DNR
Roles of the Community-Based Nurse - ANS patient advocate, coordinator of services, patient
and family educator.
ISBARQ - ANS revised SBAR approach that includes Introduction, Situation, Background,
Assessment, Recommendations, and Question and answer.
continuity of care - ANS Ensures smooth transition between ambulatory or acute care and home
health care or other types of healthcare.
care coordination - ANS Care transition
Central responsibility
Aim
Aim - ANS Link patients with resources in the community to enhance their well-being.
Improve information exchange.
Reduce fragmentation and duplication of services.
Central responsibility - ANS all health care professionals, and especially nurses
care transition - ANS continuous process in which a patient's care shifts from being provided in
one setting of care to another.
discharge planning - ANS Assess and identify healthcare needs.
Set goals with patient.
Teach patient and family.
Provide home health care referrals.
Evaluate discharge planning effectiveness.
Information in verbal reports - ANS Name, address, DOB, gender, occupation, marital status,
patient number, etc.
Nurse-Patient Relationship - ANS Nurse navigator and patient navigator
Nurse navigator - ANS Identifies and removes barriers to treatment
Clinically trained nurse
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