Roles of the nurse - answer caregiver, advocate, educator, communicator, manager,
autonomy and accountability
What is a caregiver? - answer you help patients maintain and regain health, manage
disease and symptoms
advocate - answer-protect patients human and legal rights and provide assistance in
asserting these rights if the need arises
-EX: Suggests a nutrition consult based on patient's condition
Educator - answer-explain concepts and facts about health, demonstrate procedures
-EX: Provides general information about patient's diagnosis
manager - answerCoordinates the activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering
nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific
nursing unit or agency.
-EX: Oversees patient care to ensure delivery of safe, high-quality care
consultant role - answerProvides in-depth information to a patient about a new cardiac
diagnosis
Who is Florence Nightingale? - answerestablished the first nursing philosophy based on
health maintenance and restoration.
-1st practicing epidemiologist
-Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
List different things that happened in 21st century - answer-Nursing shortage
-affordable care for everyone
-advances in technology-making people live longer
-high acuity level-people getting sicker
What level of prevention is having a flu shot? - answerprimary
what is the chamberlain care model? - answercare for self
care for patients
care for peers
, Goals for Healthy People 2020 - answer-Attain high quality, longer lives free of
preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
-Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
-Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
-Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages
Health Belief Model - answerAddresses the relationship between a person's beliefs and
behaviors
levels of health care - answerpreventative, primary,
secondary,
tertiary,
restorative, continuing
preventive care - answer-improved health outcomes for an entire population
-reduces and controls risk factors for disease
primary care - answerFocuses on improved health outcomes
--Requires collaboration
secondary care - answer- acute care
-provided by a specialist upon referral from PCP
tertiary care - answerSpecialized consultative care, usually on referral from secondary
medical personnel.
examples of preventative care - answerimmunizations
wellness visits
HIV screenings
diet counseling
examples of primary care - answerPrenatal and well-baby care, Nutrition Counseling,
Family Planning, Exercise, Yoga and meditation Classes
examples of secondary care - answerurgent care, radiological procedures
examples of teritary care - answerhighly specualized,intensive care, inpatient
psychiatric facilities
-speciality care
restorative care - answer- Serves patients recovering from an acute or chronic
illness/disability
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