Public Health
This provision of the Affordable Care Act has allowed access to more home health and community services.
Gloria Estefan fled Cuba as a child after Fidel Castro came into power. Her father had been a bodyguard for the former president, Fulgencio Batista. He became a political prisoner. After being released, the family fled to Florida. This true story is an example of this immigrant category.
What is a refugee?
Visiting the homebound, holding support groups, and participating in prayer circles.
What are some services provided by Faith Community Nursing?
A pattern of abuse/ compulsive use of a drug with a high tendency for relapse if discontinued.
What is drug addiction?
This social and community factor can have both a positive (publicizing available resources) and a negative (poor role modeling of anger management) impact on violence.
What is media?
Over use of antibiotics and inappropriate use of antibiotics.
What has contributed to the increasing rates of drug resistance?
Pain relief may differ based on biological variations. These are two examples:
What are Asian men (CYP2D6 enzyme) and Red heads?
In this Faith Community Model, the nurse may be in a contractual relationship with a hospital or educational institute.
What is the Institutional Model?
Chronic use of a drug where withdraw symptoms occur when the drug is discontinued.
What is Drug Dependency?
The clinic nurse has completed a pregnancy test on a 14 year old. Upon giving her the news of her positive pregnancy test, the nurse should also assess for this.
What is Suicide?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What are some federal agencies that influence public health activities at the state and local level?
As a cultural competent nurse, your patient's mother in law tell you about the custom if burying the placenta. This practice is not harmful to the patient or the newborn. you arrange for the placenta to be taken home. You are practicing this dimension of cultural competence.
What is Cultural Accommodation?
This federal agency enforces workplace safety and health regulations.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
What are Stimulants?
The level of prevention where the nurse would be caring for an injured patient and referring them to appropriate treatment.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
The level of prevention where the public health nurse provides education for school children and staff on the importance of hand hygiene.
What is an example of Primary Prevention?
The statement, "I don't see color. We are all the same. We belong to the same race: the human race."
What is an example of Cultural Blindness?
This type of nursing works independently and focuses on the environment.
What is Occupational Health Nursing?
The oldest and most widely used psychoactive drug in the world.
What is Alcohol?
The school nurse suspects "this" when the child continues to have bruises in multiple healing stages. She is mandated by state laws to report it.
What is Child Abuse (or neglect)?
The nurse is a disaster responder and need to be part of the team (when) an emergency.
What is Before?
The statement, "White people can't dance."
What is an example of Stereotyping?
The principle funding source for Home Health Care.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
This stimulant is legal in all 50 states and is socially acceptable in many cultures.
What is Caffeine?
True or False: Only children and the elderly are at risk for being abused or neglected.
What is False?