POPULATION HEALTH FINAL UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Community-based nursing
Answer: Minor acute and chronic care that is comprehensive and
coordinated where people work or attend school; illness care provided
outside the acute care setting; more focused on the population
●● Public health nursing
Answer: The practice of promoting and protecting the health of
populations using knowledge from nursing, social and public health
sciences
Achieve the greatest good for the greatest number
●● Public health nurses are...
Answer: *Generalists-* cover all areas of public health
*Specialists-* communicable disease, vaccine preventable disease,
homelessness & social medicine, environmental health, maternal-child
health, emergency preparedness, health screening, public health liason
●● Core functions of public health (3)
,Answer: *Assurance-* making sure it happens, involves the care of the
individual or directly
*Assessment-* knowing what needs to be done
*Policy development-* being part of the solution
●● Florence Nightingale
Answer: *"Mother of nursing"*
Statistician
Mapped deaths of British soldiers in the Crimean War (1853-1856) and
showed that more soldiers were dying from infectious diseases than
from battle wounds
●● Lillian Wald
Answer: Founder of public health nursing
Founded the *Henry Street Settlement* in 1893
Founded the Columbia School of Nursing
●● Clara Barton
Answer: Civil War- distributed supplies to wounded soldiers and treated
casualties with the help of her team
Established the *American Red Cross*
●● Dorthea Dix
, Answer: 19th century Massachusetts- American political activist who
established hospitals to improve conditions for the *mentally ill*
●● Mary Breckenridge
Answer: Founded the frontier nursing service in 1939 and the Frontier
Graduate School of Midwifery
Developed a system of *rural healthcare* in the remote regions of
Kentucky
Emphasized *prenatal care*
●● Lemuel Shattuck
Answer: Prepared a report for the MA Sanitary Commission that is now
considered the foundation of the *sanitary movement* in the US
The Shattuck Report recommended the establishment of a state health
department and local health department in every town and wrote a
comprehensive public health code
●● John Snow
Answer: Outbreak investigation into thousands of households where
there were deaths from *cholera*
Tracked the cholera outbreak to a water supply pump with a
contaminated handle
●● Community assessment / Windshield Survery
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Community-based nursing
Answer: Minor acute and chronic care that is comprehensive and
coordinated where people work or attend school; illness care provided
outside the acute care setting; more focused on the population
●● Public health nursing
Answer: The practice of promoting and protecting the health of
populations using knowledge from nursing, social and public health
sciences
Achieve the greatest good for the greatest number
●● Public health nurses are...
Answer: *Generalists-* cover all areas of public health
*Specialists-* communicable disease, vaccine preventable disease,
homelessness & social medicine, environmental health, maternal-child
health, emergency preparedness, health screening, public health liason
●● Core functions of public health (3)
,Answer: *Assurance-* making sure it happens, involves the care of the
individual or directly
*Assessment-* knowing what needs to be done
*Policy development-* being part of the solution
●● Florence Nightingale
Answer: *"Mother of nursing"*
Statistician
Mapped deaths of British soldiers in the Crimean War (1853-1856) and
showed that more soldiers were dying from infectious diseases than
from battle wounds
●● Lillian Wald
Answer: Founder of public health nursing
Founded the *Henry Street Settlement* in 1893
Founded the Columbia School of Nursing
●● Clara Barton
Answer: Civil War- distributed supplies to wounded soldiers and treated
casualties with the help of her team
Established the *American Red Cross*
●● Dorthea Dix
, Answer: 19th century Massachusetts- American political activist who
established hospitals to improve conditions for the *mentally ill*
●● Mary Breckenridge
Answer: Founded the frontier nursing service in 1939 and the Frontier
Graduate School of Midwifery
Developed a system of *rural healthcare* in the remote regions of
Kentucky
Emphasized *prenatal care*
●● Lemuel Shattuck
Answer: Prepared a report for the MA Sanitary Commission that is now
considered the foundation of the *sanitary movement* in the US
The Shattuck Report recommended the establishment of a state health
department and local health department in every town and wrote a
comprehensive public health code
●● John Snow
Answer: Outbreak investigation into thousands of households where
there were deaths from *cholera*
Tracked the cholera outbreak to a water supply pump with a
contaminated handle
●● Community assessment / Windshield Survery
