NURSING FUNCTIONS Flashcards
Motivate the people
Health Educator
Supporting people’s right to make a choice and to act on the choice.
Health Advocate
Promotes health and prevents diseases through rational diet and physical activity
Health Care Provider
Influencing public opinion.
Health Advocate
The Public Health Nurse provides activities that will permit clients who have suffered from consequences of non-communicable diseases to lead a socially and economically productive life.
Health Care Provider
Organizing and mobilizing the community in taking action for the reduction of risk factors
Community Organizer
Influencing executive and legislative bodies to create and enforce policies that favor a healthy environment.
Community Organizer
Guide people into action.
Health Educator
The people must be assured that they have the right and responsibility to make decisions and that they do not
have to change their decisions because of other’s objections.
Health Advocate
Inform the people
Health Educator
The PHN provides technical assistance in the assessment of the skills of auxiliary health workers in NCD
prevention and control.
Health Trainer
. It prevents health workers from implementing irrelevant interventions.
Researchers
The PHN conducts community assessments, epidemiological studies, and intervention studies.
Researchers
The PHN teaches and supervises on clinical management of non-communicable diseases and other communitybased services and recording, reporting and utilization of health information related to non-communicable
diseases
Health Trainer
