Midterm Kahoot Questions

Question 2

Community Health Nursing:

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umbrella term for many roles and specialities in community settings. Definition: evidence-informed practice where nurses seek to promote and improve the health of individuals, families, groups, aggregates, communities, populations and society across the lifespan

Question 3

Medicare:

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term used to describe Canada’s tax-based publicly funded health care system

Question 4

Principles of the Canada Health Act:

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Public Administration
Comprehensiveness
Universality
Portability
Accessibility

Question 5

Social justice

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fair distribution of society’s benefits, responsibilities, and consequences in relation to social groups (necessary for building collaborative relationships)

Question 6

Primary health care

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model/framework of essential care that is based on practical, scientific, acceptable methods using technology, resources and public participation. Encourages self-management, determination, reliance, and competence.

Question 7

Principles of Primary Health Care Framework:

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Accessibility
Health Promotion
Appropriate Technology Resources
Intersectoral Collaboration
Public Participation

Question 8

Population Health Approach:

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primary focus is at population level. PHNs work with communities as client. May also work with groups or subpopulations (aggregates), families, and individuals.
Considers determinants of health
Uses health status indicators (measurement)
Upstream Thinking (big picture in relation to health)
Health promotion and disease prevention focus

Question 9

Prevention Strategies

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Primary (no disease/injury), Secondary (screening, identifying, early detection) Tertiary (restore optimal health-has disease/injury present)

Question 10

Public Health

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ollective action by society to ensure conditions to facilitate health of all persons in a community. PHNs have knowledge in epidemiology, statistics, and assessment. Involves program and policy development, and considers behavioural, cultural, and economic factors of health.

Question 11

Community Health Nurses Association Canada (CHNAC), 2003

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achieved the development of community nursing practice standards

Question 12

History trends in order (Victorian nursing, Florence nightingale, grey nuns, lalonde report)

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Religious orders (Grey Nuns) visited the sick in their homes and founded hospitals
Florence Nightingale (scholar nursing) instrumental in developing public health-focus on community, disease prevention and improving sanitation measures (late 1800s/early 1900s)
Victorian Order of Nurses founded community practice: public health/home care
Lalonde Report (1974) focus shifted to 4 domains related to determinants of health-considers community environmental factors