Community and Public Health Study Guide Correct 100%
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Public Health Nursing
Institution
Public Health Nursing
Define the concept of community - ANSWER A collection of people who interact with one another and whose common interests form a basis for a sense of belonging. (Three types are, geographic, common interest, community of solution)
Explain the continuum of health - ANSWER a. Holistic state or well...
Community and Public Health Study
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Define the concept of community - ANSWER A collection of people who interact with
one another and whose common interests form a basis for a sense of belonging. (Three
types are, geographic, common interest, community of solution)
Explain the continuum of health - ANSWER a. Holistic state or well-being; includes:
mind, body, and spirit
b. Continuum: from total disability or death to optimal health
c. Disability or death <------> optimal health
*a.Health is a reference to ones physical, mental, social, and spiritual state.
Describe the two primary components of community health practice - ANSWER
a.Health promotion:
-Increase life span of healthy life for all citizens
-Reduce health disparities among population groups
-Achieve access to preventive services for everyone
b.Disease prevention (health promotion)
-Behaviors to avoid illness, detect it early, or maintain optimal functioning within
boundaries of an illness.
Differentiate among the three levels of prevention - ANSWER Primary: prevention of a
problem before it occurs (vaccines, *education)
Secondary: Early detection and intervention (screening for STDs -risk groups)
Tertiary: correction and prevention of disease state (treatment, education i.e. teaching
someone how to administer insulin at home)
Recognize the contributions of key nursing leaders impacting public health - ANSWER
*Florence Nightingale: *clean environment; Saw need for waste management,
prevention of disease through clean environment; also epidemiology
-"Notes on nursing".
-The nightingale model promoted a standard for nursing education practice.
-Skillful lobbyist for health care reform.
*Lillian Wald: Founder of Public Health; Henry St. settlement for refugees
-Nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, editor.
-Founder of public health nursing.
*Mary Breckenridge
, -Leader in the rural nursing effort
-Served the mountain families in Kentucky riding horseback to deliver babies.
-Frontier nursing service
1. Discuss the ten essential services of public health as it relates to the core public
health functions. - ANSWER a. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of
personal and population based health care services.
b. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems (assessment).
c. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
d. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
e. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
f. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
(inform, educate, empower; mobilize community partnerships; develop policies)
g. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
h. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health
care when otherwise unavailable.
i. ****Assurance: vital function of community health nurse; assure people; get what they
need (evaluate, assure competent workforce, link to/provide care, enforce laws)
The concept of community is quite different from caring for an individual patient....How
so? - ANSWER The community becomes your patient but the nursing process can still
be used in the form of a community assessment. Be familiar with the course textbook
definition of community. The focus of community health is health promotion and health
protection (also known as Disease Prevention). You need to understand the definition of
health holistically. The nursing leaders of community/public health nursing are
important. Be familiar with the three core functions of public health. Assurance is
probably the most important function for the public health nurse.
You need to understand the definition of health holistically - ANSWER Consider the
broad range of interacting needs that affect the collective health of the client as a larger
system.
-Holistic Health is actually an approach to life. Rather than focusing on illness or specific
parts of the body, this ancient approach to health considers the whole person and how
he or she interacts with his or her environment. It emphasizes the connection of mind,
body, and spirit.
Know about tuberculosis and how to read a TB skin test (induration) and to understand
that laws are in place to ensure an infectious TB patient is abiding by quarantine and
taking their medications. Pt 2 - ANSWER • PPD skin testing. Intradermal reaction. A
purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test is a test that determines if you suffer from
tuberculosis (TB). Tuberculosis is a serious infection, usually of the lungs, caused by
the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This bacteria spreads by breathing in the air
exhaled by an infected person.
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