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What was the time period where child labor was common, personal hygiene and public health was ignored and health assissting positions were held by the untrained servancts? PS HIgh mortality with short life span as well.
1700's -1900's
This was a time where families card for ill at home, superstition and folk medicine were used. There were no public seware and convents held hospitals within
500-1600 AD
What society provided charitable assistance to the poor and sick in 1813?
Lady's Benevolent Society of Charleston SC
What law granted medical care to the poor, blind, lame etc.
Elizabethan Law
What was the forerunner of US public health policy, that created state and local boards of health, and what influenced its existance?
Shattuck Report of 1850
influenced by Chadwick Report of 1492
Who founded the first district nursing association?
William Rathbone
Who established the Henry Street Settlement?
Lillian Wald
Who was the first public health nurse?
Lillian Wald
In the late 1800's the frontier Nurses were established by whom and for what purpose?
Mary Brekenridge
To act as midwives and to tx pregos, kids and babies
Who was nursing's first moral leader and community oriented nurse?
Florence Nightengale
What were the first code of ethics that were written by Lystra Gretter?
1893 Nightengale pledge
What association reccommended that all nursing education be held in institutes of higher education?
ANA
What is ethical decision making?
Making decisions in an orderly process that considers ethical principles, client values, and professional obligations, must address ethnic diversity and growing multiculturalism in American society.
What are the moral challenges that face our profession?
Ethical Issues
ex. how to prepare an adequate and ethical workforce
What are puzzeling moral problems in which a person group or community can envision morally justified reasons for both taking and not taking a certain course of action?
Ethical Delemma
How to allocate Limited resources to two equally needy populations would be an example of what?
ethical dilemma
What are the two types of classic theories?
Utilitarianism
Deontology
What theory believes that a person should do what is right because of the outcome?
Utilitarianism
What theory believes that one must do what is right regardless of the reward or outcome?
Deotonology
What is the theory of prinicpilism composed of?
The primary principles of ethics including; respect for autonomy, nonmalefiencence, beneficence, distributive justice
What is the def of beneficence?
Do good
What is the def of distributive justice?
Be fair
What is the definition of non-maleficence?
do no harm
What are the 3 parts associated with the core functions of ethics?
Assessment- compentency in research, virtue ethics, moral character

Policy Development- Acieve public good, service to others and self, what is ethical is foundations of the policy
Assurance- ALl persons should receive essential health services, providers should be competent
What contains 9 statements that address the moral standards that delineate nursing's values gorals and obligation?
2001 Nursing Code of Ethics
What contains 12 statements that address the moral standards that delineate public health values, goals and obligations?
2001 Public Health Code of Ethics
What is the act of pleading for or supporting a course of action on behalf of a person, group or community?
Advocacy
In dealing with the components of the Public Health Advocacy what are the end products?
Decreased mortality and morbidity
In dealing with the componenents of Public Health Advocacy what are the processes involved?
Problem Identification
Research and data gathering
Professional and clinical education
Development and promotion of regulations and legistlation
Endorsements of regs and leg via elections
Enforcement of effective policies
Policy process and outcome eval
What is involved with the conceptual framework for advocacy?
Information Stage- gathering data about public health problems

Strategy Stage- simplify info to lay people and professionsal, building and funding coalitions, working with legistlators

Action Stage- implementing strategies through lobbying testifying issuing press releases passing lawas and voting
What are the ethical principles for effective advocay?
Act in client's best interest
Act according to their wishes
Keep them informed
Carry out instructions with competence
Give non biased advice
Maintain confidentiality
What is the title of a person who is not a citizen but is allowed to work in the US?
Legal Immigrant
Are unauthorized immigrants eligible for emergency services?
YEs
What is the set of assumptions about life that are widely held among a group of people and that are transmitted across generations
Culture
What is a bilogical designation whereby group members share features
Race
What are the shared feelings of peoplehoood among a group of individuals (belongings, customs, religion)
Ethnicity
What are the 4 principles of Cultural competence in nursing?
Care is designed for specific client

Care is based on uniqueness of the person's culture and includes cultural norms and values

Care includes sel-empowerment to help client make informed decisions for self

Sensitivity provided
What is a combination of culturally congruent behaviors, practice attitudes, abd policies that allow nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations
cultural competence
There are two main principles in developing cultural competence what are they?
Maintain a broad, objective and open attitude toward individuals and their cultures

