NUR1210 Lecture 1: Peds Exam 2 - Infectious Disease and Endocrine
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Peds exam 2 - infectious disease and endocrine. Communicable disease can be: bacterial, viral, zoonotic, parasitic. **red font indicates communicable disease incidence prior to 1950. Prevention of the spread of infectious disease: handwashing, standard precautions, treat every patient as if they are infected, avoid exposure to infected individuals, promote immunizations, patient education, decrease/eliminate pathogens. Infection control methods: standard precaution, transmission based precaution, airborne, droplet, contact, see box 37. 4 standard precautions and isolation precautions, https://www. cdc. gov/infectioncontrol/pdf/guidelines/isolation- guidelines-h. pdf. Disease surveillance: definition, outcomes of disease surveillance, public health programs, scientific advances, reduction or elimination of many infectious and communicable diseases. Diphtheria: transmission: intimate contact with discharges from the nose, throat, eye & skin lesions. Lyme disease: s/s, bulls eye rash, headache, malaise, headache, stiff neck, bells palsy, in late stage pain in the joints or symptoms that resemble arthritis of large joints, spirochete, antibiotics.
