| A | B |
|---|
| The Health Care Environment | Is continually changing and challenging. |
| A function of the health care delivery system. | Provides care for ill/injured people. |
| Types of Health Care Reimbursements | Insurance, Self-Pay Medicare and Medicaid. |
| Diagnosis | Finding out what kind of disease or medical condition a patient has acquired. |
| DRG | Diagnostically-related groups of patients |
| Team Nursing | The team leader gives patient care assignments to each team member. |
| Primary Nursing | The professional registered nurse is responsible for the total nursing care of the patient. |
| Types of Licensed Nurses | RN's and LVN's |
| Nursing Assistant | A person who helps the registered nurse to care for patients. |
| Nurse Manager | The RN leader responsible for the care delivery, personnel supervision, and operating budget of a unit, area, or facility. |
| Multidisciplinary Team | A team of professionals and nonprofessionals from different disciplines that plans, makes decisions, and implements the delivery of patient care. |
| Patient-Focused Care | A care delivery model in which the multidisciplinary team plans, make decisions, and delivers care with patient needs as a focus rather than the needs or convenience of various departments or caregivers. |
| Education levels of RN's | Diploma-Hospital Based, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNS, Ph.D., Ed. & CNS |
| LVN or LPN | Completes a one year training program |
| Unit Clerk/Secretary | Does clerical work, telephone, direct traffic, transcribes orders and/or other tasks according to facility policy and procedure. |
