Introduction to Community Health Nursing Flashcards
The science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts
Public Health
Special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social assistance and functions
Public Health Nursing
a synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied to promoting and preserving the health of the population
Community Health Nursing
A philosophy of care that is characterized by collaboration, continuity of care, client and family responsibility for self-care, and preventive health care
Community based Nursing
promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative nursing services
scopes of services of CHN
Achieving the highest level of community health by developing and enhancing the capabilities
ultimate objective
raise the levels of health of the citizenry by helping communities and families to cope with the discontinuities and threats to health in such a way as to maximize their potentials for high level wellness.
goal of CHN
a group that not only shares common values and beliefs but whose members interact with one another and take action on common issues
aggregate
practice that focuses on entire population, grounded on community assessment, emphasizes prevention
population based practice
during this period, people assumed that sicknesses came from witch craft and magic
primitive time
boring the skull to get rid of evil spirit
trephination
during this period people struggled to survive, and trial and error was used for health care
ancient period
a law on medical practice
code of Hammurabi
started building irrigation canals and practiced prophylaxis. This civilization also emphasized personal hygiene and cleanliness
Egyptian
Built the aqueducts which greatly improved sanitation. Also was the first to establish hospitals and have health officers
Romans
known as the founders of public hygiene
hebrews
father of sanitation
moses
pertained to every aspect of individual, family & community hygiene ( isolation, hygiene, rest and sleep, hours of work, disposal of excreta,
Mosaic Health Code
during this period philosophers such as hipocrates and aristotle expounded the science of preventive medicines
greek
God of Health
Apollo
God of healing
Aesculapius
( daughter of Apollo) Goddess of Health
Hygeia
Father of medicines
Hippocrates
differentiated arteries from veins
Aristotle
organized visiting of the sick, were also called visiting nurses which fronted CHN
order of Deaconesses:
a friend of St Paul and the first Deaconess and visiting nurse.
Phoebe
Women of high rank gave their wealth to charity and nursing
Woman matrons
founded the first hospital (made the first hospital and hospice for strangers)
Fabiola
converted her home to monastery
Marcella
built monasteries and hospital
St. Paula
series of holy war between the Christian and the Muslim
Crusades
Dark period in nursing due to war and famine, plague and the downgrade of health care
Middle Ages
forerunner of occupational nursing and introduced technology that led to proliferation of factories.
Industrial revolution
introduced modern principles of visiting nurse and social services and Organized the daughters of charity
St Vincent De Paul
father of modern district nursing with the encouragement of Florence Nightingale, organized a training school for nurses in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary
William Rathbone
worked in dispensaries
District nursing
Home nursing, The Lady with a Lamp
Florence Nightingale
included district nursing and visiting nursing within her broader concept of CHN
First to coin Public Health Nurse
Lilian Wald
