Ch 18
This term describes a collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common
What is an aggregate?
This term describes a contagious disease outbreak that spreads over several countries
What is a pandemic?
This type of surveillance system is being used with the NP who reports a case of syphilis to the local health department
What is a passive surveillance system?
This tool is used when pertinent family information is presented in a multigenerational family tree format
What is a genogram?
This data collections method describes the condition of homes, size of lots, neighborhood hangouts, road conditions, and modes of transportation.
What is a windshield survey?
This ethical principle is used to describe a nurse that centers his practice around the principle of doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This terms would be used to describe a riverfront community that builds a retaining wall to diver flood water away from the town
What is mitigation?
This type of surveillance system is being used when the PHN investigates an outbreak of salmonellosis in a community?
A nurse would use this instrument to demonstrate how a family relates to the other units in the community
What is an ecomap?
This example of a data source would provide information about the function of the community.
What is the county health department?
This term describes residents who provide information to the city council that decisions can be made about the health of the community
What is a passive partnership?
It is essential that a public health nurse working in a community during the recovery phase possess this attribute
What is flexibility?
A college student is diagnosed with mumps. His roommate also starts experiencing malaise and a sore throat. What term would describe these two students?
What is a point source?
This theory describes how the environment outsides of the family influences the development of a child
What is bioecological systems theory?
This term could be used to describe when a leader of a support group introduces a nurse to its members and discusses the professional relationship he has with the nurse for the past several years
What is a gatekeeper?
A nurse would use this type of source to collect morbidity data
What is a specialized disease registry?
This theory views the family as a whole with boundaries that are affected by the environment
What is family systems theory?
This data collection method is used when having direction conversations with individual members of the community.
What are key informant interviews?