NURS 317: FINAL BUT LIKE ONLY HALF OF IT REFER TO NURS 317 MIDTERM FOR REST :) QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

NURS 317: FINAL BUT LIKE ONLY HALF OF IT REFER TO NURS 317 MIDTERM FOR RE ST :) QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS communicable disease - Correct Answer ✔✔ - specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission to a susceptible host - decreased morbidity and mortality bc of vaccines and improvement of nutrition and sanitation and living conditions - John snow and cholera street pump - while we are at a prevention, control , and early detection response lots of people die still mainly in resource poor countries (lots from acute diarrheal deaths) CD classification - Correct Answer ✔✔ - clinical: diarrheal, respiratory, CNS, cardiovascular, sepsis microbiological: bacterial , fungal, viral, parisitic, prion means of transmission: contact, food or water borne, airborne, vector, perinatal reservoirs: human, animal, soil, water public health classifications: STBBI's, respiratory, enteric borne or food borne or water borne, vaccine preventable Antimicrobial Resistance - Correct Answer ✔✔ - organisms change in a way that reduces or eliminates natural phenomenon intrinsic: naturally resistant acquired: after being exposed is resistant Why report CD's - Correct Answer ✔✔ - reduce the prevalence it is shared responsibility (local public health departments have the primary responsibility) notifiable disease provincial and territorial and national: dictate w hich diseases must be reportable and then they also must report them and submit data annually PHAC -> WHO local: active surveillance, infection control nurses - CHN must monitor and report, education, HP, research, policy four host factors that influe nce the spread of disease - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 1. resistance: the ability of the host to WITHSTAND infection 2. immunity: a resistance to an infectious agent 3. community immunity: resistance of group of people 4. infectiousness: a measure of the pote ntial ability of an infected host to transmit the infection to other hosts Minnesota health wheel - Correct Answer ✔✔ - type of information you can use in surveillance - Correct Answer ✔✔ - case definition, contact definition, contract tracing, mode of transmission, contact identification, active and passive surveillance case -finding: locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them to resources delegated functions - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated functions also include any direct care tasks a registered professional nu rse entrusts to other appropriate personnel to perform innate vs acquired immunity - Correct Answer ✔✔ - innate = non -specific and involves protective mechanisms already present in the body at birth to facilitate immunity (coughing, sneezing, muscous mem branes) acquired = specific, mechanisms for immunologic memory - active: protection produced by person's own immune response (natural disease or vaccine) - passive: transfer of antibodies produced by one human to another (temporary, breast feeding, plac enta) anti-vax movement - Correct Answer ✔✔ - - comes from Dr. Paul Wakefields that showed link between MMR vaccine and autism Local vaccine reactions - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Pain, swelling, redness at site of injection; usually mild, generalized hives Systemic vaccine reactions - Correct Answer ✔✔ - fever malaise myalgias headache loss of appetite