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Who spends the most money on healthcare?
Who spends the most money on healthcare?
The United States
What is the definition of public health?
What is the definition of public health?
A broad field of practice that serves as the foundation for the community's health infrastructure.
What is the definition of population health?
What is the definition of population health?
It is a set of analytical strategies and approaches used in public health to improve the community's health.
What is the definition of public health practice?
What is the definition of public health practice?
What are the missions for public health practice?
What are the missions for public health practice?
Which of the following are considered to be among the 10 greatest public health achievements?
Which of the following are considered to be among the 10 greatest public health achievements?
What are gains made due to public health programs?
What are gains made due to public health programs?
How much of all national expenditures supports governmental public health functions?
How much of all national expenditures supports governmental public health functions?
What is the definition of assessment in public health?
What is the definition of assessment in public health?
What is the definition of policy development in public health? What is the goal?
What is the definition of policy development in public health? What is the goal?
What is the definition of assurance in public health?
What is the definition of assurance in public health?
Which of the following essential public health services are considered assessments?
Which of the following essential public health services are considered assessments?
Which of the following essential public health services are considered policy development?
Which of the following essential public health services are considered policy development?
Which of the following essential public health services are considered assurance?
Which of the following essential public health services are considered assurance?
Which essential public health service is considered as assessment, policy making, and assurance?
Which essential public health service is considered as assessment, policy making, and assurance?
What are examples of primary health care?
What are examples of primary health care?
What are examples of secondary healthcare?
What are examples of secondary healthcare?
What is the definition of a population?
What is the definition of a population?
What are criteria for defining a population?
What are criteria for defining a population?
When can public health nurses apply care to patients?
When can public health nurses apply care to patients?
What is the definition of public health nursing?
What is the definition of public health nursing?
What are the requirements to work as a public health nurse?
What are the requirements to work as a public health nurse?
What is population-focused nursing? What is an example?
What is population-focused nursing? What is an example?
What is individual, family, and group-focused nursing? What is an example?
What is individual, family, and group-focused nursing? What is an example?
What is the definition of a subpopulation? What population would fall under this category?
What is the definition of a subpopulation? What population would fall under this category?
What is community-based nursing? What is an example?
What is community-based nursing? What is an example?
What is community-oriented nursing? What is an example?
What is community-oriented nursing? What is an example?
What is the goal for public health nursing practice?
What is the goal for public health nursing practice?
What does public health nursing practice do?
What does public health nursing practice do?
What are challenges in the future for public health?
What are challenges in the future for public health?
What is the most common community assessment used?
What is the most common community assessment used?
What is utilitarianism?
What is utilitarianism?
In order to implement change at the community level, we must have what?
In order to implement change at the community level, we must have what?
What is the overall goal for nursing interventions for public health?
What is the overall goal for nursing interventions for public health?
What is systems theory?
What is systems theory?
When the nursing focus is on the collective or common good of the population, who is the client?
When the nursing focus is on the collective or common good of the population, who is the client?
What can be part of population-focused community health practice?
What can be part of population-focused community health practice?
What are two key concepts for community as client?
What are two key concepts for community as client?
What is the goal of population-centered practice?
What is the goal of population-centered practice?
Who does the nurse work with for population-centered practice? Who are the resulting changes intended to affect?
Who does the nurse work with for population-centered practice? Who are the resulting changes intended to affect?
What are examples of assessment findings that guide actions of assurance?
What are examples of assessment findings that guide actions of assurance?
What is the definition of a gatekeeper?
What is the definition of a gatekeeper?
What is the nurse's role in the community?
What is the nurse's role in the community?
How is community health reflected?
How is community health reflected?
Describe community partnerships.
Describe community partnerships.
What is the definition of community-based participatory research?
What is the definition of community-based participatory research?
Describe the community as partner framework.
Describe the community as partner framework.
What is distributive justice?
What is distributive justice?
What is social justice?
What is social justice?
What are the purposes of community assessments?
What are the purposes of community assessments?
What are secondary sources of data?
What are secondary sources of data?
What are primary sources of data?
What are primary sources of data?
What is the Omaha system?
What is the Omaha system?
What is the format for a community nursing diagnosis?
What is the format for a community nursing diagnosis?
Who is involved in the community nursing diagnosis?
Who is involved in the community nursing diagnosis?
What is an example of a community nursing diagnosis?
What is an example of a community nursing diagnosis?
Describe the windshield survey.
Describe the windshield survey.
What are things to observe when doing a windshield survey?
What are things to observe when doing a windshield survey?
Describe personal safety in community practice.
Describe personal safety in community practice.
What are three sources of information about a community?
What are three sources of information about a community?
What is early public health?
What is early public health?
What are examples of early public health practices?
What are examples of early public health practices?
Public health during America's colonial period and the new republic was first a?
Public health during America's colonial period and the new republic was first a?
What is the Elizabethan Poor Law?
What is the Elizabethan Poor Law?
When and where was the first hospital founded in America?
When and where was the first hospital founded in America?
What did industrialization cause during frequent epidemics during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries?
What did industrialization cause during frequent epidemics during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries?
What is the Shattuck report?
What is the Shattuck report?
What did Florence Nightingale do and when?
What did Florence Nightingale do and when?
What did William Rathbone do and when?
What did William Rathbone do and when?
What happened during 1870 in the U.S?
What happened during 1870 in the U.S?
What happened during 1886 in regards to public health?
What happened during 1886 in regards to public health?
Who established Henry Street Settlement in 1893?
Who established Henry Street Settlement in 1893?
What happened in 1886 in Boston?
What happened in 1886 in Boston?
Who is Jessie Sleet (Scales)?
Who is Jessie Sleet (Scales)?
Who initiated home nursing care outside larger cities?
Who initiated home nursing care outside larger cities?
What was occupational nursing originally called?
What was occupational nursing originally called?
What was Ada Mayo Stewarts' contribution to occupational health nursing?
What was Ada Mayo Stewarts' contribution to occupational health nursing?
What was an extension of home visiting?
What was an extension of home visiting?
Who is Lina Rogers?
Who is Lina Rogers?
How did public health nursing grow in 1909?
How did public health nursing grow in 1909?
How did public health nursing grow in the late 1800s?
How did public health nursing grow in the late 1800s?
How did public health nursing grow in the 1920s and 30s?
How did public health nursing grow in the 1920s and 30s?
Why was public health nursing needed in WWI?
Why was public health nursing needed in WWI?
Who founded the Frontier Nursing Services in 1925?
Who founded the Frontier Nursing Services in 1925?
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Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes
Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes
The U.S., despite spending the most on healthcare, has relatively poor health outcomes due to a lack of focus on preventative measures.
What is Public Health?
What is Public Health?
The broad field of practice that encompasses efforts to protect and promote the health of communities.
What is Population Health?
What is Population Health?
A set of approaches and strategies used to improve the health of a community.
What is Public Health Practice?
What is Public Health Practice?
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What is the Mission of Public Health Practice?
What is the Mission of Public Health Practice?
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What are the 10 Greatest Public Health Achievements?
What are the 10 Greatest Public Health Achievements?
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What are Gains Made Due to Public Health Programs?
What are Gains Made Due to Public Health Programs?
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Government Funding of Public Health
Government Funding of Public Health
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What is Assessment?
What is Assessment?
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What is Policy Development?
What is Policy Development?
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What is Assurance?
What is Assurance?
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Assessment Essential Services
Assessment Essential Services
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Assessment Essential Services
Assessment Essential Services
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Policy Development Essential Services
Policy Development Essential Services
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Policy Development Essential Services
Policy Development Essential Services
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Policy Development Essential Services
Policy Development Essential Services
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Assurance Essential Services
Assurance Essential Services
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Assurance Essential Services
Assurance Essential Services
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Assurance Essential Services
Assurance Essential Services
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Assurance Essential Services
Assurance Essential Services
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Essential Services (Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance)
Essential Services (Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance)
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What are Examples of Primary Healthcare?
What are Examples of Primary Healthcare?
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What are Examples of Secondary Healthcare?
What are Examples of Secondary Healthcare?
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What are Examples of Tertiary Healthcare?
What are Examples of Tertiary Healthcare?
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What is a Population?
What is a Population?
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What are Criteria for a Population?
What are Criteria for a Population?
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Public Health Nurse Care for Vulnerable Individuals
Public Health Nurse Care for Vulnerable Individuals
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Study Notes
Public Health Nursing History and Concepts
- U.S. spends the most on healthcare but has the worst health outcomes due to a lack of preventive measures.
- Public health is the framework supporting community health.
- Population health employs strategies to enhance community health.
- Public health practice aims to prevent illness, promote health, and protect populations.
- Public health practice missions centre around organised efforts using science to prevent illness and improve health.
- Key public health achievements include vaccines, safer cars, improved food safety, and healthier families.
- Public health programs improve food safety, water quality, sewage disposal, and public safety.
- Only 3% of national spending supports governmental public health.
- Assessment involves collecting population data to identify issues.
- Policy development creates policies to support population health.
- Assurance ensures essential health services and a skilled workforce.
- Essential public health services include monitoring health, investigating problems, educating communities, and developing policies to support health.
- Research expands knowledge and generates innovative solutions.
- Primary healthcare focuses on preventive measures applicable to everyone (e.g., diet, exercise, vaccines).
- Secondary healthcare focuses on screening to diagnose problems (e.g., mammograms, screenings).
- Tertiary healthcare provides treatment for diagnosed conditions (e.g., therapies, medications).
- Population is a group with shared characteristics (e.g., location, circumstance).
- Public health nurses provide care to vulnerable populations.
- Public health nursing blends nursing, social sciences, and public health expertise to promote and protect community health.
- Licensing typically needs a bachelor's degree plus public health certification.
- Population-focused practice prioritizes community health promotion and disease prevention.
- Example: Evaluating Head Start programs' impact.
- Individual, family, and group-focused practice provides services tailored to individual needs while considering community impact.
- Example: Developmental screenings in a Head Start program.
- Subpopulations are vulnerable subgroups within a community.
- Community-based nursing directly addresses illnesses within the community.
- Community-oriented nursing prioritizes population health and disease prevention.
- Public health nurses aim to prevent disease, promote health, and protect entire communities.
Community-Based and Oriented Nursing
- Community assessments (e.g., windshield surveys) gather information and prioritize health issues.
- Community partnerships are crucial for implementing changes and ensuring everyone's voice is heard.
- Utilitarianism prioritizes the greatest good for the greatest number.
- Systems theory describes how factors interact to maintain a whole, like a chain reaction.
- The community is the client in population-focused care.
- Population-centered practices (primary, secondary, tertiary) aim for overall community well-being.
- Nursing interventions aim to improve community health.
- Assessment findings guide resource allocations and funding.
- Gatekeepers are influential community members (e.g., religious leaders).
- Public health nurses build trust and partner with gatekeepers and community members.
- Community health is reflected in residents' health behaviours and community support systems.
- Community-based participatory research (CBPR) involves everyone equally in research.
- Community is a key partner in population-centered practice, using a systems approach to effect changes
- Distributive justice is fair resource and burden distribution.
- Social justice ensures vulnerable groups are included in equitable resource distribution.
- Community assessments identify community needs or strengths, confirm data, and prioritize health issues.
- Secondary data sources include Healthy People 2030 and health rankings.
- Primary data sources like surveys, focus groups, and observations provide subjective data.
- The Omaha system guides community nursing diagnoses.
- Community nursing diagnoses outline problems, linked factors, and supporting data.
- NANDA (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association) informs community nursing diagnoses.
Historical Perspective on Public Health Nursing
- Early public health involved practices in hygiene, sanitation, and healthcare.
- Industrialization led to inadequate living conditions, epidemic risks, and the need for organized healthcare.
- The Elizabethan Poor Law offered support for the poor.
- The first American hospital was founded in 1751.
- The Shattuck Report provided a blueprint for future public health organisations.
- Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing practice.
- Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster founded the Henry Street Settlement in 1893, expanding public health nursing models.
- Early public health nurses faced racial segregation and limited resources.
- The 1918 influenza pandemic highlighted the need for community interventions.
- The Great Depression reduced public health funding.
- Key figures like Pearl McIver played a significant role in navigating public health during the early 20th century.
- The Maternity and Infancy Act (Sheppard-Towner Act) boosted maternal and child health.
- Public health nursing continued to evolve with increased collaborations and diverse approaches.
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Explore the essential concepts and history of public health nursing, emphasizing the importance of preventive measures in healthcare. This quiz covers key public health achievements, practices, and frameworks that enhance community health and well-being. Test your knowledge on the role of policy and assurance in public health initiatives.