NURS 4417 WEEKS 1,2, 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Week 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ignore
Aggregate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅total
population-focused nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Focuses on the entire population
-Is based on assessment of the population's health status
-Considers the broad determinants of health
-Emphasizes all levels of prevention
-Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals, and families
community-based nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Acute and chronic care of individuals and families to
strengthen their capacity for self-care and promote independence in decision making.
Illness care
Community-oriented nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nursing that has as its primary focus the health
care of either the community or a population of individuals, families, and groups
Preventative care
Public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The practice of promoting and protecting the health of
populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences
Elizabethan Poor Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅first social welfare policy implemented in colonial
America, which outlined the public's responsibility for people who were poor
Shattuck Report - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅first attempt to describe a model approach to the organization
of public health
,Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅refers to the role of public health in ensuring that essential
community-oriented health services are available, which may include providing essential personal health
services for those who would otherwise not receive them.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅National voice for
baccalaureate- & higher-degree nursing education programs
Establishes quality standards for baccalaureate- & graduate-degree nursing education, assists in
implementation of those standards
American Nurses Association (ANA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The national professional membership
association of nurses that works for the improvement of health standards and the availability of
healthcare services, fosters high professional standards for the nursing profession, and advances the
economic and general welfare of nurses
American Public Health Association (APHA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅National organization founded in
1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public health.
American Red Cross - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A disaster relief organization founded in Washington, D.C.
on May 21, 1881 by Clara Barton to aid US military and conduct peace time relief work.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Life insurance company that paid for or
directly provided home nursing services for its beneficiaries and their families from 1909 to 1952.
National League for Nursing (NLN) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Establishes and maintains a universal
standard of education
National Organization for Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Organized in 1912 to improve
the education and standards of public health nursing and to help the public understand the importance
of this type of nurse.
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one of the first
midwifery schools in the United States
,District nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅System in public health nursing in which a nurse was assigned
to a geographic district in a town to provide a variety of health services for its residents.
District nursing association - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded in Liverpool, England, by philanthropist
William Rathbone to provide nursing care for poor and suffering people similar to the care that his
terminally ill wife had received.
Frontier Nursing service - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by Mary
Breckinridge in Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. The FNS influenced the
development of nurse midwifery in the United States.
Instructive district nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Early term for visiting nursing. Begun in Boston, it
emphasized health education and care to families.
Official health agencies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Agencies operated by state or local governments to
provide a wide range of public health services, including community and public health nursing services.
William Rathbone - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅founded first district nursing association in Liverpool,
England
Settlement Houses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅institutions that provided educational and social services to
poor people
Social Security Act of 1935 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Created both the Social Security Program and a
national assistance program for poor children, usually called AFDC.
Visiting nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅professional nurse who provides health promotion, disease
prevention, screening, illness, and rehabilitation services in the home of individuals and families; usually
as part of visiting nurse associations.
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founder of public health nursing
, Community based vs community oriented nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Community Oriented
Nursing (i.e. Public Health Nursing) is focused on health promotion and disease prevention in the
community. No direct care for individuals!
Community Based Nursing is focused on illness care for individuals and families (e.g. Home health nurse,
School Nurse)
Week 2 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ignore
Primary Care vs Primary Health Care - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅primary care - individual focus, emphasis
on cure, care provided by health professionals, professional dominance
primary health care- community focused,
emphasis on promotion and prevention, care provided by a wide variety of people, self reliance
Medicare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age
and older
Medicaid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care
services for people who cannot afford them.
Consequentalism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged
soley by its outcome
Utilitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest
happiness for the greatest number of people
Virtue Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An ethical philosophy claiming that morality's primary function is
to develop virtuous character
Week 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ignore
Aggregate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅total
population-focused nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Focuses on the entire population
-Is based on assessment of the population's health status
-Considers the broad determinants of health
-Emphasizes all levels of prevention
-Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals, and families
community-based nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Acute and chronic care of individuals and families to
strengthen their capacity for self-care and promote independence in decision making.
Illness care
Community-oriented nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nursing that has as its primary focus the health
care of either the community or a population of individuals, families, and groups
Preventative care
Public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The practice of promoting and protecting the health of
populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences
Elizabethan Poor Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅first social welfare policy implemented in colonial
America, which outlined the public's responsibility for people who were poor
Shattuck Report - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅first attempt to describe a model approach to the organization
of public health
,Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅refers to the role of public health in ensuring that essential
community-oriented health services are available, which may include providing essential personal health
services for those who would otherwise not receive them.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅National voice for
baccalaureate- & higher-degree nursing education programs
Establishes quality standards for baccalaureate- & graduate-degree nursing education, assists in
implementation of those standards
American Nurses Association (ANA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The national professional membership
association of nurses that works for the improvement of health standards and the availability of
healthcare services, fosters high professional standards for the nursing profession, and advances the
economic and general welfare of nurses
American Public Health Association (APHA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅National organization founded in
1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public health.
American Red Cross - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A disaster relief organization founded in Washington, D.C.
on May 21, 1881 by Clara Barton to aid US military and conduct peace time relief work.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Life insurance company that paid for or
directly provided home nursing services for its beneficiaries and their families from 1909 to 1952.
National League for Nursing (NLN) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Establishes and maintains a universal
standard of education
National Organization for Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Organized in 1912 to improve
the education and standards of public health nursing and to help the public understand the importance
of this type of nurse.
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one of the first
midwifery schools in the United States
,District nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅System in public health nursing in which a nurse was assigned
to a geographic district in a town to provide a variety of health services for its residents.
District nursing association - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded in Liverpool, England, by philanthropist
William Rathbone to provide nursing care for poor and suffering people similar to the care that his
terminally ill wife had received.
Frontier Nursing service - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by Mary
Breckinridge in Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. The FNS influenced the
development of nurse midwifery in the United States.
Instructive district nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Early term for visiting nursing. Begun in Boston, it
emphasized health education and care to families.
Official health agencies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Agencies operated by state or local governments to
provide a wide range of public health services, including community and public health nursing services.
William Rathbone - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅founded first district nursing association in Liverpool,
England
Settlement Houses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅institutions that provided educational and social services to
poor people
Social Security Act of 1935 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Created both the Social Security Program and a
national assistance program for poor children, usually called AFDC.
Visiting nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅professional nurse who provides health promotion, disease
prevention, screening, illness, and rehabilitation services in the home of individuals and families; usually
as part of visiting nurse associations.
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founder of public health nursing
, Community based vs community oriented nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Community Oriented
Nursing (i.e. Public Health Nursing) is focused on health promotion and disease prevention in the
community. No direct care for individuals!
Community Based Nursing is focused on illness care for individuals and families (e.g. Home health nurse,
School Nurse)
Week 2 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ignore
Primary Care vs Primary Health Care - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅primary care - individual focus, emphasis
on cure, care provided by health professionals, professional dominance
primary health care- community focused,
emphasis on promotion and prevention, care provided by a wide variety of people, self reliance
Medicare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age
and older
Medicaid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care
services for people who cannot afford them.
Consequentalism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged
soley by its outcome
Utilitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest
happiness for the greatest number of people
Virtue Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An ethical philosophy claiming that morality's primary function is
to develop virtuous character
