Community: Ch. 1

How would you describe Public Health Nursing? (Select all that apply)

• •Trying to keep the community as healthy as you can (community based)

• •Networking with different communities to broaden your scope of impact

• •The goal is to work with the public, not for the public (it may or may not be what’s important for you)

• The goal of public health is to help the most number of people you can with the resources you have

What skills do you think are most important for a Community Health Nurse to use? (Select all that apply)

• •Assessing, planning, coordinating, and referring

• Medication knowledge, bedside manner, building relationships with patients

• •Be creative, have some ingenuity, use your intuition, and be resourceful

Who do you expect to be the "patients" of a Community Health Nurse?

What has caused the recently increased attention to public health? (Select all that apply)

• oCOVID-19 pandemic

• oIncrease in gun violence

• oIncrease in Opioid deaths

• oConcern with cost of treating chronic conditions

• oUS health and life expectancy worse than other first world countries

community health

• care within communities and populations that is based on the interaction of local, state, and federal partnerships

• the identification of needs, and the protection and improvement of collective health within a geographically defined area

• nursing that is community-based and population focused

• (a broader concept) these are activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy

public health

• (a broader concept) these are activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy

• nursing that is community-based and population focused

• the identification of needs, and the protection and improvement of collective health within a geographically defined area

• interact with one another and whose common interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity or belonging

T/F: Public health nursing is community-based and population focused.

• True

• False

T/F: Public health nursing is based on the science of epidemiology (the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health)

• False

• True

community-based nursing

• provides care for individuals and families

• serves to preserve, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease

community-oriented nursing

• serves to preserve, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease

• provides care for individuals and families