NSG 3123 Pre-Midterm Content – Nursing Health Assessment Review and Study
Guide
The Community - correct answer ✔✔people and the relationships that emerge among them;
who commonly share agencies, institutions, and/or a physical environment; members may be
defined in terms of geography or of a common interest
Community Health Nursing - correct answer ✔✔nursing that takes place in & with the
community in a variety of practice areas, such as public health, home health, occupational
health, and other similar fields. CHNs advocate for primary health care.
Client of CHN's may be: - correct answer ✔✔individual, group, community or population
Earliest forms of healthcare in Canada - correct answer ✔✔Indigenous medicine and healing
practices
Canada's first nurse and what did she establish - correct answer ✔✔Jeanne Mance
Hotel-Dieu Hospital
Who established the grey nuns - correct answer ✔✔Marguerite d'Youville
Grey Nuns - correct answer ✔✔made significant contribution to providing access to health
services, food, shelter, and education for the most vulnerable
First form of street outreach nursing - correct answer ✔✔Grey Nuns did public health visits
(blank) was present in the earliest forms of community health nursing
,Nightingale's use of (blank) - correct answer ✔✔health promotion
epidemiology, statistics and awareness of environmental factors of health.
Victorian Order of Nurses - correct answer ✔✔- Charitable, not for profit
- Fully trained in midwifery and district nursing
- leading home and community care in Canada
Early 20th century: 3 distinct sectors of nursing - correct answer ✔✔1. Hospital nurses
2. Private-duty nurses
3. Public health and home-visiting nurses
Pioneer of CHN's - correct answer ✔✔Public health and Home-Visiting nurses
Services to the poorest and most isolated rural communities
Pioneer CHNs met the immediate needs of communities for direct care & midwifery + provided
health & prevention education
First 2 public health nurse specialties - correct answer ✔✔TB nursing and School Nursing
Foundation for emergency preparedness and disaster nursing - correct answer ✔✔Military
Nursing
, Elizabeth Smellie - correct answer ✔✔provided leadership for the war effort, was the first
woman, globally, to become a full colonel.
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) formed in (blank) in response to (blank) - correct answer
✔✔2004
SARS
Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over,
and to improve, their health.
Foundation nursing practice.
CHN Perspective on Health - correct answer ✔✔"A resource for everyday life that is influenced
by circumstances, beliefs, and the determinants of health"
indigenous understanding of health includes the family and community and focuses on: -
correct answer ✔✔a balance between the body, mind, emotion, and spirit
usually includes nature
Upstream Approach vs Downstream - correct answer ✔✔Upstream: health prevention and
promotion
downstream: treating an issue thats already there
Lalonde Report (1974)
Guide
The Community - correct answer ✔✔people and the relationships that emerge among them;
who commonly share agencies, institutions, and/or a physical environment; members may be
defined in terms of geography or of a common interest
Community Health Nursing - correct answer ✔✔nursing that takes place in & with the
community in a variety of practice areas, such as public health, home health, occupational
health, and other similar fields. CHNs advocate for primary health care.
Client of CHN's may be: - correct answer ✔✔individual, group, community or population
Earliest forms of healthcare in Canada - correct answer ✔✔Indigenous medicine and healing
practices
Canada's first nurse and what did she establish - correct answer ✔✔Jeanne Mance
Hotel-Dieu Hospital
Who established the grey nuns - correct answer ✔✔Marguerite d'Youville
Grey Nuns - correct answer ✔✔made significant contribution to providing access to health
services, food, shelter, and education for the most vulnerable
First form of street outreach nursing - correct answer ✔✔Grey Nuns did public health visits
(blank) was present in the earliest forms of community health nursing
,Nightingale's use of (blank) - correct answer ✔✔health promotion
epidemiology, statistics and awareness of environmental factors of health.
Victorian Order of Nurses - correct answer ✔✔- Charitable, not for profit
- Fully trained in midwifery and district nursing
- leading home and community care in Canada
Early 20th century: 3 distinct sectors of nursing - correct answer ✔✔1. Hospital nurses
2. Private-duty nurses
3. Public health and home-visiting nurses
Pioneer of CHN's - correct answer ✔✔Public health and Home-Visiting nurses
Services to the poorest and most isolated rural communities
Pioneer CHNs met the immediate needs of communities for direct care & midwifery + provided
health & prevention education
First 2 public health nurse specialties - correct answer ✔✔TB nursing and School Nursing
Foundation for emergency preparedness and disaster nursing - correct answer ✔✔Military
Nursing
, Elizabeth Smellie - correct answer ✔✔provided leadership for the war effort, was the first
woman, globally, to become a full colonel.
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) formed in (blank) in response to (blank) - correct answer
✔✔2004
SARS
Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over,
and to improve, their health.
Foundation nursing practice.
CHN Perspective on Health - correct answer ✔✔"A resource for everyday life that is influenced
by circumstances, beliefs, and the determinants of health"
indigenous understanding of health includes the family and community and focuses on: -
correct answer ✔✔a balance between the body, mind, emotion, and spirit
usually includes nature
Upstream Approach vs Downstream - correct answer ✔✔Upstream: health prevention and
promotion
downstream: treating an issue thats already there
Lalonde Report (1974)
