NSG 505 Exam 1 Study Questions and Complete Solutions
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NURS 505
Institution
NURS 505
Principles of a public health nurse population focused, they seek out patients, prevention vs. Illness
Public health nurses in action -client or "unit of care" is the population -primary obligation is to achieve greatest good for greates number of people or population as a whole -collaborate with ...
NSG 505 Exam 1 Study Questions and
Complete Solutions
Principles of a public health nurse ✅population focused, they seek out patients,
prevention vs. Illness
Public health nurses in action ✅-client or "unit of care" is the population
-primary obligation is to achieve greatest good for greates number of people or
population as a whole
-collaborate with client as an equal partner
-primary prevention is priority in selecting activities
-strategies that create healthy environment, social, and economic condition in which
populations may thrive
-obligated to actively identify and reach out to all who might benefit from a specific
activity or service
-optimal use of available resources and creation of new EBS
-collaborate
Community ✅collection of people who interact with one another and whose common
interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity of belonging
Geopoliitcal/geographic ✅defined by a physical area
Can be defined on a map
Common interest/ phenomenological ✅defined by shared interests and goals
Ex: elementary school families, GEM cohort 24
Community of solution ✅defined by problem or issue of importance
Problem oriented, solution driven
Ex: consortium to lower obesity in chicago, save the children
Primary prevention ✅o Target population: at risk
O Strategies :Vector control,Prevention of transmission by organ transplantation,
Prevention of accidental transmission
O Responsible sectors: Public health, Primary health care, Other sectors
O Intervention objectives: Prevent the transmission of he disease
Secondary prevention ✅o Target population: early/asymptomatic disease
O Strategies: Screening, Case finding, Early intervention, Antiparasitic treatment,
Periodic health examination
O Responsible sectors: Primary health care, Public health
, O Intervention objectives: Prevent or inhibit disease in cases where infection has
occurred
Tertiary prevention ✅o Target population: established disease
O Strategies: Antiparasitic treatment, Symptomatic treatment, Pharmacological
interventions, Non-pharm interventions, Management of complications, Continuing care
O Responsible sectors: Specialist services, Hospital care
Ointervention objectives: Prevent morbidity and mortality once disease is established
Early home care: mary seacole and florence nightangale ✅focus was to reduce
suffering and promote healing
Nightangale model ✅principles presented in notes of nursing related to the
Environment of patients
Need for keen observation
Focus on the whole patient rather than the disease
A standard for proper education and supervision of nurses in practice
Mary seacole ✅helped populations experiencing tropical disease mainly cholera
Went on her won and opened a hotel for sick soldiers
Focus care giving on highest risk patients
District nursing ✅the aim of the district nurse it to give first-rate nursing to the sick and
poor at home; formalization in home/visiting nurses
Public health nursing ✅focus expanded to health and welfare of general public
Lillian wald ✅first to use the public health nurse name
Henry street settlement
School nursing
Started national organization for public health nursing
Community health nursing ✅increased recognition of community health nursing as a
specialty field with focus on communities and populations, nurses working within the
community with specific knowledge of the community
Roles of the public health nurse ✅clinician: health care services to individual and
groups
Educator: health teaching/promotion
Advocate: for individuals/groups and at public policy level
Manager: management of health services and individuals
Collaborate: working jointly with stakeholders
Leadership: acting as a change agent
Researcher: data investigation, collection, and analysis
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