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Working with Families: Applying the Nursing Process
The student nurses are reviewing key concepts about working with families in the community and how to best the steps of the nursing process. The student nurses are quizzing each other about these important concepts for the topic. The student nurses quickly acknowledged that the family unit is the focus of service in community health nursing.
1. It is important for the nurse to understand healthy family characteristics and to use a variety of tools so that family assessments are thorough. What six important characteristics do healthy families demonstrate?
2. The six characteristics of a healthy family provide one assessment framework that community health nurses can use. What three key things must be present in order to assess a family’s health systematically?
3. What are the 12 main categories of family dynamics for which the nurse must collect data?
4. Community health nurses enhance their practices with families by observing five principles. What are the five key principles that enhance their practices with families?

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Epidemiology in Community Health Care
The community health nurse is reviewing several epidemiologic research studies with student nurses that are beginning a 6-month community health rotation. Epidemiology offers community health nurses a specific methodology for assessing the health of aggregates. The nurse has requested that the student participate in a semester long epidemiologic research study
1. Why is it important that community health nurses review epidemiologic research?
2. What are the seven steps that student nurses must consider when participating with the community health nurse in the epidemiologic research study?
3. The goals of epidemiologic investigation are to identify the causal mechanisms of health and illness states and to develop measures for preventing illness and promoting health. Epidemiologists employ an investigative process that involves a sequence of three approaches that build on one another. What are the three investigate approaches?
4. The community health nurse has been requested to figure out the prevalence rate and the incidence rate of influenza for a 1-month period of time. There were 1,000 students who reported flu-like symptoms during 1 month in a population of 5,000 students at the local community college, and during the same month, 500 individuals developed influenza. What is the prevalence rate and incidence rate?