Category 1
Determines the scope of practice for RNs
Who are state legislators?
What prevention level would be used to test employees who are exposed to hazardous gases in the workplace?
Increase in sanitation efforts and prevention programs have led to this.
Increasd life expectancy.
Serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
Who is the CDC.
Number of New Cases of a disease/illness.
What is Incidence.
Teaching a group of construction workers to recognize heat stroke sx in the summer.
What is primary prevention for the occupational health nurse.
Solitary action a nurse can perform to assess his or her community that does not involve other community members.
What is a windshield survey.
The oldest and most widely used psychoactive drug in the world.
Care for clients during a terminal illness, care for the family after the client's death, focus on care over cure.
What is a hospice nurse.
the circumstances in which all people are born, grow, live, work, and age that shape health
What are social determinants of health (SDOH).
Data that provides perceptions and attitudes about one's community (included in assessment). Typically collected through interviews with key informants in the community & through interaction with community members.
Primary data.
In this type of surveillance system, the public health nurse would search for cases of an infectious disease by working with local providers or other organizations, name the disease, and work to determine how widespread it is.
Number of constant cases of a disease/illness or also referred to as an...
What is Prevalence...endemic
Access to resources, healthcare, environment, physical neighborhood, health literacy, poverty.
weather, temperature, humidity, physical surroundings, and biological (e.g., insects that transmit the agent)
What are environmental factors.
Has the greatest impact on the development of disparities.
What is poverty.
Helping clients to identify, obtain, and when needed, create community health resources to meet the patients' needs.
What is client advocacy
Genetics, Age, Gender, Lifestyle factors (Diet & Exercise, immunologic status
What are host factors (in the epidemiological triangle p. 177).
Mission is to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for employees.
Who is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The public health nurse is using contact tracing to identify individuals who may have been exposed to a communicable disease. Which type of prevention is she using?
What is secondary prevention?
A community health nurse is saddened by the fact that his clients lack access to adequate healthcare, clean air, well-paying jobs, and healthy food. He also recognizes that his community has an increased number of teens dropping out of high school. What types of challenges does a nurse in the community setting face that a nurse in acute care may not?
What is an inability to control MANY environmental factors.
Covers inpatient hospital care, home health care, hospice care, and skilled nursing care.
What is Medicare part A.(see p. 90).
This type of evaluation can be used to evaluate a program's effectiveness at its completion or at a set date.
What is Summative evaluation.
Negotiator, mentor, liason, advocate, facilitator, educator, researcher, systems allocator.
What are roles of the case manager.
The school nurse understands that for health behaviors such as exercise and healthy eating to improve in children, this must be included.
What is support/involvement from the family.