Chapter 1 - Prelim Flashcards
Is a way to describe health problems, identify trends and help decision-makers set priorities.
Collecting and comparing health data from across the globe
Reflects the overall mortality level of a population. It summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given year – children and adolescents, adults and the elderly
Life expectancy at birth
Health insurance covers what percent of the population?
92%
Positive changes in the country according to WHO.
Health insurance covers 92% of the population. Maternal and child health services have improved.
Access and provision to preventive, diagnostic and treatment services for communicable diseases have been better.
– It is defined by the World Health Organization as a “state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
Health
the science of protecting the safety and improving the health of communities through education, policy making and research for disease and injury prevention (University of
Public Health
It is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort.
Public Health
is a medical specialty that focuses on the physical and mental well-being of the people in a specific geographic region (Brooks, 2019)
Community Health
The practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences.
Public Health Nursing
It is a special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social assistance and functions as part of the total public health program.
Public Health Nursing
These are nurses in the Philippines who have made great contributions to the improvement of the health of the people for more than a century now. They have been leaders in providing quality health services to communities.
Public Health Nurses
The practice of community health nurses or public health nurses to identify people in need and reach out to them.
Community Health Nursing
Help the community by exerting efforts to aid vulnerable groups of people
Health Nurses
It is a service rendered by a professional nurse with communities, groups, families, individuals at home, in health centers, in clinics, in schools and in places of work.
Community Health Nursing
Developed by the National League of Philippine government Nurses in 2005 described the qualification and functions of a Public Health Nurse.
Standard of Public Health Nursing in the Philippines
Standard of Public Health Nursing in the Philippines
The Public Health Nurse. Management Function. Program Management. Supervisory Function. Nursing Function.
Collaborating and Coordinating Function. Health Promotion and Education function. Training Function. Research Function
Started Public Health Services though a dispensary in Intramuros. Started water sanitation. Introduce small pox vaccine.
Bro. Juan Clemente
Where did PHN started with 4 graduate nurses who dealt primarily in MCH services
Cebu
Created Sanitary Divisions
The Fajardo Act (Act No. 2156)
Created the Office of General Inspection
Reorganization Act No. 2462
The first Filipino nurse Supervisor under the Bureau of Health was appointed
Miss Carmen del Rosario
Transferred the Division of Maternal and Child
Health of the Office of Public Welfare Commission to the Bureau of Health
Reorganization Act No. 4007
Roles and Responsibilities of a Community Health Nurse
Planner/programmer, Provider of Nursing care, manager/supervisor, community organizer, coordinator, trainer/health educator/counselor, health worker, role model, change agent, recorder/reporter/statistician, researcher
- Identifies needs, priorities and problems of individuals, families and community
- Formulates nursing component of health plans, In doctorless area, she/he is responsible for the formation of the municipal health plan
- Interprets and implements the nursing plan, program policies, memoranda and circulars for the concerned staff/personnel
- Provides technical assistance to rural health midwives in health matters like target setting, etc.
Planner/programmer
- Provides direct nursing care to the sick, disabled in the home, clinic, school or place of work.
- Develops the family’s capability to take care of the sick, disabled or dependent member.
- Provides continuity of patient care
Provider of Nursing Care
- Formulates individual, family, group and community centered care plan.
- Interprets and implements program policies, memoranda and circulars.
- Organizes work force, resources, equipment and supplies, and delivery of health care at local levels
- Requisitions, allocates, distributes materials (medicine and medical supplies, records and reports equipment)
- Provides technical and administrative support to Rural Health Midwife (RHM)
- Conducts regular supervisory visits and meetings to different RHMs and gives feedback on accomplishments/performances.
Manager/supervisor
-Responsible for motivating and enhancing community participants in terms of planning, organizing, and implementing and evaluating health
programs/services
- Initiates and participates in community development activities
Community organizer
- Coordinates with individuals, families, and groups for health and related health services provided by various members of health team and other Government Organizations (GOs) and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)
- Coordinates nursing program with other health programs as environmental sanitation, health education, dental health and mental health.
Coordinator
- Identifies and interprets training needs of the RHMs, Barangay Health
Workers (BHWs) and hilots. - Formulates appropriate training program designs for RHMs,, BHWs
and hilots - Provides and arranges learning experience for RHMs, affiliates (nursing and midwife) and other health workers.
- Conducts training for RHMs and hilots on health promotion and disease prevention
- Conducts pre and post consultation conferences for clinic patients
- Facilitates training for Barangay Health Worker
Trainer/health educator/counselor
- Organizes orientation/training of concerned groups including non-
government organizations - Acts as a resource speaker/person on health and health related
services - Participates in the development and distribution of Information
Education and Communication (IEC) materials - Conducts IEC orientation for selected group in specific programs/projects
- Initiates the use of radio/TV and cinema plugs, print ads and other
indigenous resources for health education purposes - Conducts pre-marital counseling
trainer/health educator/counselor
is the process of helping a client to recognize and cope a stressful psychological or social problems, to develop improved intrapersonal relationships, promote personal growth
Counseling
- Detects deviation from health of individuals, families, groups of the community through contact/visits with them.
- Uses symptomatic and objective observation and other forms of data
gathering like morbidity, registry, questionnaire, checklist, and anecdo,
report/ record to monitor growth, development, and health status of individuals, families, and communities
Health Worker
Provides good example/model of healthful living in the public/community
Role model
Motivates changes in health behavior of individuals, families, group an community including lifestyle in order to promote and maintain health.
Change Agent
- Prepares and submits required reports and records
- Maintains adequate, accurate and complete recording and reporting.
- Reviews, validates, consolidates, analyzes and interprets all records
and reports - Prepares statistical data/charts and other data presentation for display and presentation in staff meetings, conference,
seminars/workshops.
Recorder/Reporter/
Statistician
