Module 1 Flashcards
Science and Art of Preventing Disease, Prolonging Life, Promoting Health and efficiency through
organized community effort
Public Health
The development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the
maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to Enable Every Citizen to Realize His Birthright
to Health and Longevity
Public Health by Dr. C.E Winslow
Art of applying Science in the Context of Politics so as to Reduce Inequalities in Health while ensuring
the best health for the greatest number
Public Health by WHO
Special Field of Nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health, and social assistance for the
promotion of health, the improvement of the conditions in the social and physical environment,
rehabilitation of illness and disability
Public Health Nursing by WHO
- The Concern of the Nurse in CHN
involves:
1- Families in their homes
2– School Population
3– Workers in Factories
4– Patients confined in Hospitals
a. All of the above
b. All except 4
c. All except 3
d. All except 2
B. All except 4
What is the basic principle in CHN?
a. To tell the community what their
problems are
b. To promote a self-reliant community
c. To be able to lead the community towards improvement
d. To teach and guide the community on how to solve their problem
B,C
Which of the following levels of Clientele is the Entry Point
in Community Health Nursing Practice?
a. Individual
b. Family
c. Population Group
d. Community
A. Individual
group of people living in a particular area with common beliefs, values, and tradition.
Community
What are the 2 important attributes of the community?
Geographical Boundaries & Shared Believe system or culture
What type of community?
Agricultural; Household are less dense
Rural
What type of community?
Industrialized; Household are dense
Urban
What type of community?
Semi Industrialized, Semi Agricultural
Suburban
What type of community?
Highly Industrialized
Metropolitan
It is a multi-dimensional reality that includes Political, Socio-economic, Behavior,Heredity, Environment and Health care delivery system
Health
more than a state of well being.
Health
It is an art and science of caring & Its body of knowledge is grounded on the works of nursing theorists or philosophers.
Nursing
a Service rendered by a professional nurse with communities, groups, families, individuals at home, in health
centers, in clinics, in schools, in places of work for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home and rehabilitation
Community Health Nursing by Ruth B. Freeman
Nursing Practice in a wide variety of community services and consumer advocate areas. It is certainly not confined to public health nursing agencies
Community Health Nursing by Jacobson
The utilization of the Nursing Process in the Different Levels of Clientele concerned with the Promotion of Health, Prevention of Disease and Disability and Rehabilitation
Community Health Nursing by Dr. Araceli Maglaya