intro basics
This term refers to the activities society undertakes to ensure people can be healthy.
Public health
A community that shares a common faith, profession, or experience (like people with mastectomies).
Common Interest Community
Prevention that stops illness before it occurs.
Primary Prevention
This type of nursing focuses on the care of a solitary patient.
Acute Care Nursing
This function involves collecting, analyzing, and sharing data about community health.
Assessment
This type of nursing focuses on the community and population as a whole.
Public Health Nursing
A community defined by geographic boundaries such as a town or neighborhood.
Geographic Community
The goal of this level of prevention is early detection and treatment of existing disease.
Secondary Prevention
This type of nursing has a wide view of care and focuses on prevention.
Public Health Nursing
This function uses data to guide policy and resource allocation.
Policy development
Health is considered a holistic state of well-being that includes __________
mind, body, and spirit.
When people unite to address a shared problem or issue.
Community of Solution
This level of prevention reduces severity and helps restore function.
Tertiary Prevention
What data is a census?
Secondary data
This function ensures that necessary services are available throughout the community.
Assurance
The two components of health are how people feel and how well they function in their environment.
What are subjective and objective components?
All the people occupying an area or who share one or more traits.
Population
Examples include immunizations, seat belts, and water purification.
Specific Protection (Primary)
What data is an interview?
Primary data
Name a role in Community Health Nursing
Clinician, Educator, Advocate, Manager, Collaborator, Leadership, Researcher
This term combines health and the capacity to develop a person’s potential.
Wellness
A grouping of individuals considered as a whole, often loosely connected (like pregnant teens).
Aggregate
Examples include exercise after a stroke or community mental health services.
Tertiary Prevention
Public health nurses focus on this level of illness prevention.
Primary Prevention
Ensuring access to care, monitoring outbreaks, and regulating water safety are examples of this function.
Assurance