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ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH Exam
Questions And Answers (Guaranteed A+)
What are community health nurses concerned with? - Answer✔protecting, promoting, preserving
and maintaining health, as well as preventing disease.
How should community nurses use their resources. - Answer✔Must benefit the greatest number
of citizens.
What is epidemiology? - Answer✔invenstigative study of disease trends in populations to
prevent disease and maintain health.
The agent - Answer✔animate or inanimate object that causes the disease. (bacteria, virus,
pesticide, food additive, etc.)
The host - Answer✔living being that is affected by the agent. (human or animal).
The environment - Answer✔the setting or surrounding that sustains the host (place of
transmission: daycare, body of water, country
Incidence: - Answer✔number of new cases in the population at a specific time divided by
population total X 1,000= number per 1,000
Prevalence: - Answer✔Number of existing cases in the population at a specific time divided by
population total X 1,000= number per 1,000
Mortality rate: - Answer✔number of deaths divided by population total X 1,000=number per
1,000
Attack rate: - Answer✔number of people exposed to a specific agent who develop the disease
divided by total number of people exposed.
Development of a community health program plan - Answer✔Identify the needs of community:
assessment.
plan the program
implement the program
evaluate the effectiveness of program.
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Primary disease prevention: - Answer✔focus on prevention of the initial occurence of disease or
injury. Includes nutrition counseling, family planning, smoking cessation, safety education (seat
belt helmet use), prenatal classes.
Secondary prevention: - Answer✔focus is on early detection of disease and treatment with goal
of limiting severity and adverse effects. includes: screenings (cancer, diabetes, HTN, TB lead
exposure) and treatments (STI, TB)
tertiary prevention: - Answer✔focus is on maximization of recovery after injury or illness.
Includes: exercise rehab, nutrition counseling, case management, support groups.
Interpreters - Answer✔NOT family members. Need to have health-related terminology
knowledge. Give teaching material in client's primary language.
Medicare: - Answer✔older than 65 and receiving Social Security, disability benefits for 2 years,
have ALS or kidney failure on dialysis or transplant to qualify.
Medicare part A - Answer✔hospital care, home care, limited skilled nursing care
Part B - Answer✔medical care, diagnostic services, physiotherapy.
Part C - Answer✔combo of part A and B through a private insurance.
Part D - Answer✔Prescription drug coverage.
Medicaide - Answer✔low socioeconomic status and kids. federal and stage governmental
assistance. Priority given to pregnant women, children, and those with disability.
Medicade provides: - Answer✔in and outpatient hospital care. home health. radiology. vaccines
for children. family planning. pregnancy-related care. screening. diagnosis. and treatment for
young un's.
Demographic - Answer✔Distribution, mobility, density, census data, racial distrubution
Biological Factors: - Answer✔health and disease status, genetics, race, age, gender, causes of
death.
Social factors: - Answer✔occupation, activities, marital status, education, income, crime rates,
recreation, industry.
Social Factors: - Answer✔occupation, activities, marital status, education, income, crime rates,
recreation, industry
Cultural factors: - Answer✔positions, roles, history, values, customs, norms, religion.
Why is education inportant: - Answer✔encourages clients to be independent, and involved in the
own care. families can also be involved.
What does hospice care focus on: - Answer✔enhancing the quality of life through the provision
of palliative care, support through the dying process.
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