Community Health Nursing: A Canadian Perspective
(4th Edition) By Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler PhD RN
FAAN
3 shared commonalities - ANSWER: geographic, common interest, community of
solution
community of solution - ANSWER: group of people who come together to solve
problems that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for
water pollution
common interest - ANSWER: collection of people with interest or goal that bind
them together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
population - ANSWER: all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one
more characteristic, may not necessarily interact
aggregates - ANSWER: a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered
as a whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population
aggregates - ANSWER: communities and populations are types of
goal of community health nursing - ANSWER: health promotion, disease prevention,
and health protection
promotion of health - ANSWER: health education, preventative care services, healthy
people 2010, raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and
communities
prevention of health problems - ANSWER: anticipating and averting problems or
discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment
primary prevention - ANSWER: to keep illness from occurring, hand rails,
immunizations
secondary prevention - ANSWER: efforts to detect and treat existing health
problems. Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control
or eradicate the problem
tertiary prevention - ANSWER: attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health
problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after
CVA.
tertiary prevention - ANSWER: someone that has an eating disorder, following up
with counseling
, treatment of disorders - ANSWER: focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect
service, development of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
indirect service - ANSWER: referring to someone, calling another professional to help
solve problem for client
rehab - ANSWER: efforts to reduce disability and restore function as much as
possible
evaluation - ANSWER: process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and
improved according to established goals and standards
research - ANSWER: investigation to discover facts affecting community health and
community health practice, solve problems, and explore improved methods of
health science
healthy people 2010 - ANSWER: increase quality and years of life, eliminate health
disparities
healthy people 2010 - ANSWER: emphasis on community partnerships,
determinant of health - ANSWER: biology
determinant of health - ANSWER: behavior
determinant of health - ANSWER: social & physical environment
determinant of health - ANSWER: polices and interventions
community health status - ANSWER: health of total population
community health status - ANSWER: measured by birth and death rates, morbidity
statistics
healthy people 2010 indicators - ANSWER: physical activity, obesity, tobacco use,
substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, environmental
quality, immunization, access to healthcare
core public health functions - ANSWER: assessment, policy development, assurance
role of community health nurse - ANSWER: clinician, educator, advocate,
collaborator, leader, researcher, case manager
clinician - ANSWER: most familiar role, ensures health services are provided
(4th Edition) By Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler PhD RN
FAAN
3 shared commonalities - ANSWER: geographic, common interest, community of
solution
community of solution - ANSWER: group of people who come together to solve
problems that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for
water pollution
common interest - ANSWER: collection of people with interest or goal that bind
them together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
population - ANSWER: all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one
more characteristic, may not necessarily interact
aggregates - ANSWER: a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered
as a whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population
aggregates - ANSWER: communities and populations are types of
goal of community health nursing - ANSWER: health promotion, disease prevention,
and health protection
promotion of health - ANSWER: health education, preventative care services, healthy
people 2010, raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and
communities
prevention of health problems - ANSWER: anticipating and averting problems or
discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment
primary prevention - ANSWER: to keep illness from occurring, hand rails,
immunizations
secondary prevention - ANSWER: efforts to detect and treat existing health
problems. Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control
or eradicate the problem
tertiary prevention - ANSWER: attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health
problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after
CVA.
tertiary prevention - ANSWER: someone that has an eating disorder, following up
with counseling
, treatment of disorders - ANSWER: focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect
service, development of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
indirect service - ANSWER: referring to someone, calling another professional to help
solve problem for client
rehab - ANSWER: efforts to reduce disability and restore function as much as
possible
evaluation - ANSWER: process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and
improved according to established goals and standards
research - ANSWER: investigation to discover facts affecting community health and
community health practice, solve problems, and explore improved methods of
health science
healthy people 2010 - ANSWER: increase quality and years of life, eliminate health
disparities
healthy people 2010 - ANSWER: emphasis on community partnerships,
determinant of health - ANSWER: biology
determinant of health - ANSWER: behavior
determinant of health - ANSWER: social & physical environment
determinant of health - ANSWER: polices and interventions
community health status - ANSWER: health of total population
community health status - ANSWER: measured by birth and death rates, morbidity
statistics
healthy people 2010 indicators - ANSWER: physical activity, obesity, tobacco use,
substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, environmental
quality, immunization, access to healthcare
core public health functions - ANSWER: assessment, policy development, assurance
role of community health nurse - ANSWER: clinician, educator, advocate,
collaborator, leader, researcher, case manager
clinician - ANSWER: most familiar role, ensures health services are provided
