NURS 430

Definition of Public Health Nursing (PHN) correct answer: Public health nursing is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences. It's a specialty practice within nursing and public health. It focuses on improving population health by emphasizing prevention, and attending to multiple determinants of health. Often used interchangeably with community health nursing, this nursing practice includes advocacy, pol...

NURS 430- Exam 2 Questions With Complete Solutions

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name 3 dimensions of community correct answer: -people/status -structure -process which dimension? socioeconomic status, age, culture, sense of drug/alcohol abuse/crime correct answer: people/status which dimension? services and resources that exist in that community correct answer: structure which dimension? community's ability to function effectively to get things done; assessing strengths/limitations, consider a community problem and how it was fixed; the change of rates corr...

[top/middle/unit staff] influence the organization of care shape climate establish goals intervene correct answer: middle [top/middle/unit staff] influence the philosophy and mission of the organization correct answer: top [top/middle/unit staff] carry goals out plan activities to carry out goals in an efficient manner correct answer: unit staff best mode of care A. total patient care B. functional nursing C. Team nursing D. primary nursing correct answer: none oldes...

clinical or critical [reasoning/thinking] broad and general correct answer: thinking clinical or critical [reasoning/thinking] based on patho, medications (how does this lower the BP) bring in your knowledge and experience correct answer: reasoning clinical or critical [reasoning/thinking] reason about a situation as it unfolds correct answer: reasoning clinical or critical [reasoning/thinking] based on knowledge and experience correct answer: reasoning [reasoning/thinking/s...

The quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human populations is called correct answer: epidemiology refers to the proportion of a population who has a mental disorder at a given time. correct answer: Prevalence deals with what happens to people with illnesses who are seen by providers of care. correct answer: Clinical epidemiology is a classification of mental disorders that includes descriptions of diagnostic categories and uses an axis system to provide a bro...

chapter 18/19: family development and family nursing assessment and family health risks (: (: chapter 18/19 intro correct answer: -Trend to move health care to community settings. -Family nursing consists of nurses and families working together to ensure the success of the family and its members in adapting to responses to health and illness. -A focus on the family is vital in promoting the health of the individual as well as the health of the community. -Knowledge of family structure a...

Chapter 1: Community and Prevention oriented practice to improve population health (: (: Community based nursing (CBN) correct answer: -Focus is on "Illness care" of individuals and families across the life span -Growing costs of hospital care -In the home, in a school, in an employer place. Outside of hospital setting Community-oriented nursing correct answer: -Focus is on promoting quality of life -Focus is on the health care of entire communities or populations as well as the hea...

ch 12: community assessment and evaluation(: (: ch 12 introduction correct answer: This chapter clarifies community concepts and provides a guideline for nursing practice with the community client. community as a client correct answer: •A community practice setting is insufficient reason for saying that practice is oriented toward the community client •--when the location of the practice is in the community but the focus of practice is the individual or family the nursing client rem...