If a nurse takes the number of new cases of a disease or illness among the contacts of initial (primary) cases and divides it by the number of people in the population at risk, he or she is calculating the
A. Prevalence
B. Incidence
C. Secondary attack rate
D. Attack rate
Question 2
A public health nurse (PHN) is asked by the hospital administration to find out why there are so many pediatric asthma patients coming to the ER for treatment and to develop a plan to reduce admissions by 10.
The nurse needs to untangle the multiple risk factors involved in order to determine what type of intervention should be developed, so he or she uses:
A. Descriptive data analysis
B. The ecological model
C. Demography
D. The web of causation
Pelvic inflammatory disease. Chlamydia or gonorrhea spreads up the vagina into the uterus and then t
When using an interpreter, the nurse should pose questions directly to the patient, not the interpre
Nurse examining and measuring hematuria sample from client with a UTI
Review of Health and Illness over the Adult Years
Number line for rounding
A sampling of bacterial diversity. Most bacteria do not cause disease.