Health Care Delivery System Exam Questions and Answers
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Health Care Delivery System
Institution
Health Care Delivery System
Health Care Delivery System
Comprises of all those involved in healthcare including: institutional settings, agencies, policies, payment plans, providers, and clients and families
Health Care Delivery System
The levels of health care include:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
This type of health ...
Health Care Delivery System
Comprises of all those involved in healthcare including: institutional settings, agencies, policies, payment plans, providers, and clients and families
Health Care Delivery System
The levels of health care include:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
This type of health care helps with health promotion and illness prevention; it can be directed at an individual or a community
Primary Prevention
Some examples of providing primary prevention include:
adequate nutrition; weight control; exercise; stress management; immunizations; identifying measures to prevent disease; identifying risk factors for disease;
This type of health care helps with diagnosis and treatment; it is traditionally the largest segment service in the health care system
Secondary Prevention
This type of health care helps with rehabilitation and health restoration and palliative care; also helps with
the process of restoring to optimum level of wellness or to highest level of health that one is capable of
Tertiary Prevention
Some goals for Rights and Health Care include:
improving quality of health care; making the system responsive to client's needs; protecting client's autonomy and independence;
In 1973, American Hospital Association (AHA) published:
A Patient's Bill of Rights
Types and Services recognized in the healthcare setting include:
different institutions providing various types of care; changes being seen in response to changes in our healthcare system; trend toward community-based care; nurses involved in care in all settings
Community-based care is: provided in many different settings and focuses on health promotion and health restoration across the lifespan; provides more needs and services outside hospital
Home Setting Nursing Care includes:
assessments, meds, teaching, physical care, family support, collaborate with other healthcare services
Home Setting care is influenced by:
prospective payment systems or DRG's; elders not requiring institutionalization; those who desire to stay in home; more clients choosing to die at home
Home Setting care is provided through:
community health departments; visiting nurses' associations; hospital-based care managers; home-health agencies
Also known as diagnostic related groups which assist with earlier discharges and influenced through prospective payment system
DRG's
Hospitals and Crisis Intervention Centers are examples of:
Acute Care Settings
Employ more nurses than any other settings
Hospitals
Help with diagnosis and treatment; provided for those too ill to be cared for at home; focused on the acute-care needs of clients
Crisis Intervention Centers
Physician Offices are an example of:
Primary Care Settings
Physician Offices assist with:
physicals, minor illnesses, minor surgeries, OB/Gyn care, well-child care, counseling and referrals
Ambulatory Care Centers are:
located for convenience; may be "walk-in"; may provide variety of services such as urgent/emergency care; outpatient surgery; general healthcare
Some examples of Specialized Care Centers are:
day-care centers; mental health centers; rural health centers; schools; industrial; shelters; rehab centers
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