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NUR 412 Exam Two
Prevention and Control, Immunity, Community Planning
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are environmental risk factors for disease? | increased travel, contact with unaccustomed things, increased spread of disease that's endemic to area |
| What are the properties of agents? | communicability, pathogenicity, virulence |
| What is communicability? | ability to spread from one individual to another |
| What is pathogenicity? | ability to cause disease |
| What is virulence? | ability to cause severe disease |
| What three things increase virulence? | biofilms, toxigenicity, antibiotic resistance |
| What are three urgent threats to antibiotic resistance? | C. diff, carbapenem-resistant enterobactericeae (CRE), ad neisseria gonorroheae |
| What are two serious threats to antibiotic resistance? | MRSA, MDR-TB |
| What are direct modes of transmission? | contact, droplet, placenta |
| What are common direct diseases? | common cold, pertussis, HIV |
| What are indirect modes of transmission? | vectors, vehicles, airborne |
| What are common indirect diseases? | tuberculosis, Lyme disease |
| What's the clinical presentation for food poisoning? | nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (sometimes bloody) |
| What are examples of pathogens r/t food safety? | norovirus, salmonella, campylobacter, clostridium perfringens, staph aureus |
| What are symptoms of E. coli? | abdominal cramps, bloody or non-bloody diarrhea, vomiting |
| What are the three types of immunity? | active, passive, and herd |
| What is active immunity? | stimulation of immune system to produce antibodies |
| What are examples of active immunity? | vaccines, natural disease |
| What is passive immunity? | transfer of antibody produced by one human or animal to another |
| What are examples of passive immunity? | mother to baby; immunoglobulin blood products |
| What is herd immunity? | enough of the population has immunity; protects people them who may be susceptible |
| What is primary data collection? | windshield surveys, interviews, direct observation |
| What is secondary data collection? | census data, statistics, rankings |
| What's important for community health assessments? | identify existing resources and assets |
| What is the ecological model? | recognizes the same environments has different impacts on individuals |
| What are the levels of the ecological model? | individual -> relationship -> community -> society |
| What are individual factors? | individual characteristics such as age, education, and health status |
| What are relationship factors? | close social circles such as family, partners, and close friends |
| What are community factors? | where social interaction occurs, such as workplace, neighborhood, and schools |
| What are societal factors? | cultural; societal norms, socioeconomic |
| What is the CHANGE model? | identifies strengths and resources, identifies weaknesses, creates strategies to improve community outcomes (SWOT analysis) |
| What is the Build Environment Assessment Tool? | guideline for assessing built environment |
| What is included in the BEAT Manual? | infrastructure, walkability, bikeability, recreational sites, food |
| What is a Community Health Needs Assessment? | assessment in which key health issues and demands are identified through systematic, in-depth data collection and analysis |
| What is performance measurement? | collect data to measure performance |
| What is program evaluation? | examines effectiveness of program outcomes |
| What is an impact report? | communicates results of program evaluation |