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What are the 3 levels of service? What types of facilities fall under applicable categories? o Primary Care ▪ Refers to health promotion and preventive care, including programs such as immunization campaigns ▪ Focuses on health education and early detection and treatment ▪ Maintaining and improving optimal health is the overriding goal o Secondary Car ▪ Focus shifts toward emergency and acute care ▪ Frequently provided in hospital and other acute care settings, with an emphasis on diagnosis and the treatment of complex disorders o Tertiary Care ▪ Emphasizes rehabilitative service, long-term care, and care of the dying Nursing services are essential in all three levels of health care in both the hospital and community settings Health Care Settings: Public Health ● Government agencies that are established at the local, provincial or state, and federal levels to provide health services ● Scope of public health, while retaining its contagious disease control and prevention mission, has expanded to areas such as child health, pregnancy care, and, more recently, early detection and treatment of terrorist acts, particularly bioterrorism Home Health Care ● Care o the ill and injured in the home is the oldest of all the healthcare modalities ● The goal is to make it possible for clients to remain at home rather than use hospital, residential, or long term care facilities School-Based Services ● Nurses provide a variety of services within local school systems; screenings, health promotion and illness prevention programs, and treatment of minor health problems ● Emphasis is placed on physical, social, and psychological wellbeing Community Health Center ● Being more frequently used in many areas; use a team approach involving physicians, NPs, and community nurses working together ● Some centers may also provide outpatient minor surgical procedures that allow clients to remain at home while accessing health services as needed Healthcare Providers’ Offices and General Clinic ● is a location where most North Americans access primary health care; services range from routine health screening to illness diagnosis and treatment and even some minor surgical procedures ● Nurses who work in offices or general clinics include obtaining personal health information and histories of current illness and preparing the client for examination Occupational Health Clinics ● Maintaining the health of workers in their workplaces to increase productivity has long been recognized as an essential role for nurses Long-Term Care Facilities ● The majority of senior citizens in North America continue to live in their homes es; a growing group of senior have health needs that require long-term care or extended services ● the current trend in extended care facilities is to provide care in a homelike atmosphere and base programs on the needs and abilities of the clients Retirement and Assisted Living Centers ● Increasing in popularity because they the residents to maintain the greatest amount of independence possible in a partially controlled and supervised living environment ● Work closely with home care and other social services to provide the resources required for residents to maintain a degree of independence. Rehabilitation Centers ● Like some extended care facilities, where the client goal is to restore health and function at an optimum level ● Admitted to rehabilitation units after recuperating from the acute stage of an injury or illness; provides services to complete the recovery and restore a high degree of independence Day-Care Centers ● Used by any age group; provide services for elderly adults who cannot be left at hom