CHN

• A community is a group of people with common characteristics or interests living together within a territory or geographical boundary.
• Community health nursing is a part of paramedical and medical intervention/approach which is concerned on the health of the whole population.
• The goal of community health nursing is achieved through multisectoral efforts.
• Community health nursing is a part of health care system and the larger human services system.
• Health teaching is a primary responsibility of a community health nursing nurse.
• A community health nurse must be available to all regardless of race, creed and socioeconomic status.
• A community health nurse makes use of available community health resources.
• There must be provision for periodic evaluation of community health nursing services.
• The roles of a public health nurse include clinician, health educator, facilitator, supervisor and more.
• The five-fold mission of community health nursing includes health promotion, health protection, health balance, disease prevention and social justice.
• Diphtheria, measles, meningococcal disease, neonatal tetanus, non neonatal tetanus, pertussis, rabies, leptospirosis, poliomyelitis are under surveillance system.
• Policies for utilization of medicinal plants include indications/uses of plants, part of the plant to be used, preparation of decoction, oils, poultice, infusion, tincture, syrup, and elixir.
• Community organizing activities include community analysis/diagnosis/mapping, design and initiation, organization and building, sustenance and strengthening, and phase out.
• Community diagnosis is a process in which the PHN and the community are identifying community problems that will serve as basis in formulating community programs.
• Community organizing is a process of enhancing community participation and development to prepare people to become the manager of their own community in the future.
• Herbal medicines include common name, scientific name, indications, and preparation of decoction, oils, poultice, infusion, tincture, syrup, and elixir.
• Typhoid fever is clinically diagnosed as DHF.
• CHN procedures include admission/registration, waiting time, triaging, and IMCI.
• Pre-entry phase of community organizing involves selection of site, organizing core group criteria, educating the people, collecting data, involving the people in the prioritization of identified needs and problems.
• RA 8423 utilizes medicinal plants as alternative for high cost medications.
• Organization and building phase of community organizing involves community organization, election of officers, and sustainability and strengthening phase involves program maintenance and consolidation.
• The community health nursing process includes assessment, planning, implementation of planned care, and evaluation of care and services rendered.
• Modern concept of health refers to the optimum level of individuals, families and communities.
• Factors affecting health include behavioral, heredity, health care delivery system, environment, political, and socio-economic.
• The ten determinants of health are gender, socioeconomic status, education, physical environment, psychological environment, health care, genetics, and behavior.
• Specific rate in vital statistics is the relationship for a specific population class or group.
• Building up the case for the final conclusion involves utilizing all the evidence available.
• Sources of data for vital statistics can include population census, registration of vital data, health survey, and studies and researches.
• The National Epidemic Sentinel System (NESS) is a hospital-based information system that monitors the occurrence of infectious diseases with outbreak potential.
• There are various reasons for investigating an outbreak, including control and prevention measures, severity and risks to others, research opportunities, public, political and legal concerns, program consideration, and training.
• Correlation of all data obtained involves summarizing the data clearly with the aid of such tables and charts which are necessary to give a clear picture of the situation.
• Rates in vital statistics are the relationships between a vital event and those persons exposed to the occurrence of the said event.
• Vital statistics can be used as indices of the health and illness status of the community and as the bases for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating community health nursing programs and services.
• Infant mortality rate (IMR) is a good index of the general health condition of a community.
• Epidemic, endemic, sporadic, and pandemic are patterns of disease occurrence.
• Crude birth rate (CBR) is the total number of live births in a given calendar year, estimated population as July 1 of same year x 1,000.
• Ratios in vital statistics are the relationships between two numerical quantities or measures of events without taking particular consideration to the time or place.
• Crude or general rates in vital statistics refer to the total living population.
• Crude death rate (CDR) is the total number of deaths in a given calendar year, estimated population as July 1 of same year x 1,000.
• Vital statistics refers to the systematic study of vital events such as births, illnesses, marriages, divorce, separation and deaths.