Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada Guide

community health nurse (CHN) - Correct Answer nurses who work in the community public health nurse (PHN) - Correct Answer whose practice focuses on promoting, protecting, and preserving the health of the populations home health nurse (HHN) - Correct Answer whose practice focuses on prevention, health restoration, health maintenance, or palliative care community-oriented nursing - Correct Answer nursing that focuses on the care of either the whole community or a population of individuals, families, and groups living in the community community-based nursing - Correct Answer nurses focus on the provision of acute and long-term care to individuals and families living in the community public health movement - Correct Answer well established in Canada by the beginning of the 20th century, put the health of Canadians on the public agenda maternal feminists - Correct Answer believed that the unique nurturing capacity of women made them particularly suited to the development of programs to assist women and children district nursing or visiting nursing - Correct Answer community health nursing evolved in 2 streams public health nursing - Correct Answer emerged in Canada in the early 20th century when civic departments of health established health education and preventive programs to combat communicable disease, infant mortality, and morbidity in school-age children investigation work - Correct Answer involved he the financial assessment of the family and the determination of what portion of the cost of nursing visit the family could afford welfare state - Correct Answer the provision of publicly funded health and social welfare programs by federal and provincial governments is known as this pauperize - Correct Answer the VN's responsibility to ensure that the nursing care they provided did not ________ their clients by diminishing their personal initiative and rendering them permanently dependent on the state