community health nursing - ANS 1) An umbrella term — includes community health nursing in a variety of practice areas
what are the 8 CCHN standards of practice? - ANS health promotion, prevention and protection, maintenance and restoration, professional relationships, capacity ...
community health nursing - ANS 1) An umbrella term — includes community health nursing
in a variety of practice areas
what are the 8 CCHN standards of practice? - ANS health promotion, prevention and
protection, maintenance and restoration, professional relationships, capacity building, health
equity, evidence informed practice, professional responsibility and accountability
The Canadian Nurses Association seven basic principles for collaboration: - ANS Client
Centered Care
Evidence Informed Decision Making
Access
Epidemiology
Social justice & equity
Ethics
Communication
primary level of prevention - ANS interventions to prevent the occurrence of disease, injury,
or disability
secondary level of prevention - ANS Early detection of disease during the preclinical period
interventions at this level are designed to increase the probability of an early diagnosis so that
treatment is likely to result in cure
tertiary level of prevention - ANS Includes interventions aimed at minimizing disability and
rehabilitation from disease, injury, or disability (e.g., physiotherapy, occupational therapy)
Interventions are taken during the middle and later periods of pathogenesis and occur most
often at secondary and tertiary levels of care
Public health: - ANS An organized activity of society to promote, protect, improve and,
when necessary, restore the health of individuals, specified groups, or the entire population.
Major Public Health Functions Are: - ANS Health protection
Health promotion
Population health assessment
Public health surveillance
Injury and disease prevention
Emergency preparedness and response
, In building a model that can help guide our actions to improve health, three questions are
critical. what are these? - ANS "On WHAT should we take action?"
"HOW should we take action?", and
"WITH WHOM should we act?"
Risk factors - ANS elements and behavior patterns which tend to predispose people to
poorer health.
Risk Conditions - ANS general circumstances, over which people have little or no control,
that are known to affect health status.
Population - ANS A large group
A collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics and
reside in a community
Aggregate - ANS A subgroup within a population
populations with some common characteristics who frequently have common concerns but may
not interact with each other to address those concerns.
Health promotion - ANS A process of empowering people to increase control over and
improve their health
Upstream thinking: - ANS A macroscopic, "big picture," population health approach
Includes a primary prevention perspective
Considers determinants of health and other economic, political, and environmental factors
Midstream thinking: - ANS Addresses local, community and regional level issues
Downstream thinking: - ANS Taking a microscopic individual curative focus
Considers individual health concerns and treatments
Epidemiology - ANS The study of the distribution of factors that determines the health
related events in a population
Descriptive epidemiology - ANS Identifies patterns among cases and populations though
place, time, and person. From this a hypothesis can be developed about the causative factors
Analytical epidemiology - ANS Examines the origins and associated determinants of
health. The how and why
Morbidity: - ANS occurrence of disease in a population
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