Final Exam Public Health OSU, Answered-What do we mean by a health professional chapter 9
- These formal requirements have come to define what we mean
... [Show More] by a "health professional" and include admission prerequisites, coursework requirements, examinations of competency, official recognition of educational achievements, and granting of permission to practice. Today, the list of formal health professions is very long. Clinical health professions include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, clinical psychologists, podiatrists, and chiropractors. They also include NPs, PAs, health services administrators, and allied health practitioners.1 "Allied health practitioner" is a broad and at times confusing category ranging from graduate degree-trained professionals, such as physical therapists, occupational therapists, and medical social workers, to technical specialists often with an associate's degree, such as dental assistants, sonographers, and laboratory technicians.
How do education and training serve to define health professions?
- -accreditation: a process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards using a regularly scheduled institutional self study and an outside review; defines and enforces educational expectations
Creditialicng/ Credentialing implies that the individual, rather than the institution, is evaluated. "Credentialing" is a generic term indicating a process of verifying that an individual has the desirable or required qualifications to practice a profession. Credentialing often takes the form of certification. Certification is generally a profession-led process in which applicants who have completed the required educational process take an examination. Successful completion of formal examinations leads to recognition in the form of certification.
What are the educational options within public health?
- Within public health, there is a growing array of health specialties. Some
specialties require a minimum of a bachelor's degree, such as environmental health specialists and health educators. However, many public health roles require graduate degrees that focus on disciplines including epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental sciences, health administration and policy, and social and behavioral sciences.
What institutions make up the healthcare system?
- inpatient and outpatient facilities
The number and types of healthcare institutions are almost as diverse and
complicated as the number and types of healthcare professionals. In recent years, the complexity has grown as a range of facilities have developed to serve new needs and new financial reimbursement approaches.1,2 Nonetheless, it is possible to understand the scope of healthcare institutions by categorizing them as inpatient facilities and outpatient facilities, with inpatient facilities implying that patients remain in the facility for at least 24 hour's
What types of inpatient and outpatient facilities exist in the US?
- Inpatient facilities include hospitals, skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, and institutional hospices. Outpatient facilities include those providing clinical services by one or more clinicians and those providing diagnostic testing or treatment. We will provide an overview of inpatient and outpatient facilities and then ask: Do these facilities together provide a coordinated system of care? Let us begin by looking at inpatient facilities.
What Types of Inpatient Facilities Exist in the United States?
We can classify inpatient facilities as:
(1) hospitals generally designed for hort-term stays by patients, and (2) long-term care facilities. Let us first take a look at hospitals.
What Types of Outpatient Facilities Exist in the United States? The variety of types of outpatient facilities is even more diverse and omplicated than that of inpatient facilities. The basic distinction between clinical facilities and diagnostic testing or therapeutic facilities helps define the types of services provided.
Clinical services were traditionally viewed as being provided in "the doctor's office." None of these words—"the," "doctor's," "office"—does a good job of describing the current organization of clinical services. "The" implies one. Today, clinical services are rarely organized around one doctor or clinician. Group practice and multispecialty practices have become the rule. "Doctors" (or physicians) are by no means the only health professionals to organize and provide clinical services. Physical therapists, nurse practitioners, audiologists, optometrists, clinical psychologists, and a long list of other health professionals often provide their own office services. Rather than "doctor," the term provider is increasingly used to encompass this growing array of health professionals. Even the term " [Show Less]