Community Health Nursing Flashcards
What is the earliest form of nursing practice in Canada?
Community Health Nursing (17th century)
Who were the 1st community health nurses:
Marie Rollet Hebert
Augustinian Hospitallers of Dieppe
Jeanne Mance
Grey Nuns
What was Florence Nightingale known for?
- she plays a role in colonialism and assimilation of Indigenous peoples
- her legacy was influenced by her contribution to epidemiology
The CHN metaparadigm includes which 5 components?
- Person
- Environment
- Health
- Nursing
- Social Justice
What is the Community Health Nurses of Canada?
- voluntary association consisting of CH nurses and CHN interest groups
- monitors trends in CH nursing and identifies/responds to issues affecting all CH nurses
- Provides a forum to share issues/concerns and to communicate through meetings and national publications.
- A leader in the development of discipline-specific standards of practice, core competencies, and a CHN certification process.
What are the responsibilities of Public Health Nurses?
- Promoting, protecting and preserving the health of populations
- Links health/ illness experiences of individuals, families, and communities to population health
Ex. Flu clinics: immunization
Health education
What are the responsibilities of Home Health Nurses?
- Prevention, health restoration, maintenance & palliation
- Focus on individuals, caregivers and their families
Ex. Medication management
What are the responsibilities of Primary Care/Family Practice Nurses?
- Health prevention, screening, and education
- Assessment and treatment of acute illness/ailment
- Disease management and system navigation
- Therapeutic intervention and medication reviews
Ex. Wellness clinics
Sexual health clinic
Chronic disease management
What Roles can Community Health Nurses practice?
- Community Health Nurse
- Community Mental Health Nurse
- Public health Nurse
- Home health Nurse
- Occupational health Nurse
- Primary care Nurse
- Telehealth Nursing
- Rural Nursing
- Forensic Nurse
- Military Nurse
- Parish Nurse
- Outreach/ Street Nurse
Historically and currently nurses have:
- embraced role as advocate for individual, family and community health
- fostered empowerment with individuals, families and communities
- embraced health-promoting practice built on notion of empowerment
- engaged a strengths-based approach to health-promoting practice
Definition of Health:
HEALTH: An evolving holistic human experience, informed by multiple professions, recognizing the medical definition is just one aspect of health
- Health is evolving
- A connection between an individual and their environment
- Influenced by the environment or context of the person’s life
- Includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects
- Health is subjective – your view health is different from others
- The medical definition is just one aspect of health (the absence of disease)
What is a Community?
COMMUNITY: “A group of people who live, learn, work, worship, and play in an environment at a given time. Community members share characteristics and interests, and function within a larger social system such as an organization, region, province, or nation”
- a collection of people who interact with one another and whose common interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity or belonging
- A group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together or in a particular area within a larger society
- A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government and often have a common cultural and historical heritage
Functions of a community?
- Infrastructure for housing, schools, recreations, government, and health and social services
- Employment and income
- Security, protection, Law enforcement
- Participation and Socialization of community members
- Linkages with other communities
Vertical Communication
- communication that links communities to larger communities or to those with higher decision-making power
Horizontal Communication
- Communication that connects the community to work collaboratively within its own environment