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communicable disease
depends succeful interaction of infectious agent,host and environment=epi triangle
agent
can cause incectious or dIsease by bacteria, fungi, parasites and virus
host
human or animal can harbor an infectiouse agent
environment
all that is external
-reduction in communicable disease, can be achieved by altering these environmental facts ex using mosquito spray
Mode of transmission
vertical transmission
from parent to offspring via sperm planceta, milk, or contack in vaginal canal at birth
horizontal transmision
person-person
spread of infection through one or more routes direct or indirect, common vehicle, airborne, or vector borne
common vehicle
transportation via food, water, milk, blood serum,saliva, or plasma ex hep A-food or water
hep B blood
vectors
ex ticks or mosquito
incubation
invasion of infectious agent and first appearance of s&s of disease
communicable period
time which infectious agent may be transmited direct or indirect to another persons
endemic
constant prense of disease w/in geographic area or population
-ex normal in africa malaria, us pertusis(geographacally locolized in one area)
epidemic
in excess of normal expectancy(over the expected)
-if disease was consider elimanated from that area and you have a case
pandemic
world wide large pupulation HIV/Aids, H1N1
primary prevention
preventing before it happen,
-ex no shot, no school
secondary
preventing the spread once the disease occur
tertiary
reduce complication through treatment ex rehad
zoonoses
infection transmitted vertebrate animal to a human
-ex rabies
parasitic opportunistic infection
ex HIV pt
-toxoplasmosis and PCP more like to occurein people that lack health care or dont know they have aids
Direct

