NSG 263 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Telehealth, Medical Error, Lillian Wald
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Core functions of public health nursing: assessment, assurance, policy development. Essential services of public health nursing (read chapter: examples for each, assessment: 1. monitor health(use technology/statistics to interpret data), 2. diagnose & investigate (response plans of health threats/availability of diagnostic service: policy development: 1. Inform, educate, empower (example: teen pregnancy and sti prevention/health promotion & education) 2. Community based nursing o o nursing in the community environment (like home health care) Illness care , manage acute or chronic conditions in the community. Community oriented nursing o o promoting health and primary prevention (like school nurse) preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease. Healthy people 2020 o focus of community nursing, significant national priorities. Topics: physical activity, injury & violence, overweight/obesity, environment quality, tobacco use, immunization, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, access to health care. Medicaid/medicare: medicare: 65+, under 65 with disabilities, people with end-stage renal dz/dialysis/renal transplant, federal govt. pays, medicaid: low income with children who meet eligibility.
