Public Health Flashcards
Explain evaluate nursing role
Evaluate how your interventions did by checking the rates.
Also look into research involvement
Explain assessment nursing role
Look at the
- community data and trends
- epidemiology of things
- population growth to plan services
- environmental programs .
Explain diagnosing nursing role
Identify the priorities and apply information to advocate for the change and look for new issues to diagnose
What do state health departments do in relation to the federal government?
Carry out laws of federal government
- medicaid, medicare
- CHIPS
What do local health departments do?
Who do they have to work with?
Carry out state laws & policies and provide direct care,
Work with the state health department.
federal/state level nursing careers jobs is to do what?
What programs are they involved in?
consult people and lead programs
- need a license LLC
FDA, CDC, Indian health services, DHHS, NIH, HRSA, Department of Veterans affairs, SAMSHA, etc
Non-civilian public health nursing careers examples?
Army, navy, marines, Air Force, coast guard
NOAA, US public health services commissioned corps
When did school nursing begin?
Who did this include?
After the expansion of school nurse roles, what are they key roles?
1800 by Lina Rodgers in New York
students from birth through 21 as well as their family bc you work with them too
communicate with interdisciplinary school health team and with teachers and administration
What pieces of health do school nurses take care of?
Do they help teachers too?
Vision, hearing, and BP screenings
Check weight, height, teeth, and scoliosis
TB screening
Immunizations
Yes they help teachers.
What education are nurses responsible for specifically?
Sex education and parents can come look at the curriculum
Who cares for special needs students?
What barriers do school nurses identify?
school nurses
health related barriers
Degree for school nurses
Can LPN or LVN do this?
Minimum of bachelors and will need ongoing education and may need masters
They can do it under RN supervision
Cans school nurse practitioners work ?
Yes they just have extra education
What does a nurse being public health department based mean?
They’ll spend a portion of day at school but then go out in community.
What do nurses need to provide and activate for those students with chronic conditions?
Individualized health plans
- school and state forms to fill out
What do school nurses need to prevent?
And how do they do this?
illness or injury
- so keep track of immunizations
- apply safety measures
- provide education
- promotion with screenings
What other things to school nurses promote about lifestyle?
Nutrition, exercise, risk behaviors, abuse, and mental health
What is a school nurse is school based?
It means this nurse will stay at the school all day
Benefits/needs of school nurse?
What is pay like?
What is schedule like?
Autonomously work
Communicate well
Prioritize and collaborate
Pay is variable
Monday - Friday with weekends and holidays, and summers off
What did correctional nursing use to be like?
Very minimal or no health care
When was not providing healthcare ruled as inhumane?
Who is the largest prison provider for healthcare?
Where do nurses work on site in correctional facilities?
1976 by Supreme Court because it denied inmates their rights to 8th amendment rights
- major reforms had to be done
Correctional medical services
local jails, state or federal prisons
T/F
school nurses aren’t able to provide emergency aid
School nurses can provide med administration
false. they can provide general first aid
true they can give meds
What do school nurses teach to staff?
CPR
infection precautions
First aid
T/F
school nurses have to advise kids to tell their parents to take them to doctor
false the nurse can make an actual referrals
T/F
being a doctor is the most dangerous job in the world
What about in the prison?
false - the nurse is the most dangerous
- not dangerous prison system tho bc you have an officer with you at all times!
Education requirements for correctional nurses?
nurse practitioners?
Bachelors degree but some may need additional education with
- criminal justice, decision making, assessment and administration skills
NP’s w masters can provide primary health care
Main Job of correctional nurses>?
Restore and maintain inmate health with your skills and track their health by screening them for communicable diseases or chronic diseases and care.
Also help them find continued care and educate them on lifestyle.
Main Job of correctional nurses?
Restore and maintain inmate health with your skills and track their health by screening them for communicable diseases or chronic diseases and care.
Also help them find continued care and educate them on lifestyle.
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key functions of the public settings
Health of populations by focusing on community as whole
Make caring relationships
Apply cultural sensitivity and social awareness
Include all aspects of health and be motivated epidemiological evidence
And collaborate to get results
What type of inmate is projected to stay in prisons longer?
older sicker inmates
T/F
female prison inmates are going to decrease
What. may this cause?
false. female inmates are going to increase
We may deal with reproductive issues and chronic diseases like diabetes (bc of sitting all day in prison), HIV, STI’s, mental illness, drug abuse, and emotional issues
T/F
female prison inmates are going to decrease
What may this cause?
Chronic disease increase?
false. female inmates are going to increase
We may deal with reproductive issues and chronic diseases like diabetes (bc of sitting all day in prison), HIV, STI’s, mental illness, drug abuse, and emotional issues
diabetes, asthma, heart disease
What skills do correctional nurses need..
assessment skills?
avoiding lawsuits and issues?
patient treatment?
will things go the same in hospital?
Must be able of assess mental health
Communicate and be able to document! this stuff goes to court
Advocate for patients bc they may be treated bad
Be flexible and knowledgable bc the prison isn’t modern usually
correctional facility salary for nurses
Higher bc of it being non-desirable
extensive employee benefits and insurance packages
Traditional focus was a on illness and injury care but what are we moving to for occupational and environmental health nursing?
Working on health promotion now too
- Cessna wants to help workforce be healthy so Cessna makes more money bc workers are healthy
So they want to ensure workforce is healthy and productive
speciality focus on idenitfying what in occupation and environmental health nursing ?
physical, chemical , biologic, ergonomic, and psychosocial factors that affect health in the workplace
Occupation and environmental health nursing roles?
Consult, educate, role model
- no supervisory responsibilty
External agencies that require nurses?
provisions?
State health departments
Hospital based occupational programs
Large medical clinics
Insurance companies
provision are direct or indirect so maybe talking to directly to indirectly like on phone
Occupation health teams consist of..
Nurse Safety engineer Industrial hygienist Epidemiologist Toxicologist Occupational physician - often contracted together
Occupation health nursing requires collaboration with…
insurance, unions, counselors, lawyers, HR personally, and the community
What is concierge medicine?
Co-pay 20 bucks and get all your health needs mets
Who do occupational health nurses supervise?
Supervise care for emergencies and minor illnesses for LPN, CNA etc
T/F
occupational nurses can’t counsel workers on health risks bc that is illegal
Nurses’s follow up employee workers compensation claims
Employees returning to work are responsible for gauging their own health
false. nurse should do this
true they are in charge of claims
false. they can gauge it but occupational nurses have to do evaluate their health
Future jobs of occupational health nurses?
trends
corporate needs
at home
alternatives
collaboration
Analyze trends for health promotion, risk reduction, and health expenditures
Develop programs suited to corporate needs
Recommend in house services
Determine alternatives that are more cost effective
- ex: they don’t need exercise equipment
Collaborate with others to identify problems and propose solutions
Education requirements for occupational nursing
graduate level
T/F
stress makes pain feel worse
true - the perception of the pain is worse
Can an occupational nurse fire an employee?
No - they may “supervise” but it’s not a superior role. If the nurse feels like an employee should be fire, they talk to the actual supervisor .
List the agencies apart of Department of Health and Human services
HRSA IHS CDC NIH FDA SAMHSA ATSDR AHRQ
