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types of communities - ✔✔geographic, community of solution, common interest community
social determinants of health - ✔✔health behaviors, socioeconomic factors, physical
environment
health promotion vs disease prevention - ✔✔health promotion aims to optimize communities
health through services/education and disease prevention focuses on determining possible
diseases/averting problems to minimize disease
primary prevention - ✔✔prevents onset of disease through measures like vaccination
secondary prevention - ✔✔early detection and screenings
tertiary prevention - ✔✔reduces impact/complications of existing disease
characteristics of community nursing - ✔✔priotizes prevention, analyzes environmental and
community problems, uses EBP and environmental justice, population focused (for the greatest
good for the greatest number), and sees clients as partners
10 essential services of PH - ✔✔assess health, determine hazards, educate, mobilize
communities, creates policies/laws, enforces regulations, assure access to services, develop
workforce, innovate/evaluate, maintain infrastructure
core public health functions - ✔✔assessment, policy development, assurance
PHN roles - ✔✔clinician, education, advocate, manager, collaborator, leader, researcher
, settings of PHN - ✔✔home, ambulatory clinics, schools, occupational health, LTC, faith
communities, hospice, community at large
Lilian Wald contributions - ✔✔coined term public health nursing, started Henry street
settlement to serve low income populations in NYC, started first school nursing program,
Margaret Sanger contributions - ✔✔advocated for birth control clinics
NLNE - ✔✔the American society of superintendents of training schools for nurses began in
1893 by Isabel Hampton Robb to establish standards for education in nursing and became NLNE
in 1912 (now ANA)
visiting nurses association - ✔✔offered home care nursing in 1950s , privately funded and in
some places city/county health dept. joined administratively and financially with VNAs to
provide a combination of services that included homeware of the sick and health promotion for
families
frontier nursing service - ✔✔a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge in
Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. The FNS influenced the
development of nurse midwifery in the United States.
how was public health nursing focused in 1900-1970 - ✔✔families, prevention/cure,
government and voluntary
how is public health nursing focused from 1970-present day - ✔✔focused on total
community/population health/prevention, with diverse institution levels and clinics
components of EPB - ✔✔current research, clinical experience, patient preferences/values,
healthcare resources, clinical context