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NFDN 2006(UPDATED) MIDTERM
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Question: What is a community?
Correct answer: generally defined as a specific population
of people, or a place where people live and work.Determined by geographic boundaries and/or common values and interests
Question: What are the Canada Health Act Principles?
Correct answer: universality, accessibility,
comprehensiveness of services, portability, public administration
Question: What is community health nursing?
Correct answer: Umbrella term to define nursing
specialities and applies to all nurses who work in and with community in a variety of areas. Emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. Promotes and protects health of individuals, families, groups, communities, populations
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Question: What is a population?
Correct answer: a collection of people who share one or
more personal or environmental characteristics
Question: What are aggregates?
Correct answer: subpopulation, groups within a
population
Question: What is population health?
Correct answer: determining the health of a population
using as measurements of health the determinants and health status indicators
Question: What is a health status indicator?
Correct answer: well being, life expectancy, incidence
and prevalence rate, mortality rate, burden of illness
Question: What are the levels of disease prevention?
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Correct answer: Primary prevention, secondary
prevention, tertiary prevention
Question: What is primary prevention (disease)?
Correct answer: seeks to prevent disease from beginning
Question: What is secondary prevention (disease)?
Correct answer: seeks to detect disease early in its
progression in order to make early diagnosis and begin treatment
Question: What is tertiary prevention (disease)?
Correct answer: begins once a disease has become
obvious; aims to interrupt the course of the disease
Question: What is downstream thinking?
Correct answer: Taking a microscopic individual curative
focus. Considering individual health concerns and treatments but does not consider the sociopolitical, economic and environmental variables
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Question: What is upstream thinking?
Correct answer: Macroscopic "big picture" population
health approach, primary prevention perspective, considers all determinants of health. How can this be prevented?
Question: What is collaboration?
Correct answer: the commitment of 2 or more parties who
set goals to address identified client health concerns
Question: What are the basic principles for collaboration?
Correct answer: client focus, population health approach,
quality care and services, access, trust/respect, communication
Question: What are the Nursing Standards of Practice?
Correct answer: Promoting health, building
individual/community capacity, building relationships,