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An 8 page paper answering 5 public health nursing questions. Topics include Lillian Wald; the concept of health for all; Healthy People 2010; data collection; the Community as Partner model; and population pyramids. Specific questions are included as an appendix. Includes 2 charts. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: CC6_KSnursPubHlth.rtf
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was the first to promote the notion of the trained nurse and the value that training could bring to nursing. Born to British aristocracy,
Florence Nightingale was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She was 34 when she traveled
to the Crimean, to the site of one of Britains international military conflicts. The Crimean War (1854-1856) was fought at a time when medical knowledge generally consisted of knowing
how to amputate limbs, and at a time well before Louis Pasteur proved the existence of another parallel universe, that of the microbial organism. Medical personnel did what they
could to make the ill and injured as comfortable as possible. Lillian Wald certainly was not the first nurse to venture out into
"public," comprised of people who could not hope to gain medical attention of any other kind. Wald wrote that she sought to capitalize on the visiting nurses relationship with
the patient and her "organic relationship with the neighborhood" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.), using both to establish larger service to the region. "We considered ourselves best described by
the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited the
sick, treating their illnesses and making suggestions for healthy improvements in individuals surroundings and habits. In short, they provided health promotion on a one-to-one basis. Home visiting nurses
focused on treating individual patients only; district nurses focused on health promotion. Public health nurses combined both roles. 2. Health for All
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