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systematics - Correct Answer an analytical approach to understanding the diversity and evolutionary relationships of an organism, both present day and extinct biodiversity - Correct Answer variety of organisms and the ecosystems they form taxonomy - Correct Answer ordered division of organisms into categories based on a set of characteristics used to assess similarities and differences classification - Correct Answer grouping organisms by their similarites or relationships phylogeny ...

radiometric dating - Correct Answer general approach used to determine the age of specimens using the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes radiocarbon dating - Correct Answer a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14 potassium-40 dating - Correct Answer radiometric dating method often used in the assessment of volcanic intrusions in sedimentary layers. It is based on measurement of the product of the radioactive...

radiometric dating - Correct Answer general approach used to determine the age of specimens using the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes radiocarbon dating - Correct Answer a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14 potassium-40 dating - Correct Answer radiometric dating method often used in the assessment of volcanic intrusions in sedimentary layers. It is based on measurement of the product of the radioactive...

radiometric dating - Correct Answer general approach used to determine the age of specimens using the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes radiocarbon dating - Correct Answer a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14 potassium-40 dating - Correct Answer radiometric dating method often used in the assessment of volcanic intrusions in sedimentary layers. It is based on measurement of the product of the radioactive...

1. A public health agency is planning to implement the electronic health record. Which of the following is a benefit of this choice? a. Facilitation of interprofessional care b. Improved client compliance with medical regimens c. Cost savings to the agency d. Compliance with JCAHO standards - Correct Answer ANS: A The electronic medical record facilitates interprofessional care in chronic disease management and coordination of referrals; 24-hour availability of records with downloaded labor...

Which of the following is the best brief definition of community? a) A geographic area or political division under common leadership b) A group sharing a common bond such as a profession or occupation c) A group working together to confront a common problem d) A social group with common goals within a geographic area - Correct Answer D According to WHO, "A community is a social group determined by geographic boundaries and/or common values and interests. Its members know and inte...

Which of the following is the best brief definition of community? a) A geographic area or political division under common leadership b) A group sharing a common bond such as a profession or occupation c) A group working together to confront a common problem d) A social group with common goals within a geographic area - Correct Answer D According to WHO, "A community is a social group determined by geographic boundaries and/or common values and interests. Its members know and inte...

Blueprint for Action for Community Health Nursing in Canada - Correct Answer - 2011 - Framework and reference for the development of CHN practice in Canada Community-Based Approach - Correct Answer Nursing care provided wherever they live, work, play and learn. Wise Practices - Correct Answer Incorporate traditional knowledge, cosmology and lifeways to guide health practices with Indigenous communities. Public Health Nurse - Correct Answer Promotes, protects and preserves the health of...

Epidemiologic triangle - Correct Answer infectious agent susceptible host supportive environment Active surveillance - Correct Answer Collection of data using * screening tools * interviews * reporting to identify disease in community when individuals present with suggestive symptoms Active surveillance - Correct Answer Collection of data using * screening tools * interviews * reporting to identify disease in community when individuals present with suggestive symptoms Passive ...

community health nurse (CHN) - Correct Answer nurses who work in the community public health nurse (PHN) - Correct Answer whose practice focuses on promoting, protecting, and preserving the health of the populations home health nurse (HHN) - Correct Answer whose practice focuses on prevention, health restoration, health maintenance, or palliative care community-oriented nursing - Correct Answer nursing that focuses on the care of either the whole community or a population of individuals...

The three components of the Intervention Wheel are: a. communities, systems, and individuals/families. b. interventions, color wedges, and levels of practice. c. population base, levels of practice, and public health interventions. d. populations at risk, populations of interest, and levels of practice. - Correct Answer ANS: C The components of the Intervention Wheel include population base, three levels of practice, and 17 public health interventions. The population-based component inclu...

What is the focus of the definition of health in the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion? a. Health is an outcome. b. Enjoying life is more important than the need to maintain one's health. c. Health is incorporated into one's activities of daily living. d. Health is a way to maintain a stable environment. - Correct Answer ANS: C The Ottawa Charter definition of health is: "to reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify...

ACTS - Correct Answer (assess, collaborate, train, and survey) with clients and client groups. Assess the client's main concern (can be a person, family or community group); then assess learning needs and baseline level of knowledge, how they prefer to learn, their core values, and potential influential language, cultural, social or physical influences. Affective Domain - Correct Answer This domain includes changes in attitudes and the development of values for learning to take place, nurses...

1. In 1988, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report on the future of public health and its mission that defined public health as: a. what public-private partnerships do to treat vulnerable populations. b. what the government does to ensure that vital programs are in place. c. what the U.S. Public Health Service does to prevent disease, promote health, and deliver services. d. what society does collectively to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy. - Correct Answer A...

Which statement about the Intervention Wheel is true? a. It provides a graphic illustration of population-based public health practice. b. It describes in detail the components of public health nursing. c. It demonstrates the practice of community health nurses for policy and lawmakers. d. It is a framework used by all health departments in the United States. - Correct Answer ANS: A The Intervention Wheel provides a graphic illustration that gives public health nurses (PHNs) a means to ...

community-based nursing - Correct Answers setting-specific practice in which care is provided for "sick" individuals and families where they live, work, and go to school. The emphasis of practice is acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous services. Nurses who deliver community-based care are generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric-mental health nursing. Community-oriented nursing - Correct Answers The Goa...

Epidemiology - Correct Answer The pattern of health events in populations and the determinants or the factors that influence those patterns Descriptive Epidemiology - Correct Answer Viewing health outcomes in a what, where, when, and who perspective Analytical Epidemiology - Correct Answer Looks at the etiology of the disease and deals with the determinants of health and disease First Person to use ideas of Epidemiology - Correct Answer Hippocrates Florence Nightingale's contributio...

What is an example of Tertiary prevention? - Correct Answers Intervention that aims to interrupt the course of disease The CHN who considers the DOH & other relevant economic, sociopolitical & environmental factors that might affects health is using which approaches? - Correct Answers Macroscopic focus & Upstream thinking Climate change is an example of which of the following? - Correct Answers An international health issue What aims to reduce health inequities among population groups t...

1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing? A. To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of health and prevention of B. To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health needs C. To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will increase their level of health D. To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing particularly...

The Cell - Correct Answer Basic unit of life Genes and Gene-Environment Interaction - Correct Answer Epigenetics and disease Mechanisms of Self-Defense - Correct Answer Immunity Cellular proliferation: Cancer - Correct Answer Pathophysiologic altertaions: organs and systems The Neurologic System - Correct Answer *brain, spinal cord, nerves -controls all of the body's essential functions (thought, movement, senses, reflexes, language, reasoning, balancing, breathing, heart rate, tem...