Clinical Pathway -ANSResearch-based guidelines for expected progress within a
timeline
Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) -ANSA system used by government-financed
programs that determines payment for a person's hospital stay based on the diagnosis
Empowerment -ANSProviding the means by which families accept and maintain control
over their members' health care
Evidence-based practice -ANSNursing practice based on the most current data
available through valid research
Family-centered care -ANSRecognizing the strength and integrity of the family as the
core of planning and implementing health care
Full inclusion -ANSExpansion of mainstreaming process to integrate a physically or
mentally challenged child into society
Health maintenance organization (HMO) -ANSAn organization that offers health
services for a fixed premium
Managed care -ANSa health care delivery system that contracts with providers to
provide services at a fixed capitated fee each month
Preferred provider organization (PPO) -ANSA health organization that contracts with
providers for services at a discount for its members
Statistics -ANSThe process of gathering and analyzing numerical data
Variance -ANSThe difference between the expected outcome and the outcome
achieved
List three health care professionals who deliver babies. -ANSObstetricians
Family practice physicians
Certified nurse-midwives
Samuel Bard -ANSWrote the first American textbook on obstetrics for midwives
Karl Crede -ANSDeveloped a treatment to prevent infant blindness caused by
gonorrhea
Abraham Jacobi -ANSEstablished pediatric nursing as a medical specialty
Oliver Wendell Holmes -ANSWrote a paper about the contagiousness of puerperal
fever, thus initiating the germ theory of disease
timeline
Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) -ANSA system used by government-financed
programs that determines payment for a person's hospital stay based on the diagnosis
Empowerment -ANSProviding the means by which families accept and maintain control
over their members' health care
Evidence-based practice -ANSNursing practice based on the most current data
available through valid research
Family-centered care -ANSRecognizing the strength and integrity of the family as the
core of planning and implementing health care
Full inclusion -ANSExpansion of mainstreaming process to integrate a physically or
mentally challenged child into society
Health maintenance organization (HMO) -ANSAn organization that offers health
services for a fixed premium
Managed care -ANSa health care delivery system that contracts with providers to
provide services at a fixed capitated fee each month
Preferred provider organization (PPO) -ANSA health organization that contracts with
providers for services at a discount for its members
Statistics -ANSThe process of gathering and analyzing numerical data
Variance -ANSThe difference between the expected outcome and the outcome
achieved
List three health care professionals who deliver babies. -ANSObstetricians
Family practice physicians
Certified nurse-midwives
Samuel Bard -ANSWrote the first American textbook on obstetrics for midwives
Karl Crede -ANSDeveloped a treatment to prevent infant blindness caused by
gonorrhea
Abraham Jacobi -ANSEstablished pediatric nursing as a medical specialty
Oliver Wendell Holmes -ANSWrote a paper about the contagiousness of puerperal
fever, thus initiating the germ theory of disease
