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Community Health Nursing
Essentials of Community Nursing
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
05/25/2016

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Community Health Nursing activities Focus of care Individuals and families
Definition
Management of acute and chronic conditions in settings where individuals, families, and groups live, work, and "Attend" (schools, camps, prisons
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community oriented nursing Focus of care at risk individuals, families and groups and community
Definition
intervening at the individual, family, and group level to determining health needs of a community, and group level to improve the collective health of the community
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Community Health nursing practice focus of care Synthesis of nursing and public health theory
Definition
Promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to individuals, families, and groups in order to imact "community health"
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Public Health nursing Focus synthesis of nursing and public health theory
Definition
Promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations through disease and disability prevention and health protection of the community as a whole.
Core functions:
systematic assessment of the health of populations
development of policies to support the health of populations
Ensuring that essential health services are available to all persons
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Principles of Community Health
Definition
Ethical considerations
advocacy
epidemiology
epidemiological calculations
epidemiological process
Community based Health education
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Ethical considerations in community health nursing
Definition
preventing harm
doing no harm
promoting good
respecting both individual and community rights
respecting autonomy and diversity
providing confidentiality
competency
trustworthiness
advocacy
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Respect for autonomy
Definition
individuals select those actions that fulfill their goals
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Nonmaleficence
Definition
No harm is done when applying standards of care
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Beneficence
Definition
maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms
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Distributive Justice
Definition
Fair distribution of the benefits and burden in society is based on the needs and contributions of the its members.
Term
Epidemiological Process
Definition
First: determine the nature, extent, and possible significance of the problem
2: (collection of data)and possible theory
3:gather information from a variety of sources and evaluates the plausibility of the hypothesis
4: make a plan - focuses of breaking the cycle of disease (transmission, control spread)
5: put plan into action
6: evaluate the plan
7: report and follow-up
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Epidemiological Triangle Host
Definition
Susceptible Host
age, gender, genetics, ethnicity, immunological status
physiological state
occupation
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Epidemiological Triangle Agent
Definition
Chemical agents: drugs, toxins
Physical agents: noise, temperature
Infectious agents: Viruses, Bacteria
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Epidemiological Triangle Environment
Definition
physical environment: geography, water/food supply, presence of reservoirs/vectors
Social environment: access to health care, high-risk working conditions, poverty
Term
Epidemiology studies of the relationship between the agent, host, and environment
Definition
Agent: animate or inanimate object that causes the disease
Host: living being that is affected by the agent
Environment: setting or surrounding that sustains the host.
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