Community Ch. 3 - History + Evolution of Public Health Nursing
"Fully Solved Q&A Bundle – Updated for 2025 Exams"
National Organization for Public Health Nursing - - founded by Lilian wild and Mary Gardner
in 1912
- purpose: setting standards for PHNs
- in 1931, developed "general and specialized objectives" regarding work with individuals,
families, communities
- in 1940, added 12 functions of PHNs; began using community health nurse as a more inclusive
gesture
- in 1952, merged with NLN
Population Health - the health status of people who are not organized and have no identity
as a group or locality and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their
health
Rural Nursing - practice of professional nursing within the physical and sociocultural context
of sparsely populated communities, started by fanny clement
Visiting nurse associations - Established 1885-1886. The visiting nurse became the key to
communicating the prevention campaigns for communicable diseases through home visit and
well-baby clinics
Tertiary Prevention - - Promote increasing influence of the nurse through an expanded role
in service delivery
- Minimize the impact of community misunderstandings of the nurse's role through education
Secondary Prevention - - Promote aggregate-level interventions
- foster nurse involvement on community boards and other political groups
, Primary Prevention - - participate in policy formation
- be politically active
- assist in acquiring funding for community health programs
- conduct research on health and nursing outcomes to enhance evidence-based practice
- collaborate with the news media to publicize current public health issues.
Pre-middle ages - - religious and charitable groups provided early care in home
- indigenous peoples used "shamans" or medicine men and women to provide care
- little was known about disease origins
years 500-1000 - - The "Lady of the Manor" gave care.
- Hidegard of Bingen, among other religious caregivers, provided nursing care
year 650 - Hotel Dieu ("house of God") Hospital was established in Paris
Year 1000-1500 - - Military orders, such as knights hospitailer of Jerusalem, cared for those
returning from the crusades. Men provided care.
- St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) ministered to the sick.
- The Maltese cross was adopted as the insignia of the sick (later used on military nursing
uniforms)
Years 1500-1800 - Religious nursing orders (sisters of charity) were founded and extended to
America, Ireland, and Britain.
Florence Nightingale as Lobbyist - - increased health standards and practice
"Fully Solved Q&A Bundle – Updated for 2025 Exams"
National Organization for Public Health Nursing - - founded by Lilian wild and Mary Gardner
in 1912
- purpose: setting standards for PHNs
- in 1931, developed "general and specialized objectives" regarding work with individuals,
families, communities
- in 1940, added 12 functions of PHNs; began using community health nurse as a more inclusive
gesture
- in 1952, merged with NLN
Population Health - the health status of people who are not organized and have no identity
as a group or locality and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their
health
Rural Nursing - practice of professional nursing within the physical and sociocultural context
of sparsely populated communities, started by fanny clement
Visiting nurse associations - Established 1885-1886. The visiting nurse became the key to
communicating the prevention campaigns for communicable diseases through home visit and
well-baby clinics
Tertiary Prevention - - Promote increasing influence of the nurse through an expanded role
in service delivery
- Minimize the impact of community misunderstandings of the nurse's role through education
Secondary Prevention - - Promote aggregate-level interventions
- foster nurse involvement on community boards and other political groups
, Primary Prevention - - participate in policy formation
- be politically active
- assist in acquiring funding for community health programs
- conduct research on health and nursing outcomes to enhance evidence-based practice
- collaborate with the news media to publicize current public health issues.
Pre-middle ages - - religious and charitable groups provided early care in home
- indigenous peoples used "shamans" or medicine men and women to provide care
- little was known about disease origins
years 500-1000 - - The "Lady of the Manor" gave care.
- Hidegard of Bingen, among other religious caregivers, provided nursing care
year 650 - Hotel Dieu ("house of God") Hospital was established in Paris
Year 1000-1500 - - Military orders, such as knights hospitailer of Jerusalem, cared for those
returning from the crusades. Men provided care.
- St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) ministered to the sick.
- The Maltese cross was adopted as the insignia of the sick (later used on military nursing
uniforms)
Years 1500-1800 - Religious nursing orders (sisters of charity) were founded and extended to
America, Ireland, and Britain.
Florence Nightingale as Lobbyist - - increased health standards and practice
