ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

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ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS What are community health nurses concerned with? ✔✔protecting, promoting, preserving and maintaining health, as well as preve ... nting disease. How should community nurses use their resources. ✔✔Must benefit the greatest number of citizens. What is epidemiology? ✔✔invenstigative study of disease trends in populations to prevent disease and maintain health. The agent ✔✔animate or inanimate object that causes the disease. (bacteria, virus, pesticide, food additive, etc.) The host ✔✔living being that is affected by the agent. (human or animal). The environment ✔✔the setting or surrounding that sustains the host (place of transmission: daycare, body of water, country Incidence: ✔✔number of new cases in the population at a specific time divided by population total X 1,000= number per 1,000 Prevalence: ✔✔Number of existing cases in the population at a specific time divided by population total X 1,000= number per 1,000 Mortality rate: ✔✔number of deaths divided by population total X 1,000=number per 1,000 Attack rate: ✔✔number of people exposed to a specific agent who develop the disease divided by total number of people exposed. Development of a community health program plan ✔✔Identify the needs of community: assessment. plan the program implement the program evaluate the effectiveness of program. Primary disease prevention: ✔✔focus on prevention of the initial occurence of disease or injury. Includes nutrition counseling, family planning, smoking cessation, safety education (seat belt helmet use), prenatal classes. Secondary prevention: ✔✔focus is on early detection of disease and treatment with goal of limiting severity and adverse effects. includes: screenings (cancer, diabetes, HTN, TB lead exposure) and treatments (STI, TB) tertiary prevention: ✔✔focus is on maximization of recovery after injury or illness. Includes: exercise rehab, nutrition counseling, case management, support groups. Interpreters ✔✔NOT family members. Need to have health-related terminology knowledge. Give teaching material in client's primary language. Medicare: ✔✔older than 65 and receiving Social Security, disability benefits for 2 years, have ALS or kidney failure on dialysis or transplant to qualify. Medicare part A ✔✔hospital care, home care, l [Show More]

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