Community Health Nursing Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for Community Health Nursing review.

A severe, potentially deadly, mosquito-borne viral illness.

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Dengue Virus

Etiologic Agent of Dengue

A diagnostic test for dengue fever, involving inflating a blood pressure cuff to a point between systolic and diastolic pressure, observing for petechiae.

Tourniquet Test (Rumpel-Leede Test)

Also called the Anti-Rabies Act of 2007; mandated the creation of a National Rabies Prevention and Control Program (NRPCP).

Republic Act No. 9852

A fatal viral disease transmitted through the saliva of infected animals.

Rabies

End human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030.

Anti-Rabies Act of 2007 Goal

Provides nutritional food, increases IQ, reduces blood loss, reduces infant's exposure to infection.

Benefits of Breastfeeding

Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months, complemented at 6 months with appropriate foods, extend breastfeeding up to 2 years.

Infant and Young Child Feeding Key Messages

Reduces the risk of ovarian and breast cancers and osteoporosis.

Benefits of Breastfeeding to Mother

Should be Timely, Adequate, Safe, and Properly fed.

Complementary Foods

Breastfeed often as the baby wants, day and night. Use both breasts alternately at each feeding.

Breastfeeding

Established in 1976 to ensure that infants/children and mothers have access to recommended vaccines.

Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)

Airborne

Measles Transmission

Appears on the 3rd to 4th day with Measles.

Morbilliform rash

Essential health care made universally accessible.

Primary Health Care

Legal basis signed by the late President Marcos on October 19, 1979, making Primary Health Care possible

LOI 949

4 A's; Accessibility, Availability, Affordability and Acceptability of health services.

Principles of Primary Healthcare

Health for All Filipinos and Health in the hands of the people by the Year 2020

Goal of the Primary Health Care

In partnership with the people, provide equity, access and quality health care especially to the marginalized.

Mission of the Primary Healthcare

Absence of a dentist in the community.

Health Resource Problem

Estimating the proportion of the population affected by a problem.

Magnitude of the Problem

Inability to recognize the existence of the problem.

Barriers to goal setting

Identifies the family health-seeking behavior.

Nursing Process

Maternal and Child Care.

Elements of Primary Health Care

Herbal medicine recommended as anti-helminthic.

Niyog-niyogan

Recommended by the DOH to lower blood pressure.

Bawang

An example of a secondary health facility.

District Hospital

Legal Basis of Alternative Health care also known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act

RA 8423

Ensure data reported are useful and accurate and disseminated in a timely, easy and use fashion.

FHSIS Objectives

Fundamental block: Reporting forms.

FHSIS System

Part of the FHSIS that uses Monthly field health service activity report.

Output report

Has a recommended frequency in tallying activities and services daily.

Tally Sheet

Will be useful to monitor clients registered in long-term regimen such as the Multi Drug Therapy.

Target/Client list

Weight loss, fever, chronic cough, weakness.

Tuberculosis Symptoms

Advise this Vitamin to your patient taking anti TB drugs, especially INH.

Vitamin B6

Enhanced by poverty, drug resistance, and migration.

Tuberculosis

Poor economic status, working in asbestos factory, low resistance Host.

Predisposing factors for tuberculosis

Peripheral neuropathy.

Isoniazid Side Effects

Law mandates reporting of notifiable diseases.

RA 3573

Factor to be considered to give occupational health privileges is the type of occupation.

Occupational Health Act (R.A. 1054)

Declared a target for eradication in the Philippines through Presidential Proclamation No. 4.

Measles

Professions that can sign the birth certificate.

Municipal health officer

Amended R.A 3573 requiring the registry of births within 30 days.

PD 651

Focuses on preventive, not curative, services.

Public Health Nursing Prominent Feature

When the nurse determines whether resources were maximized in implementing Ligtas Tigdas.

Efficiency

Where a new BSN graduate apply if she wants to become a Public Health Nurse.

Rural Health Unit

Chairman of the Municipal Health Board.

Mayor

Biological used in the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) that shouldn't be stored in the freezer.

DPT

Biological used in Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) that should be stored in the freezer.

Measles vaccine

To protect, promote and preserve the health of the public.

Goal of CHN

To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health needs.

Primary Goal of Community Health Nursing

For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity.

C.E.Winslow Public Health Goal

Health workers are able to provide care based on identified health needs of the people.

Primary Health Care Total Approach

To mobilize the people to resolve community health problems.

Community Organizing Primary Goal

To improve nursing care.

Professional nurse research

The use of another person's ideas or wordings without giving appropriate credit results from inaccurate or incomplete attribution of materials to its resources.

Plagiarism

Determines the degree of agreement and disagreement.

Likert Scale

Consistency or the ability to yield the same response upon its repeated administration.

Reliability

The ability of the instrument to detect fine differences among the subjects being studied.

Sensitivity

Also known as the “Philippine Nursing Act of 2002”.

RA 9173

Gains license by Passing the board exams and taking the oath of professionals.

Licensed Nurse

May apply for re-issuance of his/her license based on certain conditions stipulated in RA 9173.

Revoked Nurse License

The Board can investigate violations of the nursing law and code of ethics.

Board of Nursing Quasi-Judicial Power

When The injury caused becomes the proof of the negligent act

Res ipsa loquitur

Ensuring that there is an informed consent on the part of the patient before a surgery is done, illustrates the bioethical principle of:

Autonomy

Needed in Pathogenesis Stage.

Tertiary Prevention

Isolation of a child with measles.

Secondary prevention

Primary prevention.

Operation Timbang

A family-nurse contact that provides the best opportunity to observe family dynamics.

Home visit

Should involve A responsible family member.

Planning a home visit

The principles that govern right and proper conducts of a person regarding life, biology and the health professions

Bioethics

To help the public understand professional conduct, expected of nurses

Nurses' code of ethics

For his or her own actions

Accountable Nursing Responsibility

Right to expect that the records about his care will be treated as confidential

Informing the patient

The principle states that a person has unconditional worth and has the capacity to determine his own destiny.

Autonomy

Based on presence of any general danger signs.

Severe Pneumonia Category

Suggests hospital referral or admission

Treatment with Severe Pneumonia

First dose of antibiotic to be given to a patient with severe pneumonia that is conscious and not vomiting.

Amoxicillin

Given before referral of a patient diagnosed with severe pneumonia to prevent low blood sugar.

Breast milk or sugar water

First dose of appropriate antibiotic, vitamin A, breastfeed or sugar water & urgent referral

Treatment of severe pneumonia includes

Acute watery diarrhea (including cholera), bloody diarrhea (dysentery), persistent diarrhea (more than 14 days)

Potentially lethal condition(s) of a child with diarrhea

Children who cannot be consoled & calmes

Potentially lethal condition(s) of a child with diarrhea includes exclusion

Pinch the skin on the child's abdomen halfway between umbilicus and the side of the abdomen

Skin pinch

Any danger signs present.

Danger Signs of dehydration

Sips of ORS on the way to hospital.

Treatment for severe dehydration

Routine assessment of nutritional status in sick children is to identify

With severe malnutrition who are at increased risk of mortality, who need urgent referral to provide active treatment, and with sub-optimal growth resulting from on-going deficits in dietary intake plus repeated episodes of infection

Visible wasting and edema of both feet.

Clinical assessment of nutrition

Severe malnutrition or severe anemia.

Classification of Nutritional status

Some palmar pallor and low weight for age.

Symptoms of children with anemia of low weight are

Assess child's feeding and counsel mother on feeding ,give vitamin A & treat with oral iron

Children are classified as