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NFDN 2006 –SLO NURSING 2007 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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NFDN 2006 –SLO NURSING 2007 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UNIT 1: FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH 1) Explain the following concepts: a) Community health nursing: includes community, public, home, occupational, parish, outpost, and forensic (IE: sexual assault examiners). i) Umbrella Term: Encompasses other specialities such as public health, home care, and occupational health. (1) Includes: community, public health, home health, occupational health, parish, outpost, and forensic. ii) Promotes and protects the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. iii) Emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. iv) Enhances self-care. v) Promotes autonomy in decision making. vi) Trends: (1) increasing focus on high risk, high acuity & high needs population (2) community development/mobilization (3) more acute care in community (early hospital discharge) (4) change in working conditions for nurses (5) increasing first contact primary care role vii) Community: generally defined as a specific population of people, or a place where people live and work. (1) people and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and commonly share resources (agencies, institutions & a physical environment). viii) Involves: acute, chronic & palliative care of clients and families. Promotes autonomy in decision making. ix) Functions: involves coordinating care and planning service, programs, and policies by collaborating with individuals, caregivers, families, other disciplines, communities and governments. (1) Combines knowledge of nursing theory, social sciences and public health science. x) Scope of practice: population focused health promotion, protection, maintenance, and restoration. xi) CHN Standards of practice: (1) Promoting health (Disease prevention, health protection, health maintenance, restoration, palliation). (2) Building individual/community capacity (3) Building relationships (4) Facilitating access and equity (5) Demonstrating professional responsibility and accountability. xii) Works IN the community: providing health care to individuals and families focused on health promotion and disease prevention. (1) IE: helping a client in their home – you are working IN the community. xiii) Works WITH community as a client: because we view the community itself as the client. Health of the community and community development.

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