Community Health Nursing
3 shared commonalities ✔✔geographic, common interest, community of solution
community of solution ✔✔group of people who come together to solve problems that affects
all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water pollution
common interest ✔✔collection of people with interest or goal that bind them together, ex:
MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
population ✔✔all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more
characteristic, may not necessarily interact
aggregates ✔✔a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a whole and
are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population
aggregates ✔✔communities and populations are types of
goal of community health nursing ✔✔health promotion, disease prevention, and health
protection
promotion of health ✔✔health education, preventative care services, healthy people 2010,
raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and communities
prevention of health problems ✔✔anticipating and averting problems or discovering them as
early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment
primary prevention ✔✔to keep illness from occurring, hand rails, immunizations
secondary prevention ✔✔efforts to detect and treat existing health problems. Screenings: htn,
drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control or eradicate the problem
tertiary prevention ✔✔attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health problems so as to
minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after CVA.
tertiary prevention ✔✔someone that has an eating disorder, following up with counseling
, treatment of disorders ✔✔focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect service, development
of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
indirect service ✔✔referring to someone, calling another professional to help solve problem
for client
rehab ✔✔efforts to reduce disability and restore function as much as possible
evaluation ✔✔process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and improved according to
established goals and standards
research ✔✔investigation to discover facts affecting community health and community health
practice, solve problems, and explore improved methods of health science
healthy people 2010 ✔✔increase quality and years of life, eliminate health disparities
healthy people 2010 ✔✔emphasis on community partnerships,
determinant of health ✔✔biology
determinant of health ✔✔behavior
determinant of health ✔✔social & physical environment
determinant of health ✔✔polices and interventions
community health status ✔✔health of total population
community health status ✔✔measured by birth and death rates, morbidity statistics
healthy people 2010 indicators ✔✔physical activity, obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse,
sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, environmental quality, immunization,
access to healthcare
core public health functions ✔✔assessment, policy development, assurance
role of community health nurse ✔✔clinician, educator, advocate, collaborator, leader,
researcher, case manager
3 shared commonalities ✔✔geographic, common interest, community of solution
community of solution ✔✔group of people who come together to solve problems that affects
all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water pollution
common interest ✔✔collection of people with interest or goal that bind them together, ex:
MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
population ✔✔all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more
characteristic, may not necessarily interact
aggregates ✔✔a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a whole and
are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population
aggregates ✔✔communities and populations are types of
goal of community health nursing ✔✔health promotion, disease prevention, and health
protection
promotion of health ✔✔health education, preventative care services, healthy people 2010,
raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and communities
prevention of health problems ✔✔anticipating and averting problems or discovering them as
early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment
primary prevention ✔✔to keep illness from occurring, hand rails, immunizations
secondary prevention ✔✔efforts to detect and treat existing health problems. Screenings: htn,
drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control or eradicate the problem
tertiary prevention ✔✔attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health problems so as to
minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after CVA.
tertiary prevention ✔✔someone that has an eating disorder, following up with counseling
, treatment of disorders ✔✔focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect service, development
of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
indirect service ✔✔referring to someone, calling another professional to help solve problem
for client
rehab ✔✔efforts to reduce disability and restore function as much as possible
evaluation ✔✔process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and improved according to
established goals and standards
research ✔✔investigation to discover facts affecting community health and community health
practice, solve problems, and explore improved methods of health science
healthy people 2010 ✔✔increase quality and years of life, eliminate health disparities
healthy people 2010 ✔✔emphasis on community partnerships,
determinant of health ✔✔biology
determinant of health ✔✔behavior
determinant of health ✔✔social & physical environment
determinant of health ✔✔polices and interventions
community health status ✔✔health of total population
community health status ✔✔measured by birth and death rates, morbidity statistics
healthy people 2010 indicators ✔✔physical activity, obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse,
sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, environmental quality, immunization,
access to healthcare
core public health functions ✔✔assessment, policy development, assurance
role of community health nurse ✔✔clinician, educator, advocate, collaborator, leader,
researcher, case manager
