Community Health Nursing Practice Test Part 2

Secondary levels are providing care given by physicians with basic health training. A primary level of care is devolved to the cities and the municipalities where the health care provided is given by center physicians, PHN’s, rural health midwives and barangay health workers. Tertiary level of care is rendered by specialists in health facilities.

PHC is defined by the WHO as the essential care made universally available and accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them and at a cost that the community and country can afford. Public Health is defined as science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment. Community health nursing is defined as a service rendered by a professional nurse with communities, groups, families, individuals at home, in health centers, clinics, schools, places of work for promotion of health, prevention of illness and care of the sick at home and rehabilitation.

Assessment phase involves data collection, initiation of contact, analyzing and interpreting data. Mutual trust and confidence is important in this step to obtain the needed data.

Citizen panels are organized by group of citizens about 5-10 to form a partnership with a government agency. Grass-roots are informal structures in the community like the neighborhood residents. When organizations are working together with groups to deal with community issues a coalition is organized structurally. Networks and consortia develop because of certain concerns.

A home visit should be flexible. Being time-bounded is not included in its principles.

Intrinsic factors are inherent and basic influences that can cause en exposure, susceptibility or response to agents. Included in these factors are genetic, age, sex, ethnic group, physiologic, immunologic, inter-current disease, human behavior (E.g. food handling, personal hygiene). Extrinsic factors are environmental factors such as physical environment (climate), biologic environment (flora), and socio-economic environment (occupation).

The HOST is any organism that harbors and provides nourishment for another organism.

Outcome elements are changes in the client’s health status that result from nursing intervention.

Health promotion is the strategy between the people and their environment, using their personal choice and social responsibility in health. Primary health care is essential care made universally available and accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them and at a cost that the community and country can afford. Health education is the process of assisting individuals, acting separately or collectively to make informed decisions about matters that affects the personal health of self and others.

All articles soiled with patient’s discharges should be boiled in water 30 minutes before laundering. Articles of the patient should not mix with the other members of the family. The one caring for the sick should wear a gown used only inside the patient’s room.

Behavioral health risk assessment include dietary habits and other lifestyle concerns. Low educational level is a social indicator.

Greet the patient and introduce self, state purpose of visit, perform bag technique, perform nursing care, document data and make an appointment for a return visit.

Developing parameters for evaluation is under the planning phase. Assessment phase involves data collection, initiation of contact, analyzing and interpreting data. In the implementation of care what is planned is put into action. In the evaluation of care part, the performance is appraised and identification of needed alterations is done.

Ottawa charter for health promotion was adopted by 212 participants from 38 countries which defines health promotion broadly as the process of enabling people to increase control aver and to improve their health. Rural Health Law or EO 288 is a reorganization act that created 8 regional health offices. A triple whammy consists of an epidemiologic shift, SARS and Avian Flu that in one brought a devastating effect in the country years ago.

In the implementation of care what is planned is put into action. Care and services are put into action, community resources are utilized and provided health services are monitored and supervised.

Extrinsic factors are environmental factors such as physical environment (climate), biologic environment (flora), and socio-economic environment (occupation).

The epidemiologic triangle consists of three components – host, environment and agent. The model implies that each must be analyzed and understood for comprehensions and prediction of patterns of disease.

Environment is the sum total of all external condition and influences that affects the development of an organism. Biological and socio-economic together with physical environment are components of this.

Prerequisites for health according to the Ottawa Charter are: peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity.

Structural elements include physical settings, instrumentalities and conditions. Process elements include steps of the nursing process itself and outcome elements are changes in the client’s health status that result from nursing intervention.

When organizations are working together with groups to deal with community issues a coalition is organized structurally. Grass-roots are informal structures in the community like the neighborhood residents. Networks and consortia develop because of certain concerns. Citizen panels are organized by group of citizens about 5-10 to form a partnership with a government agency.

Bringing activities or group systematically into proper relation and harmony with other is implementing collaborating and coordinating function of a public health nurse.

Grass-roots are informal structures in the community like the neighborhood residents. When organizations are working together with groups to deal with community issues a coalition is organized structurally. Networks and consortia develop because of certain concerns. Citizen panels are organized by group of citizens about 5-10 to form a partnership with a government agency.

Health education is the process of assisting individuals, acting separately or collectively to make informed decisions about matters that affects the personal health of self and others. Health promotion is the strategy between the people and their environment, using their personal choice and social responsibility in health. Primary health care is essential care made universally available and accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them and at a cost that the community and country can afford.

Tertiary level of care is rendered by specialists in health facilities. Secondary levels are providing care given by physicians with basic health training. A primary level of care is devolved to the cities and the municipalities where the health care provided is given by center physicians, PHN’s, rural health midwives and barangay health workers.