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communicable disease
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depends succeful interaction of infectious agent,host and environment=epi triangle
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agent
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can cause incectious or dIsease by bacteria, fungi, parasites and virus
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host
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human or animal can harbor an infectiouse agent
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environment
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all that is external
-reduction in communicable disease, can be achieved by altering these environmental facts ex using mosquito spray |
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Mode of transmission
vertical transmission |
from parent to offspring via sperm planceta, milk, or contack in vaginal canal at birth
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horizontal transmision
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person-person
spread of infection through one or more routes direct or indirect, common vehicle, airborne, or vector borne |
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common vehicle
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transportation via food, water, milk, blood serum,saliva, or plasma ex hep A-food or water
hep B blood |
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vectors
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ex ticks or mosquito
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incubation
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invasion of infectious agent and first appearance of s&s of disease
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communicable period
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time which infectious agent may be transmited direct or indirect to another persons
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endemic
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constant prense of disease w/in geographic area or population
-ex normal in africa malaria, us pertusis(geographacally locolized in one area) |
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epidemic
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in excess of normal expectancy(over the expected)
-if disease was consider elimanated from that area and you have a case |
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pandemic
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world wide large pupulation HIV/Aids, H1N1
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primary prevention
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preventing before it happen,
-ex no shot, no school |
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secondary
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preventing the spread once the disease occur
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tertiary
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reduce complication through treatment ex rehad
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zoonoses
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infection transmitted vertebrate animal to a human
-ex rabies |
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parasitic opportunistic infection
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ex HIV pt
-toxoplasmosis and PCP more like to occurein people that lack health care or dont know they have aids |
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Direct
Indirect |
-ex sexual std
-airborne |
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descriptive epi
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describe a disease by according to its person, place or time
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analytic epi
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investigates cause and association between factors or events and health, the how and why-it analyze
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epidemiology
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-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 |
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epi triangle
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agent, host , environment
-need all 3 to have a disease |
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NIMS
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national incident management system
-sync together |
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NPG, NRP, NIMS
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goal establish a unified, all discipline and all hazards
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disaster management
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prevention, preparedness responce, and recovery
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unified command
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consensus decision making, teamwork, sharing activities, sharing responsibility
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comman and control
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relies on one authority
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red
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need immediate attention transport to hosptial ex chest wound, long bone injury, spinal injury
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green
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needs treatment but can transport themselves
ex glass embedded |
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yellow
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can be treated at scene
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ch 27
incubation time |
time from exposure, till you have symptoms
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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 |
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transmission
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blood,semen, vaginal secreations
breastmilk(vertical transmission) sex (horizantal transmission) |
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ryan white act
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passed 1990
-provide services for person w/hiv -include emergency, early intervention and care, drug reimbursment |
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HIV symptoms in children
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-failure to thrive
-diarhea -developmental delay |
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Hep A
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-transmited fecal-oral
-source water, food or sexual contact |
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Hep B
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-blood and body fluids
-hepp vaccine given at birth -osha mandates who are exposed to blood to get hep B vaccine |
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TB screening
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-ppd=purified protein derivative
-follow with cxr if (+) inject 0.1 ml, read 48-72 hrs -meaure induration -record in mm |
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if (+) greater or = 5mm
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-HIV
-CXR show tb -close contact w/infectious TB |
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if greater 10mm
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-medical conditions ex diabetis, alcholism, drug use
-in inject drugs(HIV-) -foreign person ,area with TB commom -low income population |
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if greater 15mm
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-over 4yrs of age w/no risk factors
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transmission of TB
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-air borne
-s&S cough, feber, chest pain, hemoptysis(cough blood), weight loose, fatigue |
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DOT(directly observed therapy)
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ensure adherence w/drug treatment with TB pt
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TB
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-trasient place people come and go
-opportunistic disease, especially in HIV pt -also multi drug resistance bc pt non complience and develop resistance |
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american disability act
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-protect, aid, housing discrimination
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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 |
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syphilis
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-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 |
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chlamydia
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-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 |
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all are detremental(harmful)
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can cause in children
-blindness, cardiovascular, congentinal problems |
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genital warts
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can infect genital, anus, mouth
-there also a vaccine |
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nurses role
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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 |
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parasitic oppurtunistic infection
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-usually aids or immunicompromised
-pcp,cryptuspuridiosis, microporidiosis, isosporias, and toxoplasmosis -cause diarhea and transmited fecal-oral |
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ch 6
pollution can enter the body |
through
-Gi ingestion -inhalation lungs -skin and mucous membran |
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four principles
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-everything is connected to everything else
-everything has to go somewhere -solution to pullution is dilution -todays solution may be tommorow problem |
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when assesing environment want to determine whether?
