NUR410 Community Health Nursing for the Practicing RN: Overview

health care (noun):  a set of actions by a person or persons to maintain or improve the health of a patient/consumer

Examples:

• I have developed a plan for my patient’s health care.
• A heavier emphasis on preventive health care by patients and providers will improve health outcomes and quality of life.
• The RNs in this practice provide the majority of the health care for their patients.
• Special case: hyphenated adjectival form of “health care”
  • Health-care services have become more expensive and more complex over the last 50 years.
  • The health-care needs of the patients in this hospital wing are much higher than the needs of the average patient.

healthcare (noun or adjective):  a system, industry, or field that facilitates the logistics and delivery of health care for patients/consumers

Examples:

• Noun
  • I hope to work in healthcare one day.
  • Healthcare’s number and diversity of players grew significantly over the course of the twentieth century.
  • Modern healthcare requires both skilled clinicians and savvy, experienced business professionals to be effective and successful.
• Adjective
  • The healthcare IT industry has been booming as a result of the strong demand for population analytics and effective electronic health record (EHR) systems.
  • Healthcare reform has been a tough but important process to address many of the systematic failures of the healthcare system.
  • Many former Wall Street professionals are moving into healthcare finance as a result of the industry’s massive growth.

• Use quotation marks around phrases and an asterisk * to truncate a word (except in PubMed):
  • "infant mortality"
  • mortality AND "cardiovascular disease"
  • "life expectancy" AND male* (the * will search for male or males)
  • "life expenctancy" AND female*
  • percentage AND "normal body mass"
  • "health care delivery system*"
  • GDP AND ("health care expenditure*" OR "health care cost*")
  • healthcare AND (benefit* OR limitation*)
    Although the article may talk about these but never mention the words "benefit" or "limitations",  think of some terms that may be a "benefit"  or a "limitation".  e.g., Germany AND "health care insurance" AND "United States"
• You may have to search separately and then compare two articles, e.g. search "United States" AND "infant mortality" then search for Germany AND "infant morality" and compare.
• Write out "United States" (do not use US or U.S.)
• Limit your search by date range.
• Limit the article's language to English.