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405 Exam 1
Guaranteed assistance for the poor, blind and lame | Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 |
Data collected that proved that military mortality rates were double civilian mortality rates | Biostatistics |
Assisted in developing the first non-religious school for nurse in 1860 | Florence Nightingale |
What is nightingales ultimate goal? | Give first rate nursing care for all of the sick at home |
Health at home project endorsed what? | Prevention is better than cure |
Focused on teaching the sick to teach proper hygiene | District nursing |
First community health nurse | Frances Root |
Believed that poor people should have access to holistic health care | Lilian Wald |
Involved the hiring of the first school nurses | Henry Street Settlement - 1906 |
First home health | Met Life Insurance Company |
Frontier Nursing Service - 1925 | Mary Breckinridge |
Frontier Nursing Service - 1925 | Established medical, surgical, and dental clinics. Provided nursing and nurse midwifery services 24 hours a day |
More funds were available for health promotion and disease prevention | Social Security Act -1935 |
Developed in 2002 to provide leadership to protect against intentional threats to the health of the public | Homeland Security |
Core Public Heath Functions | Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance |
Data collection of the population, monitoring health status | Assessment |
Development of policies that support the health of the population | Policy Development |
Making sure essential community-oriented health services are available, ensuring patients have access to what they need | Assurance |
These functions provide a foundation for primary, secondary, and tertiary health care services | Essential services of public health |
Nursing care delivered through community diagnosis and investigation of major health and environmental issues. Goal is to create conditions where people can be healthy | Community Oriented Nursing Practice |
Synthesis of nursing and public health theory applied to promoting and preserving the health of populations. Goal is to prevent disease and promote and protect health of the community as a whole | Public Health Nursing Practice |
A setting specific practice where care is provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. Goal is acute and chronic care and providing comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care | Community Base Nursing Practice |
Roles of Community Health Nurses | CREAM |
Focus on wellness and holistic practice | Clinician |
A wider audience can be reached through the community setting. | Educator |
Client's rights include the right to receive just, equal, and humane treatment. Community health nurses often plead the case for their clients or act on their behalf. | Advocate |
Planner, collaborator, organizer, leader, controller and evaluator | Manager |
Involves looking at questions that arise on a day to day basis | Researcher |