NUR 3678 - Community Nursing pt. 1 Exam
Questions With Complete Solutions
Community health nursing | |
Primary client is the community (focused on the health of the community)
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The synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied to promoting
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and preserving the health populations
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Emphasize preservation and protection of health
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Care of GROUPS which impacts the population as a whole
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Community based nursing | |
Application of the nursing process in caring for individuals, families, and groups
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where they live, work, or go to school or as they move through the healthcare
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system. The setting is more specific.
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BOTH focus on at risk populations, community, social justice, and health
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promotion and health maintenance.
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Setting specific |
-home health |
-outpatient
Emphasize managing acute and chronic illness
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Primary prevention |
True prevention
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Stopping something before it can occur
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,Ex: education about disease that keep people safe
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-immunization, good nutrition, providing adequate shelter | | | | |
Can be anything that prevents disease, even things such as environmental
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sanitation or adequate housing | | |
Secondary prevention |
Implemented after the problem but before symptoms arise
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Early detection is key
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Screening for diseases | |
Ex: screening for STDs, pap tests, blood pressure screening
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Tertiary prevention|
Problem has already started, aims to keep it from worsening and causing
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extensive damage |
Disease management/health maintenance
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Ex: teaching insulin administration in the home
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Modifiable risk-factors |
Smoking, eating poorly | |
All health-risk activities
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Anything you are able to control/change
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Non-modifiable risk-factors |
, Genetics, age |
Unable to change| |
Thinking upstream |
Focuses on modifying political, economic, and environmental factors that are the
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precursors of poor health throughout the world
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Examining the root causes of poor health.
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Thinking how to prevent things from happening, rather than doing damage
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control
Thinking upstream example
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Much of Population A has DM. Instead of putting a bandaid on the problem with
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Metformin or insulin, we ask | | | | |
why do so many people have DM?
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Maybe it’s because there are no healthy food options around
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microscopic conceptualizations of community health problems
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Looking at a specific or smaller aspect
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The individual patient and sometimes the family of that patient
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macroscopic conceptualizations of community health problems
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Looking at the whole picture
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Society or societal economic factors influencing health status
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When you take a microscopic focus and zoom out to look at the macroscopic
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problems, then this is an upstream approach
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Using Microscopic Conceptualizations to Improve Health Problems
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Questions With Complete Solutions
Community health nursing | |
Primary client is the community (focused on the health of the community)
| | | | | | | | | | |
The synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied to promoting
| | | | | | | | | | | |
and preserving the health populations
| | | |
Emphasize preservation and protection of health
| | | | |
Care of GROUPS which impacts the population as a whole
| | | | | | | | |
Community based nursing | |
Application of the nursing process in caring for individuals, families, and groups
| | | | | | | | | | | |
where they live, work, or go to school or as they move through the healthcare
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
system. The setting is more specific.
| | | | |
BOTH focus on at risk populations, community, social justice, and health
| | | | | | | | | | |
promotion and health maintenance.
| | |
Setting specific |
-home health |
-outpatient
Emphasize managing acute and chronic illness
| | | | |
Primary prevention |
True prevention
|
Stopping something before it can occur
| | | | |
,Ex: education about disease that keep people safe
| | | | | | |
-immunization, good nutrition, providing adequate shelter | | | | |
Can be anything that prevents disease, even things such as environmental
| | | | | | | | | | |
sanitation or adequate housing | | |
Secondary prevention |
Implemented after the problem but before symptoms arise
| | | | | | |
Early detection is key
| | |
Screening for diseases | |
Ex: screening for STDs, pap tests, blood pressure screening
| | | | | | | |
Tertiary prevention|
Problem has already started, aims to keep it from worsening and causing
| | | | | | | | | | | |
extensive damage |
Disease management/health maintenance
| |
Ex: teaching insulin administration in the home
| | | | | |
Modifiable risk-factors |
Smoking, eating poorly | |
All health-risk activities
| |
Anything you are able to control/change
| | | | |
Non-modifiable risk-factors |
, Genetics, age |
Unable to change| |
Thinking upstream |
Focuses on modifying political, economic, and environmental factors that are the
| | | | | | | | | | |
precursors of poor health throughout the world
| | | | | |
Examining the root causes of poor health.
| | | | | |
Thinking how to prevent things from happening, rather than doing damage
| | | | | | | | | | |
control
Thinking upstream example
| |
Much of Population A has DM. Instead of putting a bandaid on the problem with
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Metformin or insulin, we ask | | | | |
why do so many people have DM?
| | | | | |
Maybe it’s because there are no healthy food options around
| | | | | | | | |
microscopic conceptualizations of community health problems
| | | | |
Looking at a specific or smaller aspect
| | | | | |
The individual patient and sometimes the family of that patient
| | | | | | | | |
macroscopic conceptualizations of community health problems
| | | | |
Looking at the whole picture
| | | |
Society or societal economic factors influencing health status
| | | | | | |
When you take a microscopic focus and zoom out to look at the macroscopic
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
problems, then this is an upstream approach
| | | | | |
Using Microscopic Conceptualizations to Improve Health Problems
| | | | | |
