ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY GUIDE MDC(IV)2023-2024 UPDATE
(RASMUSSEN UNIVERSITY)
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Community Health
Community Nurse Referrals:
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... [Show More] Assist in linking the community resource with the client to provide holistic care; must have thorough
knowledge of resource individuals and organizations.
- use computerized records, databases, and telecommunication technologies for physical, audio, and
visual data.
- Responsible for coordination, providing continuity of care, and evaluating the outcome.
- Examples of community nursing referrals
o Psychological services
o Support groups
o Medical equipment providers
o Meal delivery services
o Transportation services
o Life care planner
- Examples of community health nurse practice settings
o home health nurse
o Hospice nurse
o Occupational health nurse
o Parish nurse
o School nurse
o Case managers
Community health nursing
-goal is to preserve, protect, promote, and maintain health of individuals, families, and groups in the
community.
- Vulnerable groups
Migrant workers and immigrants
Born homeless persons
Victims of violence or abuse
Substance users
Severely mentally ill individuals
Older adults
Pregnant and license
Individuals with communicable diseases
Disaster planning
A serious disruption of them functioning of a community that causes widespread human, material, economic, or
environmental losses that exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope with using its own
resources. Prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery are the four stages of disaster management.
- Internal disasters are events in the health care facility that threaten to disrupt the care environment
o Structural (fire, loss of power)
o Personal – related (strike, high absenteeism)
- External disasters are events outside of the health care facility and may be human - made or natural
o human made disasters
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▪ transportation - related incidences (car, train, plane, and subway crashes)
▪ terrorist attacks, including bombs and bioterrorism
▪ industrial accidents
▪ Chemical spills or toxic gas leaks
▪ Structural fires
o Natural disasters
▪ extreme weather conditions, including blizzards, ice storms, hurricanes, tornadoes,
and floods
▪ ecological disasters, including earthquakes, landslides, tsunami's, volcanoes, and
forest fires
▪ microbial disasters such as epidemics and pandemics
▪ a combined internal/external disaster situation can arise when an external disaster,
such as a severe weather condition, causes mass casualties and prevents healthcare
providers from getting to the facility, perhaps due to traffic or road conditions
disaster prevention
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