Exam 1

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of the disease or infirmity

Question 2

How is health status of a community assessed?

HA, EC, CP, S/E I

Answer 2

Healthcare access, economic conditions, cultural practices, social, and environmental issues

Question 3

What do public health nurses do?

F, Inter, Imp

Answer 3

• focus on care from a micro to macro level in the community
• interviewing and assessing pts
• implement programs that meet health needs and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs

Question 4

What are the core public health functions?

A, PD, A

Answer 4

• assessment: regular collection, analysis, and information sharing about health conditions, risks, and resources in a community
• policy development: use of information gathered to develop local and state health policies
• assurance: focuses on the availability of necessary health services throughout the community.

Question 5

What is Florence nightingale accredited for?

Answer 5

Modern nursing and began work in the 19th century

Question 6

How did Florence reform healthcare?

Answer 6

• realized that sanitation was a big reason for deaths

Question 7

What was Joesph Lister accredited for?

Listerine

Answer 7

Realized that open wounds frequently cause infection and fever so he improves wound care

Question 8

What did Joseph lister dip the dressing in?

Answer 8

Phenol and oil

Question 9

What did Robert Koch discover?

Katch C and TB

Answer 9

The causative agent for cholera and tubercle bacillus

Question 10

What did Louis Paster discover

Answer 10

Immunizations in 1885 for rabies

Question 11

What was Lilian wald accredited for?

Modern day Walgreens

Answer 11

Established a district nursing service on the lower east side of NY called the House on Henry Street

Question 12

What is the Elizabeth poor law?

Answer 12

Enacted in England in 1601 which held the church parishes responsible for providing relief for the poor

Question 13

What was John snow accredited for?

Snow turns into water

Answer 13

Revealing that cholera was transmissible through contaminated water by removing the handle of the water pump from the infected community

Question 14

What was Edward Jenner accredited for?

Answer 14

Observed that people who work with cattle were less likely to contract cow pox

Question 15

What is orem’s self care deficit?

Answer 15

Microscopic theory assumes self care needs are a primary focus of nursing practice

Question 16

what is the health belief model?

Answer 16

Behavior based on current dynamics

Question 17

What is upstream focus?

Alter causes

Answer 17

It is designed to alter the causes of poor health such as poverty and inequality

Question 18

What is critical theoretical perspectives?

Answer 18

Social aspects of health and illness are too complex to use only one perspective

Question 19

What is downstream prevention?

Tertiary prevention

Answer 19

Focuses on prevention of complications that w/ chronic diseases

Question 20

What is the public health intervention wheel characterized by?

CIS

Answer 20

• community
• Individual/ family
• systems