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its air, water, soil, or food
-and whether its chemical, biological, radiological exposure |
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environmental exposure hx/question
IPREPARE |
investigate,present work, resisdence, environmental concern, past work, activities, referral and resourses, educate
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enviromental health assesment
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whindshield survey is helpful 1st step
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msds
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material safety data sheet
-for chemical make up,health risk and safe use and handling enfored by osha |
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lead, mercury and pesticide may interfere w/ what process of development
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with the process require for normal brain development
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children expose to environmental hazards
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are at risk for learning disabilities, behavior disorder, chronic disease ex asthma, cancer
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mercury
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limit fish for pregnant women, may create risk for unborn child delopping nervous system
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reducing environmental health risk
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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 |
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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
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f. Nightgale
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first moral leader and community oriented nurse
-pledge first code of ethic writen by lystra grether |
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utilitarianism
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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 |
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principlism
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primary principle ar respect for automony(choose), nonmalifiance(do no harm), benefiance(to do good), and distributive of justice(fair)
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ethic and the core fuctions of public health
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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 |
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code of ethic for nurse
public health code of ethic |
pg 61 containts 9 statements
pg 62 contains12 statements |
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advocacy
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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 |
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public health
---end product of advocacy |
is to decrease morbidity and mortality and to id problem
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classical ethical theory
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utilitarianism and deotology
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deontology
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bases moral obligation on duty, action are obligatory irrespective of the good or bad consequence they produce
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healthy city
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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
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ch 5
culture |
a set of belief, values and assumption develop over time
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race
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physical marker such as skin color, individual may be of the same race but of different culture
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ethnicity
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share feeling of people hood among a group of individual, share geographical location
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culture competence
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incoporate culture w/ care includes acknoledging the fundamental difference in ways client and families respond to illness and treatment
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competence
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refer to performance that is sufficient and adeque
- nurse is aware of the culture of pt |
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culture awareness
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appreciationof and sensitivity to client values, belief practice lifestyle and problem solving
-understand own culture |
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culture accommodaton
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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 |
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stereotyping
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ascribing certain belief and behaviours about a group to an individual w/out giving adequate attention to individual difference
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prejudice
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involdes neg attitudes, deeply held belief about other groups w/ no regard for the worth of the person
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racism
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form prejudice that refer to the belief that person who are born into particular group are inferiour in intelligence, moral and self worth
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ethnocentrism
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belief that ones own group determine the standard for behaviour
-think your ethnicity is the best/norm |
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culture blindness
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tendency to ignore all differences amond cultures
-act as difference dont exist as result treat all the same |
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culture shock
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feeling of helplessness, discomfort by an individual attempting to understand/adapt to another culture that differs in practice/values
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education
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exersice, less salt, on helbal remedies which can interact w/meds
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resorvoir
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infection agent lives, grow and multiply, human, animals and environment
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port of exit
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resp tract, gi, blood semen, vaginal secretion, saliva
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port of entrance
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resp, gi, sexual, mucouse membrane, skin, blood
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mode of transmission
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direct contact-
Direct ex sexual, droplet spread -indirect- airborne, vehicle borne, vector ex mosquito flea, tick |
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vehicles
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may indirect transmit an agent includeds
-food, water, biologic product(blood) and fomites ex hankerchief |
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active immunity
passive immunity |
develop antibodies in responce to infection, vaccine or toxoid
antibodies before birth through placenta |
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common symtom
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respiratory symptoms
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anthrax
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wool handles disease
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code of ethics
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reason for them is prevent any incident
-primary prenvention |
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homeland security
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do to attacks
-to protect citizen -prevent terriorism |
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vector
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carrier ex mosquito
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rn goes out of way to give pt something they want, that they use in there culture.
-implement into care |
culture competence/culture accomadation
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stereotyping
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ex all jamaican smoke
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toxocology
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study of bad(neg) effect that chemical has
-only neg effect of chemical exposure are studied |
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HIV/aids
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infants present w/ failure to thrive, diarhea developmental delays
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mongolian spot rn suspect abuse is ex off?
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biological variation
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asian
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codeine/morphine
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for some having mestrual flow is very secreative then heare people talk about it ex off?
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culture shock
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group prenatal pt education on nutrition
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limit fish because of mercury
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malaria
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classified as endemic in africa constact presence on geographical area
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pt with leprosy
-affect digits ans skin giving socks which prevention |
tertiary prevention
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pool hasnt being clean in 20 yr grow mold
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reservoir
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ex being tested
-using memory |
cognitive domain
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find out how it happen
-describe a desease according to who, where, what, when? |
descriptive epidimiology
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all came from same place, can trace back?
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point epidemic
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study of disease aswell of health status of the population?
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epidimiology
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hep A
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transmission fecal/oral
-source mostly food, sex |
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herd immunity
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cant be transmited bc everyone has vaccine and that one person cant affect, wont be suspectable to it
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effective education
-diabetic teaching 20 units what domain |
-pyschomotor
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when your teaching 1st thing you do
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- gain attention
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prevalance
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# 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 |
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incidence
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# of new cases over a period of time that occured in a population w/ time frame
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ebp
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best current available scientific knowledge that we practice
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agent
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can be person, organism, mechanical, chemical, psycological-stress
-what cause it whatever the diseas(the problem) -animal agent |
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epi triangle
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host, agent, environment
-to have the problem need all 3 -chicken environment, eat chicken host, |
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boyfriend/girlfriend
-both infected, will it be a problem if they have sex |
advise to use condom, bc of different strands
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ch 6
water supply and air quality |
EPA
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lead can cause
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neuro problems expecially children
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long term lead exposure can cause
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hypertension in adults
-premature birth -learning disability in children |
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chealation
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procedure for lead
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Period of prodomol
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Ex presymptom
-first symptom ex tingling, then get disease |