Deck 20: Epilogue: Nursing and Primary Health Care

Question 1

A document which expressed a call to action by all governments and world communities to promote and to protect all people is known as the.

A) Declaration of Alma-Ata
B) The Future of Nursing Report
C) To Err is Human Report
D) Crossing the Quality Chasm Report

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Primary Health Care has a rather extensive definition and holds many critical elements. Please identify below some of these elements:

A) Accessible, full participation by the community, multi-sectorial, care provider driven
B) Full participation by the community, accessible, educational programs that are reflective of cultural ideas and beliefs
C) Care provider driven by the health care provider, accessible, full participation
D) Multi-sectorial, care provider driven, accessible

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Primary health care providers are interested in promoting and fostering a population's belief in their own capabilities. Which of the concepts below is reflective of this?

A) Authority
B) Self-knowing
C) Self-efficacy
D) Involvement

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Today's health care system is primarily focused on the uni-dimensional medical understanding of health and illness.

Question 5

Primary health care is concerned with coming to know and understand the importance of the biological, environmental and socio-cultural factors and how these may either disturb or enhance health.

Question 6

A public health nurse who works at a public school is concerned with the limited green space that the children have to safely play in the local community after school hours. This public health nurse organizes the parents and children in the public school to speak about this issue to gather their input and to facilitate:

A) Funding
B) Authority
C) Participation
D) Competencies

Question 7

The public health nurse and families attend local school board meetings and local town meetings to share the data that they have collected pertaining to safety and limited green space for children to play. These actions:

A) Facilitates the political process and promotes self-efficacy
B) Enhances the public school educational process
C) Creates a climate of that fosters non-dialogue and disputes
D) Permits the allocation of monies

Question 8

The public health nurse and families walk the community and speak to the police department, local health center, Boys and Girls Club, Fire Department, and churches. These actions facilitate:

A) Enhanced communication
B) Increased funding
C) Enhanced multi-sectorial approach
D) Improved anticipation

Question 9

Research the concept cultural authority:
A. What is cultural authority?
B. Discuss this cultural authority with reference to our health care system and medical authority.

Question 10

Research the concept social legitimacy:
A. What is social legitimacy?
B. Discuss social legitimacy with reference to our health care system and medical authority?

Question 11

As the there is a shift in cultural authority and social legitimacy there will also be a shift from a biomedical model to one of collaboration. Consider who these collaborators will be and in what ways can we collaborate?