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    The modern PACE approach came into existence in 1973, when a doctor and social worker in the Chinatown district of San Francisco banded together to open On Lok, a community-based care and services ...

  3. Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly - Wikipedia

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    Patients are less likely to request extensive acute care, nursing facility care, or in-patient services. [9] [11] Under this method, PACE serves as a cost-saving elderly care program that emphasizes on preventative, up-stream care. Notably, PACE programs saved California State $22.6 million in health care cost for elderly. [12]

  4. SBAR - Wikipedia

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    SBAR is an acronym for Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation; a technique that can be used to facilitate prompt and appropriate communication.This communication model has gained popularity in healthcare settings, especially amongst professions such as physicians and nurses.

  5. Case management (US healthcare system) - Wikipedia

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    Examples include identifying high-risk pregnancies in order to ensure appropriate pre-natal care and watching for dialysis claims to identify patients who are at risk of end-stage renal disease. The amount of involvement an insurer can have in managing high cost cases depends on the structure of the benefit plan.

  6. Roper–Logan–Tierney model of nursing - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, it is not recommended in the model that it be used as a checklist, but rather as Roper states "As a cognitive approach to the assessment and care of the patient, not on paper as a list of boxes, but in the nurse's approach to and organisation of their care" [3] and that nurses in clinical practice deepen their knowledge and ...

  7. What is rucking? Understanding the fitness trend taking the ...

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    Examples include trekking across a college campus with a backpack full of textbooks; slinging a bag of groceries over a shoulder as we carry them from the store to our car; or strapping our baby ...

  8. Nursing care plan - Wikipedia

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    A nursing care plan promotes documentation and is used for reimbursement purposes such as Medicare and Medicaid. The therapeutic nursing plan is a tool and a legal document that contains priority problems or needs specific to the patient and the nursing directives linked to the problems. It shows the evolution of the clinical profile of a patient.

  9. Nursing theory - Wikipedia

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    Nursing theory is defined as "a creative and conscientious structuring of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena". [1] Through systematic inquiry, whether in nursing research or practice, nurses are able to develop knowledge relevant to improving the care of patients.