Class 3 CHN Roles, Settings, Standards & Competencies Flashcards
Works with people where they live, work, learn, worship, and play to promote health…
Community Health Nurse (CHN)
What is the Professional Practice Model (2019)?
(centre to outside)
1. Cliemt
2. Individuals
3. Families
4. Groups
5. Communities
6. Populations
7. Systems
- government support,
- DOHs,
-CHN standards and discipline-specific-competencies,
- professional regulatory standards,
- values and principles
- theoretical foundation,
- code of ethics
- management practices
- delivery structure and process
- professional relationships and partner ships
8. SYSTEM, COMMUNITY ORGs, CHN and NSG PRACTICE
What are the CHN Standards of practice
- Health Promotion
- Prevention/ Health Protection
- Health Maintenance, Restoration, Palliation
- Professional relationships
5.bcapacity building - Health equity
- Evidenc einformed practice
- Professional responsibility and accountability
Standard 1 of chn
Health promotion
What are the 5 Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies
- Build healthy public policy
- Create supportive environments
- Strengthen community actions
- Develop personal skills
- Reorient health services
What is Standard 2 of chn
Prevention & health protection
What are diff lvls of prevention
- Primordial
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
- Quarternary
It is THE action taken to protect individuals (persons/patients) from medical interventions that are likely to cause more harm than good
Quaternary level of prevention
What MODEL does community health nurses use to INTEGRATE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROTECTION ACTIVITIES INTO PRACTICE
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL MODEL
What is Standard 3 of CHN
HEALTH MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION & PALLIATION
What standard inculdes
- promote self management of disease, maximize function, enhance quality of life
- support life treansitions
Standard 3, health maintenance, restoration & palliation
What is Standard 4 ofchn
Professional Relationships
Population health conceots, principles, values
Lvels of prevention
Upsream vs downstream
Principles of primary health care
Public health functions
CHNs seek to identify and assess the root and historical causes of illness, disease and inequities in health
CHNs integrate health promotion into practice using the five Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies
CHNs include cultural safety and cultural humility approaches in all interventions
CHNs evaluate and modify health promotion activities in partnership with the client
Standard 1: Health Promotion
CHNs apply the appropriate level of prevention (primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary) to improve client health
CHNs use prevention and protection approaches with the client to identify risk factors and to address issues such as communicable disease, injury, chronic disease, and physical environment
Standard 2 PREVENTION & HEALTH PROTECTION
CHNs use a range of intervention strategies related to health maintenance, restoration and palliation to promote self-management of disease, maximize function, enhance quality of life
CHNs support life transitions including acute, chronic, or terminal illness, and end of life
Standard 3: Health Maintenance, Restoration & Palliation
CHNs work with others to establish, build and nurture professional and therapeutic relationships. These relationships include optimizing participation, and self- determination of the client
CHNs build a network of relationships and partnerships with a wide variety of individuals, families, groups, communities, and systems to address health issues and promote healthy public policy to advance health equity
Standard 4: Professional Relationships
To recognize barriers to health and to mobilize and build on existing strengths.
CHNs support the client to advocate for themselves
CHNs use a comprehensive mix of strategies such as coalition building, inter-sectoral collaboration, community engagement and mobilization, partnerships and networking to build community capacity to take action on priority issues
CAPACITY BUILDING
understand historical injustices, inequitable power relations, institutionalized
and interpersonal racism and their impacts on health and health care and provide culturally safe care.
refer, coordinate and facilitate client access to universal and equitable health promoting services that are acceptable and responsive to their needs
HEALTH EQUITY
use professional expertise in considering best available research evidence, andMother factors such as client context and preferences, and available resources to determine nursing actions
CHNs understand and use knowledge translation strategies to integrate high quality research into clinical practice, education and research
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
To assess and identify unsafe, unethical, illegal or socially unacceptable circumstances and take preventive or correction action to protect the client
To recognize ethical dilemmas and apply ethical principles and CNA Code of Ethics
To use reflective practice to continually assess, and improve personal community health nursing practice including cultural safety and humility
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY & ACCOUNTABILITY
It is CHN Standards of Practice where.. CHNs integrate health promotion into practice using the five Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies
Standard 1: Health Promotion
It is CHN Standards of Practice where..
CHNs support life transitions including acute, chronic, or terminal illness, and end of life
Standard 3: Health Maintenance, Restoration & Palliation
It is CHN Standards of Practice where..
CHNs use a comprehensive mix of strategies such as coalition building, inter-sectoral
collaboration, community engagement and mobilization, partnerships and networking
to build community capacity to take action on priority issues
Standard 5: Capacity Building
It is CHN Standards of Practice where..
CHNs recognize the impacts of the determinants of health and incorporate actions into their practice such as advocating for healthy public policy. The focus is to advance health equity at an individual and societal level.
Standard 6: Health Equity
It is CHN Standard of Practice where…
CHNs understand historical injustices, inequitable power relations, institutionalized and interpersonal racism and their impacts on health and health care and provide culturally safe care.
Standard 6: HEALTH EQUITY
It is CHN Standard of Practice where…
CHNs use professional expertise in considering best available research evidence, and other factors such as client context and preferences, and available resources to determine nursing actions
Standard 7: EVIDENCE-BASED
It is CHN Standard of Practice where…
CHNs understand and use knowledge translation strategies to integrate high quality research into clinical practice, education and research
Standard 7: EVIDENCE-BASED
It is CHN Standard of Practice where…
CHNs assess and identify unsafe, unethical, illegal or socially unacceptable circumstances and take preventive or correction action to protect the client
Standard 8: Professional Responsibility & Accountability
It is CHN Standard of Practice where…
CHNs recognize ethical dilemmas and apply ethical principles and CNA Code of Ethics
Standard 8: Professional Responsibility & Accountability
It is CHN Standard of Practice where…
CHNs use reflective practice to continually assess, and improve personal community health nursing practice including cultural safety and humility
Standard 8: Professional Responsibility & Accountability
