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Prevention and Promotion
Diverse Populations I
Diverse Populations II
100

Population based practice, defined as a synthesis of nursing and public health within the context of preventing disease and disability and promoting and protecting the health of the entire community

What is Public Health Nursing 

100

The year the first nursing school opened 

What is the year 1870

100
Detects and treats problems in their early stages. It keeps problems from causing serious or long-term effects or from affecting others. It identifies risks or hazards and modifies, removes, or treats them before a problem becomes more serious.
What is secondary level of prevention?
100
Five interventions that a faith community nurse uses
What are teaching, counseling, referral, screening, and collaboration?
100
Mental health issues, family involvement, and healthy and safe environment
What are major Healthy People issues that relate to children associated with bullying?
200

A collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics

What is a population

200

Founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925

Who is Mary Breckinridge

200
Government agency where community health nurse can find strategies to promote health and prevent disease.
What is the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)?
200
Group that suffers the most and one that is most marginalized and vulnerable to disabilities and disease.
Who are the homeless?
200
Activities and interventions that the nurse may use for addressing elder falls.
What are home safety checks, medication teaching, encourage exercise, physical exams and rehabilitation?
300

Use of systematic processes to deliver care to individuals, families and community groups with a focus on promoting, preserving, protecting, maintaining health

What is Community Health Nursing 

300

Established in 1912 in an effort to improve the education and standards of public health nursing and to promote public understanding and the importance of this type of nursing

What is the National Organization for Public Health Nursing (NOPHN)

300
Contributes to the agenda for making improvements in today’s community health.
What is Healthy People Initiative?
300
Leading primary prevention for persons who are at risk for homelessness
What is obtaining financial resources to avoid losing utilities and becoming homeless.
300
Determine if bullying programs and embarrassment policies are in place in the school system, identify the bullying behaviors with a student survey, have a school conference day to disseminate the results of the survey and launch a plan to tackle the problem, implement adult supervision during recess, breaks, and lunch time.
What are prevention activities a school nurse can do for bullying?
400
Promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences
What is public health nursing?
400

Established Henry Street Settlement in 1893

Who is Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster

400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Health issues that transcend national boundaries and may best be addressed by cooperative actions
What is global health?
400
Intentional or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to a vulnerable population
What is elder abuse?
400
Advocacy for school children with health problems
What is one of the most important role of the school nurse?
500

Assessment, Policy development and Assurance 

What are the core functions of Public Health

500

Published in 1850 by the Massachusetts Sanitary Commission, this report was the first attempt to describe a model approach to the organization of public health in the U.S.  

What is The Shattuck Report 

500
Improve quality and years of healthy life; achieve health equity and eliminate health disparities; create social and physical environments that promote good health for all; and promote healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
What are the overarching goals of Healthy People?
500
Plan programs where elders gather, use a slow pace, don’t speak too loudly. allow time for sharing, keep teaching sessions short, be repetitive, involve support systems in teachings, be conscious of poor vision, and use large print, and limit handouts
What are considerations for developing health programs for elders?
500
Starting a support group for newly diagnosed persons with diabetes, health teaching on nutrition and medication, and screening for blood pressure, BMI and glucose.
What is the role of the parish nurse with parishioners with diabetes?