Community Health Nursing In Canada Latest Questions and Certified Answers (Update)

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 necessarily interact aggregates - a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population; communities and populations are types goal of community health nursing - health promotion, disease prevention, and health protection promotion of health - health education, preventative care services, healthy people 2030, raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and communities prevention of health problems - anticipating and averting problems or discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment primary prevention - to keep illness from occurring, hand rails, immunizations secondary prevention - efforts to detect and treat existing health problems. Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control or eradicate before morbidity becomes severe tertiary prevention - attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after CVA.