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ï¶ Nightingale’s Environment Theory:
 Emphasized prevention care.
 Washing hands
 Sterilizing instruments
ï¶ Health Belief Model
 Assumes that preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for
the purpose of avoiding disease.
 Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based
on:
 Susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of disease
 Modifying factors
ï‚· Demographics
ï‚· Knowledge level
ï‚· Age
ï‚· Race
 Cues to action
ï‚· Media
ï‚· Disease effect on ppl
ï‚· Recommendations from health care professionals
 Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action
ï¶ Goals of community health nursing:
 Promote, preserve, and maintain health of populations by delivery
of services to individuals, families, and groups to influence
community health
 Who is the client in community health nursing?
 The community or population
 BOTH COMMUNITY ORIENTED NURSING AND COMMUNITY
BASED NURSING
ï¶ Public Health Nursing
 Also known as Community-Oriented Nursing
 Population focused
 Goal:
 Promoting health
 Preventing disease
 No illness cares
 Key Principles:
 Emphasize primary prevention
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