NUR 370 Exam 1 Study Guide with Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 370
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NUR 370
Community a collection of people, that interact with one another in some way, they have some shared sense of identity and belonging
Examples of communities Citizens of a town, group of farmers, prison community, MADD, professional nurses
Geographic community defined by its geographic boundaries, ...
NUR 370 Exam 1 Study Guide with
Questions and Correct Answers
Community ✅a collection of people, that interact with one another in some way, they
have some shared sense of identity and belonging
Examples of communities ✅Citizens of a town, group of farmers, prison community,
MADD, professional nurses
Geographic community ✅defined by its geographic boundaries, can be city,
neighborhood, town, zipcode, county
common interest community ✅interest or goal that binds others together, such as
football community, share an interest
community of solution ✅comes together to solve a problem
Population ✅made up of a collective of people who still share a common characteristic
but they do not interact with each other or have that sense of belonging
aggregate ✅another way to say a grouping of people, talking about ways that people
can be grouped
Functional capability ✅what they are capable of and what they are not able to
Problem-solving capability ✅a population being able to solve problems and how well
they are able to solve them
Community Health ✅improving/promoting health of a community
Public health ✅focusing on the health of all communities, environment of which people
live
Global nursing ✅applying what we know to extend to the global community, by using
the nursing process and promoting the health of the people and the planet
health ✅holistic state of well-being including soundness of mind, body, and spirit
Illness ✅state of being relatively unhealthy
Assessment ✅Assessing communities, analyze information and share it with the
community
, policy development ✅take the information and make change for the community for the
better, develop policies, improve policies
assurance ✅make sure that they have the minimum necessary services, this can vary
depending on where you are
clinician (role in community nursing) ✅performing hands on nursing care
Educator (role in community nursing) ✅patient education, big key piece, community
wide impact
advocate ✅acting on behave of someone else. They must support the clients
autonomy and self-determination, goal is to change the system to meet their needs
Manager (role in community nursing) ✅can be case management, helps them to
achieve their goals through assessing their needs and planning
Collaborator (role in community nursing) ✅working together toward a shared goal
leadership role ✅stimulate change, influence others, having a vision
researcher (role in community nursing) ✅collecting data, sharing date to solve
problems
Setting for CHN practice ✅•Homes
•Ambulatory service
•Schools
•Occupational health
•Residential institutions
•Faith communities
•Community at large (domestic and international)
Ethics ✅making decision on the right or wrong, guidelines on how we should act
public health ethics ✅ethics as applied to things relating to public health, who gets
what, community input
ethical dilemma ✅when either way we look at a decision we are faced with a difficult
choice
DECIDE model ✅-D: Define the problem
-E: Ethical review
-C: Consider the options
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