Ch 1 Stanhope:Foundations for
Population Health in Community/Public
Health Nursing 5th edition
Community-based nursing Ans- setting-specific practice in which care is provided for "sick" individuals
and families where they live, work, and go to school. The emphasis of practice is acute and chronic care
and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous services. Nurses who deliver
community-based care are generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric-
mental health nursing.
Community-oriented nursing Ans- The Goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining health and
preventing disease to promote the quality of life.
Assessment Ans- This involves systematically collecting data on the population, monitoring the
population's health status, and making information available about the health of the community.
Assurance Ans- This is making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available.
These services might providing essential personal health services for those who would otherwise not
receive them. This also includes making sure that a competent public health and personal health care
workforce is available.
Community Ans- A group of people, often living in a defined geographical area, who may share a
common culture, values and norms, and are arranged in a social structure according to relationships
which the community has developed over time.
public health nursing Ans- its primary focus the health care of either the community or populations of
individuals, families, and groups in a community. The main goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or
maintain health of individuals, families, and groups.
Policy development Ans- This refers to efforts to develop policies that support the health of the
population, including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions.
Population Health in Community/Public
Health Nursing 5th edition
Community-based nursing Ans- setting-specific practice in which care is provided for "sick" individuals
and families where they live, work, and go to school. The emphasis of practice is acute and chronic care
and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous services. Nurses who deliver
community-based care are generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric-
mental health nursing.
Community-oriented nursing Ans- The Goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining health and
preventing disease to promote the quality of life.
Assessment Ans- This involves systematically collecting data on the population, monitoring the
population's health status, and making information available about the health of the community.
Assurance Ans- This is making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available.
These services might providing essential personal health services for those who would otherwise not
receive them. This also includes making sure that a competent public health and personal health care
workforce is available.
Community Ans- A group of people, often living in a defined geographical area, who may share a
common culture, values and norms, and are arranged in a social structure according to relationships
which the community has developed over time.
public health nursing Ans- its primary focus the health care of either the community or populations of
individuals, families, and groups in a community. The main goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or
maintain health of individuals, families, and groups.
Policy development Ans- This refers to efforts to develop policies that support the health of the
population, including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions.
