Disaster
This color indicates immediate life-saving care is needed.
What is red?
An organization that collects global health data
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Violence that includes bullying, gangs, road rage, and terrorist attacks
What is community violence?
Measures new cases of disease in a population over time.
What is incidence?
Before delivering healthcare services in a developing country, this assessment must be completed first to ensure safe, ethical, and effective care.
What is assessing cultural beliefs and community priorities?
This phase in disaster management eliminates the threat of disaster.
What is preparedness?
A type of healthcare delivery where sick people seek healthcare, and can select services based on price and availability.
What is market-based healthcare delivery?
A social risk factor strongly linked to violence.
What are poverty, school failure, or gang involvement?
Violence that occurs between people in a close relationship, usually spouses, former spouses, and dating partners.
What is intimate partner violence?
The priority nursing action to prevent a life-threatening complication in the first 24 hours after amputation.
What is monitoring for hemorrhage and shock?
The top priority during disaster response
What is safety?
An entity created by treaty, involving two or more nations, to work in good faith on issues of common interest
What is Intergovernmental organization (IGO)?
Actions taken immediately after violence occurs are considered what kind of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
This theory explains the shift from infectious to chronic disease mortality.
What is epidemiologic transition?
The priority nursing focus when providing care to homeless clients.
What is addressing immediate safety, shelter, and access to healthcare?
The phase in disaster management focused on reducing disaster severity.
What is mitigation?
Political instability, war, economic instability, and brain drain.
What are the current threats to global organizations?
People experiencing homelessness, Veterans, Older adults, Racial and ethnic minorities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer populations
Examples of what??
What are vulnerable populations?
Four common preventable causes of death in people with intellectual disabilities.
What are aspiration, dehydration, constipation, and seizures?
When applying research from a developed country to a developing nation, this factor is the nurse’s top priority.
What is the availability of required technology and resources?
The key factor that distinguishes a disaster from an emergency
What is exceeding the community’s ability to cope with its own resources?
DOUBLE: The empowerment of local community leaders, teaching families to manage common illnesses at home, and respecting community knowledge and abilities.
What are strategies to promote sustainable healthcare in global communities?
This nursing approach recognizes that community violence results from complex, interacting factors rather than a single cause.
What is using the social-ecological model?
An ethical principle guiding care during mass casualty incidents.
What is utilitarianism?
This concept determines which community needs must be addressed first when violence is present.
What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?