Community-Based Nursing Practices Flashcards
Community-based health care focuses on:
health promotion, disease prevention, and restorative care.
Give two examples of comprehensive community assessments.
gathering information on incident rates for identifying and reporting new infections or diseases, adolescent pregnancy rates, MVAs by teenage drivers.
Define public health nursing focus
focus requires understanding the needs of population.
Define community health nursing focus
it is a nursing practice in the community, with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in the community.
Community-based nursing care takes place in:
in community settings such as the home or a clinic, where the focus is on the needs of the individual or family.
Vulnerable populations are those patients who:
A. patients who are more likely to develop health problems as a result of excess risks.
B. patients who have limits in access to health care services.
C. patients who are dependent on others for care.
Define caregiver
together with the family, you develop a caring partnership to recognize actual and potential health care needs and identify community resources.
Define case manager
the ability to establish an appropriate plan of care based on assessment of patients and families and to coordinate needed resources and services for the patient’s well-being across a continuum of care.
Define change agent
acts to empower individuals and their families to creatively solve problems or become instrumental in creating change within a health care agency.
Define patient advocate
often is the one who presents the patient’s point of view to obtain appropriate resources.
Define collaborator
mutual trust and respect for each professional’s abilities and contributions, clarifying roles, and developing a plan of care.
Define counselor
assists patients in identifying and clarifying health problems and in choosing appropriate courses of action.
Define educator
establishes relationships with community service organizations and assesses patients’ learning needs and readiness to learn within the context of the individual, the systems with which the individual interacts, and the resources available for support.
Define epidemiologist
may be involved in case finding, health teaching, and tracking incident rates.
Three components of a community that need to be assessed.
A. structure (geographical boundaries, emergency services, housing, economic status)
B. population (age and sex distribution, growth trends, education level, ethnic and religious groups)
C. social (education and communication systems, government, volunteer programs, welfare system)
