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Acute Care Nursing - ✔✔Care of solitary patients, primarily focused on illness at the end of
health continuum.
Public Health Nursing - ✔✔Care that encompasses a much wider vista, primarily charged with
preventing health problems and promoting higher levels of health.
Geographic Community - ✔✔A community defined by physical locations such as a city, town, or
neighborhood.
Common Interest Community - ✔✔A community formed around shared interests, such as a
church or professional organization.
Community of Solution - ✔✔A group of people who come together to solve a problem that
affects all of them.
Health Indicators - ✔✔Metrics used to assess the health of a population, including nutrition,
physical activity, oral health, reproductive and sexual health, social determinants, substance
abuse, and tobacco use.
Health Promotion - ✔✔Efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well-being, with a
social mandate for engaging in wellness and health promotion.
Disease Prevention - ✔✔Actions taken to stop specific diseases from occurring, reduce their
impact, or detect them early, targeting risk factors and disease processes.
Primary Prevention - ✔✔A level of disease prevention that focuses on preventing disease
before it occurs.
, Secondary Prevention - ✔✔A level of disease prevention that focuses on early detection and
prompt treatment of disease.
Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔A level of disease prevention that focuses on reducing the impact of
an ongoing illness or injury.
Population as Client - ✔✔In community health nursing, the population is considered the client
or unit of care.
Greatest Good Principle - ✔✔The primary obligation of community health nursing is to achieve
the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Collaboration in Public Health Nursing - ✔✔Public Health Nurses (PHNs) collaborate with clients
as equal partners.
Priority of Primary Prevention - ✔✔In community health nursing, primary prevention is
prioritized.
Healthy Conditions Strategy - ✔✔Strategies are selected to create healthy environmental,
social, and economic conditions for populations to thrive.
Active Outreach Obligation - ✔✔There is an obligation to actively reach out to all who might
benefit from specific activities.
Optimal Resource Use - ✔✔The optimal use of available resources is key to assuring the best
overall improvement in the health of the population.
Collaboration with Professions - ✔✔Collaboration with various professions, populations,
organizations, and entities is the most effective way to promote and protect health.