Exam 2 Flashcards
What are some types of STIs?
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Trichomoniasis, Hep B, Herpes, HIV, HPV
What are the treatable STIs?
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Trichomoniasis
What are the untreatable STIs?
Hep B, Herpes, HIV, HPV
What are some STI prevention measures?
- Abstinence
- Vaccines – Hep B and HPV
- Single or reduced sexual partners
- Use of condoms or contact contraceptives
- Screenings or testing for STI (secondary prevention)
What are the levels in which health facilities report certain infectious diseases?
Local, State, Federal, International
What infectious diseases does LOCAL Health Departments report?
- STIs
- Foodborne illness
- Vector-borne (west nile or zika virus)
- local outbreaks of mumps or pertussis
What infectious diseases does STATE Health Departments report?
Notifiable diseases from local authorities include:
- tuberculosis
- HIV/AIDS
- Hepatitis
- Influenza/ COVID-19 trends
What infectious diseases does the CDC (FEDERAL) Health Departments report?
diseases with a potential for widespread outbreaks include:
- COVID-19
- ebola or zika virus
- national concern (polio)
What infectious diseases does INTERNATIONAL Health Departments report?
reported to WHO if they have global significance
- pandemic diseases (COVID-19)
- public health emergency (Ebola)
- global eradication (Polio)
What is a community disaster preparedness plan?
action plans developed in anticipation of disaster scenarios, providing a framework for response to emergency situations.
What are the disaster phases?
- Preimpact: before disaster
- Impact: during disaster
- Postimpact: after disaster
What are interventions for the Pre-Impact phase of a disaster?
Mitigation: take measures to limit damage, disability, and loss of life
- disaster planning
- emergency planning
- identification of hazards
- assessment of risk/vulnerability
What are interventions for the Impact phase of a disaster?
Response: implementation of disaster plan; provide emergency care; restore communication and transportation
Triaging: START Model (0,1,2,3)
What are interventions for the Post- Impact phase of a disaster?
Following disaster needs: stress debriefing, mental health services, distribution of emergency supplies (food, water, medication)
Recovery: stabilization; return to normal status
Evaluation: learn from the past; prepare for the future
What are the types of disasters?
- Natural: earthquakes, floods, hurricanes
- Terrorism: criminal acts against civilians to cause harm or death to get what the want (gov to do or abstain from something)
- Accidental: not deliberate (truck with chemical on the highway spills over)
What is the Bioterrorism event Anthrax?
- from cattle and sheep
- transmitted by: direct contact with spores, inhalation, ingestion of undercooked meat of infected
- S&S: fever, fatigue, body aches, cough, chest pain, nausea, bloody diarrhea
What is the Bioterrorism event Botulism?
- from soil and contaminated food
- transmitted by: food ingestion of toxin (infant = soil ingestion), wound infection
- S&S: difficulty swallowing, speaking, double or blurred vision, dilated pupils, constipation (infant botulism), descending flaccid paralysis
What is the Bioterrorism event Plague?
- from rodents and fleas
- transmitted by: pneumonic, bubonic (flea bite), septicemic (multiplication of bacteria in blood)
- S&S:
- Pneumonic: respiratory shock
- Bubonic: tender, swollen lymph glands (buboes)
- Septicemic: bacteremia, sepsis
Treat with antibiotics
What is the Bioterrorism event Smallpox?
- from infected bodily fluids
- transmitted by: person or aerosol.
- S&S: influenza-like, high fever, body aches, early rash, raised bumps (most contagious)
What is the Bioterrorism event Tularemia?
- rabbit fever
- transmitted by: cutaneous, inhalation, ingestion
- S&S: Fever, chills, body aches, dry cough, joint pain, ulcers on skin and mouth
What is the Bioterrorism event Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers?
- ebola, marburg, etc.
- transmitted by: field rodents, arthropod ticks
- Person-to-person
- S&S: high fever, bloody diarrhea, mucous membrane hemorrhage, shock, circulatory collapse
How do you detect a Bioterrorism event?
early detection = difficult
First detection may come from routine surveillance.
Clues of a bioterrorism attack:
- Single case of uncommon agent
- high mortality with a common disease
- atypical disease transmission
- unusual pattern of death/illness
What are the responsibilities of a nurse in disasters and management?
- Clinical assessment and triage
- Providing health education
- Point-of-distribution plans (food, water, medicine)
- Documentation in a disaster
What are the classification of bioterrorism agents?
- Category A: greatest public risk because they spread easily, high mortality, require special training response
Anthrax, Botulism, Plague, Smallpox, Tularemia, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers - Category B: moderately easy to spread, moderate morbidity/mortality
Typhus. Brucellosis, Salmonella, E.coli - Category C: emerging pathogens that the general public lacks immunity, for the future and have potential for high morbidity/mortality
Nipah virus, SARS and corona viruses, influenza
What is root cause analysis?
A process for understanding and solving a problem with the goal of determining what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent its recurrence
What are the standards of practice of an occupational nurse?
- ADPIE
- Resource management
- Enhance professional growth
- Collaboration with the client
- Research
- Uses an ethical framework
What are the roles and responsibilities of the occupational health nurse?
- Case manager, Educator, Consultant
- Counseling and crisis management, risk reduction, legal compliance, workplace hazard detection
What are the OHN competency levels?
Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert
What are the levels of OHN practice?
- individual/family
- community
- system
What is the novice OHN competency level?
A beginner with no experience in the situations in which they are expected to perform
Lacks confidence to demonstrate safe practice and needs cues
What is the advanced beginner OHN competency level?
Demonstrates acceptable performance because the nurse has had prior experience in actual situation
Skillful in parts of the practice area
What is the Competent OHN competency level?
A confident nurse and a master with an ability to cope with specific situations
What is the proficient OHN competency level?
A nurse with the ability to perceive client situations based on experience, with focus on relevant based aspects of the situation.
The nurse can predict expected events in certain situations and recognized that protocols must be altered at times to meet the needs of the client
What is the expert OHN competency level?
A nurse having extensive experience with a broad knowledge base that enables one to grasp quickly and initiate action
Leadership in policy-making, function in upper executive roles
What are some work-related and environmental hazards?
- Biological: infectious agents, poisonous plants, insects, snakes
- Chemical: drug and toxins, aerosols, cleaning solutions
- Physical: electric and magnetic fields, UV radiation, falls, fires
- Psychosocial: sexual harassment, stress, violence, bodily exertion
What are the types of occupational injuries and illnesses?
- Sprains, strains, tears
- Cuts, lacerations, punctures
- Bruises, contusions
- Fractures
- Multiple traumatic injuries
- Burns
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Amputations
- Tendonitis
What occupational injury has the highest incidence rate?
sprains, strains, and tears