Issues and Trends
Increasing rates of_____to community-acquired pathogens is a 21st century issue Public Health nurses are facing
What is drug resistance?
Apart from formal titles such as school, or mental health nurse, these are functions and roles that public health nurses perform in the community (name at least 2)
Advocate, case manager, referral resource, assessor, educator, primary caregiver, role model, incident commander, and disaster responder
Educating daycare center personnel and families about the dangers of lead-based paint is what level of Prevention?
What is Primary Prevention
Also known as the first industrial nurse, ___ ____, visited sick employees in their home educating patients on healthy living habits, parenting style, and provided emergency care.
Who is Ada Stewart or Ms. Stewar
Thanks to the ___ ___ Act, $200 million was provided to improve and expand School-based health services
What is the Affordable Care Act
It is extremely important that nurses are at a __:___ ratio to ensure all students receive care from school nurses.
What is 1:750
In faith nursing, holistic care is concerned with the relationship of ___, ____, and ____ in a constantly changing environment
Body, mind, and spirit
Conducting enhanced surveillance for novel influenza virus infection among travelers with severe unexplained respiratory illness returning from affected countries is what level of Prevention?
What is Secondary Prevention
This nurse established the first public health nurses group in NYC in the 1890’s
Who is Lillian Wald
The _______ Fund under the Affordable Care Act provides for many preventive services to be free so that health care issues can be caught early or totally prevented. The senior members of the population and children receive free preventive services, Medicaid coverage has been expanded, and more access to home health and community services is available
What is the Prevention Fund
While vulnerable populations have changed over the past 20 years, of particular concern are the number of young women and their partners who are _______ and have risky behaviors that put their pregnancy or children at high risk for injury or abuse.
What are substance abusers
School nurses can function as a _____ or _____ when providing care for children
What is (any of these, but at least 2) direct caregiver, counselor, educator, consultant, or case manager
A home health nurse administers seasonal vaccines for patients in their home which is which type of prevention?
What is Primary Prevention
21st century public health activities were dramatically affected at the federal, state, and local level by a series of ______ attacks which occurred shortly after the 9/11 airplane attacks on the World Trade Center
What is anthrax
Home-based care including skilled-nursing services is covered under this type of insurance.
What is Medicare
If a worker with occupational health problems needs reimbursement for medical expenses & has lost work time associated with the illness/injury, this person is eligible to sign up for what type of compensation?
What is worker’s compensation
Faith community nurses function as members of a team by providing care for which types of populations?
What are faith communities
What model can be used to help understand the relationship between work and health interactions?
What is the epidemiological triad or model
In 1996 nearly 900,000 fewer cases of _____were reported than in 1941 due largely to the immunization efforts of public health nurses
What is measles
This Act was put in place to ensure “safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women” by developing and enforcing workplace safety and health regulations
What is OSHA or Occupational Safety & Health Act
Nurses are often not acknowledged for their contributions of improving population health. In 1996 a lack of acknowledgment for their contributions to vaccinating the population and lowering the cases of _____ caused a lost opportunity to increase government funding to public health nursing.
What is measles
Which nurse’s mission is to establish health, safety, productivity, and disability management for worker populations?
What is an Occupational Health Nurse
When a school nurse keeps track of the indoor air quality of the school so that school administrators have data about what can affect children with asthma, this is exercising which level of prevention?
What is tertiary prevention
What is a high point in school nursing history that occurred in the 2000s? (name one)
What is the implementation of primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention OR new federal school meal programs that promote healthy eating and physical activity
As a result of this type of insurance managed care, many public health agencies were no longer providing personal health care services. Public health agencies began to shift emphasis from a focus on primary health care services to a focus on core public health activities
What is Medicaid