8 Questions
What is a primary challenge facing the nursing profession due to the aging population?
Aging baby boomer generation
What is the primary focus of primary health care?
Improved health outcomes for an entire population
Which level of health care is focused on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease?
Preventive care
What is the primary goal of health promotion programs?
Reducing the incidence of disease
What is the primary focus of restorative care?
Rehabilitation
What is a key component of patient-centered care?
Respect for patient's values, preferences, and expressed needs
What is a predicted trend in the future of health care?
Increased use of artificial intelligence in health care
What is a key component of the magnet recognition program?
Nursing-sensitive outcomes
Study Notes
Health Care Delivery System
- 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 health care
- Primary health care: focuses on improved health outcomes for an entire population, requires collaboration among health professionals, health care leaders, and community members.
- Secondary health care: includes hospitals, intensive care, mental health facilities, rural hospitals, and discharge planning.
- Tertiary health care: includes specialized care not available at local hospitals.
- Restorative health care: includes home care, rehabilitation, and extended care facilities.
- Continuing health care: includes nursing centers or facilities, assisted living, respite care, adult day care centers, and palliative and hospice care.
Integrated Health Care Delivery
- Primary and preventive health care services: includes health promotion programs designed to reduce the incidence of disease, and preventive care focused on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease.
Issues in Health Care Delivery for Nurses
- Health care costs and quality: includes patient satisfaction, nursing shortage, and competency.
- Patient-centered care: respects patient's values, preferences, and expressed needs, and includes coordination and integration of care, information and education, physical comfort, emotional support, and alleviation of fear and anxiety.
- Magnet recognition program: focuses on nursing-sensitive outcomes, technology in health care, including robotics and telemedicine.
- Health care disparities: includes economic stability, education, health and health care, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context.
The Future of Health Care
- The current system is in a constant state of change, with predictions that the health care system of the future will be consumer-centered, with increased use of telehealth and digital care, and decreased office visits.
- Artificial intelligence will be increasingly used to assist in early detection and better understanding of disease progression.
Explore the challenges facing nursing and the different levels of health care, including preventative, primary, and secondary health care. Learn about the importance of collaboration and community involvement in health care.
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