Which is an example of a nurse applying community as client?
1 Counseling a client who is having trouble managing their asthma.
2 Planning for a peer mentorship program for youth with serious mental illness.
3 Assisting parents to prepare for the birth of their first child.
4 Assessing the fall risk of an older adult couple living in subsidized housing. - ANS2 Planning
for a peer mentorship program for youth with serious mental illness.
This nursing intervention represents caring for the community as client.
A nurse examines records for flu vaccination among older adults attending an adult day health
center. The nurse is applying which step in the nursing process?
Determining vaccination rates is an example of assessment.
Data about infection with chlamydia trachomatis are obtained by the health department in order
to do which of the following? (Select all that apply. One, some, or all options may be correct.)
1 Report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
2 Follow up with individuals after they have received treatment.
3 Notify others who may have contracted the infectious disease.
4 Identify trends in the incidence of communicable diseases.
5 Plan and implement prevention and disease control - ANS1 Report to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
4 Identify trends in the incidence of communicable diseases.
5 Plan and implement prevention and disease control programs.
Local health departments are responsible for reporting data about notifiable diseases to the
CDC.
Local health departments examine trends in order to prevention, investigate, and control
communicable diseases.
, Local health departments assist with planning, implementing, and evaluating disease prevention
and control programs.
Which of the following is an example of incidence of communicable disease?
1 New diagnoses of gonorrhea in the community.
2 Number of individuals in the county with hepatitis C.
3 Sexual partners exposed to an individual infected with HIV.
4 Individuals with chlamydia who test positive when re-tested. - ANS1 New diagnoses of
gonorrhea in the community.
Individuals with a new diagnosis (known as a case) represent disease incidence.
Which of the following is an example of prevalence of communicable disease?
1 Individuals with chlamydia who test positive when re-tested.
2 Sexual partners exposed to an individual infected with HIV.
3 New diagnoses of gonorrhea in the community.
4 Number of individuals in the county with hepatitis C. - ANS4 Number of individuals in the
county with hepatitis
Individuals with an existing disease represent disease prevalence.
Infection with chlamydia trachomatis is of particular concern for which of the following reasons?
(Select all that apply. One, some, or all options may be correct.)
1 The infection is often asymptomatic, especially among females.
2 Chlamydia is the most prevalence sexually transmitted infection worldwide.
3 There is no effective treatment for the infection.
4 Untreated infection can lead to endometriosis and pelvic peritonitis. - ANS1 The infection is
often asymptomatic, especially among females.
2 Chlamydia is the most prevalence sexually transmitted infection worldwide.
4 Untreated infection can lead to endometriosis and pelvic peritonitis.
Asymptomatic individuals may not seek treatment and can transmit the infection to others.
The infection continues to be the most common STD/STI.
Untreated chlamydia infection can lead to significant disability.
Which population group has the highest rate of infection with chlamydia?
1 Older adults
2 Midlife adults
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