PHN Hodgepodge
This type of prevention includes catching diseases in their early stages through screenings.
What is secondary prevention?
A person's occupational setting would be considered under this element of the epidemiological triangle.
What is the environment?
This vulnerable population includes individuals who have been forced to flee their homes because of war, violence, or persecution.
Who are refugees?
U.S. Census data, vital statistics, and governmental health data are all types of this kind of data.
What is secondary data?
This is one of the factors that influence health care costs.
What is/are (6 possible answers)
lifestyle and health promotion
Use of healthcare
Technological advances
insurance as an economic and health shield
emphasis on curative measures
slow to embrace prevention
This occurs when nurses focus on modifying economic, political, environmental, and social factors that are precursors of poor health.
What is upstream nursing?
Cyanide would be considered under this element of the epidemiological triangle.
What is the agent?
This is a health concern for refugees, immigrants, and migrants.
What are: (9 possible answers)
Occupational injuries
Poverty
Inadequate housing
Limited availability of clean water and septic systems
Access to healthcare
Cultural and language barriers
Lack of transportation
Mental illness
Detention facilities
This is a group interview of community members or community stakeholders to provide insight on specific issues a community may be facing.
What is a focus group?
These government levels were all involved in some type of Covid-19 policies.
What are federal, state, and local governments?
This is the scientific study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations.
What is epidemiology?
Death rates refer to this epidemiological term.
What is mortality?
These include biology, behavior, social and physical environment, policies and interventions, and access to high quality health care.
What are the determinants of health?
These national goals should be used when a nurse is planning project interventions.
What are the Healthy People 2030 goals?
This federal government entity made recommendations for best practices during Covid-19.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
When addressing this topic with healthcare workers, be sure to include specific information on mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.
What is climate change?
The total number of people affected by a disease or condition refers to this.
What is prevalence? (morbidity also accepted)
This ensures a free and appropriate public education to children with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This provides a guide on interventions a nurse might perform at the individual, community, and systems levels.
What is the MN PHN Intervention Wheel?
These two programs were created by the Social Security Amendments of 1965.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Substance abuse would be considered this level of risk factor for violence according to “Connect the Dots.”
What is the individual level?
The number of new cases of disease refer to this.
What is the incidence?
This type of intervention occurs when a school nurse teaches adolescents how to protect themselves from STIs and pregnancy.
What is primary prevention? or what is an upstream nursing intervention?
This nursing intervention from the MN Wheel includes identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations.
What is screening?
This system is highly criticized due to its high costs and disparities in healthcare delivery.
What is the U.S. Healthcare system?