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What are the 3 core functions?

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Assessment : monitoring the populations health status and providing information about the health of the community
Policy development: developing policies that support the health of the population through leadership and research
Assurance : making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available/ assuring constituents that public health agencies provide services necessary to achieve agreed upon goals

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What is a community? Give an example

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A community is a group of indiviudals within the same geographical area/ a group of people who share a common denominator

Ex: religious orientation, ethnicity

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What is a population?

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A population is a collection of individuals who share one or more personal environmental characteristics

Ex: breast cancer, HIV, aids, age, gender, residence

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What are community-based goals, the focus of care, and nursing activity?

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The focus of care: individuals and families

Goals: management of acute and chronic pain

Nursing activity: 1-1 direct

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What is community-oriented focus of care, goals, and nursing activity?

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Focus of care: aggregate, community, and the population

Goals: health promotion and disease prevention

Nursing activity: indirect

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Who is Lillian Wald?

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The first public health nurse

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Who is Mary Breckinridge?

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a nurse and midwife who created Frontier Nursing Services.

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Who is Florence Nightingale?

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The founder of modern nursing and her work to improve care on the battlefield during the Crimean war.

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Who is Jesse Sleet Scales?

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The first black public health nurse.

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What is HP 2030?

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It provides ten-year measurable public health objectives for addressing the health of the nation.

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What is the CDC?

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They protect America from health safety and security threats both foreign and in the U.S

They protect the health of U.S individuals: eliminate disease, end epidemics, secure global health & American preparedness

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What is WHO?

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Addresses global emergencies resolves healthcare inequities and promotes health worldwide

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What is Population Health?

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A system of using large data sets to analyze care needs and provide care to groups of individuals with the goals of improving health outcomes for the group

Focuses on the health of a specific group of people

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What is community Health?

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focuses on improving the health of a specific area/ neighborhood

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What is public health?

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focuses on the health promotion & disease prevention of a population

The promoting and protecting public health by using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health science.

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What are Upstream and Downstream factors?

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Upstream factors: focuses on eliminating the factors that increase risk to a population’s health

Downstream factors: focuses on the actions after the disease and injury has occurred

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What is IHI triple aim

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wants to improve the health of populations, the individual experience of care, and reducing the per capita cost of care

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What is culture? What is Cultural competency? What is Cultural humility?

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Culture: is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group shared by people in a place or time

Cultural humility: understanding awareness of one’s own culture is an ongoing process, and acknowledging that we should approach everyone as equal

Cultural competency: the attitudes, skills, and knowledge healthcare providers use to provide quality care for culturally diverse populations

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What is race? What is ethnicity? What is diversity?

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Race: categorizes groups of people based on superficial criteria such as skin color, physical characteristics, and percentage.

Ethnicity: includes shared geographical origin, language or dialect, religious faith, folklore, food preferences, and culture.

Diversity: is groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation to culture, ethnicity, and race

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What is SDOH?

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SDOHs are environmental conditions such as place of birth, age, and community where living, learning, playing, and working that influence health, functioning, and quality of life. They affect health through socioeconomic and environmental factors such as racism, education, housing, access to health care, and employment.

SDOH: economic stability, access to health care, neighborhood and built environment, access to and quality of education, social and community context
They do not give direct care

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What is socio- ecological model?

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is an upstream approach; multiple determinants of health

22
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What are emerging frameworks?

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23
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WHat makes public Healthnursing a specialty?

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What are the 8 principles of PHN?

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  1. The client or unit of care is the population.
  2. The primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people or population as a whole.
  3. The processes used by PHN include working with the client as an equal partner.
  4. PRIMARY PREVENTION is the priority in selecting appropriate activities.
  5. Public health nursing focuses on strategies that create a healthy environment and social and economic conditions in which populations may thrive.
  6. A PHN is obligated to actively identify and reach out to all who might benefit from a specific activity or service.
  7. Use of available resources must be optimal to ensure the best overall improvement in the health of the population.
  8. Collaboration with a variety of other professions, and other stakeholder groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the health of the people.
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What are the 10 essential Public health services?

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  1. Assess and monitor the population’s health status
  2. investigate/ address health hazards
  3. communicate to inform population about health
    4.support communities and partnerships to improve health
  4. implement policies/laws that impacts health
    6.utilize legal actions
  5. assure that system for care is needed to be healthy
  6. build a diverse public health workforce
  7. research to inform about public health
    10.maintain a strong infrastructure for public health

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