PN 3002 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS LATEST VERSION
A community is a collection of individuals who have similar social and
geographic characteristics.
Nursing in the Community
tasks pertaining to prevention, health restoration, maintenance, and palliation
are all part of home health nursing, which aims to improve daily self-care tasks
and encourage decision-making autonomy.
Nursing in Community Health
-includes the nursing specializations of primary care, home health, family
practice, and public health.
-roles include outreach or street nursing, parish nursing, outpost nursing,
community mental health, and others.
Practice of Community-Health Nursing
consists of: - promoting, protecting, maintaining, and restoring population
health
Palliative care and the promotion of health in the community, family, and
individual
Empowerment is defined as a psychological, cultural, social, or political process
that allows individuals to better govern their everyday lives and bring about
change.
, Harm reduction is a user-informed strategy to health promotion that calls for
compassionate pragmatism and dedication. It provides options to lessen the
effects of risky behavior and to embrace alternatives to lower treatment barriers
by making treatment easily accessible.
Populations with High Priority
groups that are most at risk due to systemic obstacles including social
marginalization, limited access, or reliance on others.
Marginalized populations may be excluded from mainstream social, economic,
educational, or cultural life because they are a subgroup of the population that is
often concealed, disregarded, or on the periphery.
A population is made up of people who share one or more environmental or
personal traits.
The goal of population health is to lessen health disparities between population
groups and to enhance the general health of the populace.
In order to address the majority of personal health care needs, establish a long-
term relationship with patients, and practice within the framework of the family
and community, primary care family practice nurses work within the integrated
and accessible health care services offered by physicians and their healthcare
teams.
Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach to health that focuses on
people's needs as early as possible along the continuum, from disease
prevention and health promotion to treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care,
and as close as is practical to people's daily surroundings. Its goal is to ensure
the highest level of health and well-being.
The general population's health is the main emphasis of public health.
A community is a collection of individuals who have similar social and
geographic characteristics.
Nursing in the Community
tasks pertaining to prevention, health restoration, maintenance, and palliation
are all part of home health nursing, which aims to improve daily self-care tasks
and encourage decision-making autonomy.
Nursing in Community Health
-includes the nursing specializations of primary care, home health, family
practice, and public health.
-roles include outreach or street nursing, parish nursing, outpost nursing,
community mental health, and others.
Practice of Community-Health Nursing
consists of: - promoting, protecting, maintaining, and restoring population
health
Palliative care and the promotion of health in the community, family, and
individual
Empowerment is defined as a psychological, cultural, social, or political process
that allows individuals to better govern their everyday lives and bring about
change.
, Harm reduction is a user-informed strategy to health promotion that calls for
compassionate pragmatism and dedication. It provides options to lessen the
effects of risky behavior and to embrace alternatives to lower treatment barriers
by making treatment easily accessible.
Populations with High Priority
groups that are most at risk due to systemic obstacles including social
marginalization, limited access, or reliance on others.
Marginalized populations may be excluded from mainstream social, economic,
educational, or cultural life because they are a subgroup of the population that is
often concealed, disregarded, or on the periphery.
A population is made up of people who share one or more environmental or
personal traits.
The goal of population health is to lessen health disparities between population
groups and to enhance the general health of the populace.
In order to address the majority of personal health care needs, establish a long-
term relationship with patients, and practice within the framework of the family
and community, primary care family practice nurses work within the integrated
and accessible health care services offered by physicians and their healthcare
teams.
Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach to health that focuses on
people's needs as early as possible along the continuum, from disease
prevention and health promotion to treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care,
and as close as is practical to people's daily surroundings. Its goal is to ensure
the highest level of health and well-being.
The general population's health is the main emphasis of public health.
