Midterm 1 Flashcards
Community Health Nurse (CHN)
- Professional bodies of Registered Nurses (RNs) working various roles in the community.
- Has knowledge on Public Health Science, Primary Health Care, Nursing Science and Social Sciences.
- Focuses on Promoting, Protecting & Preserving health.
- Public health promotions for individuals in the community.
- Community health reflects health of members.
- Health communities support health for individuals, families, groups, and populations.
- Health practices in divers health centers, schools, street clinics, youth centers, nursing outposts, etc.. meet health needs of its population.
Seven Functions of Community Health Nurses
- Public Health
- Health Protection
- Emergency Preparedness & Response
- Health Promotion
- Disease & Injury Prevention
- Population Health Assessment
- Health Surveillance
Public Health
Organization of society to keep individuals healthy, prevent injury, illness, and death. Combination of Programs, Services & Policies that Protect and Promote the Health of all Canadians.
- Protect neighborhoods, cities, and countries.
- Goal to enhance health status and promote health equity of communities.
Three Ps of CHN
Protection, Prevention & Promotion
Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC)
- Voice to Represent & Promote Community Health Nursing & Health Communities.
- Provides Community Health Nurses to share concerns & Issues.
- Are leaders in developing discipline Standards of Practice, Core competencies & Community Health Nursing Certification Process.
CHNC Standards of Practice
- Health Promotions
- Capacity Building
- Prevention and health protection
- Health Equity
- Health Maintenance, restoration, and Palliation
- Evidence Informed practice
- Professional relationship
- Professional responsibility and accountability
Health Portfolio
- Health agencies responsible for maintaining & Improving Health of Canadians.
- Maintained by Jean-Yves Duclos (Ministry of Health)
Five Agencies
1. Health Canada
2. Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
3. Canadian institutes of health research
4. Patented Medicine Prices Review board
5. Canadian Food inspection agency
HISTORY: Community Health Nurse (CHN)
- Started with the practice of First Peoples using Traditional medicines & Healing practices.
o Indigenous women provided essential Health care to European Settlers.
o Epidemics of Infectious diseases introduced by European Settler.
-> War, Denigration of Indigenous cultures, and colonization of Canada lead to Social Health, & Economic Disparities of Indigenous Peoples.
History: 17th Century CHN
Introduction of Community health Nursing (CHN) by the Duchesse d’Aiguillon sisters.
o Health care in Homes, Hospitals, and Communities.
o Grey Nuns were the first community nursing order to understand Health Inequity and made contributions to;
-> Access to Health Services – Street Outreach
-> Food, Shelters & Education – for the Vulnerable
History: 19th-20th Century CHN
Hospitals, Private duty, Public Health & Home Care.
o Women volunteer and Leadership in communities was essential in the development for Community Health Nursing;
-> Lobby local officials
-> Serve tea at child welfare clinics
-> Provided transportation
-> Made referrals & Raised funds
History: 20th Century CHN
Infant Mortality rates climbing until 22nd Century.
o Health Education developed.
o Public Health Nurse (PHN) roles expanded from TB & School Nursing to Child Hygiene Programs & School Inspection Programs.
Canada Health Act & Health Promotion
- Health Promotion:
o Access to Health Services.
o Protect, Promote and Restore Physical and mental well-being of Canadians. - Only Medically necessary Physician Services & Hospital Services are publicly funded.
- Faces ideologies favouring efficiency & Short-term outcomes.
- Chronic disease prevention and management require more broad policy options.
Q: What are categories of early community health Nursing
- Substance use
- Mental health
- Health promotions
- Addiction
- School health
- Harm reduction
Q: Which organizations belong to the federal portfolio?
a. The Canadian Public Health Association
b. The public health Agency of Canada
c. Community Health Nurses of Canada
d. Health Canada
B & D
Q: The community Health Nurses of Canada “standards of Practice” includes how many standards?
8
Q: Which of the following organizations provides information regarding food labels and safety
a. Public Health Agency of Canada
b. Public health
c. Health Canada
d. Canadian Public Health Association
C
Q: Which organization provides reliable information regarding PH concepts like vaccines and outbreak notices?
a. Health Canada
b. The public Health Agency of Canada
c. The Canadian Public Health Association
d. Community Health Nurses of Canada
B
Q: Who Provided the earlier forms of Healthcare in Canada?
First peoples
Q: The Grey Nuns were thought to have been the first to provide what kind of nursing?
Street outreach
Q: What types of epidemics were experienced after first contract with European settlers?
a. Tb and influenza
b. Diphtheria
c. Smallpox & Measles
d. Cholera
e. Typhus
f. All the Above
F
Q: The PHN’s role historically included which of the following at first?
a. TB Nursing
b. School Nursing
c. Child Hygiene Programs
d. Sanitation Programs
e. School inspection Programs
A & B
Q: How many criteria must provinces and territories meet under the Canada Health Act?
5
Q: Under the Canada Health Act, portability means there can’t be a waiting period more than how long?
3 months
Q: The term “Community Health Nurse” is a
a. Exciting
b. Broad
c. Umbrella
d. Confusing
C