Epidemiology
The number of deaths within a given population over a specified time frame
What is mortality rate?
A natural process or phenomenon that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts
What is a Natural or Environmental Disaster?
Assessment, Policy Development & Assurance
What are the 3 Core Functions of Public Health?
True or False: Healthcare access plays a minor influence on individual health status
What is False?
The year Providence plans to be toward carbon negative.
What is 2030?
Less than 120 systolic and less than 80 diastolic
What is "normal" blood pressure?
The rate of new cases or events over a specified period for the population at risk for the event
What is incidence rate
The process of removing or neutralizing contaminants that have accumulated on personnel and/or equipment
What is decontamination?
What is secondary?
Health care intervention that stems from the idea of preventing a problem from ever happening again
What is upstream healthcare?
The "T" in the acronym WE ACT?
What is Transportation?
The nursing process
What is assessment, diagnosis, plan (outcome), implement, evaluate?
The proportion of a particular population that is affected by a disease, risk factor or other studied outcome
What is prevalence rate?
Human caused tragedies often occurring without warning with the intent of harming or killing innocent people.
What are violence/mass casualty events?
This type of Hepatitis currently has no vaccine.
What is Hep C?
Quality of housing, crime and violence, environmental conditions, and access to healthy foods
What is built environment (will also accept neighborhood)
True or False: Leaving electronic devices plugged in or on standby when you are not using them increases your carbon footprint.
What is True?
Caring, Integrity, Altruism, Maximizing Health Potential & Social Justice
What are the core values of WSU College of Nursing?
A disease that, when diagnosed, requires health providers (usually by law) to report to state or local public health officials
The act of prioritizing care following an emergency based on severity of injury
What is triage?
This is the most effective method to prevent and control communicable diseases.
What are vaccinations?
Living in an area where access to fresh fruits and vegetables is limited
What is a food desert?
True or False: Nurses have a professional obligation in provisions of the public's health, including environmental measures.
What is true?
This is a healthy range for a persons BMI.
What is 18.5-24.9?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent
What is a pandemic?
Manifestation of stress response occurring before, during, and after disasters
What is disaster related distress?
Different types of this are work place, home, campus and community.
What are environmental assessments?
These five components make up Social Determinants of Health
What are Education Access and Quality, Health Care Access and Quality, Neighborhood and Built Environment, Social and Community Context, and Economic Stability?
This hangs around in the atmosphere for 300-1,000 years.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This type of blood is considered the universal donor.
What is "O"?