Define Public Health Nursing Answer - Specialty practice within nursing and
public health
Focus on improving the populations health by emphasizing prevention and
attending to multiple determinants of health
Population focused instead of individual focused
Population Answer - All people occupying an area or all of those who share
one or more characteristics
People not necessarily interacting with one another
Don't necessarily share a sense of belonging to that group
Ex: All people living in Miami Dade County
Aggregate Answer - Mass or grouping of individuals considered as a whole
Loosely associated with one another
Sub-population within the larger population who possess some common
characteristics
Often related to high risk for specific health problems
Ex: within Miami Dade county: HIV+ women, UM students, breastfeeding
mothers
Acute Care Nursing vs PHN Answer - Acute Care Nursing:
Care of solitary patients
Primary illness end of health continuum
, PHN:
Care encompasses a much wider view
Primary charge to prevent health problems
Promote higher levels of health
Primary Prevention Answer - Measures taken to keep illness or injuries from
occurring, precedes disease or dysfunction
Examples - PHN providing childhood vaccinations, encourage elderly people to
install and use safety devices to prevent injuries from falls, teaching young
adults healthy behaviors, providing immunization programs
Secondary Prevention Answer - Efforts to detect and treat existing disease
Early diagnosis (screening) and treatment
Efforts to detect and treat existing health problems at the earliest possible
stage, when disease or impairment is already present
Examples - HTN and cholesterol screening programs; encouraging breast and
testicular self-examinations, regular mammograms, pap smear to deter
possible cancers
Secondary prevention attempts to discover a health problem at a point when
intervention may lead to its control and or eradication
Tertiary Prevention Answer - Reduce the extent and severity of a health
problem to its lowest possible level to minimize disability and restore or
preserve function
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