Future Trends Health Care 2013 | Page 35

Dietary skills - Understanding of nutrition and the process of eating the right kind of food so you can grow properly and be healthy Digital - Of, relating to, or supplying one or more fingers or toes; done with a finger Disability support - Any good or service that helps a person overcome barriers that come with having a disability. Discovery -The act of finding or learning something for the first time : the act of discovering something; something seen or learned for the first time : something discovered Disease processing - A nursing intervention from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) defined as assisting the patient to understand information related to a specific disease process. Disruption/entrepreneurial - An event which causes an unplanned, negative deviation from the expected delivery according to the organization’s objectives. Distributer Services/Logistics - The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies. Diversity of employee and patient - The condition of having or being composed of differing elements: variety; especially: the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization. Documentation - The documents, records, etc., that are used to prove something or make something official; written instructions for using a computer or computer program.