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What is public health
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practice of PROMOTING and PROTECTING the health of the populations using information from the nursing, social, and public health sciences
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What does public health nursing encompass?
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Assessing populations to identify:
-Groups in need of health promotion -Groups at risk for disease (prevention) Plan for community interventions Evaluate results Use results to influence health care delivery |
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Who first used the term "public health nurse"
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Lilian Wald
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What is advocacy
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Informing clients, protecting clients rights, mediating b/w client & health care team, supporting client autonomy
*arises in cases where client is in a position of vulnerability |
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Social justice
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Equitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of society among its members
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Primary Prevention in public health nursing
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Action taken prior to the occurrence of a health problem in an attempt to avoid occurrence
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Secondary prevention in public health nursing
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early identification and tx of existing health problems; resolving issues w/o serious health complications
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Tertiary prevention in public health nursing
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aimed at returning a client to the highest level of function and px further deterioration of health; px reccurrence
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Epidemiology
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study of the distribution of health and illness, factors determining the health status of a population, use of knowledge generated to control the development of health problems
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