Across
- 3. strategy for controlling health care costs by paying a fixed amount per member
- 5. acts that people normally do every day
- 9. cost-containment strategies used to plan and coordinate a client's care to avoid delays, unnecessary services, or overuse of expensive resources
- 12. feeling as emotionally distraught as the client
- 13. body of knowledge unique to a particular subject
- 14. nursing interventions that restore or maintain a person's health
- 17. opinion, belief, or view that explains a process
- 18. standardized multidisciplinary plans for a specific diagnosis or procedure that identifies specific aspects of care to be performed during a designated length of stay
- 19. predetermining a client's postdischarge needs and coordinating the use of appropriate community resources to provide a continuum of care
- 20. activities unique to the practice of nursing
- 21. demonstrating full attention to what is being said; hearing both the content being communicated and the unspoken message
Down
- 1. specialized areas of nursing expertise, such as nurse practitioner and nurse midwifery
- 2. perform tasks and duties assigned by RNs and/or LPNs/LVNs for clients
- 4. scientific knowledge used to predict nursing interventions most likely to produce a desired outcome
- 6. acts that involve collecting data
- 7. unique characteristics of ethnic groups
- 8. process of promoting care that reflects established agency standards
- 10. ability to assume a nonnursing job position, depending on the census or levels of client acuity on any given day
- 11. interventions that provide stability and security during a health crisis
- 15. proposal of what is involved in the process of nursing
- 16. interventions that include communicating with clients, actively listening to the exchange of information, offering pertinent health teaching, and providing emotional support
- 21. ability to perform an act skillfully
- 22. intuitive awareness of what the client is experiencing