UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING NCM 101 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING Health Promotion and Public Health Health • A State of complete physical‚ mental and social well- being‚ not merely an absence of disease or infirmity (WHO‚ 1948). • A State of being well and using every power the individual possesses to the fullest extent (Nightingale‚ 1969). • Optimum Level of Functioning (OLOF) Determinants of Health (World Health Organization) • The health of individuals and communities are‚ to a large
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Australian Aboriginal communities. Rather than merely addressing the management of diseases‚ population health goes deeper by aiming to manage the factors that may have caused or developed the diseases‚ and ensure that the World Health Organization’s (cited in Queensland Health 2012‚ p. 1) definition of health as “a state of complete physical‚ mental and social wellbeing” is achieved holistically. Therefore‚ more than just preventing diseases from recurring and spreading in the communities involved‚ the
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individuals interested in my topic‚ so far I am trying to organize the information I want them to see first when the open up the booklet. I have the information I want to introduce them to‚ such as the other types of communication and how the nursing community functions as a central component to communication for them to gain knowledge on. The key to explaining my information to them clearly depends on how I organize the information in the booklet. I want there to be enough space and visual stimulation
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Accounting 408 Review Questions Test 1 1. Independent CPAs perform audits on the financial statements of public companies. This type of auditing can best be described as a. an activity whose purpose is to search for irregularities. b. a discipline that attests to financial information presented by management. c. a professional activity that measures and communicates financial and business data. d. a regulatory function that prevents the issuance of
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Lewis: Medical-Surgical Nursing‚ 8th Edition Chapter 69: Nursing Management: Emergency‚ Terrorism‚ and Disaster Nursing Key Points – Printable CARE OF EMERGENCY PATIENT * Triage refers to the process of rapidly determining the acuity of the patient’s problem. It works on the premise that patients who have a threat to life must be treated before other patients. * The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level triage system that incorporates concepts of illness severity and resource
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Professor: Date: Healthy People 2020 Community-based nursing is a philosophy of practice that focuses care on individuals and families within a community. The primary goal of community-based nursing is to provide care with a major concentration on health promotion and rehabilitative primary health care through interdisciplinary collaboration for diverse population. Community-based nursing is based on assumption that individuals and families have primary responsibility
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Claridad Lleno BSN 2A A .DESCRIPTION OF A COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER A community health worker is one who provides basic community health care services for promotion of health‚ prevention of illness‚ simple treatment and rehabilitation. The services utilizes the philosophy‚ content‚ method and skills of public health care. While most nurses care for one patient at a time‚ public health nurses care for entire populations. By working with whole communities‚ public health nurses are able to educate people
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Earthquake Preparedness | Public Administration | | Lorena Hedges | 9/18/2012 | I will be discussing the needs of a budget and what supplies will be in the budget plan. Then you will read some about the shelter provided‚ population of the community‚ and damages caused by earthquakes. There will be information about the policy and procedures to follow for an earthquake and what challenges we have to face. The conclusion will be completed in the next phase. | Earthquake Preparedness Budget
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organization at that time? In the emergency department (ED) the most frequently encountered circumstance with respect to self-determination‚ is the patient who arrives via emergency medical services (EMS) in extremis who is a no code and objects to extraordinary measures‚ however‚ the family desires intervention. Emergency nurses retain a legal and ethical obligation to affirm the patient’s autonomy regarding the decision for no resuscitation and allowance of a natural death (Emergency Nurses Association‚ 2014)
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Community Health Nursing SZT Task 2 Jennifer Ramey RN July 28‚ 2014 As a registered nurse of only three years‚ I am often referred to by my peers as a “baby” nurse. However‚ in those short three years of practice I have learned and continue to learn many things whether medical‚ personal‚ or humanitarian. My personal nursing experience has been in surgical care services. The vast majority of the patients I have cared for are those undergoing elective procedures. They have chosen to have joint
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