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COMMUNITY AND PUBLICHEALTH
NURSING
Evidence for Practice
3RD EDITION
BY DEMARCO & WALSH
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Contents:
Chapter 1: Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and Future
Chapter 2: Public Health Systems
Chapter 3: Health Policy, Politics, and Reform
Chapter 4: Global Health: A Community Perspective
Chapter 5: Frameworks for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Risk Reduction
Chapter 6: Epidemiology: The Science of Prevention
Chapter 7: Describing Health Conditions: Understanding and Using Rates
Chapter 8: Gathering Evidence for Public Health Practice
Chapter 9: Planning for Community Change
Chapter 10: Cultural Competence: Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respect
Chapter 11: Community Assessment
Chapter 12: Care Management, Case Management, and Home Healthcare
Chapter 13: Family Assessment
Chapter 14: Risk of Infectious and Communicable Diseases
Chapter 15: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Chapter 16: Violence and Abuse
Chapter 17: Substance Use
Chapter 18: Underserved Populations
Chapter 19: Environmental Health
Chapter 20: Community Preparedness: Disaster and Terrorism
Chapter 21: Community Mental Health
Chapter 22: School Health
Chapter 23: Faith-Oriented Communities and Health Ministries in Faith Communities
Chapter 24: Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Chapter 25: Occupational Health Nursing
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1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-
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centered care at a hospital. Which action bestexemplifies providing patient-
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reported functional status indicator and thenreviewing it with the client k: k: k: k: k: :
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assisted robotic surgicaltechniques, which the hospital recently implem k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k:
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C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic health record k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k:
D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is in the k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: :
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centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, families, and li
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festyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring health be
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comes the client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers make be
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tter decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed
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a series of tools that empower clients and assist providers in achieving desired outcom
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es, including client-reported functional status indicators. Computer-
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assisted robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose m
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onitoring in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not he
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lp the client become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not good e
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 diabetes
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mellitus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this client's health?
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The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education, liter
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acy, home and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and availability
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of health services are the social determinants of health. These conditions have an imp
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act on the extent to which a person or community possesses the physical, social, and
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personal resources necessary to attain and maintain health. A medical erroron the part
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of the client's primary care provider or nurse would not constitute a social determinan
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t of the client's health.
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Nursing, 3 an obese client to perform a weekly weigh-
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in at homeusing a digital scale and record the weight in a log. This strategy is an exa
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A) Telehealth
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C) Personal responsibility for health k: k: k:
D) Evidence-
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Feedback:
Personal responsibility for health involves active participation in one's own health thro
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ugh education and lifestyle changes. In this case, the client makes a positive changein li
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festyle by monitoring body weight weekly. Telehealth is the use of electronic informati
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on and telecommunications technologies to support long-
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distance clinical healthcare, client and professional health-
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related education, public health, and health administration. Health information technol
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ogy (HIT) is defined as the comprehensive management of health information and its e
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xchange between consumers, providers, government, and insurers in a secure manner.
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Evidence-
based nursing is the integrationof the best evidence available with clinical expertise an
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d the values of the client to increase the quality of care.
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4. A nurse performs a variety of tasks as part of the nurse's position at a hospital. Which
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practice
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D) Facilitating a community- k: k:
wide smoking cessation program one month out of theyear k: k: k: k: k: k: k: k: :
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Feedback:
Public health is what society does collectively to ensure the conditions exist in which pe
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ople can be healthy. A community-
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wide smoking cessation program is a great example of a public health intervention, in t
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hat it involves the collective effort of societyto improve the health of its members. Read
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ing and applying the latest nursing research is an example of evidence-
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based nursing. Instructing a client on how to best care for a suture site at home is an exa
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mple of personal responsibility for health, but it is not focused on the health of the great
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er community. Participating in a videoconference call with a client who lives in a remot
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e area is an example of patient-
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centered care and of an effective implementation of technology, but it is not particularly
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related to public health. k: k: k:
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