INTRO TO HEALTHCARE

• • It is a deliberate system for identifying and solving health problems to meet a person’s healthcare needs.

  HEALTHCARE PROCESS
• Focuses upon the component of a problem and its possible solutions

  PROBLEM ORIENTED
• • Based on systematic or methodical approach

  SCIENTIFIC
• The plan of care individualized for each person wherein the patient is encouraged to actively participate

  CLIENT-CENTERED
• The patient’s condition or health status changes constantly, therefore in evaluation, new data is collected and interpreted and the process will begin again.

  DYNAMIC
• The effort between the patient and the healthcare team to achieve the desired outcomes in short and long term goals

  GOAL-DIRECTED
• • A usual and accepted way of doing something in all countries healthcare is the same and accepted

  UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED
• The steps in the healthcare process are organized and systematic.

  ORDERLY, PLANNED
• The systematic collection of data to determine the patient's health status and to identify any actual or potential problem

  Assessment
• STEPS IN HEALTHCARE PROCESS

  Conduct health history, Perform assessment, Interview patient's family, Study health records, Organize, analyze, synthesize, and summarize the data collected
• • Data about client’s wellness, changes in life patterns, socio-cultural role, mental and emotional reaction to illness

  Healthcare history
• TYPES OF DATA

  Objective data and Subjective data
• Observations or measurements made by a data collector. The “SIGN”.

  Objective data
• Information is perceived only by the affected person. The “SYMPTOM”.

  Subjective data
• Is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.

  Diagnosis
• TWO CATEGORIES OF DIAGNOSIS

  Healthcare diagnosis, Collaborative problems
• Actual or potential health problems that can be managed by independent healthcare interventions

  Healthcare diagnosis
• Certain physiologic complications are monitored to detect onset changes in status.

  COLLABORATIVE PROBLEMS
• A statement that describes a patient's actual or potential health care problems that is potentially responsive to healthcare therapy.

  Healthcare diagnosis
•  healthcare diagnosis wherein client needs that may not be directly related to a specific illness

  Low priority
•   a pathological condition, a problem that is potentially responsive to medical management.

  Medical diagnosis
• MASLOW'S 5 HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

  Physiological, Safety and Security, Love and Belongingness, Self-esteem, Self-Actualization
• The development of goals and a plan, Assign priority to the Healthcare diagnoses

  Planning
• Develop immediate, intermediate, and long-term goals

  Specify goals/ objectives
• goals you will achieve near future

  Immediate goal
• goal that can be achieved for 1-5 years

  Intermediate goal
• goal that is planned to be achieved over a long period of time

  Long term goals
• S.M.A.R.T.

  Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-scaled
• Actualization of the plan of care through healthcare interventions

  Implementation
• CLASSIFICATION OF HEALTHCARE INTERVENTIONS

  Dependent, Independent, Interdependent,
• Involve aspects of professional healthcare practice encompassed by applicable licensure and law

  Independent
• Based on the instruction or written orders of another healthcare provider, requires specific healthcare responsibility and technical knowledge.

  Dependent
• Duties are carried out by the nurse with another healthcare professional in a collaborative manner through judgment and recommendations of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.

  Interdependent
• Identify alterations that need to be made in the healthcare interventions and expected outcomes, Include client, family, healthcare team members and the other health members in the evaluation

  Evaluation
• “Independent problem-solving role that involves the Dx and Tx of Human Responses to actual or potential problems.”

  Within the legal scope of healthcare
• Critical thinking enables healthcare workers to determine which problems require collaboration with the Md and which one fall within the independent domain of HealthCare

  Based on knowlege
• Steps in the healthcare process are organized and systematic.

  Planned
• Plan of care individualized for each person where patients are encouraged to actively participate.

  Patient-centered
• The effort between the patient and the healthcare team to achieve outcomes - short and long-term goals.

  Goal-directed
• In order of importance to shorten hospital stays to maximize efficiency in minimal time.

  Prioritized