Avoid seeing all individuals as being alike
def: explore belief of sel
cultural awareness
Def: learn about other cultures
Cultural knowledge
Def: use of cultural awareness and knowledge
Cultural skill
Def: interactions with others cultures
cultural encounter
Def: being open minded to other cultures
cultural desire
Def: Nurse supports and facilitates culture
Cultural preservation
Def: nurse facilitate with practice for patient
cultural accomodation
Def: Nurse changes and modify's culture if harmful
Cultural repattering
Def: nurse sdvocates with patient and stadd (negotiates)
Cultural negotiation
Examples of inhibitors to culturally competent care
ignorance
pressure
stereotyping
prejudice
racism
ethnocentrism
cultural imposition
cultural conflice
cultural shock
When performing a cultural nursing assessment the nurse would ask about:
ehtnic background
religious preference
family patterns
food patterns
health practices
Although they are different with each, all cultures possess the same basic organizing factors of:
Personal space
Social organization
time perception
environmental control
biological variations
whi was the mother of biostatistics?
Florence Nightengale
What is the freedom from injury or illness related to exposure to toxic agents and other environmental conditions that are potentially detromental to human health
Environmental health
What are the goals for Healthy people 2010?
Healthy people, health environment
what is the basic science that studies the health affects associated with chemical exposures?
toxicology
What is the science that helps us understand the strength of the association between exposures and health effects in human populations"
epidemiology
What is the epidemiology triangle composed of?
Agent
Host
Environment
Four Environmental Principles are
Everything's connected
Everything has to go somewhere
The solution to pollution is dilution
Today's solution may be tomorrow's problem
WHen taking the environmental health assessment: what is involved with the mneumotic IPREPARE?
It is environmental exposure history

Iinvestigate potential exposure
Present work
Residence
Environmental concerns
Past work
Activities
Referrals and Resources
Educate
What is risk communication?
right to know the right info at the right time
These agencies manage the environmental exposures through the development and enforcements of standards and regs
Educates public about risks and risk reduction
Governmental Protection Agency
ex Food and Drug Ad
Dept of Agriculture
Local health dept
What is the equal protection from environmental hazards for ind, groups or communities regardless of race, age, ehtnicity, or economic status?
environmentla justice
What are the roles of the nurse in environmental health?
Community involvment and participation
Individual and popluation risk assessment
risk communications
epidemiologic investigations
policy development
Phases of the Health System:
First Phase 1800-1900
health concerns r/t social and public health issues
Family and friends provided care in home
Phases of Health System:
Second Phase 1900-1945
Focus on control of infectious disease

growth of hospitals and health dept
Phases of Health System:
Third Phase 1945-1984
Shift away from acute infections to health problems
Major technological advances
Phases of Health System 1984- Present
Enphasis on controlling costs, restricting growth in the health care industry
reorganizing care delivery
What influences health care costs?
Price inflation
Demographics (aging population)
Technology and intensity of services
Chronic Illness
How is health care financed?
Public Support- Marine Hospital Medicare Medicaid

Private Support- Insurance Employers, Managed Care
What payment system does Medicaid use
Capitation
What is it called when you pay for services up front?
Prospective
The environment and biology account for how much percentage of all illness?
70%
What is the form of epidemiology that describes disease according to person place and time
Descriptive
Analytic Epidemiology
A form of epidemiology that investigares causes and associtations between factors and events and health.
How do nurses use epidemiology?
Look at health disease and causation and how to prevent both disease and treat illness

Nurseas are invloved with surveillance and monitoring od disease trends
Def: look at how many occurances out of 100 or 1,000 or 10,000
proportion
Def: concept of epidemiology that looks at how rapidly disease is developing in a population
rate
Def: how likely it will occur over time
risk
Reflects the number of new cases
incidence
Reflects the amount of population at risk for actually experiencing the event or illness at some point
Incidence proportion
Number of existing cases divided by the current population
Prevalence proportion
The proportion of persons who are exposed to an agentand develop the disease
attack rate
Number of persons who are dx with a particular disorder who die within a specified time
case fatality
the proportion of all deaths due to specific causes
proportionate mortality rate
What are the characteristics of African American Culture
ask personal?'s of first time met person is improper and intrusive; direct eye contact (good) hair touching (bad) women play key role in home
A program that establishes systems and monitors the health status of individuals, families and groups the program or process develops planning and intervention activities as well as targeted evaluation outcomes for the client and programs.
care management
Def: All interventions in health care that should be based on best currently acaliable evidence, preferrably scientific evicence, represnts the clinical application of particular nursing intervention, documented cleient and outcome data
Evidenced- Based Practice
What are the components of Evidence Based Practice?
Theories of Practice
Expert Opinions
Clinical Knowledge and judgement
Research studies of all types
Bariers to evidence based practice:
Misommunications between nursing leadrs about process involved

Inferior quality of avaliable research data

Inability to assess and use research data

Unwilligness of organizations to fund research and make decisions based on evidence

Concerne that EBP will cause a cookbook approach to nursing while ignoring indiv.
What is the first priority concerning care of the patient?
To do what's best for the patient with EBP based on evidence, clinical and scientific knowledge regardless of age, culture or ethnicity.

