NURS4431: Chapter 1: Public Health Nursing:
Present, Past, & Future questions with verified
answers
1) Development of patient/client-centered care
2) Increased use of technology
3) Increased personal responsibility Ans✓✓✓Major Changes in
Healthcare in 21st Century
3 Tiers of Practice Ans✓✓✓Tier 1: Entry Level
Tier 2: Management or Supervisory Positions
Tier 3: Senior Managers and Leaders at the Executive Level
8 Principles of Public Health Nursing Ans✓✓✓1) Client/Unit of care is
the population
2) Primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest
number of people or people as a whole
3) Public health nurses collaborate with the client as an equal partner
4) Primary prevention is the priority in selection appropriate activities
5) Public health nursing focuses on strategies that create healthy
environmental, social, and economic conditions in which populations
may thrive
6) A public health nurse is obligated to actively identify and reach out to
all who might benefit from a specific activity or service
, 7) Optimal use of available resources and creation of new evidence-
based strategies is necessary to assure the best overall improvement in
the health of populations
8) Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, and
stakeholder groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the
health of people
- Public health is what society does collectively to ensure the conditions
exist in which people can be healthy
Advocacy Ans✓✓✓Acts on behalf of clients who have lost control of
factors that affect their health and a need is unmet; strengthens clients'
capacity to act
American Nurses Association (ANA) Ans✓✓✓Sets the scope and
standards for all professional nursing practice
Case management Ans✓✓✓Coordination of a plan or process to bring
health services and the self-care capabilities of the client together as a
common whole in a cost-effective way
Case-finding Ans✓✓✓Locates individuals and families with identified
risk factors and connects them with resources
Challenges for Public Health Nursing in the 21st Century Ans✓✓✓-
Engaging in EBP
- Helping eliminate health disparities in underserved population
Present, Past, & Future questions with verified
answers
1) Development of patient/client-centered care
2) Increased use of technology
3) Increased personal responsibility Ans✓✓✓Major Changes in
Healthcare in 21st Century
3 Tiers of Practice Ans✓✓✓Tier 1: Entry Level
Tier 2: Management or Supervisory Positions
Tier 3: Senior Managers and Leaders at the Executive Level
8 Principles of Public Health Nursing Ans✓✓✓1) Client/Unit of care is
the population
2) Primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest
number of people or people as a whole
3) Public health nurses collaborate with the client as an equal partner
4) Primary prevention is the priority in selection appropriate activities
5) Public health nursing focuses on strategies that create healthy
environmental, social, and economic conditions in which populations
may thrive
6) A public health nurse is obligated to actively identify and reach out to
all who might benefit from a specific activity or service
, 7) Optimal use of available resources and creation of new evidence-
based strategies is necessary to assure the best overall improvement in
the health of populations
8) Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, and
stakeholder groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the
health of people
- Public health is what society does collectively to ensure the conditions
exist in which people can be healthy
Advocacy Ans✓✓✓Acts on behalf of clients who have lost control of
factors that affect their health and a need is unmet; strengthens clients'
capacity to act
American Nurses Association (ANA) Ans✓✓✓Sets the scope and
standards for all professional nursing practice
Case management Ans✓✓✓Coordination of a plan or process to bring
health services and the self-care capabilities of the client together as a
common whole in a cost-effective way
Case-finding Ans✓✓✓Locates individuals and families with identified
risk factors and connects them with resources
Challenges for Public Health Nursing in the 21st Century Ans✓✓✓-
Engaging in EBP
- Helping eliminate health disparities in underserved population
