NURS 441: Community Test 1 Complete Solutions 2024.

NURS 441: Community Test 1 Complete Solutions 2024. Public Health in America - CORRECT ANSWER VISION: healthy people in healthy communities MISSION: promote physical and mental health and prevent disease, injury, and disability CORE FUNCTION What is the core function of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance Public Health Nursing Specialty - CORRECT ANSWER Population focused Greatest good for greatest number *Collaborate with clients as an equal partner Primary prevention= focus Select strategies that create health conditions in which populations may thrive Actively reach out Optimal use of available resources Interprofessional collaboration Distinguishing features of public health nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing for social betterment Support targeted care provisions Families, groups, and populations are the clients *Seek to empower Provide culturally competent care Don't look at assumptions Goal of public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER Care in the here and now Personal and intimate Recognize uniqueness Primary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER Actions that change overall background conditions to prevent some unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse. Education secondary prevention programs - CORRECT ANSWER programs that provide treatment, such as psychological counseling, to youths and adults after they have violated the law tertiary prevention examples - CORRECT ANSWER - enhance rehabilitation from disease, injury, or disability - Provide cardiac rehabilitation, medication, and surgery. - medical treatment - physical and occupational therapy, and rehabilitation - Monitor the use of prescription medications and adherence to treatment to reduce risk for illness complications - Provide health promotion activities to persons with serious and persistent mental illness. - Promote support group participation for those with mental health disabilities. - The public health nurse provides a diabetes clinic for a defined population of adults in a low-income housing unit of the community. - If blood pressure cannot be controlled by diet, refer the client to a physician or nurse practitioner for medication; advise the client to engage in a cardiac program that will oversee diet and exercise.