Theory
This framework is used when completing a community assessment
What is a Functional health status approach?
This program serves low income and disabled persons.
What is Medicaid?
This is the epidemiologic model that states that health status is determined by the interaction of the characteristics of the host, agent, and environment.
What is the Epidemiologic Triad?
This would be the primary action of the nurse for a town that has experienced a loss of water and electricity for four days.
What is providing access to safe food and water? (through a point of distribution site)
This intervention focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems.
What is secondary prevention?
An example is working in a clinic to provide BP and stress screenings after a disaster.
This is the result of worker migration from lesser-developed countries to more developed countries. The originating country suffers unless the worker moves back with the skills learned
What is brain drain? This is when educated or professional people move from one developing nation to another. In order to improve the health of their home country, the worker should return to their country once they have additional skills.
What is setting the agenda?
The rate of cases is known as this term.
What is prevalence?
A nurse would do this when conducting physical assessments during a chemical disaster.
What is doning PPE?
This "Seven A" challenges of rural areas would apply to a rural area resident who has never heard of the connection between smoking and lung cancer.
What is Awareness?
This is the concept that ones culture is superior to others, or that others believe and behave as one's own culture does.
What is ethocentrism?
Healthy People 202 recognizes this result from violence.
What are premature death & disability?
This part of the infectious cycle is the time between exposure to an infectious agent and the manifestation of symptoms.
What is the incubation period?
A nurse is working in a receiving station after a radiologic disaster. Many of the patients have blast injuries with dust on their clothes. The nurse would perform this action.
What is consider it radioactive and notify HAZMAT?
This is the percentage of rural children living in poverty.
What is 24%?
These are the four principles of ethics for nurses
What is autonomy, beneficence, justice, and nonmaleficence?
This is the goal of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program.
What is promoting maternal and child health for vulnerable low-income expectant first time mothers?
This type of disease occurs when it becomes prevalent within a population or geographic area.
What is an endemic disease?
There are five stages of disaster management. This stage includes stabilization and return to normal status.
What is the recovery stage?
This is an example of primary prevention.
What is educating families and community groups about mental health issues, symptoms of stress, and barriers to seeking help?
In 1981 Smith identified four models of health. This model of health involves adaptation to the environment.
What is the Adaptive model?
The passage of Superfund established this.
What are environmental programs established to address abandoned hazardous waste sites?
This is the ratio of probability of an event occurring in the exposed group versus the probability of the event occurring in the non-exposed group.
What is relative risk ratio?
This color in field triage denotes delayed victims.
What is green?
This documentation system is used by home health nurses.
What is OASIS?