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population focused

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providing services to individuals

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individual, family, and group focused

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health protection, promotion, prevention of a population

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descriptive epidemiology describes

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the distribution of disease

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analytic epidemiology describes

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the determinants of disease

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5
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aggregate means

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population

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goal of community based nursing

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manage acute and chronic conditions

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goal of community oriented nursing

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prevent disease and promote health of individuals and families

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goal of public health nursing practice

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prevent disease and promote health of an entire community

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three key nursing modes

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  1. community based nursing
  2. community oriented nursing
  3. public health nursing practice
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Clara Barton

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red cross founder

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Elizabethan poor law

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poor relief act - taxes supported to help those who could not work

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first attempt to get a public health code in place in a major American city

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Shattuck report

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Mary seacole

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Jamaican nurse who helped in the Crimean war

controlled spread of cholera and yellow fever through knowledge of tropical medicine

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Lillian Wald

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Henry street settlement

metropolitan life insurance company

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first public health nursing program

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metropolitan life insurance company for those with life insurance founded by Lillian Wald

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first maternal and infant health act

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Sheppard Towner act of 1921

17
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Linda Rogers

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first school nurse

Henry street settlement resident

18
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Jessie Sleet Scales

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first public health nurse of African American descent

founded Stillman house

19
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Margaret Sanger

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safe contraception and family planning for women

20
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Ada Mayo Stewart

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first occupational health nurse

21
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Florence Wald

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founder of hospice nursing

22
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Mary Adelaide Nutting

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established nursing education into universities

23
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guaranteed health care for poor, blind, and lame individuals

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England Elizabethan poor law of 1601

24
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three core function of public health

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assessment
policy development
assurance

25
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key health gains of last century

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1900 - First public health nurse of African American descent Jessie Sleet Scales

1909 - Metropolitan life insurance company

1921 - Sheppard Towner act - saving infant and maternal lives

1925 - Mary breckinridge frontier nursing services

1935 - Social security act of 1935 - strengthened state organizations and focused on mothers and children in rural areas

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