Chapter 17
This type of epidemiologic event spreads over several countries or continents?
pg. 313
What is pandemic?
Which step by step procedure outlines a plan to identify the appropriate event to be investigated?
pg. 307
What is algorithm?
Which aspect of program evaluation considers how well the program addressed the extent of the community's need?
pg.326
What is adequacy?
In which stage of the planning process is a problem described using past and present data to project future population needs?
pg. 320
What is interactive?
In an event in which militants set fire to a sulfa mine, that produced widespread clouds of sulfur dioxide and resulted in two deaths and 1500 injuries, would be describes as which type of event?
pg. 306
What is chemical terrorism?
Which program would the public health nurse develop as a secondary means of prevention for the frail older adult population?
pg. 314
What is evaluating residents of an independent living center with an outbreak of flulike symptoms?
Which organized approach would the public health nurse use to meet the assessed needs of a community?
pg. 318
What is program?
Which term applies to the follow-up on the results of program activities?
pg. 318
What is summative evaluation?
When a large number of ill persons with similar symptoms present to the emergency department without an identifiable cause or pattern to the illness, the nurse would suspect that which type of event has occured?
pg. 314
What is covert bioterrorism?
Which type of surveillance system is the public health nurse creating when recruiting three clinics in a rural area of developing country to report all cases of waterborne diseases over the next 6 months in an area where recent increases have been noted?
pg. 312
What is sentinel?
Which term describes the relationship between program outcomes and the resources spent?
pg. 326
What is efficiency?
Which statement reflects the definition of planning?
pg. 318
What is selecting and carrying out series of action to achieve a stated goal?
This entity has legal authority to help investigate unusual clusters of illness?
pg. 306
What is health department?
Which type surveillance system would the nurse use to monitor an emerging infectious disease to help support and inform quick changes in response to the disease?
pg. 312
What is syndromic?
Which method is used to conceptualize a problem?
pg. 319
What is use a decision tree
Which question would be asked first by the population health nurse to determine the type, size, and distribuition of a population when planning a program to address an issue?
pg. 320
What is" How many individuals from this population live in the community"?
Which term classifies epidemiologic agents in an attack by measuring the proportion of infected people who develop disease?
pg. 313
What is pathogenicity?
The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), is a component of which type of surveillance system?
pg. 312
What is passive?
Which action would the public health nurse take during the formulating stage of planning a program to address reported high rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in the community?
pg. 319
What is identify those who believe that something is needed to address NAS?
When evaluating the alternative solutions to address high infant mortality rate in the community, which question would the nurse ask?
pg. 319
What is "Which solution has the most benefits for clients, the organization, and the community?"