Final EXAM STUDY GUIDE
NURS 461
CHAPTER 1
Definitions: Community health nursing, public health nursing, community, population,
aggregates and public health
Core public health functions and examples of each function. Here is a good resource with
examples of each: file:///C:/Users/myual/Downloads/CoreFunctions.pdf
Essential public health services.
Priority areas of Healthy people 2030, and Healthy People 2030 Leading Health Indicators for all
ages.
Social Determinants of health and their relation to health outcomes.
Please review healthy people 2030 goals for all the topics covered:
https://health.gov/healthypeople
Health promotion and levels of prevention and how to apply to different situations
Chapter 2
The use of statistical methods in community assessment (box 2.4)
The ten great public health achievements (box 2.7).
CHAPTER 3
Know theories that apply to individual behavior change: OREM’s theory, and the health belief
model. Assumptions and key concepts
CHAPTER 4
Know the key concepts and assumptions of Pender’s health promotion model, and the
transtheoretical model as they apply to health promotion and risk reduction.
Know the constructs, stages of change and assumptions of The Transtheoretical Model of change
and the assumptions and key concepts.
Leading causes of death (figure 4.6)
Major health risk factors: tobacco, alcohol, diet, physical activity
Chapter 5
Person-place-time model
Epidemiological triangle
Measures of morbidity: incidence and prevalence-know the implication and application
