NR 503- Epidemiology

NR-503 Epidemiology Final Cultural Awareness :Self-examination of one's own prejudices and biases toward other cultures. An in-depth exploration of one's own cultural/ethnic background. Cultural competence in nursing consists of four principles. Care is designed for the specific client. Care is based on the uniqueness of the person's culture and includes cultural norms and values. Care includes self-employment strategies to facilitate client decision making to improve health behaviors...

NR 503 Epidemiology final Kleinman explanatory Model Eliciting the patient's (explanatory) model gives the physician knowledge of the beliefs the patient holds about his illness, the personal and social meaning he attaches to his disorder, his expectations about what will happen to him and what the doctor will do, and his own therapeutic goals Cultural competence Cultural competence is defined as "a dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an individual, system or health care agency find...

NR 503 Epidemiology Midterm Questions & Answers (Graded A) 1. The population of a city on February 15, 2005, was 36,600. The city has a passive surveillance system that collects hospital and private physician reports of influenza cases every month. During the period between January 1 and April 1, 2005, 2,200 new cases of influenza occurred in the city. Of these cases, 775 persons were ill with influenza according to surveillance reports on April 1, 2005. The prevalence rate of active influenza ...

NR 503 Epidemiology final Kleinman explanatory Model Eliciting the patient's (explanatory) model gives the physician knowledge of the beliefs the patient holds about his illness, the personal and social meaning he attaches to his disorder, his expectations about what will happen to him and what the doctor will do, and his own therapeutic goals Cultural competence Cultural competence is defined as "a dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an individual, system or health care agency find...

Student Consult Chapter 2-4 Which of the following is a condition which may occur during the incubation period?  Transmission of infection The incubation period is defined as the interval from receipt of infection to the time of onset of clinical illness. Accordingly, individuals may transmit infectious agents during the incubation period as they show no signs of disease that would enable the isolation of sick individuals by quarantine. Chicken pox is a highly communicable disease. It may be ...