NSG 3480 - Community Health Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers
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NSG 3480 - Community Health Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Answers
What is the primary prevention that the occupational health nurse is involved in? - Ans:-An
occupational health nurses main job is to prevent injury and illness before the occur, this is done by
providing safety measures such as ...
Define Community Health - Ans:✔✔-community health extends the realm of public health to include
organized health efforts at the community level through both government and private efforts.
Define Primary Prevention - Ans:✔✔-primary prevention relates to activities, directed at preventing a
problem before it occurs by altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible individuals.
Primary prevention consists of two elements: general health, promotion and specific protection.
Define secondary prevention - Ans:✔✔-secondary prevention refers to early detection and prompt
intervention during the period of early disease pathogenesis. Secondary prevention is implemented after
a problem has begun, but before signs and symptoms appear, and targets those populations that have
risk factors
Define tertiary prevention - Ans:✔✔-tertiary prevention targets populations that have experienced
disease or injury, and focuses on limitation of disability and rehabilitation. Aims of tertiary prevention
are to keep health problems from getting worse, to reduce the effects of disease and injury, and to
restore individuals to their optimal level of functioning.
Define thinking upstream - Ans:✔✔-the concepts of prevention and population - focused care figure
prominently into a conceptual orientation to nursing practice, referred to as thinking upstream.
Define Health related quality of life - Ans:✔✔-this concept of health includes aspects of physical and
mental health and their determinants and measures functional status, participation, and well-being.
HRQOL expand the definition of health — beyond simply opposing the negative concepts of disease and
death — by integrating, mental and physical health concepts.
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