Ch 1

Question 1

Vaccines
both primary care and public health services that are designed to meet the basic needs of people in communities at an affordable cost

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primary care

Question 2

services designed to detect and treat disease in the early acute stage

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secondary prevention

Question 3

services designed to limit the progression of disease or disability

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tertiary prevention

Question 4

Focus is on illness care of individuals and families across the life span

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Community Based Nursing (CBN)

Question 5

goal is to manage acute and chronic

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Community based nursing

Question 6

home health, hospice, clinic, school work

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community based nursing practice areas

Question 7

clients are usually ill, individuals and families

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Community based nursing

Question 8

Focus is on health care of entire communities or populations as well as health care of individuals, families and groups-promote quality of life

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Community oriented Nursing

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Goal is to prevent disease and preserve, protect, promote, restore, or maintain health

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community oriented nursing

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clients are usually at risk individuals, families, groups, populations

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community oriented nursing

Question 11

practice areas include specialty of public health nursing, community health nurse, govt agency

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practice areas for community oriented nursing

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roles include social engineer, educator, advocate, counselor, or case manager

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community oriented roles

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What is the primary difference between public health nursing and community based nursing?

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The primary difference is that public health nurses focus on populations and health of the community versus a community-based nursing focuses on illness care of individuals and families

Question 14

What is public health?

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a scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics, and assessment-including attention to behavioral, cultural, and economic factors-as well as program planning and policy development

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What is the goal of public health?

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organize community efforts that will use a scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health

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Public health Core Functions

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Assessment
policy development
assurance

Question 17

systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population’s health status, and making information available about he health of the community

• monitor health status to identify community health problems
• diagnose and investigate health problems and hazard in the community

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assessment

Question 18

efforts to develop policies that support the health of the population, including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions

• inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
• mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
• develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts

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policy development

Question 19

making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available: includes providing essential personal health services for individuals, as well as a competent PH workforce

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect heatlh and ensure safety
• link people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health care that is otherwise unavailable
• ensure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
• research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

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assurance

Question 20

making sure services determined to be needed are provided by some agency in the community: What core function?

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assurance

Question 21

Asking community leaders what services are needed: What core function?

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assessment

Question 22

Speaking at town hall meeting about the Patient Affordable Care Act: What core function?

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policy development

Question 23

nurse practioner

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community based

Question 24

staff at a community health center

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community oriented

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director of nursing in a health department

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community oriented

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VP of nursing in a hospital

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Neither community oriented nor community based nursing-hospitals are institutions....

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hospice

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community based nursing

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a collection of indivudals who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics

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population or aggregate

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subsets of the population who share similar characteristics

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subpopulations

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problems are defined and solutions are implemented for or with a defined population or subpopulation

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population-focused practice

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people and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and use in common some agencies and institutions and share a physical environment

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community

Question 32

* new and emerging infectious diseases * increase in chronic illnesses ( diabetes, heart disease, COPD, osteoarthritis) * need for emergency preparedness * reduction of number of days in hospital

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CH challenges for the future

Question 33

goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health of individuals, families, and groups in a commuity

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community health nursing practice

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practice focus is health of individuals, families, and groups-and how their health status affects the community as a whole

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community health nursing practice

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goal is to prevent disease and disability and promote and protect the community as a whole

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public health nursing practice

Question 36

practice focus is on the community as a whole-population | the effect of the community's health status (resources) on the health of individuals, families and groups

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public health nursing practice

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core functions of public health

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assessment policy development assurance

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services provided by practitioners of public health

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Question 39

role of the public health nurse specialist and how the role influences nursing practice in the community

Answer 39

public health nursing is a specialty of nursing that synthesizes nursing, social, and public health sciences to provide care to populations; Primary focus is on the health care of communities and populations rather than on individuals, groups, or families. The goal of this specialty is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and population within it. Greatest good for the greatest number; The special contributions of PHN include looking at the community or population as a whole, raising questions about its overall health status and factors assoc w that status (including environmental factors of physical, biological and sociocultural) and working with the community to improve the population's health status

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difference between community based nursing and community oriented nursing

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community based nursing deals primarily with illness-oriented care while community oriented nursing provides health care to promote quality of life

Question 41

the public health role of making sure that essential community oriented health services are available

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assurance

Question 42

occurs outside an institution; Services are provided to individuals and families in a community

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community based

Question 43

the provision of acute care and care for chronic health problems to individuals and families in the community

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community-based nursing

Question 44

nursing practice in the community, with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in a community. the goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health

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community health nursing

Question 45

nursing that has as its primary focus the health care of either the community or a population of individuals, families, and groups

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community-oriented nursing

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broader in scope; A form of care in which the nurse provides health care after doing a community diagnosis to determine what conditions need to be altered so that individuals, families, and groups in the community stay healthy

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community-oriented practice

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the core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention of a population

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population-focused practice

Question 48

what are secondary health care services

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services designed to detect and treat disease in the early acute stage

Question 49

what are tertiary health care services?

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services designed to limit the progression of disease or disability