3 domains of evaluating evidence Correct Answers quality,
quantity, consistency
Approaches to implementing EBP Correct Answers -know
research and current evidence
- ability to interpret meaning
- individual professionals' characteristics
- level of support of managers
- philosophy or practice environment
- availability of resources
- practice characteristics
- links to outside supports
- political constraints
lack of relevant research
Assessment of environmental health Correct Answers assessing
risks in vulnerable populations (children, pregnant women)
Assessment role for nurse in environmental health: Correct
Answers Includes risk assessment
Benefits of public health Correct Answers improved safety and
adequacy of food supplies, provision of safe water, sewage
disposal, personal behavior changes
Community based nursing practice focus Correct Answers
"illness care" of individuals and families across the life span
,Community Based Nursing Practice Goal Correct Answers
manage acute and chronic conditions
community-oriented focus Correct Answers "health care" of
individuals, families, and groups in community
Community-oriented goal Correct Answers prevent disease and
disability
Culturally competent nursing interventions Correct Answers
preservation, accommodation, repatterning, brokering
Demographics affecting health care Correct Answers aging,
life expectancy, health policy reform, ethnicity and health
disparities
Does the public health care system overlap with primary care?
Correct Answers Yes
Ethical Dilemma Correct Answers moral problems where you
can find morally justified reasons for both taking/not taking
action
Ethical Issue Correct Answers Moral challenges facing all
health care professionals
Ethical principles for ethical decision making Correct Answers
problem solving processes, provide guides for making sound
ethical decision, remember we each make our own decision
, Evaluation of environmental health Correct Answers do an
intervention and go back to look at the results
Example of public healthcare system mandate Correct Answers
immunization mandate for public school children
Factors affecting resource allocation in health care Correct
Answers Uninsured, low socioeconomic, access to health
services, rationing health care
Factors for providing healthcare Correct Answers Financial,
language barriers, difference in backgrounds, providers lack of
knowledge about high risk diseases in specific groups,
traditional healing/folk health care practices that may be
unfamiliar to US providers
Factors influencing healthcare costs Correct Answers
Demographics, technology and intensity, Chronic illness
Factors related to better health Correct Answers Lifestyle,
environmental factors, human biology, healthcare system
Federal Health agencies Correct Answers US Dept of Health
and Human Services
CDC
NIH
NINR
Medicare, Medicaid
Federal Health System Correct Answers US dept of health and
human services