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Life Span Flashcards

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Children have always been seen as assets in health care

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False! Only recently. Some countries only view them as future adults.

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Are female children always valued?

Are children with congenital anomalies always valued?

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Actually no for both when it comes to specific countries.

- they can be put in orphanages or killed

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Who sometimes gets better healthcare? Male or female children?

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Males

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What is sex-selective abortion and infanticide?

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When someone chooses not to have a baby based off the gender.

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Why did china change the rule of one child and thus more respect for females?

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They needed to have females to be able to continue the populations & they sometimes had to have more than 1 kid to do that

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What are some cultural practices that harsh?

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Binding females feet to be small

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Leading cause of infant death?

Highest injuries/accidents in 1-3 year olds?

others?

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Suffocation (66% out of all total deaths and what not are from this)

falls, burns, drowning (1-4)

MVA, crashes, and poisoning (from led)

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Things that happen to children nationally that cause them harm?

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Accidents
Injuries
Child maltreatment
Communicable diseases
Chronic disease
Poor nutrition and dental hygiene
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Ages of…

infant

toddlers

preschool

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birth - 1 yr

1-2yr

3-4

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Most of the US children have healthcare

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true

Most children in the US hav health care - 96.9%

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Which gender has higher rate of death from injury?

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males

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What used to occur from lead poisoning of children? How does it present now?

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Encepholpathy and death

Now, it presents as subtle changes in CNS, changed behavior, lower IQ
- 250,000 suffer

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What is child maltreatment defined as?

Examples?

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Child abuse or neglect below the age of 18
- can even be sexual

Shaken baby syndrome
Failure to thrive

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When do they suspect shakes baby syndrome?

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Retinal hemorrhage and subdural hemorrhage being present
- sometimes the external retinal symptoms don’t happen though

This occurs from actual shaking or on impact of something

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What is failure to thrive?

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Slowing of growth rate, height, and weight among infant and toddlers

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So what are examples of child maltreatment again?

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Child abuse (shaken baby syndrome, sexual abuse) 
Neglect (leading to failure thrive)
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17
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Very common communicable diseases for infants?

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Respiratory infections (RSV being common) , conjunctivitis, GI issues, and vaccine preventable diseases.

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When taking care of dental hygiene in infants, what is the the part of the mouth we are most concerned about?

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The gums because they don’t have teeth yet

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Categories of health service programs that can help infants and children?

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Preventive health programs
Health protection programs
Health promotion programs

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What are some preventative health programs for infants?

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Immunizations, parent training, quality day care, and preschool programs

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What are health protection programs ?

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Safety and injury programs for children who are facing maltreatment
- more secondary and tertiary prevention programs

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What are health promotion programs?

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Infant brain development and parent-child interactions like tummy time
Developmental screening
WICK or nutritional programs

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What are you assessing in the population?

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Their current health problems bc we want to assess what they actually need right now.

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What do we need to determine?

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Determine the resources they already have and then figure out what they need to help fix their health problems

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Why do we want to promote health with early interventions?

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Early interventions keeps them from ever being “thrown in the water” . Ww want to keep them from ever having those issues

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What education do we specifically want to give to parents or people who want to be parents?

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Family planning
Nutrition and exercise
Safety precautions
Child care skills

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What can nurses conduct?

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Immunization programs
Smoke cessation education
Preventing communicable disease educations
Child safety device education

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What is something to know about child safety devices?

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Maybe that car seats now have expiration dates.

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When do nurses have to report child abuse?

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When they even suspect it

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What is meant by nursings have to comply and report violations of environmental health standards?

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For example, Floridas having a sewage leak in the water.

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31
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Who do nurses need to advocate for?

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Everyone! But especially families and young children

- need to protect their rights

32
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T/F

Nurses don’t have a role in securing services out in the community for those in need

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false , nurses definitely do

33
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What do we need to make sure there is resource wise for children?

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Make sure there’s enough resources for safe and health environments for children

34
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Do nurses lobby? And for what?

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Yes for law changes by initiating the effort to establish change

35
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How are chronic health problems categorized?

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By severity and duration of at least 3-12 months to be a chronic health problem

36
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List common health problems in kids?

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Asthma is #1
Autism
Diabetes
Juvenile rheumatoid Arthritis 
Seizure disorders
37
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Common cancers in children?

Survival rate?
What does this mean for research?

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Cancers (ages 1-14 ) include Leukemia, Brain cancer, CNS cancer, Neuroglystoma?

But more children are surviving

Research is more focused on keeping cancer from reoccuring

38
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Which race is more likely to develop childhood cancers?

