class 1 Flashcards

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health care organizations definition

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a purposefully designed, structured social system developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to defined communities, populations or markets

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health policy

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goal directed decision making about health that is the result of an authorized, public decision-making process

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culture

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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

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CHN historical milestones

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-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

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5
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who founded the order of the grey nuns

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marguerite d’youville

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what was the order of the grey nuns

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1st group of nurses focused on caring for the sick in their homes & community hospitals in quebec

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who established the victorian order of nurses

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lady aberdeen

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4 groups of nurses in late 1880s

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-hospital nurses
-private duty nurses
-district/public health/visiting nurses
-nursing sisters/military nurses

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lillian ward accomplishments

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-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

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maysie parsons

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-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

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myra bennett

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-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

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upstream approach

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prevention and early treatment of disease seen as more effective & cost efficient

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