NURS 4525 FINAL EXAM NOTES | STUDY GUIDE
CHNC Standard 1 - Answers - Health Promotion: community health nurses integrate
health promotion into practice using 5 Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies.
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve, their health
CHNC Standard 2 - Answers - Prevention & Health Promotion: Community health
nurses use the socio-ecological model to integrate prevention and health protection
activities into practice. These actions are implemented in accordance with government
legislation and nursing standards to minimize the occurrence of disease or injuries and
their consequences
CHNC Standard 3 - Answers - Health Maintenance, Restoration and Palliation: CHNs
integrate health maintenance, restoration and palliation into their practice to maintain
maximum function, improve health, and support life transitions including acute, chronic,
or terminal illness, and end of life
CHNC Standard 4 - Answers - Professional Relationships: CHNs work with others to
establish, build and nurture professional and therapeutic relationships. These
relationships include optimizing participation, and self-determination of the client
CHNC Standard 5 - Answers - Capacity Building: CHNs partner with the client to
promote capacity. The focus is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilize and build
on existing strengths
CHNC Standard 6 - Answers - Health Equity: CHNs recognize the impacts of the
determinants of health, and incorporate actions into their practice such as advocating
for healthy public policy. The focus is to advance health equity at an individual and
societal level.
CHNC Standard 7 - Answers - Evidence Informed Practice: CHNs use best evidence to
guide nursing practice and support clients in making informed decisions
CHNC Standard 8 - Answers - Professional Responsibility and Accountability: CHNs
demonstrate professional responsibility and accountability as a fundamental component
of their autonomous practice
Primary Care - Answers - -refers to the delivery of community-based clinical health-care
services
-primary care providers coordinate the care of individuals and enable equitable and
timely access to other health-care services and providers
, -the primary care sector focuses on preventing, diagnosing, treating and managing
health conditions as well as promoting health
Primary Health Care (PHC) - Answers - -seeks to improve the health of populations
across the continuum of care in all settings
-stresses population, community, and person-oriented strategies for achieving health, in
conjunction with comprehensive, coordinated and integrated health and social services
-it acknowledges the broader conditions that determine health, the importance of
promoting healthy lifestyles to help prevent disease and injury, and the value of ongoing
care for people with chronic conditions
-is realized across health systems when its values and principles are adopted into policy
and implemented into programs and practice
Implicit Bias - Answers - -ingrained ideas about the world
-emerges without our awareness or consent
-influences our perceptions, expectations, judgments and behaviours
College Standards: 5 Components of Nurse-Client Relationship - Answers - -Trust
-Respect
-Professional intimacy
-Empathy
-Power
Components of Nurse-Client Relationship - POWER - Answers - the appropriate use of
power, in a caring manner, enables the nurse to partner with the client to meet the
client's needs. A misuse of power is considered abuse
Exclusion - Answers - -lack of belonging, acceptance or recognition
-being unable to fully participate in social life
-being left behind while others move forward
-feeling alienated, like you don't matter
systemic oppression - Answers - -ingrained throughout various social systems
-influences how institutions operate, how resources are distributed and who is
included/excluded
-becomes the regular way society operates
Patterns of Knowing in Nursing as described by Carper - Answers - -aesthetic
-ethical
-personal
-empirical
-socio-political
-emancipatory
metatheory - Answers - -the theory of theory
-identifies specific phenomena through abstract concepts
CHNC Standard 1 - Answers - Health Promotion: community health nurses integrate
health promotion into practice using 5 Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies.
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve, their health
CHNC Standard 2 - Answers - Prevention & Health Promotion: Community health
nurses use the socio-ecological model to integrate prevention and health protection
activities into practice. These actions are implemented in accordance with government
legislation and nursing standards to minimize the occurrence of disease or injuries and
their consequences
CHNC Standard 3 - Answers - Health Maintenance, Restoration and Palliation: CHNs
integrate health maintenance, restoration and palliation into their practice to maintain
maximum function, improve health, and support life transitions including acute, chronic,
or terminal illness, and end of life
CHNC Standard 4 - Answers - Professional Relationships: CHNs work with others to
establish, build and nurture professional and therapeutic relationships. These
relationships include optimizing participation, and self-determination of the client
CHNC Standard 5 - Answers - Capacity Building: CHNs partner with the client to
promote capacity. The focus is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilize and build
on existing strengths
CHNC Standard 6 - Answers - Health Equity: CHNs recognize the impacts of the
determinants of health, and incorporate actions into their practice such as advocating
for healthy public policy. The focus is to advance health equity at an individual and
societal level.
CHNC Standard 7 - Answers - Evidence Informed Practice: CHNs use best evidence to
guide nursing practice and support clients in making informed decisions
CHNC Standard 8 - Answers - Professional Responsibility and Accountability: CHNs
demonstrate professional responsibility and accountability as a fundamental component
of their autonomous practice
Primary Care - Answers - -refers to the delivery of community-based clinical health-care
services
-primary care providers coordinate the care of individuals and enable equitable and
timely access to other health-care services and providers
, -the primary care sector focuses on preventing, diagnosing, treating and managing
health conditions as well as promoting health
Primary Health Care (PHC) - Answers - -seeks to improve the health of populations
across the continuum of care in all settings
-stresses population, community, and person-oriented strategies for achieving health, in
conjunction with comprehensive, coordinated and integrated health and social services
-it acknowledges the broader conditions that determine health, the importance of
promoting healthy lifestyles to help prevent disease and injury, and the value of ongoing
care for people with chronic conditions
-is realized across health systems when its values and principles are adopted into policy
and implemented into programs and practice
Implicit Bias - Answers - -ingrained ideas about the world
-emerges without our awareness or consent
-influences our perceptions, expectations, judgments and behaviours
College Standards: 5 Components of Nurse-Client Relationship - Answers - -Trust
-Respect
-Professional intimacy
-Empathy
-Power
Components of Nurse-Client Relationship - POWER - Answers - the appropriate use of
power, in a caring manner, enables the nurse to partner with the client to meet the
client's needs. A misuse of power is considered abuse
Exclusion - Answers - -lack of belonging, acceptance or recognition
-being unable to fully participate in social life
-being left behind while others move forward
-feeling alienated, like you don't matter
systemic oppression - Answers - -ingrained throughout various social systems
-influences how institutions operate, how resources are distributed and who is
included/excluded
-becomes the regular way society operates
Patterns of Knowing in Nursing as described by Carper - Answers - -aesthetic
-ethical
-personal
-empirical
-socio-political
-emancipatory
metatheory - Answers - -the theory of theory
-identifies specific phenomena through abstract concepts
