ATI RN Community Health Nursing - Chapter 1
Overview of Community Health Nursing
Questions And Answers 2022
What is community health nursing? -
... [Show More] Answer- Is a population-focused approach to
planning, delivering, and evaluating nursing care.
Systems Thinking - Answer- How an individual interacts with organizations or
systems (cause and effect relationships) ex: When the lungs stop working, the heart
will eventually stop working too,
Upstream Thinking - Answer- Focuses on interventions that promote health or
prevent illness
Nursing Theory - Answer- The nurse serves a primary role in the care of individuals
and families in the community
Nightingale's Environmental Theory - Answer- -highlights the relationship between
an individuals environmental and health
-depicts health as a continuum
-emphasizes preventive care
Health Belief Model - Answer- -purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors
-assumes that preventive health actions are taken primarily for the purpose of
avoiding diseases
Milio's Framework for Prevention - Answer- -emphasizes change at the community
level
-identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-promoting
resources
-theorizes that behavior changes within a large # of people can ultimately lead to
social change
Pender's Health Promotion Model - Answer- -does not consider health risk as a
factor that provokes change
-examines factors that affect individual actions to promote and protect health
(biological, behaviors, abilities, benefits, barriers, etc.)
Transtheoretical (TTM) of Stages of Change (SOC) Model - Answer- Theorizes that
change over time happens in six distinct stages
1. Precontemplation: where the individual in unaware of the need to change
2. Contemplation: where the individual considers change and weighs the benefits
with the costs
3. Preparation: where the individual plans to take action
4. Action
5. Maintenance: where the individual implements actions to continue the behavior
6. Termination: when conscious effort to continue the health behavior are no longer
needed because the individual is consistent. (Most clients never reach this point)
Determinants of Health - Answer- Are client or environmental factors that influence a
clients health. Include: nutrition, social support and stress, education, finances,
transportation and housing, biology, genetics, and personal health practices.
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