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Home Health Nursing Right Ans - - Most rapidly expanding area
- provide health promotion, disease prevention in an individuals place of
residence
- work with the family, client and interdisciplinary team
- Settings: home, clients current setting (school, streets)
Functions and roles of a home health nurse Right Ans - - provide direct
care
- enhance self care skills
- link client with community services
- prevent complications in the chronically ill
- help minimize effects of disability and illness
Hospice Nursing Right Ans - - Increase the quality of care for terminally ill
persons
- symptom management (pain and suffering) and support
- Setting: home, specially designated palliative care unit in hospital or hospice
facility
Hospice Nursing and roles Right Ans - - reduce pain and suffering
- ensuring comfort
- support of client and family
Public Health Nursing Right Ans - - population health approach
- protecting, promoting health for all Canadians
- settings: home, work, school, clinical settings, community health centre
Public health nursing roles Right Ans - - Advocate
- Manager
- Educator
- Counsellor
Hospice Nurses functions Right Ans - - Pain assessment and management
- assess clients response to treatment
- report findings to physician
, - collaborate to modify care plan
Evidence informed practice in community nursing Right Ans - - uses
evidence informed practice to identify the most effective strategies for
changing health behaviours
- guides nursing practice, help make decisions
Public health nursing functions Right Ans - - plan and deliver services
- community program delivery
- emergency preparedness and planning
- at risk populations
role of community health nurses in rural areas Right Ans - - community
health education
- case management
- advocacy
- case finding
- provide care to families across great distances in all regions of Canada
Corrections Nurse Right Ans - - RN working in clinics within a correctional
facility
- provide health promotion, mental health focus, infectious disease prevention
outreach Nurse Right Ans - - RNs who work with marginalized people who
have difficulty accessing traditional health services (homeless, substance use
disorders)
- settings: alcohol and drug detoxification centre, community mental health
centres
- provide first aid, counselling, referral to community services, advocacy
Parish Nurse Right Ans - - RN who is called to ministry and affirmed by a
faith community to promote health, healing and wholeness
- work with faith communities and the church
Ethical decision making Right Ans - - component of ethical thought that
focuses on how ethical deacons are made
ethical uncertainty Right Ans - feeling of indecision accompanied by sense
of discomfort about a matter