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NUR 207 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
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- nurses are to be quick-thinkers and have a vast amount of knowledge as well as a high degree
of self-sufficiency, critical self-awareness, and personal responsibility
- provide safe and quality care, they must be able to colllect accurate info, clinically reason, form
strategies for problems and evaluate effectiveness of solutions - answer✔What is the importance
of clinical judgment in nursing practice?
- complaints of the abused person may be vague - answer✔Which factor accounts for the
primary reason domestic violence may remain undetected for many years?
- focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families across the lifespan
- Goal: manage acute and chronic conditions
- Provide acute and chronic illness care and provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and
continuous care
- A setting-specific practice, care is provided where people live, work, and attend school
(school nurse, infirmary in prison, home health, occupational nurse) - answer✔What is
community-based nursing?
- Focus is on health care of entire communities or populations as well as health care of
individuals, families, and groups.
- Includes specialty of *public health nursing (PHN)*.
- Goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for community and
population within it.
- promote quality of life
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Community diagnosis, health surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of community and
population
- preventions and education with bigger groups and populations - answer✔What is community-
oriented nursing?
- scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics, and assessment
- attention given to behavioral, cultural, in addition to program planning and policy development
- answer✔What is public health?
public health nursing - answer✔promoting and protecting the health of the populations using
knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences
- health of a population as a whole
- includes the distribution of health outcomes and disparities in the population - answer✔What is
population health?
‒ Dramatic inc in life expectancy
‒ Dec number of deaths from stroke, coronary heart disease, and cancer
‒ Declines in death rates of adults and children (seatbelt, helmets, things to help people)
‒ Population-focused PH approaches could help prevent up to 70% of early deaths in America,
compared to only 10% for medical treatment. - answer✔What are the benifits of public health?
- National Prevention Health Promotion and Public Health Council with developing the National
Prevention and Health Promotion strategy to focus on community-oriented approaches to
prevention and wellness
- "reduce the incidence and burden of the leading causes of death and disability." - answer✔What
is the affordable care act?
organize community efforts that will use scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health - answer✔What is the public mission?
- Assessment: assess community and build up policies
- Policy Development
- Assurance: making sure there are resources and tools to implement the policy and there are
positive outcomes - answer✔What are the three core functions of public health?
preventions of the initial occurrence of disease or injury