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Module 1 - Community Health Nursing in Canada
1. What are the major differences between population-focused practice and traditional direct care practice?
2. What are 4 key features of public health nursing?
3. Lillian Wald and Eunice Dyke were influential leaders in the field of public health. What accomplishments were made by these pioneers in public health nursing?
4. What 5 values that underlie community/public health nursing?
Module 2 - Settings, Functions and Roles
5. What are at least six roles of public health nurses and what are the 6 responsibilities of community/public health nurses?
Module 3 - The Canadian Health Care System
6. What are the aims of Health Care Reform in Canada? How does health care reform offer opportunities for community/public health nursing?
Module 4 - Primary Health Care
7. What is Primary Health Care? What are the 5 principles of Primary Health Care? How is it relevant to CHNs?
Module 5 - Health Promotion
8. Case Study: Community Development
Gwen is a Community Health Nurse working in a Community Health Centre in a marginalized community. She has just seen CeCe a thirteen-year-old girl seeking support as she is five months pregnant and is frightened and unsure as to how to deal with the pregnancy and tell her parents. Her boyfriend is a sixteen-year-old, Is willing to be involved and excited about the baby.
Gwen and her manager see this as a bigger problem as situations such as CeCe's are on the rise in this community. They have been informed by several school nurses around similar situations. Gwen's manager tasks her with researching the situation in the community and developing a plan of action.
1. How will Gwen define this population in the community?
2. How will Gwen go about developing a plan to deal with this community concern?
3. Who should be her partners in the change?
4. Name and discuss two CHN Standards of Practice which you can relate to this situation.
5. Discuss the levels of prevention involving CeCe and the affected population.
Module 6 - Ethics in community Health Nursing
9. How are basic legal issues relevant in community/public health nursing practice? What are the responsibilities or legal and ethical duties of community/public health nurses' related community nursing practice?