NU411--Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions

NU411--Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions theory of greater good - Ans:-practice in public health nursing that pertains to doing the most good for the highest number of individuals in a population John Snow - Ans:-father of epidemiology; studied the London Cholera epidemic and determined its source to be a contaminated well National Public Health Performance Standards - Ans:-set of guidelines that emphasize importance of demonstrating improved health outcomes fro populations, evaluating efficacy of interventions, and comparing current status to national benchmarks mid 1960s - Ans:-when public health nursing reemerged respecting autonomy, doing good, avoiding harm, treating people fairly - Ans:-cornerstones of public health nursing ethics churches, wealthy citizens, individual nurses - Ans:-organizing efforts for early nursing practice Great Stink (1858) - Ans:-a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated sewage almost caused the abandonment of the biggest city in the world Mary Robinson - Ans:-first district nurse ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/15 Nightingale - Ans:-created modern nursing profession; lead war nurses in 1854, emphasized infection prevention, opened nursing school in Liverpool Lemeul Shattuck - Ans:-In 1850, published the first report on sanitation and public health problems. Recommended the exchange of health information, sanitary inspections, research on tuberculosis, and the teaching of sanitation and prevention in medical schools. Founding health departments. Dorothea Dix - Ans:-Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental asylums Clara Barton - Ans:-Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross Lilian Wald - Ans:-founder of public health nursing; established the Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan, NY for poor and ill citizens Mary Breckinridge - Ans:-Established the Frontier Nursing Service; focused on women and children in rural areas; created the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery increased nurse training and education, recognition of nurse's autonomy, preventative care - Ans:- major outcomes for public health nurses as a result of historical figures Healthy People 2020 - Ans:-A set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium decentralized, laissez faire, and resources - Ans:-basic features of the U.S. healthcare system ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/15 decentralization - Ans:-decisions regarding healthcare are allotted to local, state, and federal governments laissez faire - Ans:-private parties deliver care; public healthcare entities are for the poor abundant resources - Ans:-U.S. spends more on health care than most countries disjointed public and private entities, no central plan, multiple layers of government - Ans:- components of the U.S. healthcare system primary healthcare - Ans:-the promotion of health and prevention of the occurrence of disease; immunizations, clean water, avoiding smoking secondary healthcare - Ans:-detection and treatment of disease as early as possible; pap smear, colonoscopy, etc. tertiary healthcare - Ans:-geared toward preventing disability, complications, and death from disease; rehabilitation, inpatient direct services - Ans:-a clinician works in a face-to-face format with an individual patient or a group of patients indirect services - Ans:-not personally received by an individual; health planning