Week 2 - Roles et fonctions Flashcards
What are community health nurses?
C’est une pratique infirmière spécialisée qui s’implique à préserver, protéger, promouvoir et maintenir la santé du client. Ils travaillent AVEC les gens, pas seulement POUR les gens, dans la collecte de données, la planification, l’intervention et l’évaluation
L’infirmière en santé communautaire travaille où?
Dans la communauté : à domicile, les écoles, les lieux de travail, les rues, les centres de santé, nursing stations (et plus)
L’infirmière en santé communautaire travaille avec qui?
Avec la communauté : la communauté est le “client” - individus, familles, groupes, communautés, populations et sociétés/systèmes
C’est quoi la société?
Système incorporant les structures sociaux, politiques, économiques, et culturelles
C’est quoi la population?
Groupe de gens qui ont à moins une caractéristique en commun qui vivent dans une communauté
C’est quoi une communauté?
Ensemble de personnes unies par des relations ou liens communs
C’est quoi une groupe ou agrégat?
Des groupes dans une population
C’est quoi la définition d’une famille?
Deux ou plus de personnes qui ont des liens émotionnelles, physiques, et/ou financières
C’est quoi un individuel?
Une personne
What is a military nurses?
The title for a military nurse is a nursing officer who is a commissioned member of the Canadian forces medical service
What are the roles/functions of the military nurse?
- Focuses on sick and injured patients in either static facilities (i.e., garrison, base, or wing in a healthcare centre) but also in operational facilities (i.e., field hospital).
- direct patient care
- policy development
- training and education
What is the client focus of military nurses?
Military personnel and civilians
What is the work setting of a military nurse?
military bases, operational units, outpatient or tertiary care facilities, overseas
When was military nursing first seen?
It was documented as early as the 7th century when people cared for wounded soldiers
What is a parish nurse?
Called to minister and affirmed by a faith to promote health, healing, and wholeness
What is the work setting of a parish nurse?
Faith communities
What are the roles/functions of the parish nurse?
- Health advocacy
- Health education
- Health counselling
- Referrals to community resources
What is the client focus of the parish nurse?
Individuals and families within a parish community
When was parish nursing recognized in Canada and who was the founder?
First seen in 1992 when reverend Granger Westberg the founder of parish nursing, realized that the skill set of nurses had a great impact to the health of people in faith communities
When was the scope of practice and competencies established for parish nurses?
in 2004
What is a Telehealth nurse??
Support services across a spectrum of health services (which includes health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment) using computer-assisted and digital communication technologies, which facilitates to increase access to health care services and enhance coordination of services across the continuum of care
What is the work setting of the Telehealth nurse?
a variety of health care services delivered through computer-assisted and digital communication technologies (there is also an overlap with PHN and HHN roles)
What are the roles/functions of the Telehealth nurse?
- Health assessment
- Triage
- Health education
- Monitors client status
- Health counselling
What is the goal of the Telehealth nurse?
self-care management and support for the patient living in the community
What are outreach/street nurses?
Mostly secondary and tertiary healthcare services with people who are homeless
What is the work setting of the outreach nurse?
streets, parks, homeless shelters, drop-in shelters - basically providing derives to patients where ever they are
What are the roles/functions of the outreach nurse?
- Prevention
- Outreach
- Counselling
- System advocacy
- Legal Support
- Education
When did outreach/street nurses become more well know and when?
they were more well known after WWII when the rates of STIs emerged
What is a community mental health nurse?
Mental health care of people with serious mental illness living in the community, in collaboration with caregivers and the mental health care team
What are the roles/functions of the community mental health nurse?
- Therapeutic relationship
- Diagnosis and monitoring
- Education
- Teacher/coach
- System navigation
- Treatment
What is the work setting of the community health nurse?
Client homes, community health centres, nursing stations, outpost nursing, health centres (First Nation, inuit, métis communities)
When did community mental health nurses become more present?
After the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness (but did not really occur until the 1980s when the focus was adjusted and programs were initiated)
What is a primary care nurse?
Episodic and chronic care across the lifespan in collaboration with physician and allied health team members
What are the roles/functions of the primary care nurse?
