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NU-126 Test 2 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Nursing plays an important role in - Ans:-Care quality and safety as well as cost contaimenent, care coordination, and service delivery National Quality Forum - Ans:-(2010) identified 34 health care practices, organized in seven functional area...

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NU-126 Test 2 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions


Nursing plays an important role in - Ans:✔✔-Care quality and safety as well as cost contaimenent, care

coordination, and service delivery


National Quality Forum - Ans:✔✔-(2010) identified 34 health care practices, organized in seven

functional areas that improve patient safety by decreasing the occurrence of adverse events

(reimbursement $$$$)


National quality form (NQF) - Ans:✔✔-Not for profit organization= not for profit organization= focus on

safety; better patient outcomes


Financing Health Care- - Ans:✔✔-Had gone from retrospective, few-for-service payment system to

prospective payment systems.


Cost reduction and managed care - Ans:✔✔-Continues to evolve to new models, such as pay-for-

performance and never events.




Cherry and Jacob p110

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Pay for performance - Ans:✔✔-Provide financial and non-financial incentives to promote high-quality

care; hospitals and other providers are rewarded for meeting standards of care for certain conditions

such as diabetes, pneumonia, MI, and HF


Never events (serious reportable events in some states) - Ans:✔✔-Medicare adopted a policy in 2008

that it will no longer pay hospitals for the extra costs of treating preventable errors, commonly referred

to as never events


National Quality Forum (NQF) - Ans:✔✔-Created a list of never events that are "devastating and

preventable."




P&P- 390


Examples of never events - Ans:✔✔-- pressure ulcers stage 3&4


- falls and trauma


- surgical site infection after bariatric surgery for obesity, certain orthopedic procedures, and bypass

surgery.


- vascular- catheter associated infection


- catheter associated UTI



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- administration of incompatible blood


- air embolism


- foreign object retained after surgery


Patient satisfaction - Ans:✔✔-- every major health care organization measures aspects of patient

satisfaction


- emphasis on patient-centered care


- HCAHPA- patient's satisfaction questionnaires.




C&J 7.1


P&P ph. 24


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Box 2-4


Managed care organizations - Ans:✔✔--health maintenance organizations


- preferred provider organizations


- point of service plans

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- use some form of review for medical necessity of the services under consideration




Table 7.2 c&j


Managed care plans - Ans:✔✔-Plans that restrict your choices usually cost less. If you want a flexible

plan, it will probably cost more. There are three types of managed care plans:




- Health maintenance organizations


- preferred provider organizations


- point of service


Health maintenance organizations - Ans:✔✔-Usually only pay for care within the network. You choose a

primary care doctor who coordinates most of your care


Preferred provider organizations - Ans:✔✔-Usually pay less if you get care within the network (list of

providers and hospitals). They still pay part of the cost if you go outside the network. May or may not

pay for preventative care.


Point of service - Ans:✔✔-Plans that let you choose between an HMO or a PPO each time you need care.


How health care is paid - Ans:✔✔--Private insurance- blue cross blue shield

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