COMMUNITY BASED NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH EXAM A+GRADED WITH VERRIFIED ANSWERS 2023/2024

COMMUNITY BASED NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH EXAM A+GRADED WITH VERRIFIED ANSWERS 2023/2024 Community-based nursing - CORRECT ANSWER--Nursing practice focused on individuals within a community -Focus is on "illness care" of individuals and families across the lifespan -acute and chronic care Community-oriented nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER-Nursing practice focused on the health of the entire community -Goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population within it Core functions of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER-Assessment, policy development, and assurance Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER-research ex: how many car accidents, reportable diseases (infection control) Policy development - CORRECT ANSWER-rules and regulation that prevent injury (zoning, vaccination) need to provide leadership in developing policies that support the health of the population, including the use of the scientific knowledge base in making decisions about policy. aussurance - CORRECT ANSWER-those that make you accountable (police, abuse mandating) trying to keep as safe as possible Public health nurse - CORRECT ANSWER-Nurse who works to promote and protect the health of the population Care is provided within the context of preventing disease and disability and promoting and protecting the health of the community as a whole they reach out to people instead of them coming to see them Aggregate - CORRECT ANSWER-A group of individuals with a common characteristic or condition a population focus of a public health nurse Longevity at the turn of the 20th century - CORRECT ANSWER-Increased lifespan due to improved healthcare, sanitation, and technology advances antibiotics in 1928 How long did people live at the turn of the 20th century? - CORRECT ANSWER-46-48 yo Healthy People - CORRECT ANSWER-National initiative to improve the health of all Americans focus on eliminating health disparities and creating equitable opportunities for people to live healthy lives Healthy People History - CORRECT ANSWER-Started in 1990 identify emerging public health issues then want to focus on for the next ten years Cooperation of the community - CORRECT ANSWER-Engaging and involving the community in making health changes Levels of Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in public health Primary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-Prevent disability Using general and specific measures in a population to promote health and prevent the development of disease (incidence) and using specific measures to prevent diseases in those who are predisposed to developing a particular condition. secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-Limit disability Stopping the progress of disease by early detection and treatment, thus reducing prevalence and chronicity. tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-Reduce disability Stopping deterioration in a patient, a relapse, or disability and dependency by anticipatory nursing and medical care Industrialization and caregiving - CORRECT ANSWER-attracted increasing numbers of urban residents, leading to inadequate housing and sanitation complicated by epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, and typhus. Tuberculosis and malaria were always present, and infant mortality was approximately 200 per 1000 live births Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER-Influenced the development of professional nursing and, indirectly, public health nursing in the United States Used a population-based approach that improved both environmental conditions and nursing care. Used epidemiology measures, and decreased mortality rate organized nursing practices and nursing education in hospitals Nightingale thought that nursing should promote health and prevent illness, and she emphasized proper nutrition, rest, sanitation, and hygiene Started nursing schools Metropolitan Life Insurance - CORRECT ANSWER-Insurance company that provided benefits to policyholders established the first insurance-based program in 1909 to support community health nursing services. Sheppard-Towner Act - CORRECT ANSWER-Legislation that provided funding for maternal and child health Shattuck Report - CORRECT ANSWER-Report that led to the development of public health systems Public health systems: Establishment of a state health department and local health boards Environmental sanitation Food, drug, and communicable disease control Well-child care Health education Tobacco and alcohol control teaching of preventive medicine in medical schools Henry Street Settlement - CORRECT ANSWER-Organized visiting nursing services for the poor of New York Mary Brester and Lilian Ward established settlement houses that became hubs for health care and social welfare programs. Lilian Ward - CORRECT ANSWER-first public health nurse used epidemiological methods to campaign for health-promoting social policies to improve environmental and social conditions that affected health. She believed poor people should have access to health care. Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER-established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925 in rural Kentucky Introduced the first nurse-midwives into the United States when she deployed nurses trained in nursing, public health, and midwifery. Disparity definition and example - CORRECT ANSWER-Inequality or difference in health outcomes race, gender, wealth US Department of Health & Human Services - CORRECT ANSWER-Government agency responsible for promoting public health Agency most heavily involved with the health and welfare concerns of US citizens goals are to protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves Overarching for following