History and Role of Community & Public Health Nursing
This tool consists of 17 interventions and addresses three levels of practice to improve population health outcomes.
What is the Minnesota Wheel of Public Health Nursing Interventions?
This ethical foundation emphasizes equality, fairness, human rights, and collective action to protect those that are vulnerable in society.
What is Social Justice?
Measures such as Infant & Maternal Mortality Rates, Chronic Disease Prevalence, and Barriers to Care that are commonly used to assess the overall health status of a community or population.
What are Health Indicators?
This term refers to the process of directing individuals to resources that help meet their needs.
What is a Referral?
True or False?
Ethnic customs, religious beliefs, and interpersonal customs rarely affect nursing care.
False
True or False?
The need for CPHNs is expected to grow.
True.
The job outlook for CPHNs is expected to grow with a shift from inpatient settings to community settings.
Providing incentives to encourage grocery stores to open in underserved areas & expanding SNAP benefits to cover fresh, healthy foods is an example of this core public health function addressing access to healthy food options as a SDOH.
What is Policy Development?
Increase teen parent knowledge about the effects of marijuana use prenatally and postnatally, on infants & young children, expectant moms & young parents and where to get more information is an example of this kind of statement.
What is a Goal?
This intervention gives a more accurate assessment of the family structure and behavior in the natural environment and to identify barriers and support for reaching family health promotion goals.
What is a Home Visit?
This theory asserts that people must believe that they are personally susceptible to the risk of contracting a disease, and that the disease is serious, before they will act to make a change.
What is the Health Belief Model?
This level of prevention includes vaccinations, healthy lifestyle education, and seatbelt use to stop diseases or injuries before they occur.
What is the Primary Level of Prevention?
A doctor assumes a patient’s pain level is lower than reported based on their race, leading to inadequate pain management. This is an example of what subconscious process that influences decisions without intentional awareness?
What is Implicit Bias?
True or False?
A community needs assessment assists the CPHN in planning interventions for individual patients.
False.
A community needs assessment helps define healthy communities.
This process consists of five stages, including preplanning, initiation, implementation, termination, and post visit.
What are the 5 Phases of the Home Visit?
This process helps people enhance their well-being and maximize their human potential by changing patterns of behavior, instead of just avoiding illness; to enable people to exercise control over their well being in order to improve their health.
What is Health Promotion?
This field of nursing focuses on promoting and protecting the health of populations by using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences.
What is Public Health Nursing?
True or False?
The nurse has a responsibility to be aware not only of specific health needs of individual patients, but also other aspects including inequitable distribution of nursing and health care resources.
True.
This is a multi-step process that generally begins with the definition of the problem and development of an evaluation plan. Although specific steps may vary, they usually include a feedback loop, with findings from program evaluation being used for program improvement.”
What is Program Planning?
Activities in this process include applying comprehensive assessment methods, determining conclusions of the assessment, validating & prioritizing w/ all participants, and examining outcomes against goals?
What is the Case Management Process?
This theory asserts that the readiness for a person to adopt a healthy behavior happens in stages.
What is the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change?
Bonus: What are the stages?
These trailblazers made groundbreaking contributions to the field of nursing. Who are at least 3 of them?
Who are Dorthea Dix, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Hazel Johnson-Brown, Lillian Wald, and Margaret Sanger?
Poverty & low socio-economic status contribute to social conditions in which health disparities are more likely in these populations.
What are vulnerable populations?
This is a process that attempts to determine as systematically and objectively as possible the relevance, effectiveness and impact of activities,
in light of the objectives.
What is Evaluation?
Interventions at this level of care include wound care, infusion therapy, enteral nutrition, and chronic disease management.
Hint: Medstar
What are Skilled Nursing Services?
This theory asserts that people learn from the actions of others in addition to their own experiences and emphasizes the link between the social environment and learning.
What is Social Cognitive Theory?