Basic Nursing

• Primary prevention
• Secondary prevention
• Tertiary prevention

• True prevention
• example: immunization

• People who are experincing health problems or illnesses and who are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions.
• Examples: education, adequate treatment to arrest disease process and prevent further complications.

• Has the disease or sickness, disability
• Examples: doing whats possible to correct the problem or try to make it less. (highest level of functioning is goal)

• Usually short term and severe.
• Examples: surgery

• usually lasts longer than 6 months. Patients fluctuate between maximal functioning and serious health relapses that are sometimes life threatening.
• Example: Diabetic

The presence and growth of microorganisms within ahost but without tissue invasion or damage.

within

• infection disease transmitted directly from one person to another.
• Examples: T.B.

• pathogens multiply and cause clinical signs and symptoms
• (Signs)

• clinical signs and symptoms are not pressent.
• (No Signs)

• Transmission
• Portal of entry
• Host susceptibility
• infectious agent
• Reservoir
• Portal of exit

• There are 4 kinds of modes:
• Contact
• Airborne
• Vehicles
• Vector

• Direct: Person to person or physical contact between source and susceptible host.
• Indirect: Personal contact of susceptible host with contaminated inanimate objects
• Droplet: Large particles that travel up to 3 feet and come in contact with susceptible host.

• Droplet nuclei, residue or evaporated droplets suspended in air.
• example from coughing, sneezing, talking

• Contaminated items
• water
• drugs, solutions
• blood
• food

• External mechanical transfers (flies)
• Internal transmission such as with parasitic conditions between vecotr and host.
• examples: Mosquito, Louse, tick, Flea

• The over use of antibiotics.
• can destroy normal flora.

A person gets a disease due to the care provider.

Tissue Death

an effort to keep the patient as free from exposure to infection causing pathogens as possible.

means the absence of disease producing micoorganisms.

• clean techniques, includes procedures used to reduce the number of and prevent the spread of microorganisms.
• Example: Hand Hygiene, Barrier techniques, and routine environmental cleaning.

• Sterile technique, includes procedures to eliminate all microorganisms from an area.
• Examples: Sterilization destroys all microorganisms and their spores.

• A=Assesment
• D=Diagnosis (non medical)
• P=Planning
• I=Implement
• E=Evaluate