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Nurs 4417 weeks 1,2, 3 Questions and Correct
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Week 1 Ignore
Aggregate Ans: total
population-focused nursing Ans: -Focuses on the entire population
-Is based on assessment of the population's health status
-Considers the broad determinants of health
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-Emphasizes all levels of prevention
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-Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals, and families
community-based nursing Ans: Acute and chronic care of individuals
and families to strengthen their capacity for self-care and promote
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independence in decision making.
Illness care
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Community-oriented nursing Ans: 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 Ans: The practice of promoting and protecting the
health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public
health sciences
Elizabethan Poor Laws Ans: first social welfare policy implemented in
colonial America, which outlined the public's responsibility for people
who were poor
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Shattuck Report Ans: first attempt to describe a model approach to the
organization of public health
Assurance Ans: 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) Ans: National voice
for baccalaureate- & higher-degree nursing education programs
Establishes quality standards for baccalaureate- & graduate-degree
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nursing education, assists in implementation of those standards
American Nurses Association (ANA) Ans: The national professional
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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
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economic and general welfare of nurses
American Public Health Association (APHA) Ans: National organization
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founded in 1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public
health.
American Red Cross Ans: 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 Ans: 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) Ans: Establishes and maintains a
universal standard of education
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National Organization for Public Health Nursing Ans: 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 Ans: Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one
of the first midwifery schools in the United States
District nursing Ans: 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 Ans: Founded in Liverpool, England, by
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philanthropist William Rathbone to provide nursing care for poor and
suffering people similar to the care that his terminally ill wife had
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received.
Frontier Nursing service Ans: a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by
Mary Breckinridge in Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers
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and Babies. The FNS influenced the development of nurse midwifery in
the United States.
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Instructive district nursing Ans: Early term for visiting nursing. Begun in
Boston, it emphasized health education and care to families.
Official health agencies Ans: 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 Ans: founded first district nursing association in
Liverpool, England
Settlement Houses Ans: institutions that provided educational and social
services to poor people
Social Security Act of 1935 Ans: Created both the Social Security
Program and a national assistance program for poor children, usually
called AFDC.
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Visiting nurse Ans: 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 Ans: Founder of public health nursing
Community based vs community oriented nursing Ans: Community
Oriented Nursing (i.e. Public Health Nursing) is focused on health
promotion and disease prevention in the community. No direct care for
individuals!
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Community Based Nursing is focused on illness care for individuals and
families (e.g. Home health nurse, School Nurse)
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Week 2 Ans: Ignore
Primary Care vs Primary Health Care Ans: primary care - individual
focus, emphasis on cure, care provided by health professionals,
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professional dominance
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primary health care- community focused,
emphasis on promotion and prevention, care provided by a wide variety
of people, self reliance
Medicare Ans: A federal program of health insurance for persons 65
years of age and older
Medicaid Ans: A federal and state assistance program that pays for
health care services for people who cannot afford them.
Consequentalism Ans: the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be
judged soley by its outcome
Utilitarianism Ans: idea that the goal of society should be to bring about
the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
Nurs 4417 weeks 1,2, 3 Questions and Correct
Answers | Latest Update
Week 1 Ignore
Aggregate Ans: total
population-focused nursing Ans: -Focuses on the entire population
-Is based on assessment of the population's health status
-Considers the broad determinants of health
Assignment Expert
-Emphasizes all levels of prevention
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-Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals, and families
community-based nursing Ans: Acute and chronic care of individuals
and families to strengthen their capacity for self-care and promote
2026
independence in decision making.
Illness care
©
Community-oriented nursing Ans: 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 Ans: The practice of promoting and protecting the
health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public
health sciences
Elizabethan Poor Laws Ans: first social welfare policy implemented in
colonial America, which outlined the public's responsibility for people
who were poor
, 2 for specific request mail
Shattuck Report Ans: first attempt to describe a model approach to the
organization of public health
Assurance Ans: 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) Ans: National voice
for baccalaureate- & higher-degree nursing education programs
Establishes quality standards for baccalaureate- & graduate-degree
Assignment Expert
nursing education, assists in implementation of those standards
American Nurses Association (ANA) Ans: The national professional
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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
2026
economic and general welfare of nurses
American Public Health Association (APHA) Ans: National organization
©
founded in 1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public
health.
American Red Cross Ans: 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 Ans: 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) Ans: Establishes and maintains a
universal standard of education
, 3 for specific request mail
National Organization for Public Health Nursing Ans: 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 Ans: Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one
of the first midwifery schools in the United States
District nursing Ans: 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 Ans: Founded in Liverpool, England, by
Assignment Expert
philanthropist William Rathbone to provide nursing care for poor and
suffering people similar to the care that his terminally ill wife had
Guru01 - Stuvia
received.
Frontier Nursing service Ans: a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by
Mary Breckinridge in Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers
2026
and Babies. The FNS influenced the development of nurse midwifery in
the United States.
©
Instructive district nursing Ans: Early term for visiting nursing. Begun in
Boston, it emphasized health education and care to families.
Official health agencies Ans: 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 Ans: founded first district nursing association in
Liverpool, England
Settlement Houses Ans: institutions that provided educational and social
services to poor people
Social Security Act of 1935 Ans: Created both the Social Security
Program and a national assistance program for poor children, usually
called AFDC.
, 4 for specific request mail
Visiting nurse Ans: 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 Ans: Founder of public health nursing
Community based vs community oriented nursing Ans: Community
Oriented Nursing (i.e. Public Health Nursing) is focused on health
promotion and disease prevention in the community. No direct care for
individuals!
Assignment Expert
Community Based Nursing is focused on illness care for individuals and
families (e.g. Home health nurse, School Nurse)
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Week 2 Ans: Ignore
Primary Care vs Primary Health Care Ans: primary care - individual
focus, emphasis on cure, care provided by health professionals,
2026
professional dominance
©
primary health care- community focused,
emphasis on promotion and prevention, care provided by a wide variety
of people, self reliance
Medicare Ans: A federal program of health insurance for persons 65
years of age and older
Medicaid Ans: A federal and state assistance program that pays for
health care services for people who cannot afford them.
Consequentalism Ans: the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be
judged soley by its outcome
Utilitarianism Ans: idea that the goal of society should be to bring about
the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
