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Terms in this set (59)
a. Highlights the relationship between an individual's
Nightingale's environment and health.
environmental theory: b. Depicts health as a continuum.
c. Emphasizes preventive care.
a. Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors.
b. Assumes that preventive health actions are taken
primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease.
c. Emphasizes change at the individual level.
d. Describes the likelihood of taking an action to
avoid disease based on the following:
i. Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of
Health Belief model a disease.
ii. Modifying factors (demographics, knowledge
level).
iii. Cues to action (media campaigns, disease effect
on family/friends, recommendations from health
care professionals)
iv. Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to
taking action.
a. Nurses who practice in the community.
b. Nurses who can develop long-term relationships
Community health nurses:
with clients while working directly with families and
groups over a long period of time.
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a. public health nursing:
b. not focused on illness care. Focused on
population and the community as a whole
c. Focus of care: aggregates, communities,
populations (public health) can include at risk or
Community oriented
unserved individuals and families.
nursing
d. Primary goal: health promotion and disease
promotion.
e. Nursing activities: usually indirect (program
management) can include direct care of at-risk
individuals and populations.
a. Home health nurse
b. Focused on illness care
c. Focus of care: individuals and families.
d. Primary goal: management of acute or chronic
Community based
conditions.
nursing
e. Nursing activities: direct (one on one): illness care:
management of acute and chronic conditions in
settings where individuals, families, and groups live,
work, and "attend" (schools, camps, prisons)
a. Respect for autonomy: individuals select those
actions that fulfill their goals.
i. Situations: respecting a client's right to self-
determination (making a decision not to pursue
chemotherapy).
ii. Nonmaleficence: no harm is done when applying
standards of care.
1. Developing plans of care that include a system for
Application of ethical
monitoring and evaluating outcomes.
principles to community
iii. Beneficence: maximize possible benefits and
health nursing:
minimize possible harms.
1. Assessing costs, risks and benefits when planning
interventions.
iv. Distributive justice: fair distribution of the benefits
and burden in society is based on the needs and
contributions of its members.
1. Determining eligibility for health care services
based on income and fiscal resources.
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1. a process in which an individual adopts, acquires,
Acculturation
and adjusts to a new cultural environment.
belief your own culture is superior to all others. You
Ethnocentrism
view the world from your own cultural view.
a. Ethnic background
b. Religious preferences
c. Family structure
d. Language and literacy need.
e. Communication values
Cultural assessment f. Education
parameters: g. Cultural values
h. Food patterns
i. Health promotion and maintenance practices
j. Types of health practitioners used.
k. Medicines, remedies, treatments, and therapies
used.
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RN Community Health Nursing (2025)
comprehensive questions and verified answers (
detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025
TEST!!
Save
Terms in this set (59)
a. Highlights the relationship between an individual's
Nightingale's environment and health.
environmental theory: b. Depicts health as a continuum.
c. Emphasizes preventive care.
a. Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors.
b. Assumes that preventive health actions are taken
primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease.
c. Emphasizes change at the individual level.
d. Describes the likelihood of taking an action to
avoid disease based on the following:
i. Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of
Health Belief model a disease.
ii. Modifying factors (demographics, knowledge
level).
iii. Cues to action (media campaigns, disease effect
on family/friends, recommendations from health
care professionals)
iv. Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to
taking action.
a. Nurses who practice in the community.
b. Nurses who can develop long-term relationships
Community health nurses:
with clients while working directly with families and
groups over a long period of time.
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a. public health nursing:
b. not focused on illness care. Focused on
population and the community as a whole
c. Focus of care: aggregates, communities,
populations (public health) can include at risk or
Community oriented
unserved individuals and families.
nursing
d. Primary goal: health promotion and disease
promotion.
e. Nursing activities: usually indirect (program
management) can include direct care of at-risk
individuals and populations.
a. Home health nurse
b. Focused on illness care
c. Focus of care: individuals and families.
d. Primary goal: management of acute or chronic
Community based
conditions.
nursing
e. Nursing activities: direct (one on one): illness care:
management of acute and chronic conditions in
settings where individuals, families, and groups live,
work, and "attend" (schools, camps, prisons)
a. Respect for autonomy: individuals select those
actions that fulfill their goals.
i. Situations: respecting a client's right to self-
determination (making a decision not to pursue
chemotherapy).
ii. Nonmaleficence: no harm is done when applying
standards of care.
1. Developing plans of care that include a system for
Application of ethical
monitoring and evaluating outcomes.
principles to community
iii. Beneficence: maximize possible benefits and
health nursing:
minimize possible harms.
1. Assessing costs, risks and benefits when planning
interventions.
iv. Distributive justice: fair distribution of the benefits
and burden in society is based on the needs and
contributions of its members.
1. Determining eligibility for health care services
based on income and fiscal resources.
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1. a process in which an individual adopts, acquires,
Acculturation
and adjusts to a new cultural environment.
belief your own culture is superior to all others. You
Ethnocentrism
view the world from your own cultural view.
a. Ethnic background
b. Religious preferences
c. Family structure
d. Language and literacy need.
e. Communication values
Cultural assessment f. Education
parameters: g. Cultural values
h. Food patterns
i. Health promotion and maintenance practices
j. Types of health practitioners used.
k. Medicines, remedies, treatments, and therapies
used.
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