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Refers to the capacity of an agent to enter a susceptible host and produce infection or disease
What is infectivity?
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1- Biological ( bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites) 2-Physical ( heart, trauma) 3- chemical (pollutants, medications) 4-Nutrients ( absence excess) 5- Psychological ( stress, isolation, social support)
What are the types of agent factors that may require investigations?
100
Cases may be exposed over a period of days or weeks ( food poisonings at restaurants in US due to contaminated sprouts)
What is intermittent or continuous source of outbreak?
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It is an evolving synthesis of the scholarship from three different traditions: family, social science and family therapy Family systems theory - Family developmental theory - Family bioecological systems theory
-Define family nursing theory. -Give examples of family nursing theories.
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-It is a management philosophy that that includes a focus on client by emphasizing the statistical processes by which to assess work done with the goal of organization -wide quality improvement - Because this management philosophy not only addresses system problems, but enhances and maintains performance.
-What is total quality management (TQM) or (TQ) -Why is continuous quality improvement (CQI) different from TQM?
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The measurement of the proportion of infected people who develop the disease
What does pathogenicity refer to?
200
Involves all persons exposed becoming ill at the same time, during one incubation period.
What is a point source of outbreak?
200
It is a common source of outbreak followed by secondary exposures from one person to another ( ex: influenza)
What is mixed outbreak source?
200
1- It defines the concept of a family as whole. When one member is affected ( illness, death and addition), the whole family is impacted. 2- It defines the concept of the family as a baby that grows and reaches different stages. The stressorscorrespond to the family stage, Families move to a different level of functioning. 3- It was developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner to describe environments and systems outside of the family influence the development of a child over time.
1- Define family systems theory 2- Define family developmental theory 3- Define bioecological systems theory
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It is defined as possessing abilities and resources to accomplish family developmental tasks.
What is family health?
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Refers to the proportion of people with clinical disease who become severely ill
What is virulence?
300
1- Staff review ( most common). It focuses on audits: concurrent and retrospective audits. 2- Utilization review to ensure that care is needed and the cost is appropriate. Main disadvantage is that it is not appropriate for all clients 3-Risk management seeks to reduce the agency's liability by reviewing client and personnel safety policies to determine whether personnel followed the rules.
Give example of Quality improvement approaches in USA and a short description of each.
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It is an umbrella agency/ organization, created in 1990. It played an integral role in health maintenance Ex. HMO and PPO. Its was designed to monitor and deliver care services within a specific budget.
What is managed care organization ( MCO)
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It displays pertinent family information in a family tree Ex. P.612 in the book
What is a genogram?
300
They are cards developed in 1990 to measure quality health care in communities. ex: community health Status Indicator ( CHSI)
What do report cards for public health mean?
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It refers to a group exposed to a common noxious influence ( ex. ricin exposure in subway system)
What is a common source of an outbreak?
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1- Identify investigation team 2- confirm existence of an outbreak 3- Verify the diagnosis 4- Estimate the number of cases 5- Orient the data collected to person, place and time 6-Develop and evaluate a hypothesis 7-Institute control measures 8- Maintain surveillance
How to conduct an investigation? ( steps of investigation)
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It is a philosophy and a science based on the following assumptions: health and illness are family events, what affects one family member affects the whole family.
What is family nursing?
400
It includes the ability to read and understand numbers in order to use this health information to make informed decisions.
What is functional health literacy?
400
Two terms 1- the first one defines the formal recognition of a person as a professional with technical competence, or of an agency that has met minimum standards of performance. They can be mandatory(laws ex. state nurse practice act) or voluntary (performed by institution as american nurses credentialing ANA) 2- It is a contract between the profession and the state, Under this contract, the profession is granted over entry into and exit from the profession. It includes the scope and and minimum/ maximum set of limits
What is credentialing? What is individual licensure?
500
It is a pattern of outbreak occurrence that does not have a common source and spreads gradually from person to person over more than one incubation period ( ex. TB)
What is a propagated outbreak?
500
It is an approach to measure quality of care by assessing client's opinion through in person or telephone interviews and mailed questions.
What is client satisfaction?
500
( Definition of 3 terms) 1- Clients who do not have health insurance for any family members. 2- Individuals who have minimal insurance 3- People who may have trouble accessing health care or experience barriers to health care.
What is the difference between uninsured, under-insured and limited services.
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P. 604 in the book - Family as context ( individual as foreground, family as background) -Family as client ( family as foreground, individual as background) -Family as a system ( interactional family) -Family as a component of society ( Family is seen as one one of many institutions as legal, education, health, social, financial, religious components)
What are the four approaches to family nursing? ( provide a brief description of each)
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(3 terms) 1- A voluntary approach to quality improvement ( QI) used for institutions to inspect nursing education programs ex ( NLNAC), ( CCNE) 2- It is the mechanism by which a state government agency grants corporate status to institutions with or without rights to award degrees. 3- It is the process whereby one agency accepts the credentialing status conferred by another.
1-What is accreditation ( body or institution)? 2- What is Charter? 3-What is recognition?