COMMUNITY-BASED AND HOME HEALTH CARE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
community-based nursing provides personal care to individual clients or families,
while public health focuses on populations such as a neighborhood, school
system, city, state, nation, or continent. - CORRECT ANSWER What is the
difference between community-based nursing and public health?
examines the greater community as a whole - the city, county, state, nation,
continent, world- and designs collaborative and interdisciplinary strategies to keep
the population healthy by preventing or controlling disease and threats to human
health. - CORRECT ANSWER Public Health Nursing
population of interest; reference to groups of clients within a community (young,
elderly, homeless, inmate, or residents of a city). - CORRECT ANSWER Target
Population
advocating with housing authorities to ensure accessible and safe housing;
planning multilingual, culturally based immunization clinics to increase
participation; and investigating the incidence of foodborne illness. - CORRECT
ANSWER What are some interventions performed by public health nurses?
occurrence - CORRECT ANSWER Incidence
The Quad Council of Public Health Organizations - CORRECT ANSWER What
organization developed standards to guide the evolution and development of
nursing practice aimed at population-based care?
, participation in research; responsible resource utilization; ethical behavior;
leadership; advocacy similar to the standards of practice for all nurses. - CORRECT
ANSWER What does the ANA's Public Health Nursing Scope and Standards of
Practice require?
the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, including the
health system; can cause a population to be healthy or vulnerable to disease and
disability. - CORRECT ANSWER Social Determinants of Health
medicine, dentistry, dietetics, biostatistics, epidemiology, finance, and health
policy makers. - CORRECT ANSWER Name a few colleagues a public nurse would
collaborate with.
encompasses more than public health by including organized community health
initiatives of both private and government agencies and groups; i.e. Susan B.
Komen Foundation. - CORRECT ANSWER How does Nies and McEwen define
community health?
they aim to reduce targeted illnesses and disabilities; address health care disparity
at certain socioeconomic levels; identify much-needed services. - CORRECT
ANSWER How are the Institute of Medicine's Public Health Reports and Healthy
People 2020 examples of science-based plans?
physician’s office or outpatient clinic - CORRECT ANSWER Ambulatory Care