Exam #3 Study Guide
This exam will cover Advocacy in the Leffers book, communicable diseases (chapter 8), school age
population (chapter 18), and maternal and infant (chapter 17). The exam will be the same as it was the
last two. Please make sure to slow down and ask yourself what is this question asking me, what do I
need to know to answer it, and what are the key words.
Advocacy:





Make sure you go back and review the utilization of the nursing process with advocacy and what
intervention or activity is done in each step of the process.
In the implementation phase make sure you understand what it means to: be ready, don’t be
shy, be professional, be persistent, collaborate with others
In coalition building go back and review the pieces mentioned in the book about being
successful: communication and working in teams
What are coalitions, why are they powerful, what are the components of a coalition, what does
membership look like, what is the structure, and why is it important to have set meetings, what
do you do after you have your coalition
What are the pieces of a legislative meeting: (before, during, after)
Communicable Diseases:














What is the role of the PHN in surveillance
What is an epidemic, endemic, and pandemic
What is involved in communicable diseases and the nurses role (care to patients……)
Make sure you understand populations and communicable diseases
It is very important that you understand the mode of transmission, this guides your surveillance
activities and PPE usage and isolation
Review HIV/AIDS
Review your common diarrheal diseases and the most frequent mode of transmission, then
think about education and prevention activities
What are some eradicated diseases that are coming back and why
Make sure you understand tuberculosis
What is the cycle of transmission
Go back and review specific agent characteristics
How do you break the chain of infection
Go back and review STIs (what are they, what are long term effects if untreated, what ones are
reportable, risk factors, controlling STIs, what is a primary source and what are contacts)
Understand primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities
School Age Population
















Review Montana State immunization requirements
What is school nursing
What is the role of a school nurse and what does it involve
What are activities of the school nurse
School nurse functions
What are some coordination efforts
What are the four main supportive structures
Understand the tenants of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework
Know what would fall under the pillars of the framework for the 21st century school nursing
What are some interventions at the school age level
Health screenings
What are some episodic care issues school nurses might encounter
Care coordination
Care for children with disabilities
Mental health issues in the school age population
Advocacy and policy
Health Planning for Maternal, Infant, and Child











Why is health of children under 5 important
Maternal mortality along with vulnerable populations
Birth expectations
Indicators of population health (maternal mortality)
Top 5 leading causes of death for infants
Global prevention efforts and burden
Mortality of children under 5 and prevention
Obesity, tobacco use and pregnancy
Prematurity and the risks associated with it
Home visiting and maternal health
Evidence based programs