Public Health Nursing
The 3 levels of public health interventions on the intervention wheel.
What are individual/Family, Community and Systems levels? Pg 256
Morbidity is
What is illness? pg 291-293
The gold standard of epidemiological studies
What is a randomized controlled trial? Pg 306
Not opposing lifestyles, remote farms to villages to large towns to large metros.
What is the rural-urban continuum? Pg 175
A nurse uses a type of map to visualize the spread of measles over 3 years.
What is a geographic information system (GIS) Pg 152
Mortality is
What is death? pg 291
Studies examining variations in disease rates by person, place or time.
What is descriptive epidemiology? pg 301
Variety, broad scope of practice, generalists care across the lifespan
What is nursing practice in a rural environment? Pg 185
Ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health related data.
What is Surveillance? Pg 257
Disease results from these 3 relationships
What is epidemiologic triangle? Pg 294
Studies that determine if there is a relationship between disease rates, and variations in rates for possible risk
What is analytical epidemiology? Pg 303
Lack of providers, great distances, lack of transportation, inequitable reimbursement, language
What are barriers to health care in rural areas? pg 184
Education access, and quality, healthcare access and quality, economic stability, neighborhood and built community, social and community context.
What are the determinants of health? pg 250-251
Concept that reflects the complex interrelationships among numerous factors sometimes in subtle ways
What is the Web of Causality? Pg 295
Branch of epidemiology studies that examines social distribution and determinants of health and disease.
What is social epidemiology? pg 296
Rural PHN works with hospital to offer B/P screening, cholesterol screening, blood glucose screening
What is 2nd prevention?
Collaboration process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet comprehensive health needs to promote safety, quality of care and cost effectiveness
What is case management? pg 260
Precision of the measure (consistency or repeatability)
What is reliability? Pg 295
Symptoms present, disease detectable, treat illness or injury and support health for recovery if possible, follow EBPrecommendations
What is tertiary prevention? Pg 297
Define and characterize the community.
• Identify the community’s health problems.
• Develop or modify health care services in response to the community’s identified needs.
• Monitor and evaluate program process and client outcomes.
What is the community-oriented primary health care partnership process? Pg 191