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
Initiates changes for the improvement of services.
Management function
• Identifies needs, priorities, and problems of individuals, families, and communities.
• Formulates municipal health plan in the absence of a medical doctor.
• Interprets and implements nursing plan, program policies, memoranda, and circular for the
concerned staff personnel.
• Provides technical assistance to rural health midwives in health matters.
Planner or Programmer
• Provides direct nursing care to sick or disabled in the home, clinic, school, orworkplace.
• Develops the family’s capability to take care of the sick, disabled, or dependent
Provider of Nursing care,
• Motivates and enhances community participation in terms of planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating health services.
• Initiates and participates in community development activities.
Community organizer
• Coordinates with individuals, families, and groups for health-related services provided by various members of the health team.
• Coordinates the nursing program with other health programs like environmental sanitation, health education, dental health, and mental health.
Coordinator of services
• Identifies and interprets training needs of the RHMs, Barangay Health Workers, andhilots.
• Conducts training for Rural health midwives and hilots on promotion and diseaseprevention.
• Conducts pre and post-consultation conferences for clinic clients; acts as a resource speaker on health
and health-related services.
• Initiates the use of tri-media (radio/TV, cinema plugs, and print ads) for health education purposes
• Conducts pre-marital counseling.
Trainer or Health Educator
Detects deviation from health of individuals, families, groups, and communities through contacts/visits with them.
Health Monitor
They Provides good example of healthful living to the members of the community.
Role Model
Motivates changes in health behavior in individuals, families, groups, and communities thatalso include lifestyle in order to promote and maintain health.
Change Agent
• Prepares and submits required reports and records.
• Maintain adequate, accurate, and complete recording and reporting.
• Reviews, validates, consolidates, analyzes, and interprets all records and reports.
• Prepares statistical data/chart and other data presentation.
Recorder/ Reporter/ Statistician
• Participates in the conduct of survey studies and researches on nursing and health-related subjects.
• Coordinates with government and non-government organization in the implementation of
studies/research.
Researcher
a father, a mother with child/children living together but apart from both sets of parents and other relatives.
Nuclear
composed of two or more nuclear families economically and socially related to each other. Multigenerational, including married brothers and sisters, and the families.
Extended
divorced or separated, unmarried or widowed male or female with at least onechild.
Single Parent
a combination of two families with children from both families and sometimes children of the newly married couple. It is also a remarriage with children from previous marriage.
BLENDED/RECONSTITUTED
one man/woman with several spouses (Muslim)
Compound
more than one monogamous couple sharing resources
Communal
unmarried couple living together
COHABITING/LIVE-IN
husband and wife or other couple living alone without children
dyad
homosexual couple living together with or without children
gay/lesbian
a group of at least two people sharing a relationship and exchange support who have no legal or blood tie to each other (dorm)
No-kin
substitute family for children whose parents are unable to care for them (adopt)
Foster
refers to the family you yourself created.
FAMILY OF PROCREATION
refers to the family where you came from.
FAMILY OF ORIENTATION
full authority on the father or any male member of the family
e.g. eldest son,grandfather
PATRIARCHAL
full authority of the mother or any female member of the family, e.g. eldest sister,grandmother
MATRIARCHAL
husband and wife exercise a more or less amount of authority, father and motherdecides
EGALITARIAN
everybody is involved in decision making
DEMOCRATIC
“full autonomy”
LAISSEZ-FAIRE
the mother decides/takes charge in absence of the father (e.g. father is workingoverseas)
MATRICENTRIC
the father decides/ takes charge in absence of the mother
PATRICENTIC
Affiliates a person with a group of relatives who are related to him though hisfather
PATRILINEAL
both parents
bilateral
related through mother
MATRILINEAL
family resides / stays with / near domicile of the parents of the husband
PATRILOCAL
live near the domicile of the parents of the wife
MATRILOCAL
