PHN Practice
PHN Process
Interventions & Health Issues
Diverse Populations III
Policy
100
Relies on science of epidemiology and focuses on health promotion and disease prevention
What are two of the Cornerstones of public health nursing practice?
100
Carrying out the community-based plan.
What is implementation?
100
Health Teaching about physical activity and good nutrition to address youth obesity
What is an intervention at the primary prevention level?
100
Factors that have had an important impact on partnerships between parishioners and faith community nursing.
What is health care access and methods for paying for health care?
100
The process of influencing the allocation of scarce resources.
What is politics?
200
Complex interrelationships of numerous factors interacting to increase or decrease the risk of disease
What is the web of causation?
200
Established before the plan is implemented.
When is evaluation carried out?
200
Mantoux skin testing of residents by the PHN at the local homeless shelter
What is screening at a secondary level of prevention?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Zero tolerance policies by law enforcement, parent involvement and inclusion in school curriculum.
What are strategies for prevention of teen substance abuse in rural communities?
200
Examples are seat belt laws and tobacco purchasing that apply to all members of society and have set consequences for not complying
What is public policy?
300
Focus is on changing organizations, policies, laws, and power structures for a more effective and long-lasting way to impact population health.
What is systems level of practice?
300
Windshield survey, interviews to understand perceptions of community members and professionals, collection and analysis of eight subsystems
What are the steps of the community assessment?
300
Partnering with the local domestic violence shelter on resources for developing a therapy program for sexually abused children
What is collaboration at the tertiary level of prevention?
300
Immigrants, homeless persons, migrants, people of color, persons with chronic disabilities
Who are examples of marginalized groups?
300
Institutional, public, social, organizational, and health
What are the types of policy?
400
Allowing family members to care for loved ones that don't need clinical care and be able to describe and participate in Incident Command System
What is nurse's role in emergency preparedness?
400
Process(sometimes formative), impact (immediate), and outcome (long term)
What are three types of evaluation?
400
Foremost challenge to global health that contributes to health disparities
What is poverty?
400
Facilitate access to various community resources for the clients.
What is the responsibility of the faith community nurse?
400
Know the legislative process, stay informed on current issues, identify your government representatives, be an active constituent and speak out by writing letters and phoning your representatives - speak out.
What are the activities of the nurse in health policy?
500
Focus of the distribution of frequencies and patterns of health events with groups in a population.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
500
Determines if progress is occurring in the program
What is process evaluation?
500
Faster disease transmission, increased health problems, brain drain and health disparities widen
What are negative effects of globalization?
500
Issues in rural communities that are affected disproportionately as compared to urban.
What is obesity and substance abuse?
500
Early nurse leader who initiated and developed policy in infection control in military hospitals.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
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