Who am I?
These nurses help meet the needs of the population while carrying out the mission of health ministry.
Who are Parish Nurses?
Discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics, and assessment; as well as, program planning and policy development.
What is Public Health Nursing?
Using basic epidemiology, she was able to decrease mortality rates in soldiers of war.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The Federal School Health Program has 8 components. Name 3.
Health Education, Physical Education, Health services, nutrition services, Counseling and psychological and social services, health and safe school environment, health promotion for staff, and family and community involvement.
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A person born today can expect to live 30 years longer than a person that was born in 1900. Why?
Advances in public health and medical care, through prevention of illness and policy development.
This nurse wears multiple hats on the job, but one of the main task is caring for children and their families.
Who are school nurses?
Intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent disease from the beginning.
What is primary prevention?
She secured donations to help fund the American Red Cross and also help established settlement houses.
Who is Lillian Wald?
Give an example of tertiary prevention for the school nurse.
Treatment/maintenance of a child with asthma, DM, Austism, ADD/AHDH, special needs, DNR's, homebound children, and pregnant/ teen moms.
The introduction of what program in 1966 shifted focus from care for acutely ill people to health promotion and illness prevention.
Medicare
This practice is considered a specialty; seeks to prevent work-related exposures and injuries through health promotion and safety education.
What is occupational nursing?
A collection of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics.
What is a population?
This service focuses on symptom management
What is palliative care?
How does the congregational-based model differ from the institutional-based model?
Congregational-based arises from the individual community of faith and the nurse is autonomous and is accountable to the congregation/ governing bodies. In the institutional-based the nurse is usually in a contractual relationship with outside institutions.
The occupational nurse is removing a foreign body from a patient's eye. What level of prevention is this?
Secondary- the injury has already occurred and the removal is treatment of the injury.
The skill and knowledge of this type of nurse is broad. Care ranges from wellness checks to intravenous therapy and complex wound care.
Who are home health nurses?
Set of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that is widely held among a group of people
What is culture?
Sharing health information between the patient and a practitioner via the use of technological modalities.
What is Telehealth?
What is the purpose of the windshield survey?
Community or neighborhood assessment allows for the nurse to draw conclusions about the health, trends, and stability of that community.
What is it called when a person is integrating cultural knowledge and awareness to meet the patient's needs?
Cultural Skill
This specialty of nurses work to ensure dignity and quality of remaining life as a goal.
What are hospice nurses?
A core function that involves getting to know the community
What is community assessment?
Provides general guidelines and support for all school nurses
Who are the National Association of School Nurses?
Why are nutritional practices an important part of culture and nursing assessment?
Dietary patterns are assessed because some health issues/ problems can be exaggerated by common culturally inspired dishes.
The community nurse is reviewing vital statistics. What can be learned from this?
Community health status