ATI CHAPTER 1

• Community health nursing
• CHN theories
  • Systems thinking
  • Upstream thinking
  • Downsteam thinking
  • Nightingales environmental theory
  • Health belief model
  • Milio’s framework for prevention
  • Penders health promotion model
  • Orems self-care deficit theory

Essentials of CHN

• Determinants of health—factors that influence clients health
• Health indicators---describe health status of a community

Public health nursing

Population-focused nursing

community-ORIENTED nursing***

Community-BASED nursing***

Principles guiding CHN

Domains of learning

Epidemiology—study of health-related trends in populations for purpose of disease prevention

Mortality rates= provide info about cause of death

Attack rate

CHAPTER 2 FACTORS INFLUENCING COMMUNITY HEALTH

Cultural care

Cultural assessment

Insurances

CHAPTER 3—Community health program planning

Determining the health of a community

Analysis of community data

Develop of program and management

Strategies and barriers

CHAPTER 4---PRACTICE SETTINGS AND AGGREGATES

Practice settings for the community health nurse

Aggregates of the community

CHAPTER 6—COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, DISASTERS, AND BIOTERRORISM

• Communicable diseases

Disasters

Role of CHN in disasters

Bioterrorism

CHAPTER 7-CONTINUITY OF CARE

• CHN plays a large role in maintaining continuity of care for clients as they transition from acute to outpatient settings

Nurse consultant

Case management nursing

Informatics nursing

Telehealth

CHAPTER 5 CARE OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

• Vulnerable populations—those subject to issues such as
• 2020 Health goals for vulnerable populations
• Violence w/in communities
• Individual assessment for violence
• Risks for violence
• Potential child abuse/neglect
• Elder abuse
• Community assessment—social//community risk factors for violence
• Reducing societal violence
• Mental Health
• Barriers to health care in rural areas
• Priority needs for rural health
• Interventions for rural health

Migrants

• Strategies for rural/migrant health
• Disabled