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Concepts of Community
Community Health Nursing 3
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
10/25/2011

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advocate
Definition
someone who pleads clients' causes or acts on their behalf
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assessment
Definition
gathering and analyzing information that will affect the health of the people to be served
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assurance
Definition
those activities that make certain that services are actually provided
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case management
Definition
a systematic process by which a nurse assesses clients' needs, plans for and coordinates services, refers to other appropriate providers, and monitors and evaluates progress to ensure that clients' multiple service needs are met in a cost-effective manner
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clinician
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a nursing role in the community that ensures that health services are provided to individuals, families, groups, and populations
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collaborator
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a role in which the nurse works jointly with others in a common endeavor
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educator
Definition
the role of health teacher; a major function of the community health nurse
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leader
Definition
a function of the community health nursing role in which the nurse directs, influences, or persuades others to effect change that will positively affect people's health and move them toward a goal
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manager
Definition
a nursing role in which the nurse exercises administrative direction toward the accomplishment of specified goals by assessing clients' needs, planning, and organizing to meet those needs, directing and leading to achieve results, and controlling and evaluating the progress to ensure that goals are met
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policy development
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formulating local and state health policies and directing resources toward those policies with information gathered during assessment
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researcher
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a role of the community health nurse in which the nurse engages in a systematic investigation, collection, and analysis of data for the purpose of solving problems and enhancing community health practice
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