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Public Health Nursing
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Public health nurses integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire popluation with personal, clinical understandings of the health and illness experiences of individuals and families within the population.
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Community Health Nursing Theories
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1. Microscopic
a. The individual is the locus of change. 2. Macroscopic a. Thinking Upstream - society is the locus of change |
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Microscopic Theories
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1. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing
2. The Health Belief Model |
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Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing
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This is based on the premise that nursing is a response to a sick person's inability to administer self-care.
Nursing assumes the role of providing some or all self-care activities on the patient's behalf. Pts with chronic illness |
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Health Belief Model
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Is based on the assumption that the major determinant of preventive health behavior is deasese avoidance.
The concept of disease avoidance includes perceived susceptibility to disease "X" perceived seriousness of disease "X" modifying factors, cues to action, perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to preventive helath action. |
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Milio's Frameork for Prevention
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A framework for initiating upstream policies for health.
Economic, social political and environmental health determinants are considered Range of choices for improving health are shaped by governmental and private poicy decisions. Health deficits result from imbalnces between a populations's health needs and it's health-sustaining resources. |
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Critical Social Theory
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Politico-ecomonic interventions are most effective methods of addressing health problems.
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