Exam 2 Material Flashcards
Florence Nightingale
- Crimea - prevention, biostatistics
- Personal hygiene - decreased mortality rate
- District nursing
- Notes on nursing
- First nurse theorist
Lillian Wald
- The house on Henry Street - 1893
- Settlement house
- Moved into the community
- Practice - health, education, advocacy
- School nursing - 1902
- Metropolitan Life - VNS
- The Children’s Bureau
- Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
Mary Breckenridge
- First American nurse midwife
- Rode horseback and delivered over 1000 babies in rural Kentucky
- Founded The Frontier Nursing Service to provide isolated families with healthcare
- No maternal deaths due to labor despite the fact these women lived in the Appalachian mountains and the nurse midwives delivered those women in their own homes
- If you delivered in the hospital at that time, maternal mortality was about 50 per 1000 women
WIC
- 1974
- Women, Infants, and Children
- Supplemental food for low-income
- Children up to age 5
- Nutrition risk
Medicare
Over 65 and other diagnoses/disabilities
Provides healthcare for free for part A
Other supplemental insurances or add-ons
A - hosptital
B - doctors visits
C - vision/dental
D - pharmacology
Medicaid
Income based
Children under 19
Epidemiological Triangle
Host, agent, evnironment
Want to break the agent-host interaction
Morbidity rates
Illness rates
Incidence and prevalence
Mortality rates
Death rates
Crude death rates
Cause specific death rate
Infant mortaility rate (IMR)
Incidence
New cases
Prevalence
Total number of cases
Prevalence Pot
The relationship between incidince and prevalence
Leave the pot from recovery or death
Attack rate, new diseases in an outbreak
Endemic
Expected amount of cases
Epidemic
Exceeded number of cases in a specific location
Pandemic
Worldwide epidemic
