PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT REVIEWED
ANSWERS
Define public health.
1. According to APHA (2018), "public health promotes and
protects the health of people and the communities where
they live, learn, work, and play."
According to the IOM (1988), public health is... "what we,
as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in
which people can be healthy" "to generate organized
community effort to address the public interest in health by
applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent
disease and promote health"
Define population (or aggregate).
Populations is A collection of individuals who have one or
more personal or environmental characteristic in common
public health practice vs public health nursing
idk
public health nursing
Defined the practice as promoting and protecting the
health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social
sciences, and public health sciences
State the core functions and essential services of
public health practice.
Describe the National Public Health Performance
Standards.
,Set the bar for the level of performance necessary to
deliver essential public health services
As hospitals are accrrerditied public health agencies are
starting to obe accreditied too so they Do have
Performance Standards and they are developed arondu
the 4 standards along with the 10 esstentia lservices that
aer delivered by public health agencies
this is also uuused for quality improvement as well
Public health nurses provide healthcare to people and
communities who are ---
Community health nursing involves --- and policy
development to eliminate healthcare disparities
unable to seek assistance.
advocacy
Differentiate population-focused and individual-
focused public health nursing practice.
Population-focused practice
focuses on the entire population that are suffering
whatever health condition
Ex: hiv outbreak in southern Indiana (every year was 1 or
2 but one year it was 300)-had to do needle exchange
program to decrease HIV in the community Tax on
smokgin has decreased smoking and increase health in
commnityt
, Individual-focused practice
Ex. Antibuse clincic in porter couuty(aka for thosoe with
DUI can be cort ordered into this program and require to
take meds via health department)
STI program that is also indivisally focused
Define community-based and community-oriented
public health nursing.
Community-Based Nursing The provision or assurance of
personal illness care to individuals and families in the
community -physical space
Community-Oriented Nursing A philosophy of nursing
service delivery where the nurse provides disease
prevention and health promotion to populations and
communities
-Non physical space
Describe educational preparation for public health
nurses.
curretn adn future
Current BSN graduate has the basic preparation to
function as a staff PHN Master's degree required for
specialization in PHN and eligibility to sit for the
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT REVIEWED
ANSWERS
Define public health.
1. According to APHA (2018), "public health promotes and
protects the health of people and the communities where
they live, learn, work, and play."
According to the IOM (1988), public health is... "what we,
as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in
which people can be healthy" "to generate organized
community effort to address the public interest in health by
applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent
disease and promote health"
Define population (or aggregate).
Populations is A collection of individuals who have one or
more personal or environmental characteristic in common
public health practice vs public health nursing
idk
public health nursing
Defined the practice as promoting and protecting the
health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social
sciences, and public health sciences
State the core functions and essential services of
public health practice.
Describe the National Public Health Performance
Standards.
,Set the bar for the level of performance necessary to
deliver essential public health services
As hospitals are accrrerditied public health agencies are
starting to obe accreditied too so they Do have
Performance Standards and they are developed arondu
the 4 standards along with the 10 esstentia lservices that
aer delivered by public health agencies
this is also uuused for quality improvement as well
Public health nurses provide healthcare to people and
communities who are ---
Community health nursing involves --- and policy
development to eliminate healthcare disparities
unable to seek assistance.
advocacy
Differentiate population-focused and individual-
focused public health nursing practice.
Population-focused practice
focuses on the entire population that are suffering
whatever health condition
Ex: hiv outbreak in southern Indiana (every year was 1 or
2 but one year it was 300)-had to do needle exchange
program to decrease HIV in the community Tax on
smokgin has decreased smoking and increase health in
commnityt
, Individual-focused practice
Ex. Antibuse clincic in porter couuty(aka for thosoe with
DUI can be cort ordered into this program and require to
take meds via health department)
STI program that is also indivisally focused
Define community-based and community-oriented
public health nursing.
Community-Based Nursing The provision or assurance of
personal illness care to individuals and families in the
community -physical space
Community-Oriented Nursing A philosophy of nursing
service delivery where the nurse provides disease
prevention and health promotion to populations and
communities
-Non physical space
Describe educational preparation for public health
nurses.
curretn adn future
Current BSN graduate has the basic preparation to
function as a staff PHN Master's degree required for
specialization in PHN and eligibility to sit for the
