A 72 year old female who has a history of emphysema is experiencing an exacerbation. Her vital signs are P 110, R 24, BP 138/94, and SpO2 is 88% on oxygen by nasal cannula at 3 L/minute. You should

Now think of ways in which using healthcare services effectively can foster your health and ways in which not being aware of them is a health risk

Make a prediction about that person’s wellness and justify your prediction using two or more complete sentences.

Match the vocabulary terms to the correct definition. 1. branch of u.s. department of human services that works to improve the emotional and mental lives of families and communities; may include social workers, community managers and planners, therapists and corrective treatment specialists, and educators and child care workers quality-of-life indicators 2. infrastructure used to reduce health-care related expenses and increase the affordability of health care and insurance; increases the need for coordination among health care providers managed health-care system 3. federal healthcare insurance that provides medical, psychological, therapy, or social work services to the disadvantaged (medicaid) or the elderly (medicare) medicaid or medicare 4. measurements of the well-being of an individual, community, or larger population; includes physical, mental, emotional, and social health as well as other factors such as safety and opportunity for intellectual growth and challenges family and community services