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| The extent to which a patient or parent acts consistently with regard to recommended care. |
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| A patient's living will or appointed durable power of attorney for healthcare decisions. |
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| Acting to safeguard and advance the interests of another. |
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| Voluntary agreement to participate in a research project or to accept treatment. |
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| Right for self-determination in decision making or to protect the informed choices of patients who are capable of decision making. |
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| An obligation to act or make a decision to benefit the patient. |
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| A process of coordinating the delivery of healthcare services in a manner that focuses on both quality and cost outcomes. |
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| clinical pathways (critical pathways) |
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| Structured care plans for a specific patient problem that outline goals and essential steps in the management of a child by multiple healthcare professionals within a healthcare facility. |
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| clinical practice guidelines |
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| Specific medical and nursing assessments and interventions that occur during specific time intervals for a specific condition; often adoption by an institution for all healthcare providers to follow so that quality of care is increased and costs of care are minimized. |
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| An ability to be involved in healthcare decisions requiring a certain degree of intellect, an ability to communicate, and an ability to remember. |
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| An agreement between a patient and a provider that information discussed during the healthcare encounter will not be shared without the permission of the patient. |
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| An interdisciplinary process of facilitating a patient's transition between and among settings based on changing needs and available resources. |
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| An individualized, creative thinking or reasoning process that the nurse uses to solve problems. |
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| Self-supporting adolescents under 18 years of age not subject to parental control. |
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| The philosophic study of morality, and the analysis of moral problems and moral judgments. |
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| Integration of the best research evidence with an individual's clinical expertise and the patient's values or preferences. |
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| A partnership between families, the nurse, and other health professionals in which the priorities and needs of the family are addressed when the family seeks health care; a dynamic, deliberate approach to building collaborative relationships between health professionals and families that are respectful of diversity and beliefs about the nature of the child's condition and ways to manage it. |
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| The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions. |
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| A formal preauthorization for an invasive procedure or participation in research. |
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| Fairness in the use of resources. |
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| A health delivery system that combines financing and delivery of specified healthcare services with the following elements in place: clinicians are contracted to provide services for a preset fee, clinicians are selected according to specific standards, formal programs of quality assurance and utilization review are in place, and members of the health program have incentives to use selected clinicians. |
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| Adolescents of 14 and 15 years of age who are able to understand treatment risks and who, in some states, can consent to or refuse treatment. |
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| The treatment of an irreversibly dying patient that provides no physiologic benefit to the patient. |
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| medical home/healthcare home |
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| A continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, and compassionate source of health care. |
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| A conflict of social values and ethical principles that support different courses of action. |
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| An illness or injury that limits activity, requites medical attention or hospitalization, or results in a chronic condition. |
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| A relationship in which participants join together to ensure healthcare delivery in a way that recognizes the critical role and contribution of each partner in promoting health, preventing illness, and managing healthcare conditions. |
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| Ability of an individual to relate information in a protected manner. |
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| The continuous study and improvement of the processes and outcomes of providing healthcare services to meet the needs of patients by examining the system and processes of care and service delivery. |
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| A process established by a healthcare institution to identify, evaluate, and reduce the risk of injury to patients, staff, and visitors, and thereby reduce the institution's liability. |
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| The process of changing an individual's cognitive structures to include data from recent experiences. |
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