Disaster and More
Uncontrolled bleeding
What is the number one cause of preventable death after an injury?
An inmate faking a seizure, maybe he/she is trying to go to the hospital.
What is a safety risk in the jail? Nurses have to have excellent skills to determine a fake versus real seizure.
Strangulation
A form of domestic abuse that is increasing in frequency and severity.
This age is high risk for drowning.
What is the most common risk of death for a toddler?
This type of care focuses on improving the quality of life, this patient is not eligible for hospice.
What does palliative care involve?
Greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people while efficiently using resources
What is a key principle of the triage process?
Migrant workers, homeless youth, LGBTQ population, those with substance use issues, runaways
What populations are at high risk for being trafficked?
Poorer outcomes in the areas of chronic disease, obesity, depression, substance use, etc.
What are some of the long term effects of ACES on health?
ACES are associated with childhood experiences and trauma such as physical/emotional abuse, losing a parent, sexual abuse and severe poverty - to name a few.
Rates of this have been declining since the 1990s, but US rates are still higher than other developed countries
Is the rate of adolescent pregnancy increasing or decreasing in the US?
This population works, but are very poor, they do not make enough money to ffed and support a family but are not eligible for Medicaid or other assistance because they make too much money.
What population is the working poor?
A hazardous event that drastically affects a community and tends to overwhelm resources
What is a definition of disaster?
This is the highest risk group for causing firearm violence in the US.
What is the highest risk group for causing firearm violence in the US? Males, from ages 15-34
Pregnancy, when a woman starts to show.
What is a high risk time in a woman's life for abuse?
A schematic that is helpful in identifying family relationships and patterns.
What is a genogram?
A family tends to cope better with crises and challenges if they have this characteristic.
What is the importance of resilience?
FEMA may intervene
If disasters cannot be handled at the local and state level, what happens?
A nurse can help a patient do this if they are in an abusive relationship but afraid to leave.
What is a Safety Plan? A safety plan may involve planning for a safe place to go, a hidden phone, a restraining order, a temporary shelter, emergency funds - to name a few.
This group tends to be at risk for having low birth weight infants and are also at risk for a lack of prenatal care.
What are some risks of teen pregnancies?
The _______ screens for insults, threats and screaming and the _________ screens for rape and kicking and humiliation
What is the HITS tool and what is the HARK tool?
Testifies in court, treats victims of physical and sexual violence and gathers evidence from the patient for police reports
What does a forensic nurse do?
Includes headaches that can become severe, nausea disorientation, dizziness, insomnia, confusion
What are symptoms of HACE? (high altitude cerebral edema) If these symptoms begin, it it critical that the person descends to lower altitudes and receive medical treatment
Uses the application of knowledge and use of sensory motor skills, like the chipmunk that wanted a drink from the bird bath
What is the psychomotor domain of learning?
Neglect
What is the most common form of child abuse?
Firearms are responsible for many deaths, especially in these age categories.
What is the leading cause of death of children/adolescents/young adults?
Pressure, packing, tourniquet
What are three main steps of Stop the Bleed?