Possible Community Health Hesi Topics

Potential Community Health HESI Topic Areas These are some additional areas you may call for to considering being familiar with Ancathosis nigricans A skin checker characterized by dark, thick, velvety skin in embody folds and creases. Most often, acanthosis nigricans affects your armpits, groin and neck. Theres no specific treatment for acanthosis nigricans but treating any underlying conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, may cause the changes in your skin changes to fade Characteristics of acanthosis nigricans include Skin changes. Skin changes are the only signs of acanthosis nigricans.Youll notice dark, thick, velvety skin in body folds and creases typically in your armpits, groin and neck. Sometimes the lips, palms or soles of the feet are affected as well. Slow progression. The skin changes appear slowly, sometimes oer months or years. workable itching. Rarely, the affected areas may itch. Acanthosis nigricans is often associated with conditions that increase your ins ulin level, such as type 2 diabetes or being overweight. If your insulin level is too high, the extra insulin may knowledgeability activity in your skin cells. This may cause the characteristic kin changes.Question pertained to nurse checking for lice and noticing dark patch of skin on neck. Advisor role antenatal lay on the line factors Anthrax incubation and exposure Assess trends and patterns Assessing income Assessment validation Assignments home care Make sure students know how to prioritize home health clients (i. e. which ones to see/call back first. ) When given the choice between a patient with COPD who is short of breath, a terminally ill pt who refuses to eat or drink, or a pt with congestive heart failure who has gained 3 lbs, choose the last one. Asthma triageBattering-communication If the marvel pertains to a nurse suspecting a womanly patient has been abused and the woman has her child in the room with her, the nurse should ask the child to leave the room and question the woman about the abuse. The question does not pe rtain to the child being abused. Breast cancer-risk (who is at greatest risk) Calculate step population COBRA-cost (client still has to pay for expenses) When the question asks what would be a business for a person who has lost their Job but has COBRA, the answer is paying for health care/expenses.Communicable disease (pertussis) Community assessment Community Assessment TB Community data source Community education evaluate Community resource elderly Community resources-population age Community resources rural Community strategies moral deficiencies Cultural competence Cultural -lactose intolerant Cultural Native American (Native Americans are at high risk for diabetes have the highest rates, so the nurse take to screen for and educate about this).Culturally sensitive teaching CV disease African American Diabetes AIC If a nurse is working in a residential area with high rates of diabetes and implements a rogram, at the end of 1 year (or whatever evaluation period is stated) the nurse will want to evaluate hemoglobin A1 C levels to determine effectiveness of program.Disaster Cholera (Priority for treating those with cholera fluid and electrolytes) Disaster- Professional Disaster red tag triage Disaster planning Disaster Preparedness fail Disaster triage color system Elder abuse- groundwork setting Elder health assessment Employee health Epidemiological triad host Epidemiological triad promoter Fall in home Family assistance ophthalmic meds Family ecomapFlu vaccine-priority Gatekeeper Genetic risk assessment Geriatrics home nutrition Geriatric syndrome home health GTD-hCG values Health Promotion Program Planning Heart healthy diet limit Heat stroke If an adolescent is playing sports at domesticate and goes to the school nurse with red, dry skin and other symptoms of heat stroke, the first thing the nurse should do is call for emergency personnel (not assess). Hepatitis A risk Hep B vaccine pregnancy Hepatovax B allergy Home care referral Home Health Management Home health PT Home safety post arthroplastyHypertension-BP measure Immunize 3rd world country Immunization rates Increase vaccination rates Infant mortality rate Influenza -prophylactic Relenza Lillian Wald Henry Street (she established the Henry Street Settlement) Lipid screening Long-term care-infection Long-term car fall prevention Meals-on-wheels Medicare Menomune vaccine migrator worker risks Morbidity data gather Morbidity data-glaucoma If a nurse is working with an elderly population and most of them are choosing to get a process that will CURE glaucoma, then the nurse will be concerned with assessing revalence of glaucoma (not morbidity).Needs assessment Neighborhood safe houses Neuman model line of defense Obese children-parent closeness Occupational health smoking Occupational nurse practitioner role Oral contraceptives smokers Osteoporosis prevention Outcome evalu ation Polypharmacy GERI Post vaccination teaching radical prevention adolescents Primary prevention WIC Priority HF lab results Program goal setting ty Care nursing nome Quality Care public clinic commission Quality health bicycle safety Rash with fever PEDI (chicken pox)Ritalin evaluation adolescent Assessing intervention with ADHD in an adolescent get their feedback on improvement, as their self-esteem is priority School age screen (obesity) School nurse role If an adolescent comes to a school nurse and tells her she is pregnant, the nurse will want to implement measures to ensure the teen and her baby are healthy. These things include referral to prenatal care, encouraging prenatal vitamins, etc.The nurse will NOT tell the parents and things like system childcare or teaching breastfeeding are not something the school nurse will be involved in. creening DM PEDI Screening priority Question regarding hypothyroidism and the nurse recognizes that mental dysfunction is a long-term consequence. What is screening priority? Answers included screening for T3 in preschoolers or children (? ), iodine screening in people over 60, TSH in women over 45, and T4 in newborns. The answer is T4 in newborns.Seat belt safety-adolescents Secondary prevention tobacco Secondary prevention children Sensitivity of tests Social presidential term Stakeholder If a community health nurse is going into a community to try to develop or implement n intervention, remember one of the discern things he/she must do is form a relationship with someone who would be identified as the stakeholder. Stakeholders will be someone who is invested in the health of the community and will be invested in the program to be implemented.They will be vital in the nurse gaining access into the community, the success of the program, and ensuring the sustainability of the program. STD-Reporting If an adolescent goes to the health dept and is diagnosed with chlamydia, the nurse must report this. I t is a reportable disease that is monitored by the state and the CDC, and the disease intervention specialist must be informed to do contact tracing.