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Test Bank - Community Health Nursing in Canada, 3rd Canadian Edition (Stanhope, 2017), Chapter 1-18 | All Chapters

Test Bank Community Health Nursing in Canada 3rd Edition Stanhope1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing? a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community d. Working with an approach of unique client care ANS: C By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the community. DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowle...

Test Bank Community Health Nursing in Canada 3rd Edition Stanhope1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing? a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community d. Working with an approach of unique client care ANS: C By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the community. DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowle...

Community Health Nurse - -nurse who works in the community; mostly primary health care -clients are healthy or striving for health with illness What do community nurses require knowledge in - -primary health care -population health -health promotion and levels pf prevention -determinants of health (DOH) -equity and social justice -evidence based practice what do CHN focus on in relation to health? - understanding the influence of the environment and that health is a resource what...

10 types of practice settings - Public Health Home Health Occupational Health Primary Care Parish Forensic Mental Health Streets Rural Telehealth . 2.5 Common nursing roles in community health - re - orient health services build healthy public policy Strengthen Comm . action for health . create Supportive enviorn . for health develop personal Skills 5types of Prevention levels - Primordial Primary Secondary Tertiary Quartemary Primordial prevention - prevent establishment of social , ec...

advocate - provides a voice to client concerns when necessary clinician or direct care provider - provides hands-on care to the client collaborator - involves the client and interprofessional team members or inter-agency groups working together towards improving client health consultant - provides advice and information to client, health care providers, and agencies to assist in meeting clients health care concerns counselor - provides support to clients to facilitate their decision maki...

Emerging Infectious Diseases - Diseases where the incidence has increased in the past two decades or has the potential to increase in the near future. Anthrax - Acute disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. Things that have contributed to reducing endemics - Improved nutrition, vaccines, and antibiotics. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome - Infectious disease that begins with flu-like symptoms that can become life-threatening when the virus affects the lungs and ca...

3 shared commonalities - geographic, common interest, community of solution community of solution - group of people who come together to solve problems that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water pollution common interest - collection of people with interest or goal that bind them together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community population - all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more characteristic, may not nec...

Jesuit Missionaries - male nurses that visited the sick town to town in North America Grey Nuns - a religious order made up of female nurses that ministered to the sick using comfort measures Jeanne Mance - first female nurse in Canada who founded Hotel Due Hospital in Montreal Colonization of French and British - brought disease to Aboriginal people: STIs, TB, measles, mumps, influenza, and smallpox Jacques Cartier - had scurvy, aboriginals gave a tea that provided vitamin C to treat ...

Community types - geographic, common interest, community of solution community of solution - group of people who come together to solve problems that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water pollution common interest - collection of people with interest or goal that bind them together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community population - all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more characteristic, may not necessaril...

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