PRELIMS_Community Health Nursing Flashcards
synthesis of nursing knowledge and practice and the science and practice of public health
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
how is community health nursing implemented and what does it aim to promote and prevent?
implemented via a systematic use of nursing process (ADPIE) and other process to promote health and prevent illness in population groups
what is the 2 major setting ?
- Community or public
2. Hospital setting
differentiate 2 major setting
1.Community or public
➜theoretically different
➜community-wider scope
2.Hospital setting
Community health nursing ➜deals with different population groups =individual =family =group
give 5 goals of COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
- Promotion of health and prevention of disease
- Comprehensive, general, continual and not episodic
- Individuals, families and population groups and practitioner
- Nurse and the client have greater control in making decisions
- The nurse recognizes the impact of different factors on health and has a greater awareness of his/her clients’ lives and situations
- prevent community to be hospitalized
- health promotion and prevention
1.Promotion of health and prevention of disease
-for as long as you are assigned to a community care is continual
2.Comprehensive, general, continual and not episodic
even sick or well mayroong intervention
3.Individuals, families and population groups and practitioner
- active partnership with the client
- participatory
- home visits
- active interaction
- collaboration
- mutual understanding
4.Nurse and the client have greater control in making decisions
Nurses play a major role in decision making
true or false
true
Emphasize or help the px to see the problem or why there is a need
true or false?
true
know factors or determinants of health
-what are the causes of the problem?
-what problems are they experiencing that
limits their access to health
5.The nurse recognizes the impact of different factors on health and has a greater awareness of his/her clients’ lives and situations
give 6 client oriented roles
✅Caregiver ✅Educator ✅Counselor ✅Referral resource ✅Role model ✅Case manager
give 3Delivery-Oriented Roles
✅Coordinator
✅Collaborator
✅Liaison
give 8 Population-Oriented Roles
✅Case finder ✅Leader ✅Change agent ✅Community mobilizer ✅Coalition builder ✅Policy advocate ✅Social marketer ✅Research
practice of community health nursing is based on the 4 ff:
➤ Clients
➤ Health
➤ Healthcare delivery system
➤ National health situation
give 4 clienteles
Individual
Families
Population groups
Community
point of entry of nursing care.
Individual
differentiate patient and client
o Patient –– people who are sick or unwell.
o Client –– people who are well or not sick.
basic unit of society; center of the delivery of care.
Families
collection of people that are integrated, interdependent, live in the same household
Families
share same experiences
Families
interacting on a daily basis
Families
action of one affects other members
Families
point of specific care
Population groups
these are individuals who share a common characteristics.
Population groups
common developmental state, disease or condition
Population groups
not related by blood or part of the family but share same characteristics
Population groups
give 5 examples of population groups
people living with HIV in a community Senior citizens School age Disability Hypertension
point of entire care.
Community
share common geographic boundaries, values and interests
Community
not same social status
Community
one vision for community and baranggay
Community
collection of population group, family, or individua
Community
what is health viewed as and what is its goal?
Viewed as a continuum, considered as a goal of public health and community health in particular
how did dunn decribe health?
emphasized high-level wellness which require that individual maintain a continuum of balance and purposeful direction within the environment where he is functioning
how did Florence Nightingaledecribe health?
looked into health and illness in relation to the environment.
o environment has a relationship with health and wellness
Societal services and activities designed to protect or restore the health of individuals, families, groups and communities
C.HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
standards of public health depends on the?
D.NATIONAL HEALTH SITUATION
practice of community health nursing is greatly affected by?
health situation
what are you going to take in national health situation
➤ Demographic profile
➤ Health Profile
➤ examples of Health Profile
✅ Births and deaths ✅ Morbidity and mortality ✅ Infants and children ✅ Maternal mortality ✅ Elderly ✅ Infectious and communicable diseases ✅ Mental illness
why is nx process more complex in CHN?
- applied now to a group of people
- addresses it as a family or a community
dealing with entire family not only one fam member
Family nx process
process of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data/ information about the client
Assessment
identification of the clients wellness status or needs and problems based on an analysis of the data/information gathered
- Diagnosis