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N704 Adult Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Cancer Warning Signs (CAUTION)
- CAUTION
- Change in Bowel or Bladder Habits
- A Sore That Does Not Heal
- Unusual Bleeding or Discharge
- Thickening or Lump in the Breast or Elsewhere
- Dyspepsia (Indigestion)
- Obvious Change to Warts or Moles
- Nagging Cough
1 min
ABCDEs of Melanoma
- Asymmetry
- Border
- Color
- Diameter
- Evolving
1 min
Breast Cancer Diagnosis
- Mammography
- Ultrasound
- MRI for High Risk Patients
- Confirmed with Biopsy
- Considerations
- Lymph Node Involvement
- Receptor Positivity
- Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors
- HER-2
2 mins
Colorectal Cancer Assessment
- 3rd Most Common Cancer
- Assessment
- Change in Bowel Habits
- Bowel Obstruction
- Rectal Bleeding
- Anemia
- Weight Loss
- Ascites
- Considerations
- Colonoscopy
- FOBT and FIT
2 mins
Lung Cancer Assessment
- 2nd Most Common Cancer
- Assessment
- Chronic Cough
- Hoarseness
- Abnormal Breath Sounds
- Hemoptysis
- Chest Pain
- Anorexia or Weight Loss
- Considerations
- Symptoms Appear Late in Disease
2 mins
Prostate Cancer Assessment
- Most Common Cancer in Men
- Assessment
- Mimics BPH
- Metastasis to Back
- Low Back Pain
- Fatigue
- Considerations
- Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
- Digital Rectal Examination (DRE)
- Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS)
- Biopsy
2 mins
Blood Pressure Classification (ACC/AHA 2017)
- Classifications
- Normal
- Systolic Less than 120
- Diastolic Less than 80
- Elevated
- Systolic +10 (120-129)
- Diastolic Less than 80
- Stage 1 Hypertension
- Systolic +10 (130-139)
- Diastolic +10 (80-89)
- Stage 2 Hypertension
- Systolic +40 (140-179)
- Diastolic +30 (90-119)
- Hypertensive Crisis
- Systolic greater than or equal to 180
- Diastolic greater than or equal to 120
5 mins
Primary Hypertension Risk Factors
- Excessive Alcohol Consumption
- High Sodium Diet
- Dyslipidemia
- Obesity
- People of African Descent
- Advanced Age
- Vitamin D Deficiency
- Reduced Nephron Number
- Diabetes
- Lack of Physical Activity
2 mins
Hypertension Intervention
- Lifestyle Modifications
- Weight Reduction and Exercise
- Diet Changes
- Relaxation Techniques
- Smoking Cessation
- Medications
- Encourage Self Monitoring
1 min
Diabetes Assessment
- Assessment Type 1
- Juvenile Onset
- Absent Insulin Production
- Ketosis Prone
- Assessment Type 2
- Adult Onset
- Insulin Resistance
- Obesity
- Gestational Diabetes
- Onset During Pregnancy
- Glucose Intolerance
- Complications
- Retinopathy
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Nephropathy
- Neuropathy
2 mins
Killed (Inactivated) Whole Vaccines
- Characteristics
- Require Booster Shots
- Vaccines
- Mostly Humoral Immune Response
- Polio (Salk)
- Rabies
- Cholera
- Hepatitis A
54 secs
Killed (Inactivated) Fractional Protein Vaccines
- Subunit Vaccines
- Subunit
- Influenza (Intramuscular)
- Bordetella Pertussis
- Hepatitis B
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
- Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax)
- Toxoid Vaccines
- Toxoid
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Diphtheria)
- Clostridium tetani (Tetanus)
- Considerations
- DTaP and Tdap
3 mins
Live Attenuated Vaccines
- Characteristics
- Humoral and Cellular Immune Response
- May Revert to Virulent Form
- Do Not Require Boosters
- Vaccines
- Varicella (Chickenpox)
- Zoster (Shingles)
- Polio (Sabin)
- Smallpox
- Yellow Fever
- Influenza (Intranasal)
- MMR
- Rotavirus
- Typhoid Fever (Oral)
- BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin)
4 mins
Toxoid Vaccines
- Consist of Toxins Released From a Pathogen
- May Require Boosters
- Safe In Immunocompromised Patients
- Corynebacterium Diphtheriae Vaccine
- Tetanus Vaccine
- Bordetella Pertussis Vaccine
2 mins
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