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The number of new cases of a specific disease during a specific time period.
What is prevalence?
Actions providing early identification and treatment of disease.
What is secondary prevention?
A home care nurse is visiting a 72-year-old patient who is concerned about paying medical bills. The nurse understands this client is eligible for which benefit?
What is Medicare?
Data collected through examining posted demographics
What is secondary data?
Public health nursing
What is community health?
The ratio of the number of cases of a disease to the number of people.
What is morbidity?
Actions aiming to maximize recovery and potential.
What is tertiary prevention?
Covers the greatest percentage of total health care costs.
What is private insurance?
Motorized (automobile) head to toe assessment.
What is a windshield survey?
Blood pressure screenings by the parish nurse on Sunday
What is Community-based nursing
An outbreak of infectious disease worldwide or at least across a region of the world.
What is a pandemic?
H1N1 Immunization clinics
What is primary prevention?
Payment system for the care given based upon the DRG classification system
What is a prospective payment system?
Observations of formal and informal community activities to determine significant events.
What are the participant observations?
A type of community-based nursing focused on OSHA standards and emergency care
What is Occupational health nursing?
Coordinating, planning, and arranging for the transition from one health care setting to another.
What is discharge planning?
Prostate screening clinic
What is secondary prevention?
Program jointly funded by the federal and state governments
What is Medicaid?
Three components of a community assessment
What is people, location, and social systems?
An assisted living facility
What is Community-based nursing
A systematic process used by nurses to ensure client health and service needs are met.
What is case Management?
Record a swallow study
What is tertiary prevention?
A method of reimbursement where charges are billed based upon the individual services provided.
What is a retrospective payment?
Process of working with communities to address the health and illness of the community
What is community engagement?
The American Red Cross disaster team
What is community-based nursing?