Community Health Nursing: ATI Final questions and answers well illustrated.

Community Health Nursing: ATI Final questions and answers well illustrated. Community Health Nursing - correct answers.-Population-focused approach to planning, delivering, and evaluating nursing care -Broad field that allows nurses to practice in a wide variety of seetings -Promote health and welfare of clients across the lifespan and from diverse populations Upstream Thinking - correct answers.-Used to focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models that focus on care after an individual becomes ill Nightingale's Environmental Theory - correct answers.-Highlights the relationship between an individual's environment and health -Depicts health as a continuum -Emphasizes preventive care Health Belief Model - correct answers.-PURPOSE: predict or explain health behaviors -Describes likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based on: 1. Perceived Susceptibility 2. Perceived Severity 3. Perceived Benefits 4. Perceived Barriers 5. Cues to Action: strategies to activate "readiness" (e.g. media campaigns, disease's effect on family/friends) 6. Self-Efficacy: confidence Health Indicators - correct answers.-Describe the health status of a community and serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health -e.g. mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity, obesity, tobacco use Community - correct answers.-Group of people and institutions that share geographic, civic, and/or social parameters -Communities vary in their characteristics and health needs Community Health Nursing - correct answers.-A synthesis of nursing and public health theory -Seeks to promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to individuals, families, and groups in order to influence community health Community Health Nurses - correct answers.-Nurses who practice in the community -Usually have a facility from which they work (community health clinic, county health department), but their practice is NOT limited to institutional settings -Care is often also delivered in a setting that is part of the client's environment (e.g. home, school, workplace) Population - correct answers.An aggregate who shares one or more personal characteristics -*The client in community health nursing* Public Health Nursing - correct answers.-Population focused and involves a combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health sciences *GOAL:* Promoting health and preventing disease What are the three core functions of public health - correct answers.1. Assessment 2. Policy Development 3. Assurance Assessment - correct answers.-Using systematic methods to monitor the health of a population -Monitor health status to identify community health problems -Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community Policy Development - correct answers.-*Developing laws and practices to promote the health of a population based on scientific evidence* -Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues -Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems -Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts Assurance - correct answers.*Making sure adequate health care personnel and services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally have them* -Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety -Link people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable -Ensure a competent public health and personal health care workforce -Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services Population-Focused Nursing - correct answers.-Includes assessing to determine needs, intervening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease within a specific *population*