Deck 2

Question 1

What agency supports Healthy People objectives?

Answer 1

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHD)

Question 2

What is the responsibility of case management services?

Answer 2

Arrange home services for client, resources, reviewing acute care delivery

Question 3

What are some initial symptoms of an HIV infection?

Answer 3

Flu-like symptoms

Question 4

What type of precausions should one be placed on if they have C. difficile?

Answer 4

Contact precautions

Question 5

What would be considered TB, if there is a positive tuberculin skin test?

Answer 5

15 mms of duration (a hardened area)

Question 6

What besides hand hygiene, what else can a person use if they are immunosuppressed?

Answer 6

Chlorhexidine wash. The CDC recommends health care workers use chlorhexadine for hand washing when providing care to a client that is immunosuppressed.

Question 7

What is indirect contact?

Answer 7

Touching an infected towel that a sick person touched (keyword is towel in exam). Transmission through an inanimate object

Question 8

What diseases are transmitted via airborne transmission?

Answer 8

(MTV) measles (rubella), tuberculosis, and varicella

Question 9

What is the communicability period?

Answer 9

The time when disease is contagious and can be transferred to others

Question 10

What should the nurse use if the client is on droplet precautions due to influenza?

Answer 10

Wear a mask

Question 11

If a person is having seizures, what should the nurse evaluate?

Answer 11

Assessment of cranial nerves

Question 12

What type of mask should be worn if the client requires airborne precautions?

Answer 12

N95

Question 13

The nurse is initiating airborne precautions, which client should be placed in airborne precautions?

Answer 13

(MTV) measles (rubella), tuberculosis, and varicella

Question 14

What should a school nurse implement to improve an outbreak of an infectious disease?

Answer 14

Keep providing testing to detect infected students (secondary)

Question 15

What information should the nurse provide to reflect Healthy People 2030 framework?

Answer 15

Establish health objectives for Americans

Question 16

What are some overarching goals of Healthy People 2030?

Answer 16

Social and physical. Focuses on 26 reas of objectives for Americans over a 10-year span. These objectives/goals are created to promote health and prevent disease. Healthy= less illness, less disease.

Question 17

What type of precaution should be initiated if someone is infected with fleas?

Answer 17

Contact precautions

Question 18

Describe community!

Answer 18

think of it as a group of persons who share common interests or beliefs. For example, neighbors interested in enhancing their property to maintain the unique qualities of a neighborhood have a common interest but not necessarily a formal organizational structure, whereas members of a church congregation do have a formal structure and interests that bind them together.

Question 19

Understand patient’s level of education

Answer 19

It is important to determine the client’s level of fluency in her primary language and he nurses language to provide teaching that the client can understand

Question 20

Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention?

Answer 20

Primary: Education
Secondary: Screening
Tertiary: Treatment

Question 21

You are working in the ED and a patient come in who has pertussis (mumps and strep pertain to this as well). What transmission based precautions should be initiated?

Answer 21

Droplet

Question 22

What would prevent the transmission of Hepatitis A? (If it starts with a vowel, it comes from the bowel)

Answer 22

Hand hygiene, immunization, sewer sanitation, and safe water supply.

Question 23

What should be taught to people to prevent an outbreak of salmonellosis?

Answer 23

Educate food workers about safe food preparation

Question 24

What are the requirements to define a disease as communicatable?

Answer 24

Entrance, means of transmission, and portal of exit