Community Health Nursing
Communicable Disease Control
Strategies used by community health nurses to track and interrupt the transmission of infectious diseases.
Intervention Strategies
- Surveillance: Systematic collection and analysis of health data.
- Contact Tracing: Identifying and monitoring individuals exposed to a case.
- Isolation: Separating sick individuals from those who are well.
- Quarantine: Restricting movement of those potentially exposed to a contagion.
Notification
- Reportable diseases must be reported to the local or state health department.
- CDC publishes the list of nationally notifiable conditions.
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