Overview of the Community Flashcards
What are the core functions of public health?
Assessment, policy development, and assurance
What is tertiary healthcare?
the hospital setting
What is population based nursing?
-focuses on different group of people that compose a community
-health promotion and disease prevention
-understanding vulnerable populations need to be identified
What is downstream endeavors?
-pulling up victims from the river
-short term individual based interventions
-tertiary care
What are upstream endeavors?
-identifying what is pushing the victims in the river in the first place
-focusing on modifying economic , political, and environmental factors to improve health care
-public health perspective
What is goal of community oriented nursing practice?
-to prevent disease and disability; promote, protect, and maintain health
-community diagnosis
-prevention is the bigger goal
What is public health nursing?
-prevents disease and disability and promote the protect the health of a community as a whole
-assessment
-development of policies
-assuring essential services
What is the goal of community based nursing?
-manage acute and chronic conditions
-focuses on illness care of individuals across the lifespan
-think ILLNESS
What is primary prevention and what is an example?
primary is the first level
ex. immunization
think Primary->prevention
What is secondary prevention?
2nd level ex. screening for an STD
What is tertiary prevention?
Teaching/rehab/not letting present disease progress like teaching insulin administration at home Tertiary->teaching
Difference between primary and secondary related concepts?
primary related concepts is data, info, and ideas that have a DIRECT relationship with main concept whereas secondary have an indirect relationship
What is the definition of people?
the community residents
What is the definition of place?
both the geographical and time dimensions
What is the example of function?
the aims and activities of the community (social system)
What is utalitarinism?
doing the greatest food for the greatest number of people
What is distributive justice?
treating people fairly and giveing resources and burdens equitable among society
What is social justice?
ensuring that vulnerable groups are included in equitable distribution
What is an aggregate?
-shared interest, concerns, and values
-may have common goals and activities
-may share health traits or risk factors
What is a community solution?
formed when people work together to address a common health problem
What are examples of physical, emotional, and social statuses of community health?
-physical: morbidity and mortality
-emotional: client satisfaction
-social: crime rates
What is an example of structure in community health?
services and resources in the community
What is the definition of process in community health?
effective community functioning or problem solving
Words to include in nursing diagnosis for community?
-“Risk of” (specific problem or risk)
-“Among” (specific population affected by problem or risk)
-“Related to” (strengths & weaknesses in the community that influence the problem or risk)
Nursing process for community health?
-assessment: strength and weaknesses
-Dx: create list and diagnosis
-planning: prioritze problems and place in context of community
-implementation: using the program
-evaluation: using measures to determine if it effective
