Public/Community Health Unit 1
Exam/Questions with Detailed
Solutions
Florence Nightingale - -known for much of the foundation of the modern
community health nursing practice
- Clara Barton - -founded the American Red Cross
- Dorothea Dix - -best known for her work regarding the care of mental
health, 1845 addressed the New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislatures about
abuse of the mental health pts
- Lillian Wald - -she contributed to public health nursing by a career of social
reform and nursing activism
established in 1893 "Henry Street Settlement"
- What outcome of the Henry Street Settlement still influences society
today? - -- reducing absenteeism in school and work place
- Margaret Sanger's was prohibited to discuss what matter? - -contraception
- Who initially assumed the financials of rural public health nursing? - -
American Red Cross
- Mary Breckenridge did what in 1925? - -she started the Frontier Nursing
Service to serve mountain families in Kentucky (visited remote areas) to help
with delivering babies
- advocacy - -providing education and assisting the client to maneuver the
health care system and services needed
- Planner - -First step in the management process of a community health
nurse. A planner sets the goals and direction for the organization or project
and means to achieve them
- assessor - -gathers and analyzes information
- leadership - -focuses on effecting change
- controller - -monitors the plan and ensures it stays on course
, - Case management - -assess client's needs, plans for and coordinates
services, refers to other appropriate providers, and monitors and evaluates
progress to ensure clients multiple needs are met in a cost effective manner
- What are Mintzberg's four types of decisional roles? - -entrepreneur,
disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiar
- evidence based practice - -analyzes the data that are collected as a means
to impact a particular problem
- PICOT - -Population, intervention, comparison intervention or issue of
interest, outcome, and time. To help develop an answerable, searchable EBP
question.
- Beneficence - -doing good or benefiting others
- veracity - -telling the truth
- Nonmaleficence - -preventing of do no harm
- Fidelity - -keeping promises
- Culture - -learned beliefs, rituals, values, and behaviors shared by
members of a society and provide a design or "roadmap" for living.
- Culture - -tells people what is acceptable or unacceptable in a given
situation. Dictates people in what to do, say, or believe (organizing and
thinking about life).
- Cultural Plurality (Cultural Diversity) - -variety of cultural patterns exist
within a geographic area
- Cultural sensitivity examples: - -Focusing on cultural beliefs
Interpreter for Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese...
Running a clinic for an underserved population
- Cultural Relativism - -recognizing and respecting alternative viewpoints
and values, practices beliefs within a cultural context
- Enculturation - -learning culture through socializing with the family or
significant group
- transcultural nursing - -providing service to cross-cultural groups
- ethnocentric attitudes - -misunderstanding of cultural differences
Exam/Questions with Detailed
Solutions
Florence Nightingale - -known for much of the foundation of the modern
community health nursing practice
- Clara Barton - -founded the American Red Cross
- Dorothea Dix - -best known for her work regarding the care of mental
health, 1845 addressed the New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislatures about
abuse of the mental health pts
- Lillian Wald - -she contributed to public health nursing by a career of social
reform and nursing activism
established in 1893 "Henry Street Settlement"
- What outcome of the Henry Street Settlement still influences society
today? - -- reducing absenteeism in school and work place
- Margaret Sanger's was prohibited to discuss what matter? - -contraception
- Who initially assumed the financials of rural public health nursing? - -
American Red Cross
- Mary Breckenridge did what in 1925? - -she started the Frontier Nursing
Service to serve mountain families in Kentucky (visited remote areas) to help
with delivering babies
- advocacy - -providing education and assisting the client to maneuver the
health care system and services needed
- Planner - -First step in the management process of a community health
nurse. A planner sets the goals and direction for the organization or project
and means to achieve them
- assessor - -gathers and analyzes information
- leadership - -focuses on effecting change
- controller - -monitors the plan and ensures it stays on course
, - Case management - -assess client's needs, plans for and coordinates
services, refers to other appropriate providers, and monitors and evaluates
progress to ensure clients multiple needs are met in a cost effective manner
- What are Mintzberg's four types of decisional roles? - -entrepreneur,
disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiar
- evidence based practice - -analyzes the data that are collected as a means
to impact a particular problem
- PICOT - -Population, intervention, comparison intervention or issue of
interest, outcome, and time. To help develop an answerable, searchable EBP
question.
- Beneficence - -doing good or benefiting others
- veracity - -telling the truth
- Nonmaleficence - -preventing of do no harm
- Fidelity - -keeping promises
- Culture - -learned beliefs, rituals, values, and behaviors shared by
members of a society and provide a design or "roadmap" for living.
- Culture - -tells people what is acceptable or unacceptable in a given
situation. Dictates people in what to do, say, or believe (organizing and
thinking about life).
- Cultural Plurality (Cultural Diversity) - -variety of cultural patterns exist
within a geographic area
- Cultural sensitivity examples: - -Focusing on cultural beliefs
Interpreter for Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese...
Running a clinic for an underserved population
- Cultural Relativism - -recognizing and respecting alternative viewpoints
and values, practices beliefs within a cultural context
- Enculturation - -learning culture through socializing with the family or
significant group
- transcultural nursing - -providing service to cross-cultural groups
- ethnocentric attitudes - -misunderstanding of cultural differences
