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Define Community Health Nursing
is a term that applies to all nurses who work in and with the community
What is Palliative care nursing?
Palliative care is holistic caring that may include end-of-life care for those facing life-threatening illnesses and for the dying (and their families) so that they experience quality of life through symptom management and supportive care
How many Determinants of Health are there?
14-
(1) income and income distribution,
(2) education,
(3) employment and working conditions,
(4) early life,
(5) food insecurity,
(6) housing
(7) health services,
(8) social exclusion,
(9) social safety net,
(10) health services,
(11) Indigenous status,
(12) gender,
(13) race,
(14) disability
What is health promotion?
A strategy to improve health
What is Public Health?
Public health is defined as an organized activity of society to promote, protect, improve, and when necessary, restore the health of individuals, specified groups, or the entire population.
What is health promotion?
Health promotion is the process of empowering people to increase control over and improve their health.
Why is Primary health care especially relevant to CHNs?
• It provides essential health services in the community.
• It considers the determinants of health.
• It focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and protection.
• It includes therapeutic, curative, and rehabilitative care.
• It promotes coordination and interprofessional collaboration.
• It focuses on the client as an equal partner in health with health care providers.
Provide one direct care example the home health nurse performs
Direct care activities may include the following:
Observing and evaluating the client’s health status and condition.
Administering care such as rehabilitative exercises, medications, catheter insertion, colostomy irrigation.
Helping the client and family develop positive coping behaviours.
Educating the individual and family to give treatments and medications
Educating the individual and family to carry out physicians’ orders, such as treatments, therapeutic diets, or medication administration
Reporting to the client’s physician any changes in the client’s condition and arranging for medical follow-up as indicated
Helping the individual and family identify resources that will help the client attain a state of optimal functioning
Two important ethical obligations CHNs face:
• Confidentiality
• Accountability
Practice Settings for Public Health Nursing
Practice settings include the home, school, workplace, community health center, and clinical settings.
List 3 types of diversity
Ethnic diversity
Linguistic diversity
Religious diversity
Sexuality and gender diversity
Disability/diverse abilities
What is Primary Prevention?
Primary prevention activities seek to prevent the occurrence of a disease (based on the natural history of a disease) or an injury.
Definition of Community
Persons who interact and have similar goals or interests and share common social supports, and may or may not come from within the same geographic boundaries
What is Teritiary prevention?
Tertiary prevention activities begin once a disease has become obvious; the goals are to interrupt the course of the disease, reduce the amount of disability that might occur, and begin rehabilitation.
List 3 skills the CHN uses in Health Promotion?
Working in focus groups
Preparing funding proposal applications
Program planning
Communication
Working with others
Integrating research and practice
Where does the Community Health Nurse Work?
in a variety of practice areas, such as public health, home health, occupational health, and other similar fields.
What is a Healthy Community?
A healthy community is one where people, organizations, and local institutions work together to improve the social, economic, and environmental conditions that make people healthy—the Determinants of Health.
What is population health?
Population health refers to the health outcomes of a population as measured by the determinants of health and health status indicators.
List one of the Principles of Primary Health Care
Accessibility
Health Promotion
Public Participation
Intersectoral Collaboration
Appropriate Technlogy
What is secondary prevention?
Secondary prevention activities seek to detect a disease early in its progression (early pathogenesis), before clinical signs and symptoms become apparent, to make a diagnosis and begin treatment.
List 4 reasons why CHNs form partnerships
For cost reduction and containment
To avoid duplication of services
To coordinate services
To most effectively address client health care concerns
Community Health Nursing Roles and Functions
CHNs are mostly involved in providing family-centred care to individuals, families, and groups across the lifespan of clients, but their practice also includes identifying high-risk groups in the community
Community health assessment helps to?
Identify community strengths, resources, assets, capacities, and opportunities
Clarify health concerns
Identify community constraints
Identify the economic, political, and social factors affecting the community
Identify the Determinants of Health affecting community health
List three of the Functions and Roles of Public Health Nurses
Care and Counselling
Risk Assessment
Continuity of Care
Health Education/Educator
Collaborator
Research
Advocate
Primary caregiver
What is cultural competence?
Process whereby health care professionals respect, accept, and apply knowledge and skill appropriate to client interactions without allowing their personal beliefs to influence the clients’ differing views