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Health Professional

indivdual who provides preventive curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systemic way to people, families or communities. May also be a public/ community healthy expert working for the common good of the society.

Allied Health Professionals

describes the broad range of health professionals who are not doctors, dentists or nurses. Ex: dental hygienists, physical/ occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, dieticians, speech pathologists

Health Care Provider

doctor of medicine or osteopathy, podiatrist, dentist chiropractor, clinical psychologist, optometrist, nurse practioner, nurse-midwife, or clinical social worker

Primary Level of Medical Care

goal- common health problems (sore throat, diabetes hypertension), preventative measures (vaccines, mammograms); sites- family planning center, primary care centers, urgent care centers; activities- family planning, prenatal, well-baby care, health risk screenings, diagnostic tests, health education, medications

Secondary Level of Medical Care

Goal-problems that require more specialized expertise; sites- hospital-based clinic, ED, hospitals, psychiatric institutes, same-day surgery unit; activites- disease identification and management

Tertiary Level of Medical Care

goal-management of rare, complex disorders (requiring higher level of specialty care); sites-tertiary care medical center; activites-rare, complex disease management

primarily provides inpatient health service and may provide some outpatient service as a secondary activity

provides primary health care-services in offices and clinics

ambulatory care

provides outpatient medical service; may be located in hospitals; freestanding service provided by group of healthcare providers

nursing and residential care facilities

provides residential care, such as community care for the elderly or mental health and substance abuse facilities

protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocay in the care of indivudals, families, communitites, and populations

Professional Nurses

comprise the largest group of health care workers in the US; more than 3 million RNS; scope of practice determined by each state throught NPA

essentials of professional nursing

provide a caring relationship; attend to the range of human experiences; integrate data and knowledge; apply scientfic knowledge, judgement, CT; advance knowledge through scholar;y inquiry; influence social and public policy; assure safe, quality, evidence based care

Promote healthy; prevent illness; restore health; facilitate coping with disability or death

Promoting Health

identifying, analyzing, and maximizings each patient's indivdual strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with disability or death