Cost for health care is never 1 priority.
What is the goal of the community as a client
improved heakth of the communty
All knowledge derived from experience - Goal is to understand complex issues via experience
Empiracism
Educator is attempting to make a personal involvement and audience better to remember ex teach class to pregos
Interpretivism
All knowledge is beneficial focus is on practical point of chance behavior or learn a particular skill
Pragmatism
Behaviors that can be observed and measured (children) Rewards and consequences positive and negative reinforcement
Behavioral Therapy
Seeks to change thought patterns and give a lot of info
Cognitive Theory
Convo is ongoing dialogue patients will educate and learn
Critical Theory
Lerning happens with alignment of develop mental stage p[atient is in
Developmental Theory
Want learners to examine values/ feelings give right info pt will make decision
Humanistic Theory
More specific to goal that builds off of Humanistic Theory look at 1) achieve goal 2) How they are going to do it
Social Learning Theory
What is the cognitive domain
recall
What is affective domain
gave info
Psychomotor domain
skills
observe action practice
practice skill
skill to be taught to others
eveluate on effectiveness
ability to recall info
knowledge
combines with recall and understanding
comprehension
new info taken in and used in a different way; values the info
application
looks at communication in two parts to understand both; makes sense of info
analysis
builds on prior levels by assembling them into a unified whole; organizes info
synthesis
value of what is learned; adopt beahviors that are consistent with new values
evaluation
What are the events of Instruction
1. Gain attention
2. Inform the learner of the objectives of instruction
3. Stimulate recall of prior learning
4. Present material
5. Provide learning guidance
6. Elicit performance
7. Provide feedback
8. Assess performance
9. Enhance retention and transfer of knowledge
The effective educator does what?
1. Send a clear message
2. Select the learning format
3. Create the best learning environment
4. Organize the learning experince
5. Encourage participatory learning
6. Provide evalution and feedback
What are barriers to learning?
Educator- realted barriers
Learner related barriers- language and learning
The educational Process
1. Indentify
2. Establish goals obj
3. Select appropriate educational methods
4.Implement the educational plan
5. Evalute the educational process
What is the educational product?
the outcome of the educational process which is measured both
Quantatively and Qualitatively.
Evaluated short and long term and the objectives are related to improving heatlh and prmoting behaviorla changes
What is the establishment and arrangement of events to facilitate learning including providing knowledge and skills?
EDUCATION
What is the process of gaining knowledge and skills that lead to behavioral changes?
Learning
What is case Management?
Includes the activites implemented with individual clients in the system. Case manager builds on basic functions of the traditional role and adapts new competencies for managing transition from one part of the system to another or to home
What is the #1 role of the case manager?
Advocacy
What are the building blocks for case managers?
Risk analysis

Data mapping

data monitoring for health processes, indicators and unexpected illness

Epidemeologic investigation of unexpected illness

Multidisciplinary develop of action plans and programs

Identifying case management triggers or events that promote earlier referrals of high-risk clients when prevention could have dramatic results
What are the components of a care map?
1. index of problems with itermediate and outcome criteria

