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| population or defined group |
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nursing role that facilitates change in client or agency behavior to more readily achieve goals.
this role stresses gathering and analyzing facts and implementing programs. |
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a nursing role that facilitates changes in client or agency behavior to more readily achieve goals.
this role includes the activities of serving as an enabler-catalyst, teaching problem-solving skills and acting as as activist advocate |
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people and the RELATIONSHIPS that emerge among them as they develop and use in common some agencies and institutions and a physical environment
-cluster of ppl with at least one common characteristic ie location, occupation, ethnicity, housing condition |
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| community assessment (def) |
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| process of critically thinking about the community and getting to know and understand the community as a client. assessments help identify community needs, clarify problems, and identify strengths and resources. |
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meeting collective needs by identifying problems and managing interactions within the community and larger society.
the goal of community oriented practice. |
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| community health problems (def) |
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| actual or potential difficulties within a target population with identifiable causes and consequences in the environment. |
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| community health strengths (def) |
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| resources available to meet a community heath need. |
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| community oriented practice (def) |
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| a clinical approach in which the nurse and community join in partnership and work together fro healthful change. |
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| community partnership (def) |
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| collaborative decision-making process participated in by community members and professionals |
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| information kept private, such as between the health care provider and client. |
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| collection of gathered and generated data. |
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| the process of acquiring existing information or developing new information. |
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| the process of obtaining existing, readily available data |
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| the development of data, frequently qualitative rather than numerical, by the data collector. |
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| provision of information through formal means, such as criteria, measurement, and statistics, for making rational judgements necessary about outcomes of care. |
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| the end or terminal point toward which intervention efforts are directed |
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| carrying out a plan that is based on careful assessment of need |
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| informant interviews (def) |
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directed conversation with selected members of a community about community members or groups and events,
a direct method of assessment |
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| the involvement among different groups or organizations within the community that are mutually reliant upon each other. |
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| intervention activities (def) |
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| means or strategies by which objectives are achieved and change is effected. |
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a precise behavioral statement of the achievement that will accomplish partial or total realization of a goal
-includes date by which achievement is expected to be completed. |
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| participant observation (def) |
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conscious and systemative sharing in the life activities and occasionally in the interests and activities of a group or persons
-observational methods of assessment
-a direct method of data collection |
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a relationship btwn individuals, groups, or organizations in which the parties are working together to achieve a joint goal.
-aka coalitions and alliances with more focused goals |
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| process of identifying problem correlates and interrelationships and substantiating them with relevant data |
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| problem prioritizing (def) |
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| evaluating problems and establishing priorities according to predetermined criteria. |
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| analysis using previously gathered data |
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| setting for practice (def) |
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| a method of assessment in which data from a sample of persons are reported to the data collector. |
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| population group for whom healthful change is sought |
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| ideas of life, customs and ways of behaving that members of a society regard as desirable |
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a community assessment, the motorized equivalent of a PHYSICAL ASSESSMENTt,
windshield refers to looking through the car windshield as the nurse in community health drives through the community collecting data. |
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| Population (public) health nursing (def) |
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| a population-focused community-oriented speciality of nursing using public health and nursing sciences to improve the health of communities |
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population health nursing
goal |
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| the promotion of health and the prevention of disease and disability for all ppl through the creation of conditions in which ppl can be healthy. |
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population health nursing
primary/priority focus? |
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population
ie not individuals or families |
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| key informant interviews (def) ** |
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structured convos with ppl who know something about the community ie a member of the community or someone who works with members of the community in question
--data generation |
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| participant observation (def) ** |
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process of learning about the community by taking part in the every day activities of a community
-supports building partnerships
ie: bus rides, community meetings, fairs, b day parties, yard sales,, |
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