8 Questions
What is one of the challenges facing nursing due to the aging population?
Increased number of nurses retiring
What is the main focus of primary health care?
Improve health outcomes for an entire population
What is an example of secondary care?
Hospitals
What is the main goal of preventive care?
Reducing and controlling risk factors for disease
What is a key component of patient-centered care?
Respecting patient values and preferences
What is the predicted trend in healthcare delivery in the future?
Consumer-centered care with increased use of telehealth and digital care
What is a key issue in healthcare delivery for nurses?
All of the above
What is the goal of the Magnet Recognition Program?
Improving nursing-sensitive outcomes
Study Notes
Challenges Facing Nursing
- Four challenges facing nursing: aging baby boomer generation, shortage and uneven distribution of physicians, rate of nurses' retirements, and uncertainty of health care reform
Traditional Levels of Health Care
- Preventative care: focuses on preventing disease and promoting health
- Primary care: provides basic health care services to individuals and families
- Secondary care: provides specialized care to patients referred from primary care
- Tertiary care: provides highly specialized care to patients referred from secondary care
- Restorative care: focuses on restoring optimal health and function to individuals
- Continuing health care: provides ongoing care and support to individuals with chronic conditions
Integrated Health Care Delivery
- Primary and preventive health care services: focuses on improving health outcomes for entire populations
- Primary health care: requires collaboration among health professionals, health care leaders, and community members
- Health promotion programs: designed to reduce the incidence of disease
- Preventive care: focused on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease
- Secondary and tertiary care: includes hospitals, intensive care, mental health facilities, and rural hospitals
- Restorative care: includes home care, rehabilitation, and extended care facilities
- Continuing care: includes nursing centers, assisted living, respite care, adult day care centers, and palliative and hospice care
Issues in Health Care Delivery for Nurses
- Health care costs and quality: affects patient satisfaction and nursing shortages
- Patient-centered care: respects patient values, preferences, and expressed needs
- Nursing shortage: affects health care delivery and quality of care
- Competency: essential for quality care and patient safety
- Patient-centered care: includes coordination and integration of care, information and education, physical comfort, emotional support, and involvement of family and friends
The Future of Health Care
- Current system is in a constant state of change
- Predictions: health care system will be consumer-centered, use of telehealth and digital care will increase, office visits will decrease, and artificial intelligence will be increasingly used to assist in early detection and better understanding of disease progression
Explore the challenges facing nursing and the traditional levels of health care, including preventative, primary, secondary, tertiary, restorative, and continuing health care. Learn about integrated health care delivery and its focus on improved health outcomes.
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