Week 1-5 Flashcards
Standards of Practice for CHN were developed by?
geographically representative committee of CHNs under Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC)
Practice standards took how many ppl?
1000
Practice standards took how many years?
3
When were the CHN practice standards published
October 2003, Revised in March 2011
What are the CCHN Standards of practice important?
- define SCOPE of practice
- Establish criteria and expectations for acceptable CHN practice and SAFE, ETHICAL CARE
- provide criteria for MEASURING PERFORMANCE
- support ongoing DEVELOPMENT of community health nursing
- PROMOTE as a SPECIALTY
- Foundation for CERTIFICATION
- Inspire EXCELLENCE and COMMITMENT
- SET BENCHMARK
Why are the Standards of Nursing Practice at the bottom of the pyramid in the illustration of standards?
because they are foundational
Originally how many standards were there?
5
What are the 7 standards of CHN?
- Health Promotion
- Prevention and Health Protection
- Health Maintenance, Restoration, and Palliation
- Professional Relationships
- Capacity Building
- Access and Equity
- Professional Responsibility and Accountability
- Health Promotion
- Prevention & Health Protection
- Health Maintenance & Restoration
are supported by what Standards?
- Professional Relationships
- Capacity building
- Access and Equity
- Professional Responsibility & Accountability
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
PHN works with a community to advocate for a smoke-free town or municipality
Health Promotion through healthy public policy
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
CHN assists in the creation physical activity and healthy eating programs with the school in a local community
Healthy Promotion through reorienting health services
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
HHNs encourage families dealing with a chronic illness to participate in regular physical and social activities
Health promotion through developing skills and access to information
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
PHN track immunization schedules for each child so that when a child is overdue for vaccine they can be contacted. (CHNAC)
Prevention and Health Protection through use of
a. surveillance activities, analyze and utilize data to identify and address health issues or in this case vaccinations prevent disease, etc.
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A CHN observes high rates of smoking within a particular client group. The concern is raised with the practice team and a plan is developed to find ways to address the issue.
Prevention and Healthy Protection through
A. participates in surveillance to identify and address health concerns in the community; facilitates informed decision making perhaps in regard to smoking prevention
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
PHN work with a parent’s organization and the police to promote proper installation of car seats through the media and conduct several clinics to provide one-on-one assessment and teaching
Prevention and Health Protection through
H, applied epidemiology principles for planning strategies like education regarding car seats
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
HHNs care for disabled students in the classroom: Communication is required with the child’s guardian, teacher and/classroom assistant to provide health teaching re child’s status and response to treatment
Demonstrates health maintenance, restoration and palliation through adapting community health nursing strategies (providing teaching to guardian, teacher, and classroom assistant) to health challenges (child’s status and response to treatment) and challenges r/t equity in health in the community setting needed (the classroom)
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
CHNs provides ongoing nursing care to families with seniors who are experiencing difficulties. The care may be provided directly or through unregulated workers. This may include telephone follow-up, home visits or community referrals.
Restoration, maintenance and palliation
d. The CHN maximizes the ability of the seniors by providing care, follow-up, home visits and referrals to the community. Makes connection with community resources
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A HHN working in palliative care listens to the concerns of stressed and exhausted caregivers and supports them in making decisions about respite and hospice care
Professional Relationships
c. Assess beliefs around health and inequities.
f. Respect trust and support the ability of this individual to know her limits.
j. Promote and support linkage with appropriate community resources, in this case hospice and respite care, when this individual was ready to receive it.
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A group of PHN working with families experiencing child care difficulties identify that post natal visits based on issues or tasks moves them around too much to be able to develop a continuing relationship with families. They bring their concern to the attention of management.
Professional relationships
g. The PHN involved this group of women (experiencing child care difficulties) in applying community development principles (the concern of being moved around too much, effecting development of relationships with families brought to the attention of management)
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A HHN encourages a mother and teens to work out a schedule for ROM exercises for the grandmother. The family is happy that they were able to work out the problem together.
Capacity Building
k. Encourage life style choices that support health ( the ROM exercises will support the health of their grandmother)
l. Advocating for the grandmother’s need for ROM exercises, since she is unable to take action on her own.
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A PHN encourages a school to mobilize a school health committee that includes students, parents, teachers, administration, and community partners. Committee members identify the school community’s strengths and needs, and prioritize, plan, implement, evaluate and celebrate action for a healthier school. The school community’s capacity to take its own action for health is enhanced via a sustainable structure (the committee). The PHN is a partner in the process.
Capacity Building
a. The PHN works with the school to form a collaborative health committee that works to identify strengths, needs, and prioritize a plan, implement and evaluate. PHN partners in the process.
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A PHN identifies that one ethnic group does not use health care services (including prenatal classes) outside their area. The PHN works with a champion from this group to organize local prenatal classes delivered by a PHN and translated by a woman from the community.
Access and equity
h. Advocates for equitable access to health and other services (prenatal classes, etc.) and equitable resources allocation (it was not in their error or first language). PHN collaborates with women of the community to translate and organize local delivery of prenatal classes.
f. culturally sensitive care
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
A HHN and Case Manager advocate for families caring for medically fragile children by:
• Seeking respite care for an exhausted families
• Contacting the local MPP
Access and Equity
g. the HHN supports families in caring for fragile children by seeking respite care for exhausted families and contacting local MPP to advocate for them
Which practice standard relates to the following situation; and what is the CHN role in the situation?
• A PHN is assigned to work in a needle exchange program based on harm reduction. He has difficulty accepting the tenets of harm reduction and uses reflective practice personally and with his supervisor to understand and change his assumptions.
Professional Responsibility and Accountability
a. Assess and identify risk management issues and take preventative (needle exchange to prevent spread of disease) or corrective action individually or in partnership to protect individuals, families, groups, communities, populations, and organizations from unsafe (needle sharing/dirty needles), unethical, illegal or socially unacceptable circumstances.
p. use reflective practice to assess and improve personal community health nursing practice.