Chapter 10 and 11 Community and Public Health Nursing

asset based assessment - attn is directed to community strengths and resources as a primary approach to community assessment collaborative models - an approach to assessment that begins with planning that includes representative parties of a population, including service organizations, corporations, and govt officials community - a group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and environment; interrelating and interacting group of ppl with shared needs and interests community as partner - within the process of community assessment, considering the expertise of community dwellers as central to the task of understanding the health and well-being of the community cross culture or transcultural nursing - any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse are from DIFFERENT cultures cultural safety - culturally appropriate health services to disadvantaged groups while stressing dignity and avoiding institutionalized racism, assimilation (forcing ppl to adopt new culture) and repressive practices culture - knowledge, values, practices, customs, and beliefs of a group. It includes language, religion, occupation, economics, art, politics and philosophy. It is also neither static or deterministic culture competence - openness to others ideas and ways of life; respect, curiosity, patience, and self awareness of one's own culture and culturally meditated ideas describe frameworks for community assessment - understanding and appreciation for community strengths, deficits, resources, and needs through community assessment is the obj that community health nursing shares with other disciplines