NURS 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Age Of Enlightenment, Social System, Public Health Nursing
5 Feb 2017
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Primary goal - health care of individuals, families, and groups. People with chronic conditions and disabilities people who engage in stigmatizing risk behaviors. Nurses care for clients from diverse backgrounds and settings. Nurses need an accurate assessment of clients to design interventions that promote health and prevent disease. A perspective and a set of practical strategies to reduce the negative consequences of drug use, incorporating a spectrum of strategies from safer use to abstinence. (cid:862)a p(cid:396)ag(cid:373)ati(cid:272) pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) health app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h ai(cid:373)ed at (cid:396)edu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g the ad(cid:448)e(cid:396)se health, so(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d economic consequences of at-risk activities(cid:863) Can be applied to alcohol use, sexual practices, cycling, driving, gaming and other programs. Reductions in open public injecting and discarded paraphernalia. Locating the problem in the person, not the substance. Locating the problem in the substance, not the person. Locates the problem in the relationship between the person and the substance (drug, set, and setting), which may change over time.
