The Wheel of Intervention
Surveillance, Disease and Health Event Investigation, Outreach, and Screening are all ________________.
What are red "wedge" interventions in the Intervention wheel
Implementing a program to detect diseases in early stages (screening) but before signs and symptoms appear is known as _________.
What is Secondary prevention
"What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy"
What is the Institute of Medicine (IOM) definition of public health
Releasing information about a patient without asking a supervisor, privacy officer, faculty member, or reviewing policies and procedures is an example of this
What is a HIPPA violation
This changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors targeted at individuals that are alone or in a family or part of a group.
"Public Health Nursing Practice contributes to the Achievement of the 10 Essential Services "
What kind of statement is this?
What is an assumption (#9) explaining the Intervention Wheel
What is primary prevention
These are the key services that should be part of any organization deemed to be a governmental public health department
What are the foundational public health services
This is something you can do to verify that a family member has been authorized by a patient to receive health information about the patient
What is establish a code in advance
This describes and monitors health events through systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing and evaluating public health interventions
What is surveillance
Changing community norms and attitudes , awareness, practices, and behaviors is an example of ________.
What are community level practices
Ensuring compliance with a treatment regimen to prevent or limit the further negative effects of a problem is an example of __________.
What is Tertiary Prevention
A public health nurse developing and implementing healthy snacks in vending machines and at school function concession stands is an example of ________.
What is the Core function: policy development
It is ok to post on social media about patients as long as your account has enhanced privacy settings T/F
What is FALSE
To plead for or act on someone else's behalf with a focus on building capacity for them to do this on their own behalf
What is advocacy
Policy, organizational, power structure, and laws changed to impact the health of communities are part of __________.
What are systems-level practices
Screening migrant workers who may have had exposure to toxic chemicals and implementing a plan to refer any who test positive is an example of ______.
What is a secondary level of prevention
A local public health department participates in a coalition to bring an OB/GYN practice to the community based on a needs assessment
What is public health core function: assurance
Students sharing care plans outside of their course (as artifacts for TSU portfolios, for example) would be considered what?
What is a HIPPA breech
Factors such as environment, socioeconomic class, education, employment, personal health practices, genetics, and transportation that influence health status across the life cycle
This defines public health nursing as a unique practice
What is promoting health of populations
Flu shots administered to home health clients is an example of __________.
Activities that collect, analyze, and disseminate information on both health status and health related aspects a community
What is core public health function: assessment
Reading a client's chart who happens to be a family member is acceptable if you are employed by that clinic or facility T/F
What is FALSE.
Unless you are that individual's direct care giver, or they have signed consent or listed you as having permission, this would be a HIPPA violation.
Health status inequalities that are deemed by society to be avoidable or unnecessary
What are health inequities