Illnesses caused by specific infectious agents or its toxic products that arise through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly through a host, vector or in inanimate environment.
What are communicable diseases?
100
Every minute 6 children die from these types of diseases around the world.
What are vaccine preventable diseases?
100
Illnesses acquired through the consumption of contaminated food.
What are food-borne infections?
100
Screening,reporting and investigating contacts examples of this level of prevention.
What are secondary prevention measures?
100
Patient name, date immunized, vaccine type, manufacturer, vaccine lot #, date of Vaccine Information Statement, nurses name and title and address of person administering.
What are is documented when a nurse administers a vaccine
200
Bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses
What are the four main agents that can cause infectious diseases?
200
This disease has been eradicated globally due to vaccines.
What is small pox?
200
Cholera and tyhpoid
What is a water borne pathogen?
200
Immunizations, and education ie: safe sexual practices, and universal precautions are examples of this level of prevention.
What are primary prevention measures?
200
This is considered the most effective way to prevent the spread of nosocomial infections.
What is hand washing between patients?
300
Unexpected level of communicable disease cases that exceed the normal occurrences during a given period of time in a geographic area
What is an outbreak? ie: TB is a common outbreak in homeless in spring and winter in Canada
300
Information and recommendations on immunizations that explain the benefits and risks and must be given out before vaccines are administered
What is the Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)?
300
Lyme disease and West Nile virus are examples of these?
What are vector–borne diseases? (Lyme-tick, West-Nile virus & Malaria [most prevalent vector borne disease in the world]- mosquito).
300
Immunization or prophylaxis to prevent illness after a known or possible exposure are examples of this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
300
MMR Varicella and Yellow fever vaccines
What are not given to pregnant women
400
When a disease spreads and affects large number of populations worldwide.
What is a pandemic?
400
The method to maintain the designated temperature to prevent loss of potency or vaccine failure
What is cold chain
400
Passive acquired immunity for infants
What is mother's breast milk
400
Education/monitoring for treatment compliance, prevent complications, identify adverse affects, and monitor treatment effectiveness are examples of this level of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
400
State in which those not immune to an infectious agent will be protected if a certain proportion of the population has been vaccinated or is otherwise immune
What is herd immunity
500
The steady presence of a disease in a defined geographic area or population.
What is endemic?
500
The document that the nurse completes when a vaccine adverse reaction occurs.
What is he vaccine safety and reporting of adverse events and vaccine-related injuries (VAERS)
500
Ability to cause serious disease in a host
What is is a virulence
500
Reporting and investigating contacts and notifying partners
What is secondary prevention?
500
Failure of a vaccine to stimulate any immune response