Exam 2 study guide CMN 420 questions with answers graded A+ 2024/2025

Exam 2 study guide CMN 420 Discuss the community as partner model - correct answer Boundaries are needed to define areas of concern for nursing and a conceptual map of the nursing process is a necessary guide for action. The community as a partner model provides us with both the map and the boundaries. It is used to describe the nursing process applied to the community as a whole. Originally the community-as-client model was developed by the authors to illustrate the definition of public health nursing as the synthesis of public health and nursing. The model was renamed the community-as-partner model to emphasize the underlying philosophy of primary health care. 2 central factors in community as a partner model: (1) a focus on the community as a partner and (2) the use of the nursing process. Definitions of the four concepts that are central to nursing - person, environment, health, and nursing - provide a framework for the community as partner model. Person: a population or an aggregate Environment: thought of as community (i.e, a network of people and their surroundings) - The links between the people in the community may be where they live, the work they do, their ethnicity or race, the way they live, and any other factors they have in common Health: seen as a "resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Nursing: prevention. (p. 167-172) Types of stress in a community and how they affect those communities - correct answer Stressors result in disruption of the community. • Air pollution from a nearby industry • Closing of a clinic • Inadequate, inaccessible, or affordable health services.