Environmental Health
The mnemonic used to determine current & past environmental exposures...
What is "I Prepare"?
The nurse decides to educate staff about the organism, including it's transmission & prevention strategies....this level of prevention
What is Primary?
Is the science that helps us understand the strength of the association between exposures & health effects in the human populations...
What is epidemiology?
A sudden increase in the # of cases of an infectious disease within a community or geographic area during a specific time period...
What is an Epidemic?
The condition occurs when the rate of disease exceeds the usual level of the condition in a defined population...
What is an Epidemic?
Potential exposures in "I PREPARE" mean
What is Investigate?
Prevention refers to interventions that increase the probability that a person with a condition will have the condition diagnosed early...
What is Secondary Prevention?
The statistics used by countries to compare the success of their health care systems...
What is the infant mortality rate?
The teacher discusses the worldwide distribution of Aids, the term to describe this is...
What is a pandemic?
A nurse is giving education about the flu at a health fair and knows that which of the following terms describes the number of people that have had it?
What is incidence?
Age of home, heating, recent remodeling, chemical storage, water...in "I PREPARE"
What is Residence?
The nurse advises a patient with osteoporosis to have three servings of milk or dairy products daily. What level of prevention is being used...
What is Tertiary Prevention?
When applying the epidemiologic triad model to a community's plan of care, which of the following would the community health nurse address...
What is Host, Agent, & Environment?
The nurse correctly describes the opening in the child's skin caused by the actual tick bite as the...
What is the portal of entry???////
A visiting nurse is assessing a client who reports feeling feverish and tired. The nurse knows that the client is which of the following for a disease?
What is the Host? {Carrier of a disease}
Exposures, farm work, military, volunteer, seasonal, length of work...in "I Prepare"
What is past work?
A key component of many secondary prevention interventions...
What is screening?
The nurse is assessing using the A in "I PREPARE for a client's potential environmental exposures...
What do you do for fun?
Refers to all the people with a particular health condition existing in a given population at a given point in time...
What is Prevalence?
A nurse is giving education about the flu at a health fair and knows that which of the following terms describes the number of people that have had it?
What is prevalence? {Total number of people affected by a disease.}
Risk reduction, prevention, follow-up in "I Prepare"
What is Educate?
Testing a group of people at risk for a specific condition but lack symptoms...
What is the involvement of screening?
The nurse correctly describes the opening in the child's skin caused by the actual tick bite as the...
What is the portal of entry?
The number of new cases of a disease or health condition...
What is the Incidence?