Ch 1 Stanhope:Foundations for
Population Health in Community/Public
Health Nursing 5th edition
community-based nursing - ANSWER- setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for "sick" individuals and families where they live, work, and go to
school. The emphasis of practice is acute and chronic care and the provision of
comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous services. Nurses who deliver
community-based care are generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric,
adult, or psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Community-oriented nursing - ANSWER- The Goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life.
Assessment - ANSWER- This involves systematically collecting data on the
population, monitoring the population's health status, and making information
available about the health of the community.
Assurance - ANSWER- This is making sure that essential community-oriented
health services are available. These services might providing essential personal
health services for those who would otherwise not receive them. This also
includes making sure that a competent public health and personal health care
workforce is available.
Community - ANSWER- A group of people, often living in a defined geographical
area, who may share a common culture, values and norms, and are arranged in a
social structure according to relationships which the community has developed
over time.
public health nursing - ANSWER- its primary focus the health care of either the
community or populations of individuals, families, and groups in a community.
The main goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health of individuals,
families, and groups.
Population Health in Community/Public
Health Nursing 5th edition
community-based nursing - ANSWER- setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for "sick" individuals and families where they live, work, and go to
school. The emphasis of practice is acute and chronic care and the provision of
comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous services. Nurses who deliver
community-based care are generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric,
adult, or psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Community-oriented nursing - ANSWER- The Goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life.
Assessment - ANSWER- This involves systematically collecting data on the
population, monitoring the population's health status, and making information
available about the health of the community.
Assurance - ANSWER- This is making sure that essential community-oriented
health services are available. These services might providing essential personal
health services for those who would otherwise not receive them. This also
includes making sure that a competent public health and personal health care
workforce is available.
Community - ANSWER- A group of people, often living in a defined geographical
area, who may share a common culture, values and norms, and are arranged in a
social structure according to relationships which the community has developed
over time.
public health nursing - ANSWER- its primary focus the health care of either the
community or populations of individuals, families, and groups in a community.
The main goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health of individuals,
families, and groups.
