Nur 443 F18 Exam 2 study guide.docx

Nur 443 – Fall 2018 - Study Guide Exam 2 Questions will come from the assigned reading, lecture and powerpoint slides, assignments, and web resources. The exam will have several application questions that do not do not ask you to recall facts, but instead place you in the role of the nurse making decisions. Epi/ Biostatistics – Epidemiology: the study of the distribution and determinants of health events in human populations  The basic science of public health  Used to control health problems  Employs statistical tools and methods to quantify the distribution and determinants in groups of people rather than individuals  Uses: o Study history of health: the rise and fall of diseases (leukemia rates: Japan) o Diagnose the health of community: population or community assessment (asthma: new bedford) o Study health services (legislation: helmets, seatbelts) o Estimate individual behavioral decision-making-risks and chances of avoiding them (smoking) o Identify syndromes (legionnaires, SARS) o Completing the clinical picture and natural history of disease (cardiovascular) o Determining causation: genetic, behavior, environment (ETOH, Autism)  Dr. John Snow (): a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology, and anesthesiology o Cholera epidemics of 1848 and 1853 o Systemic plotting of disease outbreak: people, water, sources of exposure o Made hypotheses about disease and its spread, transmission and control o All of the people near the wall were getting sick and he wanted to address it o He took the handle off the well pump and told people to get water elsewhere stages of disease  Prepathogenesis period: need health promotion and specific protection  Early pathogenesis: need early diagnosis and prompt treatment  Discernable early disease: early diagnosis and prompt treatment  Advanced disease: need disability limitation  Convalescence: need rehabilitation  Death, disability, chronic state, recovery morbidity mortality epidemic: a disease occurrence that clearly exceeds normal or expected frequency in a community or region pandemic: an epidemic that reaches worldwide distribution endemic: continuing presence of a disease or infectious agent in a given georgraphic area This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :03:33 GMT -05:00