Lecture One: CHN Roles & History

Question 1

What is the order for International historical milestones?

Answer 1

-Elizabethan Poor Law
-Marine Hospital Services in US
-Sisters of Mercy in Dublin
-Florence Nightingale Training School in London
-American Red Cross
-Canada Red Cross

Every Mother Starves Fathers And C*cksuckers

Question 2

What is District Nursing?

Answer 2

Cities were divided into districts (similar to communities as it is now)

Question 3

Who was responsible for epidemics and maternal care?

Answer 3

district nurses

Question 4

Who was the first group to focus on caring for the sick in their homes?

Answer 4

The Grey Nuns

Question 5

Who established the VON?

Answer 5

Lady Aberdeen

Question 6

How many types of nurses were there in the late 1880s?

Answer 6

4
Hospital nurses
Private Duty nurses
District/ public health nurses
nursing sisters/ military nurses

Question 7

Who was Lilian Wald

Answer 7

Invented public health nursing
Established metropolitan life insurance

Question 8

Who was Maysie Parsons

Answer 8

first Newfoundland educated nurse to join the war efforts WW1

Question 9

Who was Myra Bennett

Answer 9

District nurse who received many awards for her work on the great northern peninsular delivering babies.

Question 10

What are the 3 dimensions of Community

Answer 10

People, Place, Function

Question 11

What are the types of communities?

Answer 11

Face-to-Face
Identifiable Need
Problem Ecology
Concern
Special Interest
Viability
Action Capability
Political Jurisdiction
Resource Community
Community of Solution
Virtual Communities

Question 12

Definitions of Community Health Nursing

Answer 12

Bachelorette prepared
Combines public health science, primary health care, nursing science, and social sciences
Practice specialty involves working with clients
Links health and illness experiences to promotion practice
Practices in increasingly diverse settings

Question 13

Examples of CHN Practice areas

Answer 13

Public Health Nurse
Home Health Nurse
Occupational Health Nurse
Parish Nurse
Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner
Outpost Nurse
Forensic Nurse
Telenurse

Question 14

What is a Population

Answer 14

a large group of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristic and live in a community

Question 15

What is an Aggregate

Answer 15

a subpopulation or a group within a population

Question 16

What is Downstream thinking

Answer 16

taking a microscopic individual curative focus. individual health problems but does not consider sociopolitical, economic, and environmental variables

Question 17

Common activities

Answer 17

advocacy, building capacity, building coalitions, care/counselling, case management, communication, community development, screening, surveillance, team building, policy development, referral and follow-up, research and evaluation

Question 18

What is Primary Prevention?

Answer 18

intervention or activity that aims to prevent disease/illness from the beginning

Question 19

What is Secondary Prevention?

Answer 19

Intervention or activity that aims at early detection of the disease/illness before the symptoms become apparent

Question 20

What is Tertiary Prevention?

Answer 20

Intervention aims at interruption of the course of the disease or reduces the amount of disability resulting from the disease. rehabilitation.

Question 21

What is Primary Healthcare

Answer 21

comprehensive care that includes disease prevention, community development, a wide spectrum of services and programs, working in interprofessional teams and intersectoral collaboration for healthy public policy.

Question 22

What are the principles of primary health care

Answer 22

accessibility, health promotion, public participation, intersectoral collaboration, appropriate technology

Question 23

How is primary health care relevant to CHN

Answer 23

provides essential health care services, considers the determinants of health, focused on health promotion, disease prevention and protection, includes therapeutic and rehabilitative care, promotes coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration, focuses on the client as an equal partner in health with health professionals.