Correct Answers
What are the Community Health Nursing roles?
- Public Health Nurse
- Primary Care Nurse
- Home Health Nurse
What is the population of focus (Individual health or population health) for each
community health nursing role?
Public Health Nurse: Population Health
Primary Care Nurse: Individual Health
Home Health Nurse: Individual Health
What is the work setting for each community health nursing role?
Public Health Nurse: Client homes, community settings, public health office
Primary Care Nurse: Primary care clinic, school clinics
Home Health Nurse: Client homes, schools, workplaces
, Which levels of prevention do each community health nursing role affect?
Public Health Nurse: Primordial, primary, secondary
Primary Care Nurse: Primary, secondary, tertiary
Home Health Nurse: Tertiary, palliative care
What are Social Determinants of Health?
The social and economic factors that influence people's health... the living and working
conditions that people experience every day (WHO definition)
What are the essential components of primary health care:
- Accessibility
- Public participation
- Health promotion (and chronic disease prevention and management)
- Appropriate technology
- Intersectoral collaboration
What is primary health care?
Primary Health care (PHC) is a a principle-based, comprehensive approach that seeks to
improve the health of populations across the continuum of care (e.g., acute,
community, long term, rehabilitation, hospice, corrections, etc.), from birth to death, in
all settings.