Blueprint for Community Exam 1
History of CHN (2 questions-Power point)
Development of PH/CH nursing. Emphasis from curing acute illnesses to health promotion and disease prevention of chronic diseases. Conditions were deplorable. Garbage in street, crowded tenements, poor housing, unsanitary water. Early public health problems were communicable diseases and epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, TB, and malaria. Infant mortality was 200/100 live births. Newly formed government boards of Health focused on clearing garbage, monitoring water quality, draining marshes, planting trees and vegetables, and properly burying the dead.
Edwin Chadwick 1800-1890
Published his landmark report (Report on the Inquiry into Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain) Outlined major public health challenges facing England at the time leading the beginning go reform.
Lemual Shattuck 1793-1859
Released public report that outlined public health needs in the state of Massachusetts and included recommendations to crate the first state board of health.
William Rathbone
Wife was cared for in their home by a nurse, named Mary Robinson. He opened up a training school for nurses. The nurses dispensed food and medicine, supervised by upper class women. Nightingale consulted.
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
Believed infection arose spontaneously due to poorly ventilated and dirty environments. Improved health by teaching cleanliness and clean health prevented disease. She and Rathbone started district nursing in England, and she started training nurses. Nightingale model: environment of patients, need for keen observation, focus on the whole patient vs the disease.
Mary Seacole 1805-1881
Black Florence Nightingale. Best known women in England. She was a Caribbean Dr. put skills to practice during Crimean war.
Lilian Wald 1867- 1940
Considered to be the mother of public health nursing.
Lina Rogers
Appointment the first municipally sponsored school nurse.
Dorothea Dix
Opened 32 state asylums to provide quality care for the ill. (Mental health) She was in charge of the Union Army Nurses during the American Civil War.
Mary Breckenridge 1881-1965
Established the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 to provide health care in Appalachian Mountains. FNS has served as a model of rural health care delivery for the US. FNS staff started the American Association of Nurse-Midwives.
Margaret Sanger
Devoted her life to legalize birth control and making it universally available for women. Founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, later become Planned Parenthood.
Maude Callen
Nurse-midwife, public health nurse
Clara Barton
First women to gain employment in federal government. Began teaching school when most teachers were men. Founded American Red Cross in 1881.
Core competencies of phn and hx & role of the community health nurse (i1 questions- quad council
wheel) A. An. E :PHN is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social and public health sciences. Population- collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common.
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QUAD COUNCIL of Public Health Nursing Organizations APHN ANA
Tier 1 C/PHN Competencies Tier 2 C/PHN Competencies Tier 3 C/PHN Competencies Tier 1 Core Competencies apply