ATI Community Health Exam Study Guide (V1) (Latest, )

ATI Community Health Study Guide

o ADHD teaching
 Consistent daily routine and limit distractions
o Advocating for a newly approved community health clinic in an area of the
city that has fewer resources is known as distributive justice
o Alcohol abstinence medications
 Disulfiram~ used to maintain abstinence when no longer
experiencing manifestations of withdrawal
 Naltrexone
 Acamprosate
o Medications for alcohol withdrawal
 Diazepam
 Clonidine
 Carbamazepine
 Chlordiazepoxide
 Phenobarbital
 Naltrexone
o Alcohol withdrawal symptoms tend to appear 2-3 days after stopping
 Hallucinations
 Severe hypertension
 Cardiac dysrhythmias
 Delirium
 Death
o Alcohol symptoms that tend to appear 4-12 hours after stopping
 Abdominal cramps
 Vomiting
 Tremors
 Restlessness
 Inability to sleep
 TACHYCARDIA
 HYPERTENSION
 Hallucinations
 Anxiety
 Increased respirations
 Fever
 Tonic colonic seizures
 Diaphoresis
o African Indian health medications and beliefs~ seek SHAMAN for
healing of an infection
o ANTHRAX exposure
 Ciproflaxin is the treatment of choice and should be used
prophylactically

, o Asian health beliefs~ steam removes toxins from the body—
heated blanket (ying and yang theory)
o Autonomy means respecting a client’s right to choose and refuse
o Beneficence is maximizing benefits and minimizing possible harm
o Breast cancer prevention includes yearly exams beginning at 40 years old
o Calculating disease incidence and prevalence cases / population totalX
1000
o Indications of digoxin toxicity
 Hypokalemia
 Fatigue
 Weakness
 Vision changes
 GI affects
o Caregiver burden responses~ fatigue, difficulty sleeping, illness
o Care of migrant workers health problems
1) Dental disease
2) Tuberculosis
3) Chronic conditions
4) Stress and anxiety
5) Leukemia
6) Iron deficiency anemia
7) Cancer
8) Lack of parental care
o Caribbean nations health beliefs and medicine~ voodoo and
witchcraft
o Caring for a client with GONORRHEA
 Notionally notifiable disease
 Women are frequently ASYMPTOMATIC
 Yearly screening for women over 25 with risk factors
 At risk population—pregnant women—should be screening at 1 st
prenatal visit and identify and treat all partners
 Administer erythromycin to all infants following delivery
 Ceftriaxone IM or azithromycin PO
 It is the providers responsibility to report
 State notification is voluntary
 If left untreated can lead to PID and cause infertility
 Medication Ceftriaxone
o Case management nurses identify referrals that clients need, promote
interpersonal service and increase involvement, decrease cost by
improving outcomes, provide education to optimize health participation,
and advocate for services and client rights
o Case managers provide referral information, facilitate movement through
health care system, negotiate and collaborate
o Category A biological agents
 Tularemia