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- poverty
- major outcomes in single-mother, single-parent households
- graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program
- Staff public health nurse educational requirements (or preference)
- assessment
- Collecting data and monitoring the health status of the population defines which of the core public health functions
- Health economics
- The allocation of scarce resources within the health care sector and the focus on resource allocation issues related to producing and distributing health care
- a system
- The focus is on the family as client, and the family is viewed as an interactional system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts
- Choosing a less personal setting may be necessary for the family to begin discussing emotionally charged issues
- The nurse chooses to interview the family in the clinic office. A rationale for this decision is...
- too much time spent with only one client
- A disadvantage to home visits
- Making referrals when appropriate
- A strategy the nurse would use in the termination component of the nurse-family relationship
- pregnancy and childbirth (mostly in lesser-developed countries)
- Most deaths to women around the world are related to
- global burden of disease
- an indicator that combines losses from both premature death and disability
- community-based nursing practice
- This type of nursing is a setting-specific practice
- lesser-developed
- A country that is not yet stable with respect to its economy and technological development
- Catholic Relief Services
- religious organizations specializes in providing food to starving people
- assessment
- The nurse who compares the rate of teenage pregnancy in various areas of the city is practicing the public health core function of...
- Extended care facilities
- Medicare Part A provides payment for
- Biologic
- The genogram is an effective technique for assessing which family risks
- assessment
- public health core function that refers to systematic data collection
- Systems theory
- This theory encourages nurses to view clients as participating members of a family
- changes in smoke and alcohol control
- Shattuck Report recommendations
- community-based nursing practice
- The nurse who provides care in the work setting is practicing
- Health care coverage is available to the entire population
- What is true of the Canadian health care system?
- divorce or separation
- In a genogram, a broken horizontal line indicates
- Mary Breckinridge
- established the Frontier Nursing Service based on Systems of Care in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
- TB
- Worldwide, the most frequent cause of death from a single agent
- rise in chronic disease such as heart disease and cancer
- trends in health issues in the United States between 1900 and 1955
- Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
- falls under the Department of Agriculture
- Cost
- A 35-year-old male, supporting a family of four, loses his job. He is offered post- employment health insurance that will charge four times the amount of his present insurance. Which issue related to the health care system is of concern for this man
- The Elizabeth Poor Law of 1601
- guaranteed medical care for poor, blind, and lame individuals, similar to Medicaid
- Community-oriented nursing
- This type of nursing emphasizes the prevention of disease and disability
- access to health care
- Residents of rural communities report that they must travel for long distances to obtain health care services. As a result they seek health care for only emergencies and severe illnesses. Of which issue related to the organization of health care in the United States is this an example?
- Bioterrorism
- describe terrorist activities in which biological substances are used to cause harm to other people
- aged poor, the blind, the disabled, and families with dependent children who are below state poverty income levels.
- Medicaid provides financial assistance to states and counties to pay for medical services for who?
- primary care
- care that is focused on individuals
- Developmental theory
- theory that focuses on common tasks of family life and provides a longitudinal view of the family life cycle
- a system
- When asking, What has changed between you and your spouse since your child's head injury? the nurse is using the focus of family as...
- Policy Development
- Public health nurses who develop and implement local public health policies in concert with agencies, organizations, and consumers within the community are providing an example of which core public health function
- Primary health care
- According to a resolution adopted at the Alma Ata conference, the major key to attaining Health for All by the Year 2000 is...
- AIDS
- disease was once isolated and rare but is now widespread throughout the world
- Assurance
- The nurse manager who makes sure that the nurses working in a local clinic are competent is an example of the public health core function of:
- economic
- health risks that is one of the foremost predictors of health
- True
- true or false: Historically, gains in the health of populations have been related largely to changes in safety, sanitation, and personal behavior.
- visiting or home health nurses
- Nurses who provided care to people in their homes and provided that care to several people at a time were called
- Lillian Wald (destinee's favorite CH nurse! lol)
- Establishment of the Henry Street Settlement and rural health nursing services through the Red Cross are two accomplishments attributed to
- Exploring the client's ideas and perceptions about the purpose of the visits
- During the initial home visit, which nursing action is most important to include
- effects experienced by the divorced family
- Female children appear to be less vulnerable to divorce but actually internalize their stress as evidenced by lowered self-esteem and depression later.
- primary care
- care provided by generalists; care that is professional dominated, and is not community focused
- Community-oriented nursing
- The nurse investigating environmental health problems due to contaminated ground water is best described as practicing
- Assurance
- refers to making sure a competent health care workforce is available
- Pan American Health Organization
- intergovernmental organization that focuses its efforts on assisting countries in Latin America
- False- those have helped!
- True or false: Changes such as immunizations, tobacco use, blood pressure control, automobile safety restraint, and so on have NOT helped increase the health of communities
- Marine Hospital Service
- considered the first national health insurance plan in the United States
- community health nursing
- Nurses who practice in the community whether or not they have preparation in public health nursing
- Smallpox
- example considered to be the result of bioterrorism?
- Marine Hospital Service
- The federal government created this plan in 1798 to provide medical service for sick and disabled sailors and to protect the nation's borders against the importing of disease through seaports.
- Census Bureau
- agencies within the Department of Commerce provides health care information
- Summarizing accomplishments of the visit
- nursing activity part of the termination phase of a home visit
- Systems
- A nurse who looks at family interactions is using which of the following theories
- medicaid
- The Elizabeth Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which of the following current laws
- health of the entire population
- Public health nurses are concerned with ...
- Retrospective reimbursement
- The method whereby fees for the delivery of health care services in an organization are set after services are delivered
- fee-for-service
- traditional method of reimbursing physicians