Module 1

Question 1

community based nursing

Answer 1

the provision of acute care and care for chronic health problems to individuals and families in the community

Question 2

community health nursing

Answer 2

nursing practice in the community with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in a community.
GOAL: preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health

Question 3

community oriented nursing

Answer 3

nursing that has as it’s primary focus the health care of either the community or a population of individuals, families, and groups

Question 4

Different between community based nursing (CBN) and community oriented nursing (CON)

Answer 4

CBN primarily deals with illness-oriented care of families and individuals across a life span
CON primarily deals with “health care” of individuals, grps, community or population

Question 5

Which type of nursing includes Public Health Nursing?

Answer 5

Community Oriented Nursing

Question 6

Public Health Nursing

Answer 6

a specialty of nursing that synthesizes nursing, social, and public health sciences to provide care to populations. The focus of practice is the community as a whole and the effect of the communities health status (resources on the health of individuals, families, and groups.

Question 7

What are the 3 core functions of Public Health Nursing

Answer 7

Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance

Question 8

Assessment

Answer 8

systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the populations health status, and making information available about the health of the community

Question 9

Policy development

Answer 9

effort to develop policies that support the health of the population, including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions

Question 10

Assurance

Answer 10

making sure the health services are available; making sure that competent personal healthcare workforce is available

Question 11

Primary goal of public health

Answer 11

prevention of disease and disability

Question 12

population/aggregate

Answer 12

collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics

Question 13

subpopulations

Answer 13

within larger populations ex. unmarried pregnant adolescents

Question 14

What does Public Health Do?

Answer 14

prevents epidemics and disease
protects against environmental hazards
prevents injuries
promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
responds to disasters
ensures accessibility to health services

Question 15

Healthy People 202 is based on the accomplishments of what 4 previous Health People initiatives?

Answer 15

There Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (1979)
Promoting Health/Preventing Disease:Objectives for the nation (1990)
Natl Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (2000)
Objectives for improving Health (2010)

Question 16

World Health Organization (WHO)

Answer 16

HEALTH arm of the UN. with no legal standing and is not an enforcement agency.
works to attain the highest possible level of health for all persons (“Health for All”)

Question 17

Center’s For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Answer 17

“to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.”

Vision - healthy people in a health world - through prevention

Question 18

Primary Prevention

Answer 18

a type of intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent disease from the beginning

• *people are healthy and have not yet developed disease
  ex. exercising, eating well

Question 19

What are some examples of primary prevention

Answer 19

immunizations, helmet use, safe sex, clean water, education programs, adequate sleep

Question 20

Secondary Prevention

Answer 20

TO DETECT disease in its early stages

want to detect BEFORE clinical signs appears and reverse/ reduce the severity of disease

Question 21

What are some examples of secondary prevention

Answer 21

vision and hearing screenings, bp screenings, pap smears, testing cholesterol, immunoglobulins, surgery where complete recovery is expected

Question 22

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 22

to IMPROVE the course of the disease, reduce disability, or rehabilitate

expectation that these ppl will not return to pre-illness level of functioning so we want to maintain their best health

Question 23

Examples of tertiary preventions?

Answer 23

PT
Speech Therapy
Insulin for a diabetic
Support Groups - AA

Question 24

What is health literacy

Answer 24

the ability to understand health info and to use that info to make good decisions about your health and medical care

requires a complex group of reading, listening, analytical, and decision making skills, and the ability to apply these skills to health situations

Question 25

Skills needed for health literacy

Answer 25

visually literate (graphs and visual info)
computer literate (be able to operate a computer)
information literate (ability to obtain and apply relevant info)
numerically or computationally literate (ability to calculate or reason numerically)

Question 26

What percent of adults have proficient health literacy according to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy?

Answer 26

12%

14% of adults have BELOW THE HEALTH LITERACY

Question 27

How much of the population has difficult understanding and using health info according to the Institute of Medicine?

Answer 27

90 million ppl in US (nearly half the population)