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NU 452 Exam 1 Study Guide.
Community-Oriented Nursing - answer✔-focus is on the WHOLE population (homeless, people
in refugees, prisoners)
-goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
-focuses on EVERYONE in the community
Community-based Nursing - answer✔-taking care of someone with an acute/chronic illness in a
place outside of the hospital
-focus on individuals & families
-usually provider driven
Assessment - answer✔-monitor health status to identify community health problems
-diagnose & investigate health problems & health hazards in the community
policy Development - answer✔-inform, educate, & empower people about health issues
-mobilize community partnerships to identify & solve health problems
-develop policies & plans that support individual community health efforts
Assurance - answer✔-enforce laws & regulations that protect health & assure safety
-link people to needed personal health services & assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable
-assure a competent public health & personal healthcare workforce
-evaluate effectiveness, accessibility & quality of person & population-based health services
-research for new insights & innovative solutions to health problems
Roles of a community-oriented nurse - answer✔-focuses on individual, families, groups,
populations, communities
-outreaches in the community
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-health promotion & disease prevention of populations/communities
example: school health-asthmatic child med admin, family for med refill, educate group of
asthmatic students, buses idling by playground
individual-focused practice - answer✔-Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and
behaviors of individuals.
-Alone, part of a family, class or group.
-Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population-at-risk.
Community-focused Practice - answer✔-Goal is to improve population health.
-Aims to change community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community
practices, and community behavior.
-example: RN educates on importance of HPV & flu vaccines
Systems-Focused practice - answer✔-Changes organizations, policies, laws, and power
structures.
-Often a more effective and long-lasting way to impact health than addressing individuals.
surveillance - answer✔describes & monitors health events through ongoing & systematic
collection, analysis, & interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing
& evaluating public health interventions
Outreach - answer✔locations populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk & provides info
about the nature of the concern, what can be done about it, & how services can be obtained
Consultation - answer✔seeks info & generates optional solutions to perceived problems or
issues through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family or individual. The
community, system, family or individual selects & acts on the option best meeting the
circumstances
Collaboration - answer✔commits 2 or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal
through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote & protect health
Disease investigation - answer✔systematically gathers & analyzes data regarding threats to the
health of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases & others at risk &
determines control measures
case management - answer✔optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals & families & the
capacity of systems & communities to coordinate & provide services
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11/16/2024 10:16 AM
NU 452 Exam 1 Study Guide.
Community-Oriented Nursing - answer✔-focus is on the WHOLE population (homeless, people
in refugees, prisoners)
-goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
-focuses on EVERYONE in the community
Community-based Nursing - answer✔-taking care of someone with an acute/chronic illness in a
place outside of the hospital
-focus on individuals & families
-usually provider driven
Assessment - answer✔-monitor health status to identify community health problems
-diagnose & investigate health problems & health hazards in the community
policy Development - answer✔-inform, educate, & empower people about health issues
-mobilize community partnerships to identify & solve health problems
-develop policies & plans that support individual community health efforts
Assurance - answer✔-enforce laws & regulations that protect health & assure safety
-link people to needed personal health services & assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable
-assure a competent public health & personal healthcare workforce
-evaluate effectiveness, accessibility & quality of person & population-based health services
-research for new insights & innovative solutions to health problems
Roles of a community-oriented nurse - answer✔-focuses on individual, families, groups,
populations, communities
-outreaches in the community
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, ©BRIGHTSTARS EXAM SOLUTIONS
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-health promotion & disease prevention of populations/communities
example: school health-asthmatic child med admin, family for med refill, educate group of
asthmatic students, buses idling by playground
individual-focused practice - answer✔-Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and
behaviors of individuals.
-Alone, part of a family, class or group.
-Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population-at-risk.
Community-focused Practice - answer✔-Goal is to improve population health.
-Aims to change community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community
practices, and community behavior.
-example: RN educates on importance of HPV & flu vaccines
Systems-Focused practice - answer✔-Changes organizations, policies, laws, and power
structures.
-Often a more effective and long-lasting way to impact health than addressing individuals.
surveillance - answer✔describes & monitors health events through ongoing & systematic
collection, analysis, & interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing
& evaluating public health interventions
Outreach - answer✔locations populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk & provides info
about the nature of the concern, what can be done about it, & how services can be obtained
Consultation - answer✔seeks info & generates optional solutions to perceived problems or
issues through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family or individual. The
community, system, family or individual selects & acts on the option best meeting the
circumstances
Collaboration - answer✔commits 2 or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal
through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote & protect health
Disease investigation - answer✔systematically gathers & analyzes data regarding threats to the
health of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases & others at risk &
determines control measures
case management - answer✔optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals & families & the
capacity of systems & communities to coordinate & provide services
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