OVERVIEW of COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING Flashcards
defines as a group of people with common characteristics or interests living together within a territory or geographical boundaries within a specific social system.
community
they defined community as a social system that includes: health system, family system, economic system, educational system, religious system, welfare system, political system, recreational system, legal system and communication system.
Allender and Spradley
He defined community as a “webs of people shaped by relationships, interdependence, mutual interests and patterns of interaction.”
Leonard
(True or False)
Health is viewed as a continuum, and is considered as the goal of public health in general and community health nursing in particular.
True
This definition of health “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” is stated by?
World Health Organization
He emphasized high level wellness is an integrated method of functioning which is oriented towards maximizing the potential which the individual is capable within the environment where he is functioning.
Dunn
He defined health as the “a quality of life, involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual and biological fitness on the part of the individual, which results from adaptations to the environment”.
Rene Dubos
She looked into health and illness in relation to environment. She prescribed ways to improve health by manipulating the environment.
Florence Nightingale
She defined health as a state characterized by soundness and wholeness of human structures and bodily and mental functions.
Dorothea Orem
What are the factors affecting health?
- Poverty and health
- Culture and health
- Environment and health
- Politics and health
Is a Part of paramedical and medical intervention/ approach which is concerned onthe health of the whole population.
Community Health
is the science and art of caring
Nursing
She defined CHN as the “The utilization of the nursing process in the different levels of clientele-individuals, families, population groups and communities, concerned with the promotion of health, prevention of disease and disability and rehabilitation.”
Araceli Maglaya
He defines Community Health Nursing as A learned practice discipline with the ultimate goal of contributing as individuals and in collaboration with others
Jacobson
He defined Community Health Nursing as A service rendered by a professional nurse to IFCs, population groups in health centers, clinics, schools, workplace for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home and rehabilitation.
Dr. Ruth B. Freeman
The framework for community practice has 4 components, what are these?
- The health care delivery system, with its subsystem.
- The clients (Individual, family, Community)
- Health which is the goal of the health care delivery system.
- The economic, sociocultural, political and environmental factors
They are the primary client in the community health nursing
Individual
Is a group of people who share common characteristics, developmental stage or common exposure to particular environmental factors and consequently common health problems, issues and concerns.
Population group
What does 3 P’s mean?
Prevention of Disease
Prolonging life
Promotion of health
Plans and organizes the nursing service of the health unit.
Management function
Participates in meeting needs of midwives, student affiliates and other trainees.
Training function
Supervises the rural health midwives.
Supervision function
Maintains records and reports.
Supervision function
Organizes a staff development program for rural health midwives.
Training function