When there is devastation that cannot be relieved without assistance.
What is a disaster?
100
Epidemiological triad is important. To look at causal relationships in greater detail requires this.
What is web of causality (causation)?
100
If your skin is affected by a new cleaning product, you should check this.
What is the Material Data Safety Sheet (MSDS)?
100
The community nurse wishes to influence policy at the state level by speaking to this person.
Who is the state legislator? (Assembly or Senate member)
100
Teaching parents of two year-old children about the dangers of lead poisoning.
What is Primary Level of Prevention?
200
When considering immunity, this is the type that comes with infusion of immune-globulins.
What is passive immunity?
200
The measure of health worldwide is often related to this finding (in the life cycle).
What is infant mortality rate?
200
After the nurse collects the health history of a twenty year old with a breast lump, this would assist in assessing probability of breast cancer, for instance.
What is Red flag tool?
200
Within the DHSS, this agency supports research to improving primary care of clients.
What is AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)?
200
Handing out printed materials about reducing mosquito populations to elementary school parents before summer recess.
What is Primary Level of Prevention?
300
Providing aid when the disaster hasn't even arrived yet. Think 'sand bags.'
What is mitigation?
300
Descriptive can be about disease and population. The how and why of the relationship of disease and populations require this.
What is analytical epidemiology?
300
When discussing the best type of insurance plan for an individual on a fixed income, the nurse might consider recommending this.
What is an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)? HMOs offer fixed rates for individuals.
300
Each state interprets the nursing scope of practice by having this.
What is the nurse practice act?
300
Teaching parents of two year-old children about the dangers of lead poisoning.
What is Tertiary Level of Prevention?
400
Spread by animals, person to person, and most notably by contaminated food this bacteria can cause widespread disease.
What is E. coli (Escherichia coli)?
400
Performing HgbA1C at at health fair located in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood might increase these numbers.
What is the incidence of diabetes?
(Hispanic populations in the U.S. have a high rate of hypertension and diabetes.)
400
When differentiating syphilis from gonorrhea, one of the findings includes this in men.
What is painful urination with discharge?
400
To be sure that children's size and development is considered, the law requires this.
What is health-based standard of 'no harm' or prohibiting economic considerations when children are at risk?
400
Performing HgbA1C at at health fair located in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood is this level of prevention.
What is Secondary Level of Prevention?
(Hispanic populations in the U.S. have a high rate of hypertension and diabetes.)
500
Triage code for can wait for 'most urgent' but not near death.
What is RED?
Red is hypoxic, cannot wait.
Green is minimal, can wait.
Yellow is treatment can be delayed.
Black is head/chest wound or dead
500
The decreasing number of new cases of diabetes in a community at a given point in time. Those with diabetes don't count here.
What is incidence?
500
A person diagnosed with HIV, will be considered to have transitioned to AIDS when this occurs.
What is T lymphocytes drop to less than 200/mL of blood?
500
Building a factory in a poorer neighborhood might require a campaign to promote this.
What is environmental justice?
500
When the community health nurse assists in instituting a community-wide disaster plan.