Protect health, promote health, preserve health, maintain health,

prevent disease

9 provisions for nurses that govern both individual patient care

and public health nursing.

Identify, place, obtain, reformulate, consider, make, evaluate.

A combination of the process of reflection as well as a body of knowledge that focuses on the study of morality and the moral life

Outlines ethical principles such as respect for persons, beneficence,

non maleficence, and justice

Attempt to ensure ethical regulation for research and human experimentation.

Field that looks specifically at ethical issues related to things like research, clinical care, or other fields in the health sciences

This term includes the concepts of autonomy (CHOICE), self-governance, and decision-making power of the client.

Ensuring we do not inflict ANY harm, usually used in combination with beneficence which is to act in a way that benefits others. Think of risk/benefit ratio.

Looks at the allocation of benefits and burdens on members of society. 

Duty of nurses to do good for their patients while also

respecting patient dignity and autonomy.

Decisions are based on outcomes of an action.

Is the intervention/action in and of itself right or wrong?

Priority is to get maximum benefit with minimal harm – what is the greatest good.

An ends justify the means approach.

Asserting that the individual is the center of moral concerns

with a focus on individual rights. 

Public Health nursing ensuring that essential community health services are available.

Public Health nursing systematically collecting data on the population, monitoring the population’s health status, and making information available about the health of the community”.

PH nurses need to provide leadership in developing policies that support the

health of the population, including the use of the scientific knowledge

base in making decisions about policy”

Act of pleading for or supporting a course of action on behalf

of a person, group, or community.

Barriers that prevent individuals and populations from reaching their optimal health

Policies that relate to how we can modify the economic, political, and environmental factors – things that are precursors of poor health

Level of doctors and nurses providing interventions for disease and illness

Idea that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier

Fixing system to offer equal access to tools and opportunities

Education access and quality, Health Care and Quality, Neighborhood & Built Environment, Social and Community Context, Economic Stability

Custom tools that identify and address inequality

Evenly distributed tools and assistance

Unequal access to opportunities.

Barriers that prevent people and populations from achieving maximum health

Susceptibility to actual or potential STRESSORS that can lead to poor outcomes.

When people are grouped and relegated to the periphery of society – so there they have less voice, less influence, and less power.

Differences or inequalities or incongruences that lead to differences in the health status or health outcomes between people and populations.

Limitations of physical resources, environmental resources, or personal resources, biophysical resources (like your genetics and ability to fight off disease)

Focused on PREVENTING the problem from ever occurring, includes teaching and education

Focused on catching it early – (often times as screening)

Looking at reduction of further consequences or movement to cure or recovery.