ATI RN Community Health Nursing Study Guide questions and answers well illustrated.

ATI RN Community Health Nursing Study Guide questions and answers well illustrated. Systems thinking - correct answers.Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with other organizations or systems Upstream thinking - correct answers.Is used to focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models that focus on care after an individual becomes ill Nightingale's Environmental Theory - correct answers.-Highlights the relationship between an individual's environment and health -Depicts health as a continuum -Emphasizes preventive care Health Belief Model - correct answers.-Purpose is to predict health behaviors -Emphasizes change at the individual level -Assumes that the preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease Milio's Framework for Prevention - correct answers.-Emphasizes change at the community level -Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-promoting resources Pender's Health Promotion Model - correct answers.-Does not consider health risk as a factor that provokes change -Examines factors that affect individuals actions like: personal factors, feelings, benefits, barriers, attitudes of others, and abilities Determinants of Health - correct answers.Factors that influence that client's health. -- nutrition, stress, education, environment, finances, and social status Health Indicators - correct answers.Describe the health status of a community and serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health -- mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity, obesity, tobacco, or other substance use Community - correct answers.-A group of people and institutions that share geographic, civic, and/or social parameters -The "community is the client" in community health nursing Goals of Community Health Nursing - correct answers.Promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to individuals, families, and groups in order to influence "community health" Public Health Nursing - correct answers.-It is population-focused, and involves a combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health sciences -GOAL: promote health and preventing disease PHN: Assessment - correct answers.-Using systematic methods to monitor the health of a population --Monitor health status to identify community health problems --Diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards in the community PHN: Policy Development - correct answers.Developing laws and practices to promote the health of a population based on scientific evidence PHN: Assurance - correct answers.Making sure adequate health care personnel and services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally have them Population-focused Nursing - correct answers.-Includes assessing to determine needs, intervening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease within a specific population Key Principles of PHN: - correct answers.-Emphasize primary prevention -Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals -Recognize that the client is a partner in health -Use resources wisely to promote the best outcomes Ethics - correct answers.Preventing harm, doing no harm, promoting good, respecting both individual and community rights, respecting autonomy and diversity, and providing confidentiality, competency, trustworthiness, and advocacy Advocacy - correct answers.The nurse plays the role of informer, supporter, and mediator for the client Evidence-Based Practice - correct answers.-Involves using the best practices, expert opinion, and client preferences to change the delivery of client care -GOAL: improve client outcomes EBP: Data - correct answers.The nurse should appraise data collected from research to measure whether bias was minimal (quality), the number of studies, participants, or strength of effect (quantity) and whether the results are repeatable (consistency) Quality - correct answers.Quality assurance, improvement, and management are part of improvement of health care Total quality management (TQM) - correct answers.Approach that seeks to improve quality and performance which meets or exceeds expectations Continuous quality improvement (CQI) - correct answers.Approach to quality management that emphasizes the organization and its processes and systems and uses objective data to analyze and improve processes Community Health Education - correct answers.-Nurses regularly provide health education in order to promote, maintain, and restore the health of populations -Nurses must take in account the barriers that make learning difficult like: age, cultural beliefs, poor reading skills, and language barriers -Effective community health education requires planning Learning Theories: Behavioral Theory - correct answers.Use of reinforcement methods to change learners' behavior Learning Theories: Cognitive Theory - correct answers.Use of sensory input and repetition to change learners' patterns of thought, thereby changing behaviors Learning Theories: Critical Theory - correct answers.Use of ongoing discussion and inquiry to increase learners' depth of knowledge, thereby changing thinking and behaviors Learning Theories: Developmental Theory - correct answers.Use of techniques specific to learners' developmental stages to determine readiness to learn, and to impart knowledge Learning Theories: Humanistic Theory - correct answers.Assists learners to grow by emphasizing emotions and relationships and believing that free choice will prompt actions that are in their own best interest Learning Theories: Social Learning Theory - correct answers.Links information to beliefs and values to change or shift the learners' expectations Domains of Learning: Cognitive - correct answers.Involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills Domains of Learning: Affective - correct answers.Involves a change in attitude and development of values Domains of Learning: Psychomotor - correct answers.Involves the performance of a skill Development of a Community Health Education Plan - correct answers.-First, identify population-specific learning needs -Design the educational program -Implement the educational program -Evaluate the achievement of learning objectives