NURS 361 Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers

NURS 361 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
Answers

Primary - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-prevention and education
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secondary - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-screening
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teritary - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-treatment
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What are public healths core functions? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-assessment,
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policey development and assurance
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assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-systematically collecting data on the
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population, monitoring the population's health status, making info available
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about health to the community
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Policy Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the need to provide leadership in
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developing policies that support the health of the population including the use of
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the scientific knowledge base in making decision about policy
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Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-role of PH in ensuring that essential
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community oriented health services are available (laws, clean air and water act,
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health care reinforce)
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,Who is the first epidemiologist? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Florence Nightengale
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Who is the mother of public health nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Lillian Wald
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Shattuck Report - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-established the Massachusetts sanitary
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commission to review serious health issues in Boston
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Elizabethan Poor Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Guaranteed medical care for poor,
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blind, and lame individuals, even those without family
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Metropolitan Life Insurance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Result of Wald collaboration
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Cooperative program with visiting nurse organizations that expanded availability
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of PH Nursing Services
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Social Security Act of 1935 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-*ESTABLISHED STATE AND
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LOCAL COMMUNITY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND TRAINING OF PERSONAL
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REQUIREMENTS*


Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Established the Frontier Nursing
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Service; reduced infant and maternal mortality in
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Kentucky


Public Care System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Entire population
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•Encourages self care and self management | | | | |




•Comprehensive range of services | | |

, Primary/Private Care System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•For the individual
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•First contact, continual, comprehensive and coordinated care
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•Focus on patho| |




•Access depends on coverage
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•Variety of settings (hospital, clinical, nursing home)
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•Emphasis cost containment (managed care)
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What are the 3 levels of practice? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-community (changes
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norms, awareness, practices and behaviors)
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system (changes laws and power structures)
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individual (changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors)
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surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Screening to trace trends in a population
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Disease and other health events Investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-figuring
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out the cause of the outbreak
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Outreach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-making sure people are aware of program;
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identify who qualifies
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Screening - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-identify individuals with unrecognized health
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risks factors for asymptomatic diseases in a population
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