ABOUT US
A biological variation within population groups based on physical markers derived from genetic ancestry, such as skin color, physical features, and hair texture.
What is race?
Who is Florence Nightengale?
Neighborhood and built environment, economic stability, education, social and community context, health and health care
What are social determinants of health?
The interconnectedness of the parts as they affect each other and the functioning of the whole person.
What is Holism?
Undocumented persons
What are unauthorized immigrants?
The shared feeling of peoplehood among a group of individuals and relates to cultural factors such as beliefs, values, language, traditions, nationality, geographic region, and ancestry.
What is ethnicity?
She was credited with starting the Henry Street Settlement in NYC and created public health nursing as a specialty
Who is Lillian Wald?
These are the central goals of nursing, restoring wholeness and involves the rediscovery and reestablishment of equilibrium.
Born in countries or territories external to the United States
What are immigrants?
Integrated pattern of thoughts, beliefs, values, communication, action, customs, and assumptions about life that are widely held among a group of people
What is culture?
She was one of the first African Americans to be sent to work in a primarily white tow in Palatka, was able to bring the community together and be integrated, a major accomplishment during her time
Who is Bessie M Hawes?
All efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well-being or higher levels of wellness.
Recognizes no two people are alike; each is genetically different and has a particular disposition.
What is 16mL/hour
(500mL/25000units = x/800 units = 16mL)
DAILY DOUBLE: The order reads Dilantin 150 mg IV now. The medication is available in a vial of 100 mg per 2 mL. How much will you give?
3 mL (150/x = 100 mg/2 mL)
She was the first US school nurse who found that illness was often not the reason for school absences
Who is Lina Rogers?
Attempts to reduce the extent and severity of a health problem to its lowest possible level so as to minimize disability and restore or preserve function
What is tertiary care?
Respects a person's knowledge and values choice, even thought there are always limits to the choices available and a person's ability to act in her or his own interest is affected by circumstances, knowledge and predisposition.
What is self-determination?
Legally allowed to live and work in the US, but are not citizens
What are legal immigrants (or lawful permanent residents)?
A combination of culturally congruent behaviors, practice attitudes and policies that allow nurses to use interpersonal communication, relationship skills and behavioral flexibility to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
What is cultural competency?
She is considered the first African American public health nurse and studied/reduced tuberculosis in an African American community in NYC
Who is Jessie Sleet Scales?
Upstream thinking
What is prevention? (root of the cause)
When a nurse helps a person take care of themselves
What is empowerment?
People admitted to the US for a limited duration and for a specified purpose.
What are non-immigrants?