Health Concepts
This model describes health as a constantly changing state, ranging from optimal wellness to severe illness.
What is the health continuum?
This role involves providing accurate, accessible, and culturally appropriate health information to the public.
What is the role of educator?
This type of community is defined by physical boundaries like neighborhoods or towns.
What is a geographic community?
These three core functions—assessment, policy development, and assurance—form the foundation of public health nursing.
What are the core functions of public health?
This pioneer founded the Henry Street Settlement and was instrumental in starting school nursing in the U.S.
Who is Lillian Wald?
This concept includes emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of well-being, not just physical health.
What is holistic health?
This role includes negotiating for client resources, confronting power structures, and promoting self-determination.
What is the role of advocate?
This type of community shares values, beliefs, or goals rather than geography—like veterans or breast cancer survivors.
What is a community of common interest?
This function involves collecting and analyzing health data to identify needs and set priorities.
What is assessment?
This era of nursing (1900–1970) expanded care to the general public and combined curative and preventive services.
What is the Public Health Nursing era?
This quote from Florence Nightingale emphasizes purposeful use of one’s abilities in defining health.
What is “Health is not only to be well but to use well the powers we have”?
This nurse role ensures that care is organized, goal-directed, and outcome-measured in diverse community settings.
What is the role of manager?
What is a community of solution?
What is a community of solution?
This function ensures that necessary health services are available and accessible to all populations.
What is assurance?
During this earlier era (mid-1800s–1900), visiting nurses focused on both individual care and home visits.
What is the District Nursing era?
This approach focuses on balance, growth, and proactive behaviors, aiming for a holistic state of health.
What is wellness?
This role includes generating new knowledge through systematic inquiry and applying evidence-based practice in the community.
What is the role of researcher?
This setting includes faith-based initiatives, such as parish nursing, which combine spiritual and physical health efforts.
What is a faith community?
This set of 10 guidelines outlines services like monitoring health status and linking people to needed care.
What are the 10 essential public health services?
She reformed sanitation practices in wartime hospitals and is known as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This concept is essential in community nursing to assess both how clients feel and how they function.
What is the difference between subjective and objective health?
These four roles—advocate, educator, collaborator, and clinician—may all be seen in a school nurse organizing a vaccine clinic.
What are the roles of the community/public health nurse?
This is the setting where a nurse might integrate roles of educator, advocate, and case manager while conducting home visits.
What is home health or home-based care?
This concept emphasizes working with housing or transportation sectors to address broader social determinants of health.
What is collaboration with community sectors to support public health assurance?
This modern era of community health nursing emphasizes population-level prevention and health promotion across diverse settings.
What is the Community Health Nursing era (1970–present)?