Unit 2 Flashcards
focus specifically with human responses to life threatening problems
Critical Care Nursing
responsible to ensure that critically ill patients are seriously conditioned individuals
Critical Care Nurse
Areas where patients require complex assessment, high-intensity medication, continuous therapy and intervention
Critical Care Applications
Provides a generalized method of attaching patient monitoring devices to a common interface
Medical Information Bus (MIB)
Advantages of Critical Care Information System
• Creates trends analysis with graphical representation of results.
• Provide clinical decision support system
• Provide access to vital patient information
Comprehensive directed towards the majority of individuals, families, and the community at large
Community Health Nursing
Encourages optimal application of computer system, computer programs and communication system
Community Health Application System
Primary Focus of Community Health Information System
- Accessibility of data and information, through communication
- Facilitate the retrieval of data
- Effective transformation of data into information
- Central repositions of all data such as data warehouse
- Preventing, identifying, investigating and eliminating communicable health problems
Are used to collect quantitative information
Health Statistical Surveys
Focused on opinions or factual information
Health Statistical Surveys
Advantages of Integration of Community Health Systems
• Consistent exchange of response
• Disease tracking
• Data and information sharing
• Building strategies
• Control of spread of disease
• National alertness and preparedness
• Building strong communication
Covers a wide range of health care services that are provided for patients who are not admitted overnight to a hospital
Ambulatory Care
Use of telecommunication technologies to provide health care services to clients
Telehealth
Assistive technologies are?
• Mobility aids, such as wheelchairs, scooters, walkers
and orthotic devices.
• Hearing aids
• Cognitive aids
