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Canada Health Act Ans✓✓✓Canada's federal legislation for publicly
funded health care insurance
- public administration
- comprehensiveness
- universality
- portability
- accessibility
Self-determination Ans✓✓✓- informed consent, confidentiality, refuse
treatment, make informed choices, access to records, make informed
choices, power of attorney
Consumer rights Ans✓✓✓- informed, respect, participate in decision-
making, equal access, timely access to safe high-quality health care
Code of Ethics Ans✓✓✓- nursing in Canada is a self-regulating
profession, thus, nurses are bound to a code of ethics as part of a
regulatory process that serves and protects the public
Definition of RN in Canada Ans✓✓✓- self-regulated health care
professionals who work autonomously and in collaboration with others
to enable individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations to
achieve their optimal levels of health
, Health Promotion Ans✓✓✓- focus is on the important roll that all
people have in actively maintaining or improving their own health
Illness prevention Ans✓✓✓- prevention programs aim to reduce the
incidence of illness, injury, and disability
Urgent Ans✓✓✓- requiring immediate treatment to save a life or
prevent serious complications
Emergent Ans✓✓✓- a health problem requiring diagnosis & possibly
treatment are required
Elective Ans✓✓✓- non-urgent health problem that process slowly if at
all and/or may resolve without health care intervention
Primary Care Ans✓✓✓- first contact (health promotion, prevention,
education, early detection/physician, long-term care, emergency care)
Secondary Care Ans✓✓✓- specialist referral
Tertiary Care Ans✓✓✓- settings with highly specialized
skills/technology/supports (acute care, hospital based palliation or
hospice, rehabilitation)