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Community Nursing
What the Health?
Health Promotion/Risk Reduction
Miscellaneous
100
application of the nursing process in caring for individuals, families, and groups where they live, work, or go to school or as they move through the health care system
What is community-based nursing?
100
diseases that are not always present in a population but flare up on occasion (ie, measles)
What is an epidemic
100

Interventions or activities that focus on preventing problems before they occur

What is primary prevention?

100

society or economic factors influencing health are the focus

What is macroscopic focus?

200
often used interchangeably with public health nursing, it is the synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied to promoting and preserving the health of populations
What is community health nursing?
200
diseases that are always present in a population (ie, colds and pneumonia)
What is an endemic?
200
early detection and intervention (ie, screenings)
What is secondary prevention?
200
The individual patient is the focus with this
What is microscopic focus?
300
subgroup or subpopulations that have some common characteristics or concerns
What is an aggregate
300
The existence of disease in a large proportion of the population; a global epidemic (ie, HIV, influenza A)
What is a pandemic?
300
Correction and prevention of deterioration of a disease state or injury
What is tertiary prevention
300
Along with Mary Brewster, this nurse started the Henry Street Settlement
Who is Lillian Wald?
400
physical environment, social environment, individual behaviors, health services, and biology/genetics
What are determinants of health?
400

Health issue causing the most concern in the US today

What is obesity/COVID?


400

a term used in health for death (__________ rate) or (Infant ___________ rate)

What is mortality

400

Nurse who used statistics to influence health policy; and emphasized clean air, nutrition, and environmental determinants of health.

Who is Florence Nightengale?

500
The public health intervention wheel provides a framework for this...
What is public or community health nursing practice?
500

A Modifiable lifestyle choice that leads to many preventable diseases and illnesses. Quitting this could lead to a longer lifespan

What is tobacco use?

500

a term used to explain illness or illness rates

What is morbidity?

500

The major assumption of this model was that a person's main determinant of using preventive health behavior was disease avoidance

What is the Health Belief Model