NFDN 2006 Final Exam|88
Complete Q’s and A’s
Home Health Nursing - -- Most rapidly expanding area
- provide health promotion, disease prevention in an individuals place of
residence
- work with the family, client and interdisciplinary team
- Settings: home, clients current setting (school, streets)
- Functions and roles of a home health nurse - -- provide direct care
- enhance self care skills
- link client with community services
- prevent complications in the chronically ill
- help minimize effects of disability and illness
- Hospice Nursing - -- Increase the quality of care for terminally ill persons
- symptom management (pain and suffering) and support
- Setting: home, specially designated palliative care unit in hospital or
hospice facility
- Hospice Nursing and roles - -- reduce pain and suffering
- ensuring comfort
- support of client and family
- Public Health Nursing - -- population health approach
- protecting, promoting health for all Canadians
- settings: home, work, school, clinical settings, community health centre
- Public health nursing roles - -- Advocate
- Manager
- Educator
- Counsellor
- Hospice Nurses functions - -- Pain assessment and management
- assess clients response to treatment
- report findings to physician
- collaborate to modify care plan
- Evidence informed practice in community nursing - -- uses evidence
informed practice to identify the most effective strategies for changing
health behaviours
- guides nursing practice, help make decisions
- Public health nursing functions - -- plan and deliver services
, - community program delivery
- emergency preparedness and planning
- at risk populations
- role of community health nurses in rural areas - -- community health
education
- case management
- advocacy
- case finding
- provide care to families across great distances in all regions of Canada
- Corrections Nurse - -- RN working in clinics within a correctional facility
- provide health promotion, mental health focus, infectious disease
prevention
- outreach Nurse - -- RNs who work with marginalized people who have
difficulty accessing traditional health services (homeless, substance use
disorders)
- settings: alcohol and drug detoxification centre, community mental health
centres
- provide first aid, counselling, referral to community services, advocacy
- Parish Nurse - -- RN who is called to ministry and affirmed by a faith
community to promote health, healing and wholeness
- work with faith communities and the church
- Ethical decision making - -- component of ethical thought that focuses on
how ethical deacons are made
- ethical uncertainty - -feeling of indecision accompanied by sense of
discomfort about a matter
- Quantitative question - -- something that can be measured
- Qualitative question - -quality, experiences, how clients perceive things
- Ethics - -- rules that guide our behaviours concerning what's right and
wrong
- Egilatarism - -equal rights for everybody
- government ensures equal resources
- Liberaltarism - -- beliefs that people have the right to their own private
property
- don't feel the need to share through force (taxes)
Complete Q’s and A’s
Home Health Nursing - -- Most rapidly expanding area
- provide health promotion, disease prevention in an individuals place of
residence
- work with the family, client and interdisciplinary team
- Settings: home, clients current setting (school, streets)
- Functions and roles of a home health nurse - -- provide direct care
- enhance self care skills
- link client with community services
- prevent complications in the chronically ill
- help minimize effects of disability and illness
- Hospice Nursing - -- Increase the quality of care for terminally ill persons
- symptom management (pain and suffering) and support
- Setting: home, specially designated palliative care unit in hospital or
hospice facility
- Hospice Nursing and roles - -- reduce pain and suffering
- ensuring comfort
- support of client and family
- Public Health Nursing - -- population health approach
- protecting, promoting health for all Canadians
- settings: home, work, school, clinical settings, community health centre
- Public health nursing roles - -- Advocate
- Manager
- Educator
- Counsellor
- Hospice Nurses functions - -- Pain assessment and management
- assess clients response to treatment
- report findings to physician
- collaborate to modify care plan
- Evidence informed practice in community nursing - -- uses evidence
informed practice to identify the most effective strategies for changing
health behaviours
- guides nursing practice, help make decisions
- Public health nursing functions - -- plan and deliver services
, - community program delivery
- emergency preparedness and planning
- at risk populations
- role of community health nurses in rural areas - -- community health
education
- case management
- advocacy
- case finding
- provide care to families across great distances in all regions of Canada
- Corrections Nurse - -- RN working in clinics within a correctional facility
- provide health promotion, mental health focus, infectious disease
prevention
- outreach Nurse - -- RNs who work with marginalized people who have
difficulty accessing traditional health services (homeless, substance use
disorders)
- settings: alcohol and drug detoxification centre, community mental health
centres
- provide first aid, counselling, referral to community services, advocacy
- Parish Nurse - -- RN who is called to ministry and affirmed by a faith
community to promote health, healing and wholeness
- work with faith communities and the church
- Ethical decision making - -- component of ethical thought that focuses on
how ethical deacons are made
- ethical uncertainty - -feeling of indecision accompanied by sense of
discomfort about a matter
- Quantitative question - -- something that can be measured
- Qualitative question - -quality, experiences, how clients perceive things
- Ethics - -- rules that guide our behaviours concerning what's right and
wrong
- Egilatarism - -equal rights for everybody
- government ensures equal resources
- Liberaltarism - -- beliefs that people have the right to their own private
property
- don't feel the need to share through force (taxes)