Indirect
-ex sexual std

-airborne
descriptive epi
describe a disease by according to its person, place or time
analytic epi
investigates cause and association between factors or events and health, the how and why-it analyze
epidemiology
-science that helps understand the strengh of the association between exposure and health effect in human population
-the use of info to control health problem
-the study of distribution and factor that determine health related states or events in a population
epi triangle
agent, host , environment
-need all 3 to have a disease
NIMS
national incident management system
-sync together
NPG, NRP, NIMS
goal establish a unified, all discipline and all hazards
disaster management
prevention, preparedness responce, and recovery
unified command
consensus decision making, teamwork, sharing activities, sharing responsibility
comman and control
relies on one authority
red
need immediate attention transport to hosptial ex chest wound, long bone injury, spinal injury
green
needs treatment but can transport themselves
ex glass embedded
yellow
can be treated at scene
ch 27
incubation time
time from exposure, till you have symptoms
HIV
3stages
-primary infection w/in 1 month of contracting virus
-clinical latency no symtoms
-final stage symtomatic disease, flu like symptoms, muscle weakness,leathargy, rash
transmission
blood,semen, vaginal secreations
breastmilk(vertical transmission)
sex (horizantal transmission)
ryan white act
passed 1990
-provide services for person w/hiv
-include emergency, early intervention and care, drug reimbursment
HIV symptoms in children
-failure to thrive
-diarhea
-developmental delay
Hep A
-transmited fecal-oral
-source water, food or sexual contact
Hep B
-blood and body fluids
-hepp vaccine given at birth
-osha mandates who are exposed to blood to get hep B vaccine
TB screening
-ppd=purified protein derivative
-follow with cxr if (+)
inject 0.1 ml, read 48-72 hrs
-meaure induration
-record in mm
if (+) greater or = 5mm
-HIV
-CXR show tb
-close contact w/infectious TB
if greater 10mm
-medical conditions ex diabetis, alcholism, drug use
-in inject drugs(HIV-)
-foreign person ,area with TB commom
-low income population
if greater 15mm
-over 4yrs of age w/no risk factors
transmission of TB
-air borne
-s&S cough, feber, chest pain, hemoptysis(cough blood), weight loose, fatigue
DOT(directly observed therapy)
ensure adherence w/drug treatment with TB pt
TB
-trasient place people come and go
-opportunistic disease, especially in HIV pt
-also multi drug resistance bc pt non complience and develop resistance
american disability act
-protect, aid, housing discrimination
STD
--Gonorrehea
- gram (-)
-infects mucous membrane of the genitourinary tract, rectum and pharynx
-transmitted genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital
-S&S purulent and copious urethral discharge and dysuria
-pelvic inflamatory disease(pid) risk for women
syphilis
-treponema pallidum
-infect moist mucosal or cutaneous membrane
-spread through direct contact, usually sexual or from mother to fetus
-early stage chancre
-second Rash, lymphadenopathy, mucosal ulceration, symptoms sore throat, malaise, headache, fever, weighloss, muscle and joint pain.
-3rd can develop psychoses, can lead to blindness, congenital damage, cardiovascular damage
chlamydia
-infect genitourinary tract and rectum of adults.
-cause conjunctivitis and pneumonia in neonates
-symtoms in women dysuria, urinary frequency, purulent vaginal discharge.
-men urethra most common site of infection, resulting in nongonococcal urethritis
-s&s dysuria and urethral discharge
most common reportable disease
all are detremental(harmful)
can cause in children
-blindness, cardiovascular, congentinal problems
genital warts
can infect genital, anus, mouth
-there also a vaccine
nurses role
proving education for preventive communicable disease
-asses high risk behaviors
-educate
-iv drug use, use new needle
-safer sex
provide community out reach for education and needle exchange.
-if going to do prophalic measure its tertiary prevention
parasitic oppurtunistic infection
-usually aids or immunicompromised
-pcp,cryptuspuridiosis, microporidiosis, isosporias, and toxoplasmosis
-cause diarhea and transmited fecal-oral
ch 6
pollution can enter the body
through
-Gi ingestion
-inhalation lungs
-skin and mucous membran
four principles
-everything is connected to everything else
-everything has to go somewhere
-solution to pullution is dilution
-todays solution may be tommorow problem
when assesing environment want to determine whether?
its air, water, soil, or food
-and whether its chemical, biological, radiological exposure
environmental exposure hx/question
IPREPARE
investigate,present work, resisdence, environmental concern, past work, activities, referral and resourses, educate
enviromental health assesment
whindshield survey is helpful 1st step
msds
material safety data sheet
-for chemical make up,health risk and safe use and handling enfored by osha
lead, mercury and pesticide may interfere w/ what process of development
with the process require for normal brain development
children expose to environmental hazards
are at risk for learning disabilities, behavior disorder, chronic disease ex asthma, cancer
mercury
limit fish for pregnant women, may create risk for unborn child delopping nervous system
reducing environmental health risk
education is primary prentive stragety
-risk communication (exchange of info about health or environment =good comm, includes
-right people, right info, right time
-3rs decease pollution =reduce, reuse, recycle
ch 4
healthy community and city movement begin in eurome 1978,
which is now international movement of community movement city focuses moblelizing local resources included political, profesional and community members in an effort to implement the health of the community
f. Nightgale
first moral leader and community oriented nurse
-pledge first code of ethic writen by lystra grether
utilitarianism
includes consequentialiasm, the moral value of actions is determine by its overall benefit
-overall max of good and minimizing of harm for the greatest amount of people
principlism
primary principle ar respect for automony(choose), nonmalifiance(do no harm), benefiance(to do good), and distributive of justice(fair)
ethic and the core fuctions of public health
assesment-competency related to knowledge development analysis and dissemination
-virtue ehic or moral character
-do no harm
---policy development-achieve public good, service to other over service to self,
-what is ethical is also good policy
----Assurance-all person should receive essential personal health services
-provider should be competent to provide care and be available
code of ethic for nurse

public health code of ethic
pg 61 containts 9 statements


pg 62 contains12 statements
advocacy
for nursing in the community-information and resource include votes, finance, effort