2. Timeline

3. Critical path

4. Variance record
This is a program or process that establishes system and monitors health of individuals families and other groups. Includes planning, evlauation of outcomes
care management
Def: Activities for the purpose of proetecting rights of others while supporting the client's responsibility for self- determination
Advocacy
Populations or defined groups
aggregate
What does advocacy involve?
Informing
Supporting
Affirming client's self-determination in health care decisions
This includes the activities implemented with individual clients in the system. It invloves building on basic functions of the traditional role and adapts to new competencies for managing a transition from one part of the system to antoher
Case Manager
What are some of the roles of a case manager?
Broker
Consultant
Coordinator
Educator
Facilitator
Liason
Mentor
Monitor
Negotiator
advocate
Researcher
Allocator
Def: CM role acts as an agent fpr provider services that are needed by clients to stay within coverage according to budget and cost limits of health care plan
Broker
def: case manager who works with providers, suppliers and the community and other case managers to provide case management expertise in programmatic and individual applications
Consultant
Def: CM role that Arranges, regulates and coordinated needed health care services for clients at all necessarty points of service
Coordinator
educates clients family and providers abnout case management process, delivery system, community health resources and benefit coverage so that informed decisions can be made by all parties
educator
CM role: Supports all parties in work toward mutual goal
facilitator
CM role: provides a formal communication link among all parties concerning the plan of care management
liasion
Cm role: counsels and guides the dev of the practice of new CM
Mentor
CM role: provides info to parties on status of member and situations affecting patient safety, care quality and patient outcome on factors that alter costs and liability
Monitor/ Reporter
CM role: negotiates the plan of care, service and payment arrangements with providerss
negotiator
CM role: acts as a advocate, provides info and supports benefits changes that assist member, family, primary provider and capitated system
patient advocate
CM role : utilizes and applies evidenced based practice
Researcher
DM role: distribues limited halth care resources according to plan or rationale
Systems Allocator
Are care maps evidenced based?
Not always
Rosas def of care map
Cause and effect grid Id's expected behaviors of family and staff against a timeline
CareMap: What is the timeline?
landmark of episodes of health or illness...marks the good and bad
CareMap: What is the variance
Differnce of what is expected and what is occuring
What is the goal of collaboration skills with Case Managers?
to promote respect understand and accuracy of communication of all team members points of view
For a Case Manager to have Collaboration Skills they must have knowledge and skills about:***********
Clients
Health status
Resources

Treatments

Community Providers

Clients and families complex needs

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, medical, nursing and social dimensions

Team member and leadership skills
Def: one attributes certain beliefs and behaviors about a group to an individual without giving adequate attention to individual differences
Stereotyping
Def: the emotional reaction to deeply held beliefs about other groups. Usually negative feelings
Prejudice
Def: a form of prejudice and refers to the belief that persons born to a particular group are inferior
Racist
"All asian people are hardworkers" is an example of what?
Sterotyping
The tendency to ignore differences between cultures and to act as if there is no difference
cultural blindness
The process of imposing one's culture on another
cultural imposition
A perceived threat that may arise from a misunderstanding of expectations between clients and nurses when either group is npt aware of cultural differences
cultural conflict
the feeling of helplessness discomfort and disorientation ecperienced by an individual attempting to understand or effectively adapt to another cultural group that differs in practices, values, and beliefs
cultural shock
Def: Negotiating with clients to include aspects of their folk practices with the traditional health care system to implement essential treatment plans
Cultural accomodation
An appreciation of and sensitivity to a clients values, beliefs, practices, lifestyles and problem-solving strategies
cultural awareness
Advocating mediating, negotating and intervening between the client's culture and biomedical health care on behalf of the client
cultural brokering
an interplay of factors that motivate persons to develop knowledge, skills and ability to care for others
cultural competence
The nurses intrinsic motivation to provide culturally competent care
cultural desire
the information neccessary to provide nurses with an understanding of the organized elements of culture and to provide effective nursing care
cultural knowledge
Use by clients of those aspects of their culture that promote healthy behaviors
cultural preservation
working with the clients to make changes in health practices when the cultural behaviors are harmful
cultural repattering
the integration of cultural knowledge and awareness to meet clients needs
cultural skill
What are the three common characteristics of community health?
Status Structure and Process
In regards to community health, what does the STATUS include?
physical (morbidity and mortality) emotional (cleint satisfication), and social (crime rates)
In regards to community health, what does the Structure include?
services and resources in the community
In regards to community health, what does the PROCESS include?
effective community functioning or problem solving
What is the goal of Community Oriented nursing:
seek helpful change together
The active participation and involvement of the community or its representatives in healthful change is
Community partnerships
What is the biggest problem in making a change in the community?
Being accepted into the community
What are the characteristics of effective partnerships?
Equality in decidion making

A shared vision

Agreement on specific goals

A plan of action to meet those goals
What are the steps involved in the community-focused nursing process?
1. Assessment
2.Identify problems
3. Prioritze problems
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
With the community focused nursing process what is involved with the assessment?
data collection

windhield surverys

informant interview

Participate in observation role by intergrating into community

Secondary data- marriage license, divorce, birth cert

Surveys

Focus group- discuss particular set of problems
How do you decipher problem prioritization with community focused nursing?**********
Community awareness

