Overview of Community Health Nursing (ch. 1)

Question 1

How an individual or unit interacts with other organizations or systems… useful in examining cause and effect relationships

Answer 1

Systems thinking

Question 2

Focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models that focus on care after an individual becomes ill. (Preventative)

Answer 2

Upstream thinking

Question 3

Highlights the relationship between an individual’s environment and health. Emphasizes preventative care (upstream thinking) wash hands, keep a clean environment

Answer 3

Nightingale’s Environmental Theory

Question 4

Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors, assumes that preventative health actions are taken primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease. Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action

Answer 4

Health Belief Model

Question 5

Change at the community level. Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-promoting resources. Theorizes that behavior changes within a large number of people can ultimately lead to social change. Habitual choices from available resources

Answer 5

Milio’s framework for prevention

Question 6

Personal factors, feelings benefits, barriers, and characteristics associated with the action. Attitudes of others, and competing demands and preferences

Answer 6

Pender’s Promotion Model

Question 7

Does not include a termination stage (stage of being unengaged)

Answer 7

The precaution adoption process model