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Describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the
purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions |
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| Disease and other health event investigation |
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Systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to the health of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies
cases and others at risk, and determines control measures. |
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Locates populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk and provides information about the nature of the concern, what can be done
about it, and how services can be obtained. |
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| Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations |
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| Locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them with resources |
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Assists individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities to identify and access necessary resources in to prevent or
resolve problems or concerns |
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Optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals and families and the capacity of systems and communities to coordinate and provide
services. |
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Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law.
Delegated functions also include any direct care tasks a registered professional nurse judges entrusts to other appropriate personnel to
perform |
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Communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families,
systems, and/or communities |
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Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system, and family or individual intended to increase or enhance their
capacity for self-care and coping. Counseling engages the community, a system, and family or individual at an emotional level |
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Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems or issues through interactive problem solving with a
community, system, and family or individual. The community, system, and family or individual select and act on the option best
meeting the circumstances |
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Commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the
members to promote and protect health |
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Promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common purpose. It builds linkages, solves problems,
and/or enhances local leadership to address health concerns |
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Helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching
the goals they collectively have set |
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Pleads someone’s cause or act on someone’s behalf, with a focus on developing the community, system, and individual or family’s
capacity to plead their own cause or act on their own behalf |
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Utilizes commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs,
behaviors, and practices of the population-of-interest |
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Places health issues on decision-makers’ agendas, acquires a plan of resolution, and determines needed resources. Policy development
results in laws, rules and regulation, ordinances, and policies |
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| Compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies created in conjunction with policy development |
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