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White children

39
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What other issues are children with cancer?

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GI, auditory, cardiovascular issues

40
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What learning and behavioral issues are common in children?

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ADHD
Depression
ADD
ODD - oppositional defiant
CD - conduct disorder
41
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What illnesses/injuries can be caused by socioeconomic factors?

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Led poisoning - which is common in old housing

Iron deficiency which makes you more susceptible to other illnesses

42
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Are learning disabilities a major chronic disease affecting children?

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Nope bc they aren’t chronic diseases - they are a behavior.

43
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Death injuries of kids 1-9 years old

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MVA
Drowning
Fire/burns

44
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Death injuries of kids 10-19 years old

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MVA
drowning
poisoning

45
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Suicides from 10-19years old

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firearms

46
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Common communicable diseases of school aged children?

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TB, STI’s, Menningitis, Measles, Mumps, Chicken pox

47
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Common hair condition amongst school aged kids?

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Head lice

48
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Other common health problems in school aged kids?

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Undernutrition, poor dental health, obesity, and inactivity

49
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Third cause of death in adolescents?

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Emotional problems leading to suicide

50
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Risky behaviors that are health problems?

What if kids don’t go to school?

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Violence
Substance abuse
Sti's & pregnancy
Acne
Poor nutrition and eating disorder

May not get food and it affects other ares of life bc basic needs aren’t met

51
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What do physical and emotional health issues have an affect on in children and adolescents?

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Academic performance which can affect their future

52
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Summary of preventative health programs for adolescents?

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Immunizations and TB screenings

Education and social services

53
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Health protection programs summary for adolescents?

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Safety and injury prevention
Infectious disease prevention
child protective services
oral care

54
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Health promotion for adolescents summary

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nutrition and exercise

55
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Reasons a child would need a TB test

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Born outside US
Traveled outside US for more than 1 week
Has child been exposed 
Been around someone who's been exposed
- could be someone who left country or does drugs
56
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How do we assess the tb skin test

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if it is greater than 5 mm , is considered positive

if greater than 10 can increase risk of disease

if 15 mm if 4 years or older if no other risks is ok

57
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How many work related injuries in adolescents are there?

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812 k because they are doing work with food and all

58
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How common is MRSA?

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Very common especially in wrestlers from staph.

- gotta clean the mats

59
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How prevalent are child protective cases?

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  1. 5 million referrals for abuse and neglect

3. 2 were followed up on

60
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Why is oral hygiene a problem in adolescent and a needed service?

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Brushing teeth is something not everyone does but also there can be a lack of supplies
- the school can help out with this

Fluoride in water is the best way to get rid of tooth decay by protecting from acid

61
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If you don’t believe in specific things, should you be teaching it?

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No . Know your own beliefs

62
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Most common diseases in adults?

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Disease of the heart
Malignant neoplasms
Cerbrovascular disease
Chronic lower respiratory diseases

63
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Examples of primary prevention

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Education mostly

  • health exam needs to be done
  • eating habits
  • sleep
  • moderate drinking
  • no smoking
  • sti prevention
  • flu clinics
  • collaborate with community leaders and lobbying
64
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Examples of secondary prevention

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Screenings
- bp, bmi, glucose, etc
in order to get someone prompt help to prevent other diseases

65
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Amount of moderate alcohol

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2 oz women
4 oz men
1 beer

66
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Tertiary prevention examples

What does it require?

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Rehab
Prevention of further damage

Your skills, with community resources, and patient who is motivated
- can be hard if you don’t have patent who wants help

67
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Common immunizations for older adults

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shingles

68
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Primary prevention involves reminding older adults. why do we have to do this more in their population?

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They may not be motivated or they forget

69
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Safety needs of getting elderly exercise?

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Make sure they are safe when exercising bc they may not be as aware

70
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Why do older adults hav psychosocial issues going on? What type of prevention is this?

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BC they are losing people to death

primary

71
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Things that are important to elderly

part of prevention?

A 
independence
social interaction
purpose
spirituality 
what we leave behind

primary

72
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Main focus of secondary prevention I older adults

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Education on preventative measures and positive health behaviors
along with screening for any new issues

73
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Tertiary prevention of older adults

What health issues might we need to do this for?

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Follow up and rehab

Alzheimers, arthritis, cancer, depression, diabetes, cardiovascular, and osteoporosis

74
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What do community health nurses do for older population?

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Case management for resources and referrals

75
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Do older people want to go to nursing homes?

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No, so we should be creative with their living arrangements and services

76
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What do we need to educate elderly about falls?

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Beauty might have to go away to make sure their house is safe to walk around in
- but you can be creative here

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