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
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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.