Module 1 Flashcards
Community Based Nursing
- SETTING SPECIFIC PRACTICE whereby care is for the “sick”
-“Community Health Nurse”
-need an associates degree or diploma prepared
Is community based nursing a specialty?
no
What is the focus of community based nursing?
- Individual and family health
-acute/chronic care and the provision of continuous and comprehensive services
ex: a school nurse / primary care nurse
4 Things Leading to Individual and Family Health in Community Based Nursing?
- Illness Care
- Occurs in a community setting
- One on One
- The focus is mostly secondary and tertiary prevention
Primary Prevention
- way to prevent disease from occurring
-more education focused/vaccines
-more community oriented
Secondary Prevention
- screening for a problem (ex: a blood pressure screening) or may be treating an acute problem with a high probability of solving it
-community based and oriented
Tertiary Prevention
- Watching a more chronic disease
-Not about getting rid of, but rather giving comfort and stability
-More community based
Is community oriented nursing a specialty?
yes
Community Oriented Nursing
-“Public Health Nursing” or “Community Health Nurse”
- Emphasis is health of the community and population to prevent disease/disability and promote/maintain “health” and conditions for people to be healthy
- Individual is part of a larger social system ehre
-Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree needed
-Found in government and official agencies like a health department
4 Things Leading to community and population health in community oriented nursing?
- health care
- occurs in community agencies
- one-to-one, groups, AND organizations
- the focus is on primary and secondary prevention
Community/Public Health Nurse
takes care of populations, and wants prevention and detection to promote a health community lifestyle
Community Assessment Wheel
- Helps Identify what key health needs are required in a community
-The core is demographic information, values, belief systems, and ethnicity - and then there are 8 subcategories around it
8 Community Assessment Wheel Subsystems
“P-PERCHES”
1. Physical Environment
2. Politics and Government
3. Economics
4. Recreation
5. Communication
6. Health and Social Services
7. Education
8. Safety and Transportation
Community as Partner Model
- model focusing on health promotion of individuals and families in a community context
-open system in continuous interaction with the whole environment
-Evaluation/assessment can give a diagnosis of primary/secondary/tertiary prevention needed on the assessment wheel
Process of the community as a partner model
Analysis of Assessment Wheel Core –> Stressors and Lines of Resistance that protect against stressors in the community –> community nursing diagnosis –> plan –> interventions –> community assessment wheel analysis
How is the community as partner model different from the nursing process?
There is an analysis step in the middle of it
Who does the community/public health nurse care for?
- Individuals, Families, Communities, Populations
-The nurse considers individuals and families in a community and population context, and intervention on that level strengthens the individual and family health (trickle down)
ex: COVID-19 preventions
Population or Aggregate
- collections of people sharing 1 or more environmental characteristics and are loosely associated with each other
ex: diabetics in Broome county
Community
- Collection of people who interact with one another and whose common interests form a basis for sense of unity or belonging
ex: Diabetics in a support group
Public Health
- Scientific discipline including epidemiology, statistics, assessment - including attention to behavioral/cultural/economic factors - as well as program planning and policy development
-Aids food, waste, personal behavior changes, GMOs, immigration, etc
What does public health aim to do?
- prevent epidemics/disease spreading
-protect against environmental hazards
-prevent injury
-promote and encourage healthy behaviors
-respond to disasters
-ensure accessibility to health services
What is public health nursing as a specialty?
- Synthesis of nursing theory and public health theory applied to promoting and preserving the health of a population
ex: population based prevention programs in the 70s changed things nowadays like smoking