Public Health
Difference in the quality of healthcare delivered or obtainable.
What is a health disparity?
The presence and replication of an infectious agent in the tissues of a host, with manifestation of signs and symptoms.
What is an Infectious Disease?
The knowledge, values, practices, customs, and beliefs of a group, including aspects such as the music, language, economy, fashion, religion, and art of a community.
What is culture?
Unforeseen, serious, and unique events that disrupt essential community services and cause human morbidity and mortality that cannot be alleviated unless assistance is received from others outside the community.
What are Disasters?
Symptoms usually involve delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech, reflecting an impaired ability to function.
What is Schizophrenia?
The reduction of disease through prevention and the improvement of health in the community, both nationally and internationally.
What is the central goal of public health?
Infectious agents, biologic agents capable of producing an infectious disease, include bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, fungi, protozoa, and helminths.
What is the definition of an agent (epidemiological triad)?
Nurses in an ethnically diverse society, should strive to serve their clients in a culturally sensitive, respectful, and effective manner.
What is cultural competence?
Can be intentional or accidental, but they are always caused by human actions or neglect.
What is Human Made (Accidental Disasters)?
To replace state hospitals with smaller group homes, half-way houses, or other supported living arrangements that integrate, rather than separate, people with chronic mental illness in the community.
What is deinstitutionalization?
A national consensus plan identifying focal areas that need active and specific plans based on levels of illness (morbidity) and death (mortality).
What is Healthy People 2030?
Occurs when microorganisms are carried in the air at distances that exceed a few feet. TB is an example.
What is an airborne transmission?
The tendency of people to assume that everyone else thinks the same way they do, and has the same worldview, logic, and culture.
What is Etnocentrism?
Preparation, mitigation, response, recovery, and evaluation.
What are the phases of Emergency Management?
Promote health and academic success. Solve actual and potential problems Provide direct skilled nursing care.
What are the roles of the School Nurse?
The Affordable Care Act.
What is another name for Obamacare?
Central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, ventilator-associated events, and MRSA bacteremia.
What are examples of Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs)?
Clients from cultures in which people normally stand close together may feel that a nurse who sits or stands further away is cold and unfriendly.
What is non-verbal communication?
A centralized location where the public picks up emergency supplies, including food, water, and medications (if necessary), following a disaster.
What is a POD-Point of Distribution?
Appropriate for people with life-limiting, serious illness, concurrent with life-prolonging care or it may be the focus of care,
What is palliative care?
An international center that collects data, advances initiatives, and offers support related to public health.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
The most prevalent STIs in the United States, with many cases among people in their late teens and early twenties.
What is the Human papillomavirus (HPV)?
Any group of people who share a certain practice, language, or other characteristic can share a smaller culture or...
What is sub-culture?
An on-site, flexible, all-hazards system that provides a set of personnel, policies, procedures, facilities, and equipment integrated into a common organizational structure.
What is an Incident Command System (ICS)?
A specialty that is concerned with the health, safety, and service of individual workers, worker populations, and local community groups.
What is Occupational Health Nursing?