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NUR 439 Exam 1 ReviewCommunity-Based Nursing (CBN)
*Focus is on "illness care" of individuals and families across the lifespan.
*Came about due to the growing costs of hospital care.
*Management of acute and chronic illness care.
*Care is setting-specific.
Community-Oriented Nursing
*Focus is on promoting quality of life.
*Focus is on the health care of entire communities or populations as well as the
healthcare of individuals, families, and groups.
*Includes the specialty of public health nursing.
*Goal is to prevent disease and protect health of community and populations.
Public Health
*Goal is to organize community efforts that will use scientific and technical
knowledge to prevent disease and promote health.
Three Core Functions of Public Health
*Assessment
*Policy Development
*Assurance
Public Health Nursing
*Type of nursing in which the nurse often reaches out to those who might benefit
from a service or interventions.
Population-Focused Nursing
*Focus is on health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention of a
population.
Example: Look at all children in the Head Start preschool program to evaluate if
the program is achieving its goals.
Individual, Family, and Group Focused Nursing
*Focus is on providing services to individuals rather than a population while
maintaining appreciation for the values of the community.
, Example: Developmental screening tests of children in the Head Start preschool
program to evaluate each child.
Community Health Nursing
*Preserve, protect, promote, or maintain the health of individuals, families and
groups in a community.
Two Components of Healthcare System
*Private/Personal Care: Primary Care
*Public Health
Primary Health Care
*Broader than primary care and within all communities.
*Includes a comprehensive range of services and encourages self-care and self-
management.
*Made universally accessible to all individuals in a community.
*Refers to personal health care that provides continuous, comprehensive, and
coordinate care.
Managed Care
*HMOs, PPOs, Medicare, and Medicaid
Ethics
*A body of knowledge and, as such, is more than "being a good person.
*The bases of clinical decision making.
Primary Principles of Ethics
*Respect for autonomy.
*Nonmaleficence
*Beneficence
*Distributive/Social Justice
*Nonmaleficence
*Do no harm
*Beneficence
*Always do good
*Distributive Justice
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