PHN Practice
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 ?
The year the first nursing school opened
What is the year 1870?
Detects and treats problems in their early stages, keeps problems from causing serious or long-term effects, identifies risks and modifies, removes, or treats them before a problem becomes more serious.
What is secondary level of prevention?
A specific course to be followed by the government
What is Policies?
Refers to the degree of variation that is represented among populations based on lifestyle, ethnicity, race, interest, across place, and place of origin across time
What is cultural diversity?
A collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics
What is a population?
Founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925
Who is Mary Breckinridge?
Maximizing health and wellness through strategies set in place at the end-stage of disease and injury
What is tertiary prevention?
Govern Authority to provide for the protection of the public
What is Public Protection?
not a citizen but allowed to both live and work in the United States also known as lawful permanent residents
What is a legal immigrant?
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 ?
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)?
working with insurance companies to provide coverage for health promotion to help reduce risk for/PREVENT diseases
What is an example of Primary Prevention?
What is the U.S Department of Health and Human Services
ØCulturally incompetent
ØCulturally sensitive
ØCulturally competent
What are the three stages of cultural competence?
Integration of the best evidence available with clinical expertise, and the values of the client to increase the quality of care
What is evidence-based nursing ?
Established Henry Street Settlement in 1893
Who is Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Activities that have as their goal the development of human attitudes and behaviors that maintain or enhance well-being
What is Health Promotion?
The four Departments of the Federal Nonhealth Agencies?
What is Department of Defense, Labor, Agriculture and Justice
Cultural awareness, Cultural knowledge, Cultural skill, Cultural encounter, Cultural desire
What are the concepts of cultural competence?
Assessment, Policy development and Assurance
What are the core functions of Public Health?
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?
20-year program that focuses on promoting health and preventing disease for all Americans; Improves quality and years of healthy life; achieve health equity and eliminate health disparities for all
What is the Healthy People Initiative?
Involves defining nursing, setting its credential, and then distinguishing among the practices of nurses, physicians, and other health care providers
What is Scope of Practice?
a set of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that are widely held among a group of people and that are transmitted across generations
What is culture?