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32 Cards in this Set
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Community-based NURSING
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Focus is on “illness care” of individuals and families across the life span
Growing cost of hospital care is leading to more care being provided in community-based settings |
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Community-oriented NURSING
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Focuses on the health care of entire communities or populations and the health care of individuals, families, and groups
Includes the specialty of public health nursing Goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health |
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Community health nursing practice
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Focus is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain the health of individuals, families, and groups
How does their health affect the community as a whole? |
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Public Health Nursing (PHN)
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Focus is to prevent disease and disability within the community
“The greatest good for the greatest number.” is a specialty with a distinct focus and scope of practice PHN requires a special knowledge base Specialization in public health nursing is seen as a subset of community-oriented nursing practice PHN has an emphasis on the population rather than on single individuals or families |
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Public Health
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A scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics, and assessment –including attention to behavioral, cultural, and economic factors – as well as program planning and policy development
Public health is what members of a society do collectively to ensure that conditions exist in which people can be healthy |
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family as context/structure
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traditional focus that places the individual first and the family second
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family as client
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family first; individuals second
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family as system
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focus is on the family as client, and the family is viewed as an interacting system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts; simultaneously focuses on individual members and the family as a whole
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family as component of society
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family is seen as one of many institutions in society, along with health, education, religious, or financial institutions
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Domain of learning: cognitive
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involves the mind and thinking process and includes knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
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Domain of learning: affective
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involves emotion and feeling. Includes acceptance, participation, value, internalization or rejection, and adoption
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domain of learning: psychomotor
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involves performance of skills and includes ability, perception, and practice
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casulaties
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number humans injured or killed by or as a direct result of an incident
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Multiple-casualty incident:
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>2 but <100
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Mass-casualty incident:
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> 100
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scope
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range of its effect, either geographically or in terms of the number of victims
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intensity
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the level of destruction and devastation it causes
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direct victims
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people experiencing the event; dead and the survivors
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displaced persons
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forced to leave to escape effects of disaster; usually temporary
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refugees
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people forced to leave homeland due to war or persecution
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indirect victims
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relatives or friends of direct victims
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Prevention
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No disaster expected or anticipated
Identify community risk factors and develop and implement programs to prevent disasters from occurring |
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Preparedness
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improving community and individual reaction and responses so that the effects of a disaster are minimized
Personal preparedness Professional preparedness Community preparedness |
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Response
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rescue, triage, on-site stabilization, transportation of victims, and treatment at local hospitals
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Triage: Red
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urgent/critical (bleeding, etc)
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Triage: Yellow
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delayed (broken bone, etc)
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Triage: Green
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minor/walking wounded
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Triage: Black
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dead/not-salvageable (no RR, HR)
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Recovery
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repair, rebuild, or relocate damaged homes and businesses and restore health and economic vitality to the community
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PH core function: assessment
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Systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population’s health status, and making information available about the health of the community
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PH core function: Policy Development
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Efforts to develop policies that support the health of the population, including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions
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PH core function: Assurance
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Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available
Includes providing essential personal health services for individuals, as well as a competent PH workforce |
