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chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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Community-based nursing | involves the acute and chronc care of individuals and families that enhances their capacity for self-care and promotes autonomy in decision making |
Community health nursing | is a nursing approach that merges knowledge from the pubic health sciences with professional nursing theories to safegaurd and improe the health of populations in the community. |
Incident rates | certain cancers, identification and reporting of emerging infections, determining adoliscent pregnancy rates, and reporting the numer of MVAs by teenage drivers. |
Population | collection of individuals who have in common one or more personal or environmental characteristics |
Public health nursing | understanding the needs of a population |
Vulnerable population | those who are more likely too develop health problems as a result of excess risks, who have limits in access to health care sevices, or who are dependent on others for care. |
Healthy people 2010's overall goals are to: | Increase the life expectency and quality of life and to eliminate health disparities |
Community health nursing is a nursing approach that merges knowledge from professional nursing theories and the: | Public health sciences |
Community based nursing involves the acure and chronic care of individual's and families that enhance their capacity for: | Self-care and promotes automony in decision making |
Vulnerable population of clents are those who are more likely to develop health problems as a result of: | Excess risks, limits in acessto health care services and dependency on others for care. |
Major public health problems affecting older adults, women nd children are: | Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, as well as neglect |
Control of spread of disease is an example of which levle of prevention? | tertiary intervention |
Teachng classes about infant care, child safety and cancer screening are examples of nurse in the role of an: | Educator |
A community-based nurse working in employee assistance programs is an example of a | counselor |
The nurse has a his client try a new technology that the chient finds works for her. The nurse is using he following change factor that increases the likelihood that she will accept and adopt her situation. | The innovation or change must be tried on a limited basis |
Assessment of a community includes three elements, which are: | structure or locale, the peiole and the social systems |
Which of the following is not an example of primary care setting? | Hospital |
Among the communcation skills needed to provide nursing care to community clients is the ability to : | Carify client values and care expectaions |
This is an example of an intrinsec risk factor for homelessness: | Living below the poverty line |
When the community health nurse helth nurse refers clients to appropriate resources and monitors and coordinates the extent and adlquacy of services to meet family health care needs, the nurse is functioning in the role of: | Case manager |