Caregiver Role Strain - Answers Physical, emotional, social, and financial burdens that can seriously
jeopardize the caregiver's own health and well-being.
Case Management - Answers A method for delivering nursing care in which the nurse is responsible for a
caseload of clients across the health care continuum.
Coinsurance - Answers An insurance plan in which the client pays a percentage of the payment and
some other group (e.g., employer, government) pays the remaining percentage.
Collaboration - Answers A collegial working relationship with another health care provider in the
provision of client care.
Community - Answers A collection of people who share some attribute of their lives.
Community-based Health Care (CBHC) - Answers A system that provides health-related services within
the context of people's daily lives; that is, in places where people spend their time in the community.
Continuity of Care - Answers The coordination of health care services by health care providers for clients
moving from one health care setting to another and between and among health care professionals.
Critical Pathways - Answers Multidisciplinary guidelines for client care based on specific medical
diagnoses designed to achieve predetermined outcomes.
Discharge Planning - Answers The process of anticipating and planning for client needs after discharge.
Durable Medical Equipment (DME) - Answers Used for health care by the client at home that is multi-use
and not disposable after one use.
Health Care System - Answers The totality of services offered by all health disciplines.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) - Answers A group health care agency that provides basic and
supplemental health maintenance and treatment services to voluntary enrollees.
Home Health Nursing - Answers Services and products provided to clients in their homes that are
needed to maintain, restore, or promote their physical, psychologic, and social well-being.
Hospice Nursing - Answers Care frequently given to terminally ill clients in their home; often considered
a subspecialty of public health nursing.
Managed Care - Answers A method of organizing care delivery that emphasizes communication and
coordination of care among all health care team members.
Medicaid - Answers A U.S. federal public assistance program paid out of general taxes and administered
through the individual states to provide health care for those who require financial assistance.
, Medicare - Answers A national and state health insurance program for U.S. residents older than 65 years
of age.
Patient-focused Care - Answers Delivery model that brings all services and care providers to the client.
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) - Answers A group of physicians or a hospital that provides
companies with health services at a discounted rate.
Primary Care - Answers The point of entry into the health care system at which initial health care is
given.
Primary Health Care - Answers Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially
acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the
community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to
maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
Primary Nursing - Answers A method of delivering client care that emphasizes continuity of care by
assigning one nurse to be responsible for a client's care 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - Answers Special payments for people with disabilities, those who
are blind, and people who are not eligible for Social Security; these payments are not restricted to
health care costs.
Team Nursing - Answers The delivery of individualized nursing care to clients by a team led by a
professional nurse.
Acculturation - Answers The involuntary process that occurs when people adapt to or borrow traits from
another culture.
Assimilation - Answers The process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity and becomes
like the members of the dominant culture.
Bicultural - Answers Used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values.
Culturally Appropriate - Answers Application of underlying background knowledge that must be
possessed to provide a given client with the best possible health care.
Culturally Competent - Answers Within the delivered care the nurse understands and attends to the
total context of the client's situation and uses a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
Culturally Sensitive - Answers Care that demonstrates basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes
toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting.
Culture - Answers A world view and set of traditions used and transmitted from generation to
generation by a particular group, includes related attitudes and institutions.