-public health-intended to reduce death or disability,it involde info and resources to decrease occurence
public health
---end product of advocacy
is to decrease morbidity and mortality and to id problem
classical ethical theory
utilitarianism and deotology
deontology
bases moral obligation on duty, action are obligatory irrespective of the good or bad consequence they produce
healthy city
basic premice of healty city if people have the oppurtinity to work out their own localy defination off health problem they will find sustainable solution to those problem
ch 5
culture
a set of belief, values and assumption develop over time
race
physical marker such as skin color, individual may be of the same race but of different culture
ethnicity
share feeling of people hood among a group of individual, share geographical location
culture competence
incoporate culture w/ care includes acknoledging the fundamental difference in ways client and families respond to illness and treatment
competence
refer to performance that is sufficient and adeque
- nurse is aware of the culture of pt
culture awareness
appreciationof and sensitivity to client values, belief practice lifestyle and problem solving
-understand own culture
culture accommodaton
nurse support and facilitates the use of culture practice
-when such culture practice are not harmful to clients
ex can modify bring food but less spices
stereotyping
ascribing certain belief and behaviours about a group to an individual w/out giving adequate attention to individual difference
prejudice
involdes neg attitudes, deeply held belief about other groups w/ no regard for the worth of the person
racism
form prejudice that refer to the belief that person who are born into particular group are inferiour in intelligence, moral and self worth
ethnocentrism
belief that ones own group determine the standard for behaviour
-think your ethnicity is the best/norm
culture blindness
tendency to ignore all differences amond cultures
-act as difference dont exist as result treat all the same
culture shock
feeling of helplessness, discomfort by an individual attempting to understand/adapt to another culture that differs in practice/values
education
exersice, less salt, on helbal remedies which can interact w/meds
resorvoir
infection agent lives, grow and multiply, human, animals and environment
port of exit
resp tract, gi, blood semen, vaginal secretion, saliva
port of entrance
resp, gi, sexual, mucouse membrane, skin, blood
mode of transmission
direct contact-
Direct ex sexual, droplet spread
-indirect- airborne, vehicle borne, vector ex mosquito flea, tick
vehicles
may indirect transmit an agent includeds
-food, water, biologic product(blood) and fomites ex hankerchief
active immunity




passive immunity
develop antibodies in responce to infection, vaccine or toxoid

antibodies before birth through placenta
common symtom
respiratory symptoms
anthrax
wool handles disease
code of ethics
reason for them is prevent any incident
-primary prenvention
homeland security
do to attacks
-to protect citizen
-prevent terriorism
vector
carrier ex mosquito
rn goes out of way to give pt something they want, that they use in there culture.
-implement into care
culture competence/culture accomadation
stereotyping
ex all jamaican smoke
toxocology
study of bad(neg) effect that chemical has
-only neg effect of chemical exposure are studied
HIV/aids
infants present w/ failure to thrive, diarhea developmental delays
mongolian spot rn suspect abuse is ex off?
biological variation
asian
codeine/morphine
for some having mestrual flow is very secreative then heare people talk about it ex off?
culture shock
group prenatal pt education on nutrition
limit fish because of mercury
malaria
classified as endemic in africa constact presence on geographical area
pt with leprosy
-affect digits ans skin giving socks which prevention
tertiary prevention
pool hasnt being clean in 20 yr grow mold
reservoir
ex being tested
-using memory
cognitive domain
find out how it happen
-describe a desease according to
who, where, what, when?
descriptive epidimiology
all came from same place, can trace back?
point epidemic
study of disease aswell of health status of the population?
epidimiology
hep A
transmission fecal/oral
-source mostly food, sex
herd immunity
cant be transmited bc everyone has vaccine and that one person cant affect, wont be suspectable to it
effective education
-diabetic teaching 20 units what domain
-pyschomotor
when your teaching 1st thing you do
- gain attention
prevalance
# of cases of disease in a period of time (new or old)
-measure of existing disease in a population at a particular time
- ex number of existing case/ current pop
incidence
# of new cases over a period of time that occured in a population w/ time frame
ebp
best current available scientific knowledge that we practice
agent
can be person, organism, mechanical, chemical, psycological-stress
-what cause it whatever the diseas(the problem)
-animal agent
epi triangle
host, agent, environment
-to have the problem need all 3
-chicken environment, eat chicken host,
boyfriend/girlfriend
-both infected, will it be a problem if they have sex
advise to use condom, bc of different strands
ch 6
water supply and air quality
EPA
lead can cause
neuro problems expecially children
long term lead exposure can cause
hypertension in adults
-premature birth
-learning disability in children
chealation
procedure for lead
Period of prodomol
Ex presymptom
-first symptom ex tingling, then get disease