Study Guide
nightingale model - ✔✔A standard for proper education and supervision of nurses in practice
community based nursing - ✔✔
Advocate - ✔✔for patients, pleading their cause or acting on their behalf
clinician - ✔✔the nurse ensures health services are provided not just to individuals and
families, but also to groups and populations
educator - ✔✔health teacher, legislated through nurse practice acts in a number of states and
is one of the major functions of community health nurse.
manager - ✔✔the nurse exercises administrative direction toward the accomplishment of
specified goals by assessing clients needs, planning and organizing to meet those needs,
directing and leading to achieve results, and controlling and evaluating the progress to ensure
goals are met.
leader - ✔✔the nurse directs, influences, or persuades others to effect change that will
positively impact peoples health and move them towards their goals
case management - ✔✔is a systemic process by which a nurse assess clients needs , plans for,
and coordinates services, refers to other appropriate providers, and monitors, and evaluates
progress to ensure the clients multiple serves needs are met in cost-effective manner.
policy development - ✔✔is enhanced by the synthesis and analysis of information obtained
during an assessment
, triple aim - ✔✔improving population of health, reducing healthcare costs, and providing
improved patient outcomes
Geographic Information System (GIS) - ✔✔a type of data that allows the ability to target
groups by race, age, and family status. data can be found through a variety of federal services.
ex CDC.
authoritative knowledge - ✔✔comes from an expert and is accepted as truth based on the
person's perceived expertise, this is based not on whose knowledge may be right but rather on
what is "accepted as legitimate and accurate"
advisory group - ✔✔representatives from the target and service communities to ensure the
success of an intervention
Predisposing factors - ✔✔provide the rationale or motivation for subsequent behavior
reinforcing factors - ✔✔provide a continued motivation to repeat or press in the behavior
enabling factors - ✔✔promote or facilitate the behavior based upon availability
logic modules - ✔✔used to articulate the casual relationship between planned program
activities and the expected outcome
quality indicators - ✔✔of clients outcomes are the quantitative measures of a clients response
to care
benchmarking* - ✔✔uses continuous, collaborative and systemic processes for measuring and
examining internal programs strength and weaknesses