NR442 Final Questions AND Correct Answers
Acquired Immunity - ✔✔Develops through actual exposure to
the infectious agent.
Natural:
Active - Natural contact and infection with the antigen
Passive - Natural contact with antibody transplacentally or
through colostrum and breast milk
Artificial:
Active - Inoculation of antigen
Passive - Inoculation of antibody or antitoxin
Analytic Epidemiology - ✔✔Investigation of the causes of
disease, or etiology
Examine complex relationships among the many determinants
of disease
Category A Biological Agents - ✔✔Highest priority agents.
Pose risk to national security.
Easily transmitted.
Have high mortality rates.
Smallpox, botulism, anthrax, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic
fevers (ebola), and plague
,Category B Biological Agents - ✔✔Moderaty easy to
disseminate
High morbidity rates
Low mortality rates
Typhus fever, ricin toxin, diarrheagenic E coli, and West Nile
Virus.
Category C Biological Agents - ✔✔Compromising emerging
pathogens that can be engineered for mass dissemination
Easy to produce
Have high potential for high morbidity and mortality rates.
Hantavirus, influenza virus, TB, and rabies virus.
Communicable Diseases - ✔✔Responsible for the deaths of
millions annually, worldwide.
Leading cause of death: respiratory infections.
Transmission is airborne, foodborne, food intoxication,
waterborne, vector-borne, and direct contact.
Community Definition - ✔✔A collection of people who
interact with one another and whose common interests or
characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity of belonging
3 defining factors: people, place, interaction (common
characteristics, interests, goals)
, Community Diagnosis - ✔✔Focused on an aggregate, requires
multidisciplinary and multiple determinant interventions, and
outcomes are usually long term
Community Health Nurse - ✔✔Organized health efforts at the
community level through both government and private efforts
Population based nursing
Prevention the progression of disease at the earliest
period/phase feasible using the appropriate level(s) of
prevention
Should be aware of health patters/indicators
Identifies areas for further investigation and intervention
Community Health Nurse Goals - ✔✔Promote, preserve, and
maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health
services to individuals, families, and groups in order to
influence "community health".
Community Responses to a Disaster - ✔✔Heroic Phase
Honeymoon Phase
Disillusionment Phase
Reconstruction Phase
Community-Based Nursing - ✔✔"Application of the nursing
process in caring for individuals, families and groups where
Acquired Immunity - ✔✔Develops through actual exposure to
the infectious agent.
Natural:
Active - Natural contact and infection with the antigen
Passive - Natural contact with antibody transplacentally or
through colostrum and breast milk
Artificial:
Active - Inoculation of antigen
Passive - Inoculation of antibody or antitoxin
Analytic Epidemiology - ✔✔Investigation of the causes of
disease, or etiology
Examine complex relationships among the many determinants
of disease
Category A Biological Agents - ✔✔Highest priority agents.
Pose risk to national security.
Easily transmitted.
Have high mortality rates.
Smallpox, botulism, anthrax, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic
fevers (ebola), and plague
,Category B Biological Agents - ✔✔Moderaty easy to
disseminate
High morbidity rates
Low mortality rates
Typhus fever, ricin toxin, diarrheagenic E coli, and West Nile
Virus.
Category C Biological Agents - ✔✔Compromising emerging
pathogens that can be engineered for mass dissemination
Easy to produce
Have high potential for high morbidity and mortality rates.
Hantavirus, influenza virus, TB, and rabies virus.
Communicable Diseases - ✔✔Responsible for the deaths of
millions annually, worldwide.
Leading cause of death: respiratory infections.
Transmission is airborne, foodborne, food intoxication,
waterborne, vector-borne, and direct contact.
Community Definition - ✔✔A collection of people who
interact with one another and whose common interests or
characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity of belonging
3 defining factors: people, place, interaction (common
characteristics, interests, goals)
, Community Diagnosis - ✔✔Focused on an aggregate, requires
multidisciplinary and multiple determinant interventions, and
outcomes are usually long term
Community Health Nurse - ✔✔Organized health efforts at the
community level through both government and private efforts
Population based nursing
Prevention the progression of disease at the earliest
period/phase feasible using the appropriate level(s) of
prevention
Should be aware of health patters/indicators
Identifies areas for further investigation and intervention
Community Health Nurse Goals - ✔✔Promote, preserve, and
maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health
services to individuals, families, and groups in order to
influence "community health".
Community Responses to a Disaster - ✔✔Heroic Phase
Honeymoon Phase
Disillusionment Phase
Reconstruction Phase
Community-Based Nursing - ✔✔"Application of the nursing
process in caring for individuals, families and groups where
