Public health nurses utilize registries to identify children with delayed or missing immunizations. They contact families by phone or do home visits. This is an example of what practice level of the three levels of practice described by the Intervention W 1. Systems-level practice 2. Community-level practice 3. Policy-level practice 4. Individual/family-level practice ESSAYBID […]
The cornerstones of public health nursing practice 1. Focus on the health of entire populations 2. Reflect community priorities and needs 3. Promote health through strategies driven by epidemiological evidence 4. Encompass the mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of health. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: 1, 2, 3, 4
Public health nursing is guided by priorities identified through an assessment of community health as described by Assumption 4. This includes 1. Community assessment to define one problem that nurses will focus on for any given year. 2. The definition of community is a social network of interacting individuals usually in a defined territory. 3. […]
Assumption 7 states: “Public health nursing utilizes the nursing process at all levels of practice.” What does this imply? 1. The nursing process includes specific goals for community health nurses. 2. The nursing diagnosis part of the nursing process is not applicable for public health. 3. The nursing process can be used at the community, […]
Assumption 8 states: “Public health nursing practice utilizes a common set of interventions regardless of practice setting.” This implies 1. Interventions are characterized by wedges that clearly state the order of implementation. 2. The Intervention Wheel encompasses surveillance as the main element. 3. Interventions guide practice and are subject to regulatory agency protocols. 4. Interventions […]
The Intervention Wheel model encompasses three levels of practice. They are 1. Communities, individuals and families, and systems 2. Coalition, collaboration, and case management 3. Education, advocacy, and policy making 4. Idealism, justice, and power ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: 1
A school nurse reports suspected child abuse even though there is a breach of confidentiality. The nurse is protected under 1. Civil immunity 2. Sovereign immunity 3. Nurse practice act 4. Respondeat superior ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: 1
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accomplishes its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world in which of the following ways? Select all that apply. 1. Implementing prevention strategies 2. Detecting and investigating health problems 3. Dictating world health policy 4. Fostering safe and healthful environments ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: […]
There are 17 actions common to the work of public health nurses regardless of their practice setting. Most of these interventions are implemented at three levels. They are with 1. Legislators, policy makers, and community leaders 2. Individuals and families, communities, and systems 3. Children, adolescents, and adults 4. Health departments, public health agencies, and […]
Since the Intervention Wheel was first published in 1998, the Wheel has 1. Guided national policy 2. Been used as a tool in deciding licensure issues at the State Boards of Nursing 3. Been incorporated into the public/community health curricula of many undergraduate and graduate nursing programs 4. Gained wide acceptance internationally ESSAYBID ANSWER […]
