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| Community Health Nursing activities Focus of care Individuals and families |
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Definition
| Management of acute and chronic conditions in settings where individuals, families, and groups live, work, and "Attend" (schools, camps, prisons |
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| community oriented nursing Focus of care at risk individuals, families and groups and community |
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| intervening at the individual, family, and group level to determining health needs of a community, and group level to improve the collective health of the community |
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| Community Health nursing practice focus of care Synthesis of nursing and public health theory |
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Definition
| Promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to individuals, families, and groups in order to imact "community health" |
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| Public Health nursing Focus synthesis of nursing and public health theory |
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Definition
Promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations through disease and disability prevention and health protection of the community as a whole.
Core functions:
systematic assessment of the health of populations
development of policies to support the health of populations
Ensuring that essential health services are available to all persons |
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| Principles of Community Health |
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Definition
Ethical considerations
advocacy
epidemiology
epidemiological calculations
epidemiological process
Community based Health education |
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| Ethical considerations in community health nursing |
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Definition
preventing harm
doing no harm
promoting good
respecting both individual and community rights
respecting autonomy and diversity
providing confidentiality
competency
trustworthiness
advocacy |
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| individuals select those actions that fulfill their goals |
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| No harm is done when applying standards of care |
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| maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms |
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| Fair distribution of the benefits and burden in society is based on the needs and contributions of the its members. |
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Definition
First: determine the nature, extent, and possible significance of the problem
2: (collection of data)and possible theory
3:gather information from a variety of sources and evaluates the plausibility of the hypothesis
4: make a plan - focuses of breaking the cycle of disease (transmission, control spread)
5: put plan into action
6: evaluate the plan
7: report and follow-up |
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| Epidemiological Triangle Host |
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Definition
Susceptible Host
age, gender, genetics, ethnicity, immunological status
physiological state
occupation |
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| Epidemiological Triangle Agent |
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Definition
Chemical agents: drugs, toxins
Physical agents: noise, temperature
Infectious agents: Viruses, Bacteria |
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| Epidemiological Triangle Environment |
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Definition
physical environment: geography, water/food supply, presence of reservoirs/vectors
Social environment: access to health care, high-risk working conditions, poverty |
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| Epidemiology studies of the relationship between the agent, host, and environment |
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Definition
Agent: animate or inanimate object that causes the disease
Host: living being that is affected by the agent
Environment: setting or surrounding that sustains the host. |
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