CH. 12, 13, 14, 19, & 20

Question 0

Change agent

Answer 0

Content-focused role, stresses gathering and analyzing facts and implementing programs.

Question 1

Aggregate

Answer 1

Population

Question 2

Change partner

Answer 2

Process-focused roles, includes those of enabler-catalyst, teacher of problem-solving skills, and activist advocate.

Question 3

Community

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Community assessment

Answer 4

Involves getting to know the community, identifying community needs, clarifying problems, and identifying community strengths and resources.

Question 5

Community as a client

Answer 5

The results of nursing interventions should produce changes that affect the community as a whole.

Question 6

What are the three dimensions of community health?

Answer 6

Status, Structure, and Process.

Question 7

Community health in terms of status?

Answer 7

(Outcome) The most well-known and accepted approach; it involves biological, emotional, & social parts.

Question 8

Community health in terms of structure (of the community)?

Answer 8

Includes characteristics such as services and resources.

Question 9

Community health process?

Answer 9

The view of effective community functioning or problem-solving.

Question 10

Community partnership?

Answer 10

Community partnerships have a vested interest in the success of efforts to improve the health of the community.

Question 11

Data generation?

Answer 11

The process of developing data that do not already exist, through interaction with community members, individuals, families, or groups. Parallels the assessment phase of the nursing process.

Question 12

Data gathering?

Answer 12

The process of obtaining existing, readily available data.

Question 13

Data collection?

Answer 13

The primary goal is to get usable information about the community and his health.

Question 14

A windshield survey?

Answer 14

The motorized equivalent of simple observation.

Question 15

Community health problems?

Answer 15

Needs for action.

Question 16

Communicate health strengths?

Answer 16

Abilities

Question 17

Composite database analysis?

Answer 17

Created when you combine the gathered and generated data.

Question 18

Five methods of data collection?

Answer 18

Informant interviews, participation observation, windshield survey, secondary analysis of existing data, and surveys.

Question 19

Participant observation?

Answer 19

Deliberate sharing in the life of the community.

Question 20

Secondary analysis?

Answer 20

The nurse uses previously gather data, such as minutes from community meetings.

Question 21

When does evaluation begin?

Answer 21

In the planning phase, when goals and measurable objectives are established and goal-attaining activities are identified.

Question 22

When is a nurse considered a community-oriented person?

Answer 22

When the location of practice is the community and the focus of practice is the individual or family.

Question 23

What is MERS?

Answer 23

Middle-eastern respiratory syndrome.

Question 24

What is case management?

Answer 24

In public health nursing it is the ability to “optimize self-care capabilities of individuals and families and the capacity of systems and communities to coordinate and provide services.”

Question 25

What is care management?

Answer 25

A program or process that establishes systems; monitors the health status of individuals, families, and/or groups.

Question 26

What is the process of advocacy?

Answer 26

Informing, supporting, affirming, and systematic problem-solving.

Question 27

What is the process of systematic problem-solving?

Answer 27

Illuminating values and generating alternatives.

Question 28

What is the definition of a disaster?

Answer 28

Any natural and man-made incident that causes disruption, destruction, and/or devastation requiring external assistance.

Question 29

What are some types of disasters?

Answer 29

Natural disasters, man-made disasters, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive.