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Which of the following is a key tenet of community health nursing?
Which of the following is a key tenet of community health nursing?
- Population-based assessment (correct)
- Policy avoidance
- Individual-based assessment
- Assurance of individual health outcomes
What is the primary focus of intervention strategies in community health nursing?
What is the primary focus of intervention strategies in community health nursing?
- Addressing social inequalities
- Providing individual medical treatment
- Creating healthy economic conditions
- Preventing disease before it occurs (correct)
What is the dominant concern of community health nursing practice?
What is the dominant concern of community health nursing practice?
- The well-being of the community as a whole (correct)
- The protection of individual rights
- The promotion of medical treatments
- The health of the individual
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Study Notes
- Public health nursing organization developed 8 principles of public health nursing
- Principles define the uniqueness of population-based, community-oriented practice
- Philosophy and scope of practice are unique, not the settings
- Tenets of community health nursing include population-based assessment, policy development and assurance
- All processes must include partnering with representatives of the people
- Primary prevention is given priority
- Intervention strategies are selected to create healthy environmental, social, and economics conditions
- Community health nursing practice includes an obligation to actively reach out to all who might benefit from an intervention or service
- Dominant concern and obligation is for the greater good of all of the people or population as a whole
- Health of the people is most effectively promoted and protected through collaboration with members of other professions and organizations.
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