This level of government is responsible for oversight and consultation of local and public health agencies by monitoring health status, distributing federal and state funds to local public health agencies, and enforcing laws and regulations that protect and improve the public’s health
What/Who is the State?
The gaps in the healthcare that is experienced by one population compared with another?
What are healthcare disparities?
The position of the nurse that does health promotion, health education and child advocate.
What is a Public Health Nurse?
The textbook measure of secondary preventative interventions.
What are screenings?
This historical figure was responsible for public health nursing during the Crimean War
Who is Florence Nightingale?
These are the two principles of culturally competent care.
What is remain open-minded and avoid seeing all individuals as alike?
A nurse providing direct care to a patient with a focus on illness.
What is community-based nursing?
This publication identifies the nationwide health priorities.
What is Healthy People?
In disaster training, the student nurse can best help by doing this.
What is observing and/or providing feedback?
This historical figure is credited as the Mother of Community Health.
Who is Lillian Wald?
This initiative will guide the work of PHN over the next decade.
What is Healthy People?
Providing rehabilitation to a chronically ill patient.
What is tertiary intervention nursing care?
The type of nursing focuses on the promotion of health, prevention of injury and illness and protection from occupational and environmental hazards.
What is an Occupational Health Nurse?
Nursing remained segregated throughout the south and elsewhere until this time period.
What is the 1960s or mid-twentieth century?
This establishment providing screening, prevention teaching and training for both community health and community-based nursing.
What is the Henry Street Settlement?
These three stages lead to cultural competence.
What are cultural incompetent, cultural sensitive, cultural competent.
This is the primary focus/need for community-based nursing.
What is illness?
This agency works with states and local governments to provide a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks (including bioterrorism), implement disease prevention strategies, and maintain national health statistics.
What is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
The 3 reasons that immigrants seek to come to the U.S.
What are religious freedom, political freedom, and economic opportunities?
This passed in 1935 to provide healthcare for the poor, elderly after the Great Depression.
What is the Social Security Act?
Stereotyping, Prejudice, Racism, Ethnocentrism, Cultural blindness, Cultural imposition, Cultural conflict, Cultural shock
What are barriers to cultural competence?
This organization had a rural nursing service to deliver home nursing care in areas outside larger cities and worked in partnership with Lillian Wald to advance its nursing care services.
Who is the American Red Cross?
The 3 steps in the model to initiating a community-oriented or public health action plan.
What is Assess, Plan, Implement?
The pneumonic is the best method for assessing an environment.
What is I PREPARE?
She rode her horse across the frontier of Kentucky to care for those in rural communities.
Who is Mary Breckinridge?