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WorksheetsCh 10 and 14 Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which factor may classify a person as high risk for developing hypertension?
Family history
Recurrent exercise
Malnutrition
Previous cardiovascular surgeries
Which element in the epidemiologic triangle is capable of being infected with a disease?
Agent
Environment
Change
Host
Which measure would a nurse use to determine infant mortality rate?
Total number of infant deaths in the population
Estimate of the risk for death for an infant in a given population for that year
Percent of infant deaths from a specific cause divided by the total population at risk
Number of infant deaths in the first year of life divided by the total number of live births
Which form of protection occurs when a large group of people have either been vaccinated or have had the disease?
Inherited resistance
Herd immunity
Vaccine protection
Naturally acquired active immunity
Which action would the nurse take first when developing a health education program?
Evaluating the effects of the educational program
Identifying a population-specific learning need
Designing and implementing the educational program
Identifying potential barriers to learning
For which reason is a nurse the ideal healthcare practitioner to lead in health promotion through health education?
The nurse can educate clients across all three levels of prevention.
The nurse can treat illness only after it has happened.
The nurse assumes the responsibility of the patient’s healthcare.
The nurse provides one-size-fits-all education material to patients.
To reach the desired goal of maximizing the full immunization rates for preventable communicable disease and increasing herd immunity levels, it is crucial for the nurse to:
understand the difficulties in obtaining and maintaining immunization schedules
check an individual’s immunization status at each and every visit
assume that the primary-care physician has provided all appropriate immunizations.
support parents who are reluctant to immunize their children.
Health care–acquired infections (HAIs) are those acquired during hospitalization or developed within a hospital setting. Which of these statements is true regarding HAIs?
HAIs involve patients in the surgical areas.
There are few HAIs in the hospital setting.
Hand hygiene before approaching every client is critical in the hospital setting.
Infection control practitioners are responsible for decreasing infections.
Immunity to disease through vaccination is known as:
herd immunity.
resistance.
natural immunity.
acquired immunity.
A school nurse notes that 60 children have missed days of high school because of pertussis this past year and this rate has been relatively constant for the past 5 years. The nurse plans to work with the community to increase awareness of the seriousness of this disease for children younger than 6 months of age and to raise and maintain the immunization rates, because in this community the pertussis is:
Endemic
Epidemic
Pandemic
Sporadic
How can you motivate adults to learn?
What are the skills of an effective Educator?
What are some barriers to learning?
What are some examples of Health Education that can take place in the community?
