Services designed to detect and treat disease in the early acute stage
Scolosis

Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available
Public Health Core Functions

Lillian Wald + Mary Brewster
1893 visiting nurses

First postgraduate nursing instructor in public health nursing

Changes facing 1800s

Changes in 1900s

Elizabethian Poor Law

first effort to describe a modern approach to public health

founded by Mary Breckinridge
Visiting nurse mid-wives

First president of National Organization of Public Health Nursing
1922

Indian Health Service
Federal health program for American Indians and Alaskan Natives

School lunches, WIC, Food Program

What agency is the department of agriculture in?

Provides medical service for inmates

Does census population

Provides healthcare for the military and their family

attempt to control cost by keeping people away from specialty until they know who they need to see

physical markers such as skin color

Shared feelings of peoplehood among a group of individuals

Attributing certain beliefs and behaviors about a group to an individual without giving adequate attention to individual differences

Having deeply held reactions, often negative, about another group or person

Eligible only for emergency medical services, immunizations, treatment for symptoms of communicable diseases, access to school lunches

May receive temporary assistance for needy families, supplemental security income, and medicaid

encourages self-care and self-management in health and the social welfare of daily life

You must care to cure, but you don’t have to cure to care

Nightingale pledge – first code of ethics
1893

Approach whereby right action is one that produces the greatest amount of good or the least amount of evil

“Moral value of action determined by overall benefit”. The end justifies the means.

Respect for autonomy, based on human dignity, individuals permitted to choose unless choice results in harm

Nurse supports and facilitates the use of cultural practices when practices are not harmful to clients
Culture

Nurse works with clients to help them reorder, change, or modify their cultural practices when these practices are harmful to them
Culture

advocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client’s culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients
Culture

A principle, according to Hippocrates, that requires that we do no harm. It is impossible to avoid harm entirely, but this principle requires that health care professionals act acc
Ethics

Children who can’t afford immunizations

Allows members to be nurses but also anyone else who wants to join. There is diversity and no bias.