Primary Prevention
o Vaccinations
o Altering Risky Behaviors
o Banning substances
o Legislation and Enforcement
o Safety and healthy practices
Secondary Prevention
o Screening to identify diseases in the earliest stages
o Regular BP testing
o Mammogram
o Daily low dose aspirin (heart attack prevention)
o "Preclinical" stage
Tertiary Prevention
CHRONIC
o Preventing complications of disease that is already established
o Post-stroke rehabilitation
o BS lowering medications for DM
o PT for back injury
Safe Haven Law
o 30 days and packet of information
o Unharmed infants can be left at a designated Safe Haven location:
§ Staffed fire stations
§ Staffed police stations - includes campus police
§ Hospitals
§ Emergency care facilities
o Mothers don't have to give their name
o Mother receives a packet of information
o Police will NOT be called
o The baby will get medical care and eligible for adoption
o Friends or family members can offer the baby
o Prevents infants from being abandoned or killed by mothers
Family Education
o PRIMARY PREVENTION
o Evidence-based comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention and parenting skills
system reinforced with infant care simulation
o World's most advanced infant simulator to teach early childhood, parenting, infant
health lessons, and sex education. Aids meaning and accountability with wireless
programming to track and report on caregiver behaviors.
Mandated Reporting
o Nurses in most states are mandated reporters - child abuse and neglect, medical
neglect of children and the elderly abuse in the community or in nursing homes,
reporting law, and domestic violence.
, o Core elements are generally the same from state-to-state
o Used to describe the legislative requirement imposed on selected classes of people to
report suspected cases of child abuse and neglect, elder abuse and 'notifiable conduct'
by another practitioner to government authorities.
T/F: do risk factors cause violence.
FASLE - risk factors does not mean that a person will always experience violence,
victims are never responsible for the harm inflicted upon them
Risk factor characteristics
increases the likelihood of a person becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence
Protective factors characteristics
decreases the likelihood of a person becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence
because it provides butter against risk
Behaviors of abuser
o Abusers: jealous, controlling
o Personality disorder
§ Conflicts, arguments, and break-ups
§ Strong sensitivity to abandonment, intense fear of being abandoned by loved ones
and attempts to avoid real or abandonment
o Cycle of violence: tension-building, battering, apologetic (learned behavior)
o Control finances and isolation
o Alcohol and drugs
o Blaming the victim
o Cut the victim off from other support systems (family and friends)
o Disproportionately affects those in Poverty
Order of Protection
o An order of protection is a court order available to IL families or household members
prohibiting an abuser from certain activities and ordering the abuser to take certain
actions
o Kristin - Zoom
o Examples
§ Alcohol Use - can't come home drunk, can't drink alcohol Infront of you
§ Can still live in the house with you
§ Biggest challenge is not reporting, violated but nothing is done about it
Who is most at risk to get TB
HIV infected people
Most accurate way to test for active TB
Speutum
guideline:
- 3 samples on 3 different days
Transmission of TB
Droplet nuclei
coughing, sneezing, speaking, singing
Have to be actice
High risk groups for TB
o HIV patients
o Low-income