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Health Services - Access and quality of health services can impact health. Those without health insurance are less likely to participating in preventive care and most likely to delay medical treatment. Individual Behaviors - The majority of public health and health care interventions focus on changing individual behaviors such as substance abuse, diet, and physical activity. Positive changes in individual behavior can reduce the rates of chronic disease in this country. This includes die...

What is the lowers blood level of a drug needed to cause the intended action? - Minimum effective concentration (MEC) What is the point at which drug elimination is balanced with drug entry, resulting in a constant effective blood level of the drug? - Steady state How long a drug remains in the blood at the MEC is what? - Its duration of action What is the strength of the intended action produced at a given dose? - Potency Drugs that have a higher potency need what? - Lower doses to produc...

Knees too close together Bowleg is normal from infancy through age 2-3 years. The alignment then changes to knock-knee until about age 8 years, at which time adult alignment is attained - Knock-knee (genu valgum) Internal Tibial Torsion (twisting) common in infants, kneecaps point forward, selfcorrecting most by 1yr, 90% by age 6yrs. Internal Femoral Torsion- femur turned in, like to sit in V postion, kneecaps face each other, usually corrects by age 8yrs. - Pigeon toe or toeing in True o...

What are the two types of predictive testing? - Pre-symptomatic Pre-dispositional What does pre-symptomatic testing test for? - Huntington's Disease What does pre-dispositional testing test for? - BRCA1 gene What is an example of population-based screening? - Newborn metabolic screening What testing is used in assisted reproductive technology? - Pre-implantation testing What testing allows for early detection of fetal genetic disorders? - Prenatal testing What is used to detect gene...

Amplitude rage undetectable? - Absent variability <5 bpm - Minimal variability 6-25 bpm - moderate variability >25 bpm - marked variability Which type of variable is favorable? - Moderate What are the possible causes of absent and minimal variability? - Fetal hypoxemia and metabolic acidosis. Fetal sleep cycles, tachycardia, extreme prematurity, congenital anomalies, medications that cause CNS depression, and preexisting neurologic injury. What are possible causes of Marked variab...

When we document PERLA what cranial nerve are we testing? - CN 3 When assessing motor function what do we test? - Bilaterally when possible Hand strength (grips) Babinski Limb strength upper and lower limbs against resistance How to we test sensory function? - Pain and temperature Pain perception Touch and 2 point discrimination How do we test for cerebellar function? - Walk across room and turn heel to toe, tip-toe Romberg sign What is a chronic disease with unknown cause leading to ...

describe interprofessional team - teams ensure that care is continuous and reliable (requires leadership, good decision making, communication, and delegation) what is delegation - the transfer of responsibility to complete a task from one person to another what are the five rights of nursing delegation - right task right circumstances right person right direction/communication right supervision what is collaboration - cooperative effort among healthcare providers who work together to a...

a knowledge worker uses ______(3 Cs) when surveying as a nurse - - collaboration -coordination -critical thinking high touch vs high tech - we want to physically help patients with total care and not be on computers all the time what is competency - The behavior and performance a student is expected to demonstrate (an expected measurable level for nursing performance that integrates knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgments based on established scientific knowledge and expectations fo...