Families and Communities

Question 1

What is the RNAO’s definition of family?

Answer 1

Unique and whomever the person defines as being family. They can include, but are not limited to, parents, children, siblings, neighbors, and significant people in the community

Question 2

What is the dominant family structure in Canada?

Answer 2

Married couples with 2 children. This is decreasing as common law marriages are increasing

Question 3

What is the fastest growing family structure?

Answer 3

Common law followed by the lone parent

Question 4

What is the % of same-sex marriages in Canada?

Answer 4

0.6%

Question 5

Define a “multigenerational household”

Answer 5

Teens and young adults are beginning to stay home for much longer with their parents and possibly even younger siblings

Question 6

What is a baby buster? What years were they born between?

Answer 6

A generation of people born between 1965-1976, following the baby boom. This resulted in a large decrease in children and parents without children

Question 7

How is the trend of having smaller families going to affect Canada in the long run? What is the average amount of children in a household?

Answer 7

Smaller workforce, smaller tax face, population shrinking. The average amount of children in a household is 2.6 children

Question 8

What is family health?

Answer 8

The relative functioning of the family as the primary social agent in the promotion of health and well-being.

Question 9

What are functions of a family?

Answer 9

• Physical care and maintenance of members
• Addition of new members through procreation or adoption
• Socialization of children and social control of members
• Production, consumption, distribution of goods and services
• Affective nurturance- love
• Addition of new members

Question 10

What are characteristics of a healthy family?

Answer 10

• Negotiation skills
• Communication
• Respectful of feelings
• Encourages autonomy, responsibility
• Demonstrates closeness/warmth
• A diversity of SES/culture… may not fit these traits

Question 11

What is family health nursing? What does this require the nurse to do?

Answer 11

A provision of care where the nurse uses nursing processes to assist the family and its members in achieving the highest potential of health through coping and adapting to various health and illness situations.
- Build on strengths, hear their voice, respect their choices, helping them to make informed decisions

Question 12

What is the primary unit of care when the family is considered the client?

Answer 12

The unit of care is the entire family. The nurse provides care for the individual, the whole family, and the society simultaneously and provides healthcare for all family members.

Question 13

What is a community?

Answer 13

• A group of people with a common characteristic or interest in living together or in a particular area within a larger society.
• An interacting population of various kinds of individuals in a common location
• A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government and often have common cultural and historical heritage

Question 14

What are some examples of a community?

Answer 14

• Citizens of a town
• Group of farmers
• Prison community
• Tiny village in Labrador
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
• Professional nurses

Question 15

Who best defines what a community is?

Answer 15

The community is best defined by the people who are in it

Question 16

What does community/public health focus on?

Answer 16

Focuses on increasing health of individuals and communities at-large. Focuses on the determinants of health (ex. socioeconomic and physical environment, education, culture, biological endowment etc.)

Question 17

Describe primary, secondary and tertiary prevention

Answer 17

Primary prevention: reducing risk for potential problem
Secondary prevention: Providing screening, detection, and early intervention
Tertiary prevention: maintaining health

Question 18

What is a Community Health Nurse (CHN)?

Answer 18

A nurse that works a variety of roles within the community, partnering with individuals, families, communities and populations in various settings, homes, schools, workplaces, streets, shelters, churches, community health centers, outpost nursing stations, among others.

Question 19

What is the role of a Public Health Nurse (PHN)? Where do they practice? What is the necessary education level to become a PHN?

Answer 19

Focus on health promotion, illness prevention, and population health. Education of the population about health (ex. running health promotion programs within the community)

Practice in diverse settings (ex. community health centers, schools, streets, nursing stations)

Question 20

What is the role of a Home Health Nurse (HHN)? Where do they practice?

Answer 20

Focus on prevention, health restoration, maintenance & palliation in clients and families.

Practice in homes, schools, or workplace and integrates health promotion, teaching, and counseling

Question 21

What is the necessary education level to become a PHN? HHN?

Answer 21

• PHN: Baccalaureate degree required

- HHN: Baccalaureate degree preferred, but often works with an RPN and a PSW

Question 22

Define Primary Health Care (PHC)

Answer 22

Community-based, promotes healthy lifestyles as a pathway to disease and injury prevention, provides continuing care of chronic conditions, and recognizes the importance of broad determinants of health. It embraces a wide suite of services and involves a broad range of healthcare providers

Question 23

Define Primary Care

Answer 23

A service at the entrance to the system. Addresses diagnosis, ongoing treatment and the management of health conditions, as well as health promotion and disease and injury prevention. Responsible for coordinating the care of patients and integrating their care with the rest of the healthcare system by enabling access to other healthcare providers and services.

Question 24

Describe “rural and remote nursing”

Answer 24

Based on the skills needed by practitioners who work in areas where distance, weather, limited resources and little backup shape the character of their lives and professional practice

Question 25

What is the link between family and community health?

Answer 25

If we have healthy families we will have healthy communities!

Question 26

Define “empowerment”

Answer 26

The capacity of choice. Process in which feelings of powerlessness is transformed

Question 27

What was Canada’s first form of healthcare?

Answer 27

Aboriginal people had the first form of indigenous healthcare- healing practices that met the needs of the community

Question 28

Who was Canada’s first nurse? (1600-1673)

Answer 28

Jeanne Mance

Question 29

What was Canada’s first form of community nursing?

Answer 29

The grey nuns- a religious association to care for the poor. Founded in Montreal