Community Health/ Public Nursing Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Community Health/ Public Nursing Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass what is community based nursing? -Answer-when one works outside of hospitals and nursing homes who is community health nursing focused on? -Answer-community/public health is focused on populations meaning care is focused on healing one or more populations what is the difference between vision and commitment? -Answer-Visions are broad statements describing what we desire something to be like and commitments are agreements we make with ourselves that pledge our energies for or toward realizing our visions How does public health add to the nursing commitment? -Answer-ensures an equitable distribution of health care, ensures a basic standard of living that supports the health and well being of all persons, ensures a healthful physical environment when are community health nurses expected to use the nursing process? -Answer- Community health nurses are expected to use the nursing process with their individuals, families groups, populations and communities what are families, groups and populations referred to as? -Answer-clients where community/public health nurses care for families in the context of a vision of a healthful community what is empowerment? -Answer-the process of assisting others to uncover their own inherent abilities, strengths, vigor , wholeness and spirit. How can nurses allow for empowerment? -Answer-Nurses can assist in this process by fostering hope and by removing barriers to expression when is a nurse present? -Answer-when the nurse is both physically near and psychologically being with the person. what is an open system? -Answer-open systems include individuals as well as social systems such as families, groups and communities with whom the community health nurse must work What is the general systems theory? explain some of the aspects, what is the boundary, outcomes, feedback, external influences? -Answer-the general systems theory provides an umbrella for assessing and analyzing the various clients and their relationships with dynamic environments. the boundary separates the system from its environment and regulates the flow of information between the system and environment.Outcomes are the products that emerge from the system into the environment. external influences are info that come from the outside into the system. Feedback is info channeled back into the system from its environment that describes the condition of subsystems. what is each system composed of? -Answer-subsystems that are either structural (organizational) or functional (relate to specific purposes) what does it mean to say that a system is greater than the sum of its parts? -Answer- knowing the parts is necessary, but not sufficient to describe the health of the family system what is the primary focus of systems theory? -Answer-knowing the relationships of the parts, not the parts per se what is self care? -Answer-the production of actions directed to self or to the environment in order to regulate one's functioning in the interest of one's life, integrated functioning and well being what are concepts from public health theory that are important to community health nursing? -Answer-population, prevention, risk and social justice what is epidemiological information used to identify? -Answer-populations at higher risk for specific preventable conditions what are aggregates? -Answer-people who do not have the relatedness necessary to constitute an interpersonal group but who have one or more characteristics in common (virtue of setting, demographic (women), health status); not a system what does the natural history of a disease include? -Answer-pre symptomatic, symptomatic, and resolution what are the three levels of prevention? -Answer-the three levels of prevention are primary, secondary and tertiary what is distributive justice? -Answer-the ethical concept concerned with the fair provision of opportunities, goods, services to populations of people what is an egalitarian system of justice? -Answer-each person has equal access to equal health services what is a utilitarian system of justice? -Answer-resources are distributed so as to provide the greatest number with the least amount of harm what is social justice? -Answer-the principle that all persons are entitled to have their basic human needs met regardless of differences in economic status, class, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship, religion, age, disability or health. what are the responsibilities of community health nurses? -Answer-identification of unmet needs, advocacy and referral to ensure access to health and social services, teaching for health promotion and prevention, screening, environment management, collaboration/coordination, political action to advocate for adequate standards of living and health care services and resources. what is a referral? -Answer-process of directing someone to another source of assitance what is advocacy? -Answer-the action of speaking or writing on behalf of someone else and using persuasion in support of another how do community health nurses coordinate or manage care? -Answer-through case management, site management, caseload management, coordination of tems what is case management? -Answer-the development and coordination of a plan of care for a selected client, usually and individual or family what is caseload management? -Answer-the coordination of care for a number of clients for whom the community is accountable what is site management? -Answer-the coordination of nursing effort at a specific geographical place such as a clinical, school, or office for community health nurses, where nursing care is planned or provided what is visiting nursing? -Answer-when concerned laypersons provided care to the sick in their homes what is district nursing? -Answer-william rathbone proposed to florence nightingale that visiting nurses who had graduated from nursing school be assigned within a parish or district; must be more trained than hospital nurses because don't have appliances at hand; nursing to the sick poor at home