community motivation

nurse's ability to influence problem solution

avaliable experts

severity of outcomes without intervention

how quickly can it be solved
When does evalutaion occur?
In the planning phase
What are the two best guidlines for judgement in community practice?
Awarness of community and common sense
A collection of individuals who have a common purpose
Group
The ways the group members behavior and relate toward each other
member Interaction
The reason two or more people came together may be subtle or obvious and easily started by members
group purpose
Attraction of group members to one another and to the group
cohesion
standars that guide, regulate and control, are unwritten and often unspoken
norms
Influencing others to achieve a goal is taking an active role in
Leadership
the particular arrangement of group parts that constitute a whole
group structure
Seeks and accepts the authority or direction of others
follower
Controls access to group
gatekeeper
Offers physical and physcological support
Maintenace specialist
Offers conflict resoluction
Peacemaker
Focuses and directs movement toward main work of the group
task specialist
A nurse fills what main role in a group?
Mediator
What is the best group # for change?
8-25 people
25 or more for community
What are stategies for change in a group
Analyze problem
Maintian motivation for change
Support during vulnerabilities
Provide Feedback
How would a nurse work toward problem resolution of a group?
devulge certain opinions and irritations in a calm way.

Listen ----> Clarify--> give viewpoint

Leader will help to solve conflicts
How does a nurse evaluate the groups progress?
Are goals achieved?
Work together to achieve goals?
Is there a group bond?
Open communication?
What are two aspects of team cohesiveness?
coordination, collaboration
The social system depends on groups for:
governing
making policy
determining community needs
taking steps to alleviate needs
evaluate outcome
How would a nurse help a group work towards a goal?
Keep group focused
maintain members through

recongnization and encouragement

Maintaining member self-esteem during conflict and confrontation

evaluating progress
The study of family structure or the characteristics of who makes up a family untis and the events that alter that structure *******
Family demographics
A group of two or more individuals realted by blood, marriage adoption or an emotional committments that rely on each other for physical, emotional or financial support
Family
Consists of nurses and families working together to ensure the success of the family and its memebres in adapting to responses to health an illness
Family nursing
Characteristics and demographics (sex age and number) of individuals who make up family units
family structure
What are the historic family functions. (6)
Financial survivial
reproduction
protection
to pass along culture
education and socialization
status
Family nursing: A traditional focus that places the individual first and the family second
Family as the context or structure
Family nursing: Family is first and individuals are second
Family as the client
Family nursing: Focus is on the family as the client simultaneously focuses on ind members and th family as a whole
Family as a system
Family Nursing:" family is seen as one of many institutions in scoiety
family as a component of society
An open family
accepts help when needed
A closed family
keeps to themselves
Def: The family as a social system that interacts with other social systems. Emphasis is on examining interacting functions of society and the family, considers family structure and how a family structure affects its function
Structure Theory
What is the Focus of Structure Theory?
Analysis of family interaction between social systems such as school, work, health care and the transactions between family members
This theory is that a family is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Systems Theory
the Focus of Systems Theory
the clients are participatins members of the family...whatever affects one portion of the system will effect the other
Theory that looks at the family system over time through predictable developmental and life tasks
Developmental Theory
The focus of the Developmental Theory
Family tasks that need to be met for each stage of family dev
Theory that sees family as a unit of interacting personalities within which individual family members occupy a position
Interactionist Theory
What is the focus of interactionist theory>
focuses on the way that the family relates to each other but does not look at the interaction with society
What family theory is a closed system?
Interactionist theory
This model emphasizes organizing care around what is called the keystone issue that is challenging family health; is an outcome-driven model of care: fmily sory, cue logic, framing, present state and outcome testing, intervention and decision making, clinical judgement, reflection
Care Outcome Present State Testing Model
This model takes a microscopic apprach to family assessment, views the family as a whole and as part of the society, and as an interactionist system
Friedman Family Assessment Model
What is cue logic?
Id problems, issues and nursing dx
Witht his model the nurse assess when the family is subject to outside stressors and how well they adapt
Family Assessment Interventions Model
What are 2 Significant Barriers to family nursing?
The narrow definition of family used by health care providers and social policy makers

The lack of consensus of what a healthy family is
The factors that determine or influence whether disease or other unhealthy results occur
Health Risks
Process of ID and analyzinf an individuals prognostic sharacteristics of health and comparing with standard age groups
Health Risk Appraisal
Application fo selected interventions to conteol or reduce risk factors and minimize the incidence of associated diease and premature mortality
Health risk reducation
Age-related risk to a person's health that often occur during transitions from one deve stage to antoher
Life event risks
Situation where the demands of the situation exceed resourced and coping cpacity of the family
Family crisis
What is a genogram used for?
Gather basic info about the family, relationships withing the family and health and illness patterns