class 1 Flashcards
health care organizations definition
a purposefully designed, structured social system developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to defined communities, populations or markets
health policy
goal directed decision making about health that is the result of an authorized, public decision-making process
culture
a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions, norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in defined a geographical area
CHN historical milestones
-elizabeth poor law enacted
-marine hospital services established in the US: later called public health services
-sisters of mercy established in dublin
-florence nightingale training school for nurses established in London
-founding of American red cross
-founding of Canadian red cross
who founded the order of the grey nuns
marguerite d’youville
what was the order of the grey nuns
1st group of nurses focused on caring for the sick in their homes & community hospitals in quebec
who established the victorian order of nurses
lady aberdeen
4 groups of nurses in late 1880s
-hospital nurses
-private duty nurses
-district/public health/visiting nurses
-nursing sisters/military nurses
lillian ward accomplishments
-invention of public health nursing
-the establishment of an American system for insurance payment for home-based care
-the creation of an American public health nursing service
maysie parsons
-a nurse who graduated from the general hospital school of nursing in st.johns in 1914 and became the first Newfoundland educated nurse to join the war effort during world war 1
myra bennett
-district nurse under the outport nursing scheme
-for her tremendous contribution to people of great northern peninsula NL she received a number of awards and honours
upstream approach
prevention and early treatment of disease seen as more effective & cost efficient
