Public Health Nursing - Answer-Focuses on all levels of prevention, with an emphasis on primary prevention.
Core Public Health Functions: Assessment - Answer-Systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population's health status, and making information available about the health...
NUR 443 Midterm Exam Questions and
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Public Health Nursing - Answer-Focuses on all levels of prevention, with an emphasis
on primary prevention.
Core Public Health Functions: Assessment - Answer-Systematic data collection on the
population, monitoring the population's health status, and making information available
about the health of the community
Core Public Health Functions: Policy Development - Answer-Efforts to develop policies
that support the health of the population, including using a scientific knowledge base to
make policy decisions.
Assurance - Answer-Making sure the essential community oriented health services are
available. Making sure that a competent public health workforce is available.
Lillian Wald - Answer--1885 Started the NYC Henry Street Settlement
-Believed nurse should not only care for the sick in their homes but teach prevention,
address social conditions
-Introduced "school nursing" in US
Mary Breckenridge - Answer--Established the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 to
provide nursing for underserved populations in remote mountains of Kentucky
-Introduced the first nurse midwives in the US
-Led to reduced pregnancy complications and maternal mortality
Florence Nightingale - Answer--Devoted life to prevention of needless illness and death
-Prevention of infections
-Focus on environmental health
-Devoted life to prevention of needless illness and death
-Prevention of infections
Focus on environmental health
-Population based approach - Crimean War
-Demonstrated need for reform
-Improved cleanliness, hygiene, and nutrition
-Death rate of soldiers fell
Seacole - Answer--requested to join nightingale but was denied
-opened british hotel to help soldiers
-she experienced racism
Mahoney - Answer-...
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