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Systems thinking Correct answer- Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with other organizations or systems Upstream thinking Correct answer- Is used to focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models that focus on care after an indiv...

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ATI RN Community Health Nursing
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Systems thinking Correct answer- Studies how an individual, or unit,
interacts with other organizations or systems

Upstream thinking Correct answer- Is used to focus on interventions that
promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models
that focus on care after an individual becomes ill

Nightingale's Environmental Theory Correct answer- -Highlights the
relationship between an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care

Health Belief Model Correct answer- -Purpose is to predict health behaviors
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Assumes that the preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for the
purpose of avoiding disease

Milio's Framework for Prevention Correct answer- -Emphasizes change at the
community level
-Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-
promoting resources

Pender's Health Promotion Model Correct answer- -Does not consider health
risk as a factor that provokes change
-Examines factors that affect individuals actions like: personal factors,
feelings, benefits, barriers, attitudes of others, and abilities

Determinants of Health Correct answer- Factors that influence that client's
health.
--> nutrition, stress, education, environment, finances, and social status

Health Indicators Correct answer- Describe the health status of a community
and serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health
--> mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity, obesity,
tobacco, or other substance use

Community Correct answer- -A group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic, and/or social parameters

,-The "community is the client" in community health nursing

Goals of Community Health Nursing Correct answer- Promote, preserve, and
maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families, and groups in order to influence "community health"

Public Health Nursing Correct answer- -It is population-focused, and involves
a combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health
sciences
-GOAL: promote health and preventing disease

PHN: Assessment Correct answer- -Using systematic methods to monitor the
health of a population
-->Monitor health status to identify community health problems
-->Diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards in the community

PHN: Policy Development Correct answer- Developing laws and practices to
promote the health of a population based on scientific evidence

PHN: Assurance Correct answer- Making sure adequate health care personnel
and services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally have
them

Population-focused Nursing Correct answer- -Includes assessing to determine
needs, intervening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease
within a specific population

Key Principles of PHN: Correct answer- -Emphasize primary prevention
-Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals
-Recognize that the client is a partner in health
-Use resources wisely to promote the best outcomes

Ethics Correct answer- Preventing harm, doing no harm, promoting good,
respecting both individual and community rights, respecting autonomy and
diversity, and providing confidentiality, competency, trustworthiness, and
advocacy

Advocacy Correct answer- The nurse plays the role of informer, supporter,
and mediator for the client

Evidence-Based Practice Correct answer- -Involves using the best practices,
expert opinion, and client preferences to change the delivery of client care
-GOAL: improve client outcomes

EBP: Data Correct answer- The nurse should appraise data collected from
research to measure whether bias was minimal (quality), the number of

,studies, participants, or strength of effect (quantity) and whether the results
are repeatable (consistency)

Quality Correct answer- Quality assurance, improvement, and management
are part of improvement of health care

Total quality management (TQM) Correct answer- Approach that seeks to
improve quality and performance which meets or exceeds expectations

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) Correct answer- Approach to quality
management that emphasizes the organization and its processes and
systems and uses objective data to analyze and improve processes

Community Health Education Correct answer- -Nurses regularly provide
health education in order to promote, maintain, and restore the health of
populations
-Nurses must take in account the barriers that make learning difficult like:
age, cultural beliefs, poor reading skills, and language barriers
-Effective community health education requires planning

Learning Theories: Behavioral Theory Correct answer- Use of reinforcement
methods to change learners' behavior

Learning Theories: Cognitive Theory Correct answer- Use of sensory input
and repetition to change learners' patterns of thought, thereby changing
behaviors

Learning Theories: Critical Theory Correct answer- Use of ongoing discussion
and inquiry to increase learners' depth of knowledge, thereby changing
thinking and behaviors

Learning Theories: Developmental Theory Correct answer- Use of techniques
specific to learners' developmental stages to determine readiness to learn,
and to impart knowledge

Learning Theories: Humanistic Theory Correct answer- Assists learners to
grow by emphasizing emotions and relationships and believing that free
choice will prompt actions that are in their own best interest

Learning Theories: Social Learning Theory Correct answer- Links information
to beliefs and values to change or shift the learners' expectations

Domains of Learning: Cognitive Correct answer- Involves knowledge and the
development of intellectual skills

, Domains of Learning: Affective Correct answer- Involves a change in attitude
and development of values

Domains of Learning: Psychomotor Correct answer- Involves the performance
of a skill

Development of a Community Health Education Plan Correct answer- -First,
identify population-specific learning needs
-Design the educational program
-Implement the educational program
-Evaluate the achievement of learning objectives

Epidemiology Correct answer- The study of health-related trends in
populations for the purposes of disease prevention, health maintenance, and
health protection

Epidemiology Process Correct answer- A systematic method of targeting a
specific health need with the goal of improving health
-->Provides a broad understanding of the spread, transmission, and
incidence of disease and injury

Epidemiological Triangle Correct answer- -Epidemiology involves the study of
the relationships among an agent, host, and environment
-Their interaction determines the development and cessation of
communicable diseases, as they form a web of causality, which increases or
decreases the risk for disease
--> Agent: the physical, infectious, or chemical factor that causes disease
--> Host: the living being that an agent or the environment influences
--> Environment: the setting or surrounding that sustains the host

Epidemiological Calculations Correct answer- -Incidence rate: Number of new
cases in the population at a specific time / population total
-Prevalence rate: Number of existing cases in the population at a specific
time / population total
-Mortality rate: provide information about cause of death
--> Crude mortality rate: overall death rates
--> Cause-specific rate: death from specific cause
--> Infant/age: specific to lifespan
-Attack rate: Number of people exposed to a specific agent who develop the
disease / total number of people exposed
--> Endemic when there is a moderate, ongoing occurrence in a given
location
--> Epidemic: rate of disease exceeds the usual level of the condition in a
population
--> Pandemic: condition occurs when an epidemic occurs in multiple
countries or continents

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