Final Exam *Study Guide Topics covered from Week 1 to Week 4 Introduction to Health Care Delivery System Health promotion and illness prevention - Primary Health Promotion and Illness Prevention: promoting health and preventing illness - Secondary Health Promotion and Illness Prevention: screening for early detection of disease with prompt diagnosis and treatment of any found - Tertiary Health Promotion and Illness Prevention: an illness is diagnosed and treated, goal is to reduce disability and rehabilitate Cultural influences on health care - Physiologic variation (heretic diseases) - Reactions to pain - Mental health - Gender roles - Language and communication - Orientation to space and time - Food and nutrition - Family support - Socioeconomic factors Asepsis/Infection Control (Part I) Factors affecting risk for infection - Integrity of skin and mucous membranes - pH level of GI and urinary tract - integrity and number of WBC’s - age, sex, hereditary factors - immunizations - level of fatigue, nutritional status, other conditions, medications - stress level - use of invasive or indwelling devices, urinary catheters, central lines Nursing assessment for infection prevention & control Hand hygiene - Single most important thing you can do to prevent, and control spread of infectious agents Standard precautions and isolation precautions