Identify historic influences on the development of the nursing profession and its relationship with the community a. Seacole - holistic nursing B. Nursing started in homes C. Nursing belongs to everyone D. When women entered the field again, they were able to do so because they emphasized that wome...
NUR 370 Exam 1 Questions and
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Identify historic influences on the development of the nursing profession and its
relationship with the community ✅a. Seacole - holistic nursing
B. Nursing started in homes
C. Nursing belongs to everyone
D. When women entered the field again, they were able to do so because they
emphasized that women were natural caregivers and healers
Differentiate characteristics of nursing practice in communities: community health,
population or public health nursing, and global health nursing. ✅Community: people
and the relationship between them as they develop organizations and physical
environments
Population: group of people that share a common atribute - no relationship between
people, loosely connected
A. Global Health nursing
I. Promoting the wellbeing of our planet and all its people through the art and science of
nursing
Ii. We all belong to one global community
Iii. Holistic care
Iv. Advocacy
V. Collaboration
Vi. Health as a human right
Vii. Social justice and equity
Viii. Sustainability
A. Community Health Nursing approach
I. Bottom-up: community members have ownership and partner with professionals to
drive change
Ii. Focus on collaboration, initiative, empowerment
Iii. Community health nursing: engaging directly with people outside the hospital,
including direct care, advocacy and education in partnership with community members.
A. Population Health Nursing Approach
I. Top down: experts manage outcomes, ideally with the community
Ii. Focus on causes, outcomes, management, and accountability
Iii. Public/population health nursing care: caring for all of the population that make that
community
Iv. Focuses on populations free-living in the community
V. Emphasis on prevention
1. Primary prevention: vaccinations, education
2. Secondary prevention: screening, early treatment
3. Tertiary prevention: treating the disease to prevent complications
8 principles of public health nursing ✅1. Client unit is the population
, 2. Goal is the greatest good for the greatest number of people or the whole population
3. Nurses work with clients as equal partners
4. Primary prevention is the priority for interventions
5. Focus on healthy environment
6. Obligation to reach out to all who may benefit from a service or activity
7. Optimal use of available resources
8. Collaboration
Determine if specifically described situations represent global health issues. ✅a. What
are global health issues?
I. Issues and determinants that transcend national borders
Ii. Influenced by complex factors that extend outside of health care
Iii. Interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaboration
Iv. EX: infectious disease, climate change, noncommunicable disease
Compare nursing process and clinical judgment in global/population health with other
types of nursing. ✅a. Nursing process is the same
B. Difference: client level (individual, family, group, community, population, group)
1. Identify the rationale for focusing on an entire community as the client, including the
need for community assessment. ✅a. The health of the community directly influences
the health and the indivual community members
B. It is necessary to do a community assessment to evaluate the fit between the
community members' needs and services in the community
Describe how systems theory applies to community assessment ✅a. Systems theory
I. System is made up of subsystems
Ii. System is more than the sum of its subsystems
Iii. Subsystems provide feedback about the health of the system as a whole
Iv. Systems can be open or closed
B. System theory Applied to Community assessment
I. Community is a system made up of its subsystems
Ii. Subsystems provide feedback
Iii. Open and interchange
Iv. Community as a partner model
Identify the purpose of the Community as Partner Model and interpret the element of the
model being assessed when presented with specific assessment questions or findings
✅· Community Core
O Purpose: shows the history of the community
O Demographics
§ Age and sex characteristics
§ Racial/ethnicity
O Household types
O Marital status
O Vital statistics
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