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What are the career levels and their requirements?

-Assistant or Aide: 1 or more years of training on the job, in the classroom or a combination of both -Technician: 2 year associate's degree or 3-4 years of the job training. -Technologist or therapist: 3-4 years of college plus work experience. Usually a bachelor's degree, and sometimes a master's degree, is required -Professional: 4 or more years of college with a bachelor's or master's degree or a doctorate. Often, clinical training is also required.

What are some different types of health care facilities?

-Medical Offices -Hospitals -Subacute centers -Nursing facilities -Community health clinics -Home health care agencies -Mental health facilities -Hospice

What are the three parts of a patient care plan?

1. Nursing diagnoses 2. Goals for the patients 3. Nursing interventions

What are the two parts of nursing diagnosis?

1. Statement of the patient's problem or potential problem 2. Cause of problem

What does implementation consist of ?

Carrying out the nursing interventions listed in the patient care plan

What do careers in support services involve?

Central supply workers, food services, and housekeeping

What are the two parts of assessment?

Collecting information and communicating information

What are some resources for personal development?

Courses, workshops, seminars, and articles in professional journals

Who is included in a health care team?

Diagnostic service, Therapeutic service, Information services, and Support Services

What do EMTs do?

EMTs provide immediate care to victims of critical injuries and illness and transport victims to hospitals.

How does patient-focused care work?

Each of these smaller teams cares for a group of patients in the unit. Each member of a smaller nursing team has specific tasks. The team is able to provide many services that are typically provided by other departments, including diagnostic, therapeutic services, and nurse assistants.

__________ is determine whether the patients has reached the goals.

Evaluation

What are four popular nursing care delivery models?

Functional nursing, team nursing, primary nursing, and patient focused care

What are some careers involved in support services?

Health care administrators, housekeeping, and central supply.

____________ is the connection between all areas and levels of workers.

Interdependence

What is the purpose of joining a professional organization?

It could benefit you meeting people with similar interest and sharing ideas, growing more confident and competent in professional skills through education, and it gives opportunities for network.

What does professional development mean?

It means that even after becoming employed, a person needs to continue to get more education.

What are the advantages of team nursing?

It uses team members' strengths, it results in order relationships between team members and patients, and it reduces costs.

What are advantages of patient-focused care?

It uses team members' strengths, provides better continuity of care, results in closer relationships between team members and patients, it decrease the number of times patients must be transported to other departments, and it reduces costs.

______________ determine that workers' positions with team's structure.

Lines of authority

What do careers in therapeutic services involve?

Medical Assistants, nursing, and physicians.

What do careers in information services involve?

Medical transcriptionists, medical records technicians, and medical librarians.

What is the difference between objective and subjective observations?

Objective observation- "signs" can be measured or seen, members of the nursing team use their senses of sight, hearing, touch, and smell to collect information Subjective observation- "symptoms" are comments or complaints made by the patients.

How does primary nursing work?

One RN provides all of the care to a patient in a unit for the patient's entire stay. LPNs, LVNs, and nurse assistants assists the RN, but they are not responsible for specific tasks.

What position make up a nursing team?

Registered Nurse(RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses(LPNs), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs), Nurse Assistants

What are the three kinds of nursing team members?

Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurses(LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurse(LVN), Nurse Assistants

How is information collected?

Reviewing the patient's medical record, taking the patient's medical history, performing a physical examination, and observing the patient's physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual conditions while providing care.

What is the goal of social and mental health team members?

The goal is to help patients with mental, emotional, or development problems function at their full potential.

How are medical assistants certified?

They are certified by having a high school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED)

What do physicians do?

They diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases and disorders.

What do dietary team members do?

They encourage the proper nutrition of patients

What do mortuary careers involve?

They involve the preparation and presentation of a deceased patient.

What skills must someone in a health information career have?

They must be able to use computers and variety of software.

What kind of care do hospice agencies provide?

They provide care and counseling to patients with terminal health problems and their families, physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual care.

What kind of care do nursing facilities provide?

They provide short and long term care to people who cannot care for themselves.

What kinds of services do home health care agencies provide?

They provide short and long term care to people who cannot care for themselves. Also, they prepare meals, do housekeeping and laundry, shop for groceries and housekeeping items, and rehabilitation.

How do community health clinics differ from medical offices?

They serve disadvantages people like offering free or reduced-cost care to those who cannot speak English.

How does functional nursing work?

They use one large nursing team for a unit, all of the patients in the unit. The RN may administer treatment, LPN or LVN may give medications, and nurse assistant may bathe, groom, and dress patients.

What is required to become a CNA?

To become a CNA some nurse assistant are trained on the job and others complete a state approved training program.

What are five steps of the nursing process?

assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation

Electrocardiograph Technicians

operate the machines that record electrical impulses from the heart

Radiologic technician

take X-rays, operate ultrasound equipment and MRI devices

What is an assistant?

is a skilled person in an entry-level position whose job is to help a person in a more highly-skilled position.

Medical Laboratory Assistants

Perform basic tests, prepare specimens for testing, and maintain equipment

Medical Laboratory Technologists

Perform complex tests on specimens from a patient

Medical Laboratory Technician

Perform routine tests that do not require advanced training

What do careers in diagnostic services involve?

Phlebotomist, electrocardiograph technicians, and medical laboratory technologists.

Phlebotomists

collect blood from patients and prepare it for testing