CHN T1
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- combines primary healthcare and nursing practice in a community setting. Community health (CH) nurses provide health services, preventive care, intervention and health education to communities or populations.
- -Promotes wellness and prevents illness through education and health teachings emphasizes on curative and rehabilitative interventions through efficient individualized approaches.
- Main focus of CHN
- . Identifies needs and formulate plans for the community
- Nurses act as resource speaker advocating health programs thus organizing orientation and trainings to educate the community.
- Promoter for a community to be self-reliant involving health related services.
- She/he acts as advocate for the community as a whole and coordinates nursing plans and programs to other health related agencies.
- Monitors health status of individual and the whole community and records and reports health status and presence of health problems in the community.
- Systematic process of diagnosing community health status.
- Records and reports number of cases and analyze data gathered.
- Promotes and motivates change in the community in their health practices and lifestyle behaviors for them to promote and maintain good health, be knowledgeable and has the initiative in accessing health services
- means that all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. It includes the full range of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. (WHO)
- The proportion of the population that spends a large amount of household income on health
- The proportion of a population that can access essential quality health services
- is the "provision to every Filipino of the highest possible quality of health care that is accessible, efficient, equitably distributed, adequately funded, fairly financed, and appropriately used by an informed and empowered public".
- 3 C's of Universal Health Care Coverage
- is the national agency mandated to lead the health sector towards assuring quality health care for all Filipinos.
- With all our hearts and minds, the Department commits to achieve its vision for the health and development of future generations
- The DOH performs its functions in accordance with the highest ethical standards, principles of accountability, and full responsibility.
- The Department believes in upholding truth and pursuing honesty, accountability, and consistency in performing its functions.
- The DOH continuously strive for the best by fostering innovation, effectiveness and efficiency, pro-action, dynamism, and openness to change.
- Whilst DOH upholds the quality of life, respect for human dignity is encouraged by working with sympathy and benevolence for the people in need
- - The DOH employees work together with a result-oriented mindset.
- - Being stewards of health for the people, the Department shall pursue sustainable development and care for the environment since it impinges on the health of the Filipinos.
- promotes voluntary blood donation to provide sufficient supply of safe blood and to regulate blood banks. This act aims to inculcate public awareness that blood donation is a humanitarian act.
- was established under the Cancer Control Division of the DPCB. It serves as the framework for all cancer-related activities of the government that aims to decrease the incidence of preventable cancer, prevent and manage its recurrence, and provide access to quality healthcare for its treatment
- has been promulgated to enhance and integrate mental health service delivery to Universal Health Care through promotion and protection of the rights of persons using psychosocial health services and increasing investments in mental health
- an essential public health strategy that enables the early detection and management of several congenital disorders, which if left untreated, may lead to mental retardation and/or death.
- this involves a set of actions by which the nurse measures the status of the family as a client, its ability to maintain itself as a system and functioning unit, and its ability to maintain wellness prevent control and resolve problems in order to achieve health and well-being among its members.
- includes data collection, data analysis or interpretation and problem definition or nursing diagnosis
- is defines the nature or type of nursing problems that the family encounters in performing the health tasks with respect to a given health condition or problems and etiology or barriers to the family's assumption of these task
- this method of data collection is done through the use of the sensory capacities- sight, hearing, smell and touch
- significant data about health status of individual family members can be obtained through direct examination. This is done through inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, measurement of specific body parts and reviewing the body system.
- the nurse may gather information through reviewing existing records and reports pertinent to the client. These include the individual clinical records of the family members, laboratory and diagnostic reports, immunization records, report about home and environmental conditions or similar sources.
- is through performing laboratory tests, diagnostic procedures or other tests of integrity and function carried out by the nurse herself and for other health workers