Public Health Flashcards
Explain evaluate nursing role
Evaluate how your interventions did by checking the rates.
Also look into research involvement
Explain assessment nursing role
Look at the
- community data and trends
- epidemiology of things
- population growth to plan services
- environmental programs .
Explain diagnosing nursing role
Identify the priorities and apply information to advocate for the change and look for new issues to diagnose
What do state health departments do in relation to the federal government?
Carry out laws of federal government
- medicaid, medicare
- CHIPS
What do local health departments do?
Who do they have to work with?
Carry out state laws & policies and provide direct care,
Work with the state health department.
federal/state level nursing careers jobs is to do what?
What programs are they involved in?
consult people and lead programs
- need a license LLC
FDA, CDC, Indian health services, DHHS, NIH, HRSA, Department of Veterans affairs, SAMSHA, etc
Non-civilian public health nursing careers examples?
Army, navy, marines, Air Force, coast guard
NOAA, US public health services commissioned corps
When did school nursing begin?
Who did this include?
After the expansion of school nurse roles, what are they key roles?
1800 by Lina Rodgers in New York
students from birth through 21 as well as their family bc you work with them too
communicate with interdisciplinary school health team and with teachers and administration
What pieces of health do school nurses take care of?
Do they help teachers too?
Vision, hearing, and BP screenings
Check weight, height, teeth, and scoliosis
TB screening
Immunizations
Yes they help teachers.
What education are nurses responsible for specifically?
Sex education and parents can come look at the curriculum
Who cares for special needs students?
What barriers do school nurses identify?
school nurses
health related barriers
Degree for school nurses
Can LPN or LVN do this?
Minimum of bachelors and will need ongoing education and may need masters
They can do it under RN supervision
Cans school nurse practitioners work ?
Yes they just have extra education
What does a nurse being public health department based mean?
They’ll spend a portion of day at school but then go out in community.
What do nurses need to provide and activate for those students with chronic conditions?
Individualized health plans
- school and state forms to fill out
What do school nurses need to prevent?
And how do they do this?
illness or injury
- so keep track of immunizations
- apply safety measures
- provide education
- promotion with screenings
What other things to school nurses promote about lifestyle?
Nutrition, exercise, risk behaviors, abuse, and mental health
What is a school nurse is school based?
It means this nurse will stay at the school all day
Benefits/needs of school nurse?
What is pay like?
What is schedule like?
Autonomously work
Communicate well
Prioritize and collaborate
Pay is variable
Monday - Friday with weekends and holidays, and summers off