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What society does collectively to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
In 1988 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report on the future of public health and its mission that defined public health as:
Partnering with local seasonal farmworkers to design a program aimed at preventing illness and injury, and advocating for this population with local political and community leaders.
A registered nurse is seeking a position as a public health nurse. In reviewing the job description the nurse would expect to find a description of a position that focused on functions such as:
Opinions that nursing should focus on the provision of direct client care and services.
A public health nurse leader is encountering barriers when trying to shift the public health agency's efforts to a population-focused practice. The reasons peers are not supportive of the proposed shift to a population focus are most likely related to:
Population-level strategies aimed at promoting, preserving, and maintaining the health of populations through the delivery of personal health care services to individuals, families, and groups in an effort to improve the health of the community as a whole
The role and goals of the community health nursing practice can best be described as
assessment
A community-oriented nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the middle school. The next step in a population-focused practice is to make information available about the health of the middle school students. This describes the core public health function of:
Assurance
The state public health agency has received multiple complaints regarding the availability of elder transportation services to a specific county senior center. The state agency assigns a public health nurse to work with the community to evaluate its program for elder transportation services to publicly sponsored eldercare programs. The public health core function applied is:
Community-oriented care
A nurse planning a smoking cessation clinic for adolescents in the local middle schools and high schools is providing:
Clinical community health practice
A community-oriented nurse conducts home visits to new parents to assess the health status of the infant, the parent-child relationship, the parents' knowledge regarding the care of the infant, and the need for health department and social services referrals to support the needs of the new parents and the infant. This can best be described as an example of:
Director of clinical services spanning inpatient and community-based settings that provide a wide range of services to the populations seen by the system.
Nurses should consider opportunities for population-focused practice that result from the rapid transformation of health care delivery from a medical model to a health promotion/disease prevention model. An example of such opportunity is:
Evaluation of an outreach program for at-risk pregnant teenagers,
, Community subpopulations with high rates of type 2 diabetes and
Prevalence of hypertension among various age, race, and gender groups.
Public health nursing specialists are interested in which of the following topic(s)? Select all that apply
Introduction of the first nurse-midwifery training.
In 1925, Mary Breckenridge established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) based on a system of care used in the highlands and islands of Scotland. Changes in public support for community and public health nursing and away from individual commitment and private financial support led to innovations in health care delivery in the twentieth century, especially for underserved populations. One of Breckenridge's innovative contributions to health care in the United States was:
Expansion of the role of nursing to include health-promotion practices
The most important contribution made by Florence Nightingale to community-oriented nursing was
Provision of funding to support employment and education
The Social Security Act of 1935 was designed to prevent the reoccurrence of the problems of the depression. Title VI of this act provided funding for expanded opportunities for health protection and promotion. The most relevant strategy related to this objective for public health nursing was:
Providing and obtaining medical treatment for absent students.
In 1902, Lillian Wald introduced the concept of school nursing to address the problem of school absenteeism. The primary model for the school nurse program was to work with children in the schools and make home visits for the purpose of:
National preference service model that neglects emerging problems
From a historical perspective, the post-Depression shift in the U.S. Congress to the practice of categorical funding that provides federal money for priority diseases or groups has to this day produced a negative effect on the delivery of health care services that can best be described as:
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