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✔✔*Nursing Organizations Concerns itself with social and economic welfare of nurses,
the role of the nurse, the nursing organizations and their their gverning bodies - ✔✔ICN-
International Council of Nurses
✔✔For RN'S- Is involved in all issues that nursing has confronted with Legislation,
Collective bargaining, advancement of profession - ✔✔ANA- American Nurse's
Association
✔✔Was formed to assist collegiate schoold of nursing to improve higher education for
nursing. - ✔✔AACN- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
✔✔Was formed to provide accrediation - ✔✔CCNE- Commission on Collegiate Nursing
Education
✔✔Provides a legal regulatory bodies of all states to act together re: boards, exams,
licensing - ✔✔NCSBN- National Council of State Boards of Nursing
✔✔Baccalaureate program honorary organization for exceptional standards - ✔✔Sigma
Theta Tau (STTI)
✔✔For those who have made significant contributions to nursing- honorary part of ANA
- ✔✔AAN- American Academy of Nursing
✔✔Student nursing organization - ✔✔NSNA- National Student Nurses' Association
✔✔4 Purposes to 1. speak for associate degree nursing education and practice 2.
Reinforce the value of that degree 3. maintain endorsement for grads with associte
degree, 4. retain the RN exam for assocaite degree grads - ✔✔NOADN- National
Organization For The Associate Degree Nursing
✔✔Organization for nurses who design, facilitate, and manage care - ✔✔AONE-
American Organization of Nurse Executives
✔✔Purpose is to work toward uiform terminology and definitions in nursing diagnosis,
and t share these ideas. - ✔✔NANDA- North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
✔✔Free or low cost screens & health info - ✔✔Preventative services
✔✔Different financial situations change ins. coverage, ability to get care and what type
of care - ✔✔Rationing of health care
, ✔✔Healtth Maintainance Program which are prepaid, group managed care, usually
have to stay "in network of md's" - ✔✔HMO- Health Maintenance Organizations
✔✔Healthcare provided in defined demo area. Is centered to individuals and family -
✔✔Community based care
✔✔system in which the use of healthcare services are controlled and monitored there
are usually protocols for tx and is usually preapproved - ✔✔Managed Care
✔✔used by HMO's & PPO's to keep costs low - usually seen as a way to deny tx -
✔✔Capitation
✔✔wearable/ implantable monitors for medical conditions - ✔✔physiological monitoring
✔✔wearable/ implantable insulin or glucose pumps, medicated stents - ✔✔Drug Admin
✔✔3 types of health organizations - ✔✔Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
✔✔contact with pt. is minutes to hours - ✔✔In and Out Care (ex- ER, office visits)
✔✔Provides care to pts where stay is less than 24 hours - ✔✔Short- Stay
✔✔care is more than 24 hours but less than 30 days - ✔✔Acute care
✔✔longer than 30 days for chronic illness may be for a lifetime or recovery period -
✔✔Long term Care
✔✔services owned by state, federal or local gov't may use tax dollars - ✔✔Government
Owned facilities (ex-VA)
✔✔investor owned and operated by corp or stockholders - ✔✔Proprietary agencies
✔✔Operated by universities, religious organizations, fraternal groups. All profit above
that needed for maint. and operations must go to improvement and growth - ✔✔Non-
Profit Agencies
✔✔Used to describe a client's condition - ✔✔Acuity
✔✔type of service that is often a special unit in a hospital usually less than 30 days -
✔✔Sub Acute Care