- Health promotion, injury and disease prevention, and management
- Case management
- Health education
- Triage and referral
- Treatment
- Counselling
What is a forensic nurse?
Nursing care and forensic sciences in the judicial system
What are the roles/functions of the forensic nurse?
- Conducts forensic investigation
- Advocates for family/intimate partner violence prevention
- Responds to and prevents family violence
- Addresses online child abuse
- Conducts sexual assault examinations
What is the work setting of the forensic nurse?
prisons, hospital emergency rooms, police departments, coroners office, lawyers
What are sexual assault nurse examiners?
or SANE, there are specific situations that include SA or DV in ER and community settings, on call 24/7
What is a public health nurse?
promotes, protects, and preserves the health of populations, links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and communities to population health promotion
What are the roles/functions of the public health nurse?
- Health promotion
- Disease and illness prevention
- Health protection
- Health surveillance
- Population health assessment
- Emergency preparedness and response
What is a home health nurse?
Health promotion, prevention, health restoration and maintenance, or palliation and end-of-life care
What are the roles/functions of the home health nurse?
- Manages chronic and terminal illness across the lifespan
- Health teaching
- Rehabilitation
- Palliation and end-of-life care
- Support for individuals and caregivers
What is rural nursing?
focus on the roles of a PHN, HHN, and primary care in rural settings
What is an occupational health nurse?
health promotion, maintenance and restoration, and injury and disease prevention in the workplace
What are the roles/functions of the occupational health nurse?
- Needs assessment
- Injury prevention
- Health promotion
- Coordination
Definition of health advocacy
a combination of individual and social actions designed to gain political and community support of the conditions which promote health
C’est quoi des soins directs? et des examples
- Provision des soins directes (hands on care)
- immunisations, signes vitaux, prise de sang, administration de traitements et medicaments
CHN role de collaborateur?
Travailler et collaborer avec autres disciplines et organisations
C’est quoi la collaboration interprofessionnel?
Exige la bonne communication, comprendre les roles des autres, ouvert aux suggestions, non jugement, resolution de conflits
CHN role de consultante?
Donner des avis et l’information aux clients et autres professionnelles de la santé
What do CHNs do in the risk assessment and response?
Support the early identification of a disease or health threat by gathering data from many resources
Definition of risk communication
a strategic health education intervention that involves exchanging information on the potential harm of health or environmental hazards to risk assessors and managers, general public, news media, social media, and interest groups (a means of mitigating risk or preventing harm)
CHN role de conseillère?
- Fournir du support aux clients pour peurs aider à faire décisions à part de leurs défis émotionnels
- Relations thérapeutiques
- Assurer d’utiliser les approches qui sont centré sur le client, culturellement sécher, et basé sur les forces des clients ou bénéficiaires
- Fournir des instructions pour l’auto gestion des soins
Definition of health literacy
the ability to access, comprehend, evaluate and communicate information as a way to promote, maintain and improve health in a variety of settings across the life course
CHN role d’éducatrice?
- fournir de l’éducation aux clients à leurs niveau d’apprentissage
- identifier les besoins d’éducation, établir des buts et objectifs, choisir les méthodes et les matériaux appropriés, mettre en œuvre les stratégies et évaluer l’apprentissage
- comprendre les besoins d’éducation du client requiert une analyse des obstacles potentielles à l’apprentissage
CHN role du facilitatrice?
- Travailler avec les clients pour les aider à atteindre
- Facilitation de groupe ou de rendez-vous avec autres professionnelles
CHN role de la promotion de la santé/agent de changement?
- Aider les clients à reconnaître leurs besoins à faire des changements à leurs style de vie pour améliorer leur santé
- l’écoute active, non jugement
CHN role en leadership?
- guider et encourager les clients à explorer leurs options et faire des décisions afin d’atteindre des objectifs
- “not all managers are leaders and not all leaders are managers”
- les leaders sont ceux qui inspirent les autres
CHN role de liaison?
- agir comme intermédiaires entre services
- des liaisons entre les services pour les clients
CHN role comme directrice?
- planifier et gérer les soins de santé des clients
- gestion d’autres professionnelles
CHN role de référence?
- diriger les clients vers autres services de santé
- par téléphone, en personne, par écrit
CHN role en la recherche?
