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NURS 350 COMMUNITY HEALTH EXAM
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NURS 350 COMMUNITY HEALTH EXAMhealth - ANSWER a resource for everyday life encompassing social and
personal resources as well as physical capacities
- very individual to every person
4 ways to think about community - ANSWER - as a client
- as a relational experience
- as a shift away from "blaming the individual"
- as context
community as the client - ANSWER we evaluate the community through
epidemiology, using evaluation plans or strategies size, population groups,
characteristics, boundaries, history, schools, resources, SE data
community as a relational experience - ANSWER provides the question of
what is relational about the concept of community, inclusive of the power
relations
- how they define health
assessed and planned in relation to the political elements that define how health
is viewed and resources are part of the assessment and planning
community as a shift away from blaming the individual - ANSWER to look at
how health disparity is a result of societal issues of poverty, racism, colonial
practices, economic and political decisions, governmentally
community as context - ANSWER - the environment in which a person lives
,- geographic
primary health care - ANSWER affordable, accessible, appropriate care;
equitable access to health and health services, public participation, appropriate
technology, intersectional collaboration and reorientation of the healthcare
system to promotion of health and prevention of disease
Primary Care - ANSWER component of primary health care
- first point of care
what were the earliest forms of healthcare in Canada? - ANSWER indigenous
medicine and healing practices
- aboriginal peoples provided healthcare and knowledge to European settlers
(not acknowledged)
European settlers introduced what to the aboriginal peoples? - ANSWER
epidemics of infectious disease, wars and the degeneration of aboriginal
culture/identity --> led to social, health and economic disparities that persist
today
Where and when are the earliest forms of community-oriented nursing? Who
was involved? - ANSWER New France, 17th century
- the Duchesse d'Aiguillon sisters who established essential healthcare and
carried out work in homes, hospitals and communities
Who is considered Canada's first nurse? - ANSWER Jeanne Mance
,Who were the Grey Nuns? - ANSWER Canada's first community nursing
order who made valuable improvements in trying to provide the most
vulnerable with access to health services, food, shelter and education.
who is Pauline Paul? what does she argue? - ANSWER a historian who says
that religious orders of the 18th century 'provided care in the backwaters,' but
were also among the first to establish and operate modern hospitals and
pioneered the development of nurse education
Marie Rollet Herbert: she was a laywoman - QUESTION - who worked closely
with aboriginals and discovered the importance of evergreen trees as a source of
vit C
what did religious nursing orders do in the 18th century? - ANSWER provided
access to health services, food, shelter, and education for the most vulnerable
populations (including those immigrating and settling the western regions of
what is now Quebec)
How did the 1867 Constitution Act/British North America (BNA) Act impact
healthcare? - ANSWER - Made only limited provisions for the establishment
and maintenance of a system of health care
- Both federal and provincial governments were responsible for ensuring
availability and funding of health care services
- Responsibility of the provincial government to be directly in charge of health
care locally and that of the federal government, on taxes and giving out money
equally
who was the second half of the 19th century influenced by? - ANSWER
Florence Nightingale
, how was the 19th century characterized? - ANSWER by the development of
the nursing profession
- predominately by nightingale (sanitization, lighting, temp, keeping statistics)
and the commitment of women's groups
What was the focus of nursing orders in the 19th century? - ANSWER SDOH,
community outreach and advocacy that are a model of contemporary CHN
practices
What is health promotion? - ANSWER the process of enabling people to
increase control over, and to improve, their health
- was in the earliest formations of community health nursing practice; it
includes nightingale's use of epidemiology, stats and awareness of
environmental factors of health
what is VON? what did it do for healthcare? - ANSWER Victorian Order of
Nurses
- a community organization founded by groups/individuals women that created
community health services for the rural and poor communities and immigrant
women in Canada
VON and other woman's organizations were created for what reasons?
ANSWER lack of healthcare access for these vulnerable populations
It is generally conceptualized that the nursing profession during the later
19th/early 20th century consisted of 3 distinct sectors: ANSWER - hospital
nurses
- private duty nurses
- public health and home-visiting nurses
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