Chapter 1 - Community Oriented Vs Community Based Nursing

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3 Core Functions of Public Health Nursing

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1. Assessment
2. Policy Development
3. Assurance

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Assurance is...

Back 2

Making sure that essential community oriented health services are available, including making sure that a competent public and personal healthcare workforce is available.

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Community-Based Nursing

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Goal - manage acute & chronic conditions
*Focus in on "illness care" of individuals and families across the life span
*Setting specific care (in the community where people are)
*home care

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Community-Oriented Nursing

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Goal - prevent disease and disability, promote, protect, and maintain health.
*Focus is on "health care" of individuals, families, groups in community.
*Provide health care to promote quality of life
*COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS, health surveillence, evaluation
*school nursing, parish nursing
*aka public health nursing practice

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Community Health Nursing Practice

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Goal - preserve, protect, promote or maintain health of indiv, families, and groups in community
*Practice focus = health all above & how their health status affects the community as a whole

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Public Health Nursing Practice

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Goal - prevent disease and disability and promote and protect the community as a whole.
*More broad focus that community health nursing practice
*The effect of the community's health status (resources) on the health of indiv, fam, groups.
*aka community-oriented nursing

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To improve the health of the entire community... is the goal of?

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Public Health Nursing

Front 8

A population group is also known as...

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aggregate