Public Health Nursing
Terms
EBP
Location, location, location
100

The 3 levels of public health interventions on the intervention wheel.

What are individual/Family, Community and Systems levels?  Pg  256


100

Morbidity is

What is illness? pg 291-293

100

The gold standard of epidemiological studies

What is a randomized controlled trial? Pg 306

100

Not opposing lifestyles, remote farms to villages to large towns to large metros.

What is the rural-urban continuum? Pg 175

200

A nurse uses a type of map to visualize the spread of measles over 3 years. 

What is a geographic information system (GIS) Pg 152

200

Mortality is

What is death? pg 291

200

Studies examining variations in disease rates by person, place or time.

What is descriptive epidemiology? pg 301

200

Variety, broad scope of practice, generalists care across the lifespan

What is nursing practice in a rural environment? Pg 185

300

Ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health related data. 

What is Surveillance? Pg 257

300

Disease results from these 3 relationships

What is epidemiologic triangle? Pg 294

300

Studies that determine if there is a relationship between disease rates, and variations in rates for possible risk

What is analytical epidemiology? Pg 303

300

Lack of providers, great distances, lack of transportation, inequitable reimbursement, language 

What are barriers to health care in rural areas? pg 184

400

Education access, and quality, healthcare access and quality, economic stability, neighborhood and built community, social and community context.

What are the determinants of health? pg 250-251

400

Concept that reflects the complex interrelationships among numerous factors sometimes in subtle ways

What is the Web of Causality? Pg 295

400

Branch of epidemiology studies that examines social distribution and determinants of health and disease. 

What is social epidemiology? pg 296 

400

Rural PHN works with hospital to offer B/P screening, cholesterol screening, blood glucose screening 

What is 2nd prevention? 

500

Collaboration process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet comprehensive health needs to promote safety, quality of care and cost effectiveness 

What is case management? pg 260

500

Precision of the measure (consistency or repeatability)

What is reliability? Pg 295

500

Symptoms present, disease detectable, treat illness or injury and support health for recovery if possible, follow EBPrecommendations

What is tertiary prevention? Pg 297

500

Define and characterize the community.

• Identify the community’s health problems.

• Develop or modify health care services in response to the community’s identified needs.

• Monitor and evaluate program process and client outcomes.

What is the community-oriented primary health care partnership process? Pg 191

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