Issues and Trends
Increasing rates of ________ to community-acquired pathogens is a 21st-century issue Public Health nurses are currently 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 perfor.m in the community (name at least 2)
What are 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. Stewart?
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.
What are 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?
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 (name at least 2).
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 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?
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?
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 to 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 are 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 at least 1)
What is the Affordable Care Act?
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?