NURS 3000 Exam test queries and
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Health care organizations - ANS✅✅A purposefully designed, structured social system developed
for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to defined communities,
populations or markets
Health policy - ANS✅✅A goal directed decision making about health that is the result of an
authorized, public decision-making process
Culture - ANS✅✅A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions, norms, roles and values
that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a defined geographical area
Medical model - ANS✅✅A model where the emphasis is placed on the cure
Community health nursing - ANS✅✅The broader term that encompasses "subspecialties" such as
public health nursing, home care nursing, and occupational health nursing
District nursing - ANS✅✅Nurses were assigned a particular geographic section of the city and were
responsible for the health of the people living in that section
Lilian Wald - ANS✅✅American Social Reformer who invented public health nursing; established an
American system of insurance payment for home based care
Maisie Parsons - ANS✅✅The first Newfoundland educated nurse to join the war effort during
World War 1
Maya Bennett - ANS✅✅A district nurse under the Outport Nursing Scheme
LaLonde report - ANS✅✅The health promotion movement in Canada, which focused on healthy
individual lifestyles
Community health nurses of Canada (CHNC) - ANS✅✅The national voice of community health
nurses
,Public health - ANS✅✅Focus on promoting, protecting and preserving the health of populations;
links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and communities to population
health promotion practice
Home health - ANS✅✅Focus on prevention, health restoration, maintenance, and palliation
RN in primary care/family nursing - ANS✅✅Focus on preventative health screening, health
education, comprehensive assessment, treatment of minor acute illness, chronic disease
management, case management, system navigation, therapeutic intervention (wound care,
immunizations), and medication review with individuals and families
Health promotion - ANS✅✅The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve their health
Socioecological model - ANS✅✅Focuses on sustainable solutions
Professional relationships - ANS✅✅These relationships include optimizing participation and self-
determination of the client
Capacity building - ANS✅✅The focus is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilize and build on
existing strengths
Cultural safety - ANS✅✅Means the practitioner can communicate competently with a client in
that client's social, political, linguistic, economic, and spiritual realm
Cultural humility - ANS✅✅An approach to health care based on humble acknowledgement of
oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding a person's experience. It is a life-long process of
learning and being self-reflective
Indigenous ways of knowing - ANS✅✅Comprises the complex set of technologies developed and
sustained by Indigenous civilizations. Often oral and symbolic, it is transmitted through the structure
of Indigenous language and passed on to the next generation through modeling, practice, and
animation, rather than written word
Critical appraisal - ANS✅✅Assess internal validity, the results and the relevance to practice
, Knowledge translation - ANS✅✅Refers to a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis,
dissemination, exchange and ethically sound use of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians
Interprofessional competencies - ANS✅✅Reflect what CHNs are working to improve health care
delivery including effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-centeredness, and equity
Professional identity - ANS✅✅A sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms and
values of the nursing discipline resulting in an individual thinking, acting and feeling like a nurse
Leadership - ANS✅✅An interactive process that provides needed guidance and direction
Ethics - ANS✅✅The study or examination of morality through a variety of different approaches
Community - ANS✅✅A locally based entity composed of systems of formal organizations
Interdependent - ANS✅✅An area that is feasible for resources
People - ANS✅✅Community population
Place - ANS✅✅Geographic area where the community is
Function - ANS✅✅The aims of the community
Role of the nurse - ANS✅✅Regularly examine how the people, place, and function meet the needs
of the residents
Geographic communities - ANS✅✅Face to face/neighbourhood community
Community of identifiable need - ANS✅✅Can cross a number of geographical boundaries; they
have a service in a specific community that is needed
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Health care organizations - ANS✅✅A purposefully designed, structured social system developed
for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to defined communities,
populations or markets
Health policy - ANS✅✅A goal directed decision making about health that is the result of an
authorized, public decision-making process
Culture - ANS✅✅A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions, norms, roles and values
that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a defined geographical area
Medical model - ANS✅✅A model where the emphasis is placed on the cure
Community health nursing - ANS✅✅The broader term that encompasses "subspecialties" such as
public health nursing, home care nursing, and occupational health nursing
District nursing - ANS✅✅Nurses were assigned a particular geographic section of the city and were
responsible for the health of the people living in that section
Lilian Wald - ANS✅✅American Social Reformer who invented public health nursing; established an
American system of insurance payment for home based care
Maisie Parsons - ANS✅✅The first Newfoundland educated nurse to join the war effort during
World War 1
Maya Bennett - ANS✅✅A district nurse under the Outport Nursing Scheme
LaLonde report - ANS✅✅The health promotion movement in Canada, which focused on healthy
individual lifestyles
Community health nurses of Canada (CHNC) - ANS✅✅The national voice of community health
nurses
,Public health - ANS✅✅Focus on promoting, protecting and preserving the health of populations;
links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and communities to population
health promotion practice
Home health - ANS✅✅Focus on prevention, health restoration, maintenance, and palliation
RN in primary care/family nursing - ANS✅✅Focus on preventative health screening, health
education, comprehensive assessment, treatment of minor acute illness, chronic disease
management, case management, system navigation, therapeutic intervention (wound care,
immunizations), and medication review with individuals and families
Health promotion - ANS✅✅The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve their health
Socioecological model - ANS✅✅Focuses on sustainable solutions
Professional relationships - ANS✅✅These relationships include optimizing participation and self-
determination of the client
Capacity building - ANS✅✅The focus is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilize and build on
existing strengths
Cultural safety - ANS✅✅Means the practitioner can communicate competently with a client in
that client's social, political, linguistic, economic, and spiritual realm
Cultural humility - ANS✅✅An approach to health care based on humble acknowledgement of
oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding a person's experience. It is a life-long process of
learning and being self-reflective
Indigenous ways of knowing - ANS✅✅Comprises the complex set of technologies developed and
sustained by Indigenous civilizations. Often oral and symbolic, it is transmitted through the structure
of Indigenous language and passed on to the next generation through modeling, practice, and
animation, rather than written word
Critical appraisal - ANS✅✅Assess internal validity, the results and the relevance to practice
, Knowledge translation - ANS✅✅Refers to a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis,
dissemination, exchange and ethically sound use of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians
Interprofessional competencies - ANS✅✅Reflect what CHNs are working to improve health care
delivery including effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-centeredness, and equity
Professional identity - ANS✅✅A sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms and
values of the nursing discipline resulting in an individual thinking, acting and feeling like a nurse
Leadership - ANS✅✅An interactive process that provides needed guidance and direction
Ethics - ANS✅✅The study or examination of morality through a variety of different approaches
Community - ANS✅✅A locally based entity composed of systems of formal organizations
Interdependent - ANS✅✅An area that is feasible for resources
People - ANS✅✅Community population
Place - ANS✅✅Geographic area where the community is
Function - ANS✅✅The aims of the community
Role of the nurse - ANS✅✅Regularly examine how the people, place, and function meet the needs
of the residents
Geographic communities - ANS✅✅Face to face/neighbourhood community
Community of identifiable need - ANS✅✅Can cross a number of geographical boundaries; they
have a service in a specific community that is needed
