Care provider:
is a staff position, a nurse who providers direct care.
Nurse Specialist:
has clinical expertise in a specific area.
Nurse practitioner:
has advanced training in assessment and pharmacology and is able to provide health care in specific settings.
Case manager:
has additional experience and is able to coordinate activities of other members of the health care team.
Restorative Care:
assists an individual in regaining the maximum possible level of functioning.
Home care:
includes professional and paraprofessional services that are rendered in the home setting.
Extended care:
is intermediate medical or nursing care for individuals with an acute or chronic illness or disability.
Assisted care:
is a setting in which the client is able to function at a higher level of autonomy within a homelike environment but in which care can be given when needed.
Primary intervention:
is prevention of a health problem that has not yet occurred in the community.
Secondary intervention:
includes disease prevention after a health issue has been identified.
Tertiary intervention:
occurs after a problem has occurred and aims at preventing long-term negative impacts or recurrences in a population.
Counsellor
helps clients identify and clarify health problems and choose appropriate courses of action to solve those problems.
Educator:
helps the community gain greater skills, including through the presentation of educational programs.
Collaborator:
an individual who engages in a combined effort with other individuals to develop a mutually acceptable plan that will achieve common goals.
Primary prevention:
true prevention that precedes disease and involves clients considered physically and emotionally healthy.
Secondary prevention:
aimed at individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses and who are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions.
Tertiary prevention:
when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible, and the aim is to reduce negative impacts and complications.
Quaternary prevention:
is not a recognized term.