Community Health Nursing Overview

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering basic principles, definitions, and levels of prevention in Community Health Nursing.

Community Health Nursing (Umbrella Term)

A broader and more general specialty area that encompasses subspecialties including public health nursing, school nursing, occupational health nursing, and other developing fields such as home health, hospice care, and independent nurse practice.

Community

A group of people with common characteristics or interests, living together within a territory or geographical boundary.

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Nursing

Assisting sick individuals to become healthy and healthy individuals achieve optimum wellness.

Community Health

Part of paramedical and medical intervention/approach which is concerned with the health of the whole population.

Community Health Nursing (Ruth B. Freeman)

Service rendered by a professional nurse with the communities, groups, families, and individuals at home, in health centers, in clinics, in schools, and in places of work for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home, and rehabilitation.

Goal of Community Health Nursing

To raise the level of health of the citizenry.

Public Health (Winslow)

Science and art of Promoting Health, Preventing Disease, and Prolonging life, to Enable Every Citizen to Realize His Birthright to Health and Longevity.

Public Health (WHO)

Art of applying Science in the Context of Politics so as to Reduce Inequalities in Health (best health for the greatest number).

Public Health Nursing

Community Health Nursing practiced in the public sector.

Public Health Nursing (WHOECN)

A special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health, and some phases of social assistance and functions as part of the total public health.

Public Health Nursing (NLGN)

Practice of nursing in the local or national health departments and public schools.

Community-based Nursing

Application of the nursing process in caring for individuals, families, and groups where they live, work, go to school, or move through the health care system.

Population-focused Nursing

Nursing that concentrates on specific groups of people and focuses on health promotion and disease prevention, regardless of geographical location.

Intervention Wheel

A framework consisting of 3 elements: population-based focus, 3 levels of practice (community, system, individual/family), and 17 public health interventions.

Health Promotion

Activities that enhance resources directed at improving well-being.

Disease Prevention

Activities that protect people from disease and the effects of disease.

Primary Prevention

Relates to activities directed at preventing a problem before it occurs by altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible individuals.

Secondary Prevention

Early detection and prompt intervention during the period of early disease pathogenesis.

Tertiary Prevention

Targets populations that have experienced disease or injury and focuses on limitations of disability and rehabilitation.

Philosophy of CHN

Based on the worth and dignity of man (Dr. Shetland).