NR 503 Midterm Exam Questions and
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• population health. CORRECT ANSWER: focuses on risk, data, demographics, and
outcomes
• Outcomes. CORRECT ANSWER: End result that follows an intervention
• Aggregate. CORRECT ANSWER: defined population
• Community. CORRECT ANSWER: Multiple aggregates
• Data. CORRECT ANSWER: Compiled information
• Prevalence. CORRECT ANSWER: Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
• Incidence. CORRECT ANSWER: Measures appearance of a disease over a period of
time.
• Surveillance. CORRECT ANSWER: Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
• High-risk. CORRECT ANSWER: An increased chance of poor health outcomes
• Morbidity. CORRECT ANSWER: Presence of illness in a population
• Mortality. CORRECT ANSWER: Tracking deaths in an aggregate
• Vital statistics. CORRECT ANSWER: statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths,
marriages and divorces
• Cases. CORRECT ANSWER: Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient
has a disease or health event
• Social Justice. CORRECT ANSWER: The view that everyone deserves equal
economic, political and social rights and opportunities-including the right to good health
• Inter-professional collaboration. CORRECT ANSWER: Collaborative action oriented
toward a common goal of improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation,
assertiveness, mutual respect, and autonomy.
, • HP2020. CORRECT ANSWER: 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve health of all groups
3) create social and physical environments that promote good health.
4) promote quality of life, healthy development, and health
• Determinants of Care. CORRECT ANSWER: Range of personal, social, economic,
and environmental factors that influence health status
• Risk Analysis. CORRECT ANSWER: Characterization of the potential adverse health
effects of human exposures to environmental hazards
• health disparities. CORRECT ANSWER: Differences of health statuses between
various populations.
• Sensitivity. CORRECT ANSWER: Measures the proportion of actual positives that are
correctly identified as such (e.g., % of sick people who are correctly identified as having
the condition)
• Specificity. CORRECT ANSWER: True negative rate
Measures actual negatives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of healthy
people who are correctly ID's as not having the condition)
• Positive Predictive Value (PPV). CORRECT ANSWER: Probability that subjects with a
positive screening test truly have the disease
• Epidemiological triangle. CORRECT ANSWER: Triad with an external agent, host, and
an environment that cause the disease.
Environmental factors and genetics play a role.
Disease transmitted directly or indirectly.
Outright symptoms or subclinical disease.
• Confounding Variable. CORRECT ANSWER: Extra variable not accounted for and can
ruin the experiment.
Can introduce bias.
• Study methods. CORRECT ANSWER: Descriptive.
Analytic.
Experimental.
Answers (2026) | 100% Verified Solutions
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• population health. CORRECT ANSWER: focuses on risk, data, demographics, and
outcomes
• Outcomes. CORRECT ANSWER: End result that follows an intervention
• Aggregate. CORRECT ANSWER: defined population
• Community. CORRECT ANSWER: Multiple aggregates
• Data. CORRECT ANSWER: Compiled information
• Prevalence. CORRECT ANSWER: Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
• Incidence. CORRECT ANSWER: Measures appearance of a disease over a period of
time.
• Surveillance. CORRECT ANSWER: Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
• High-risk. CORRECT ANSWER: An increased chance of poor health outcomes
• Morbidity. CORRECT ANSWER: Presence of illness in a population
• Mortality. CORRECT ANSWER: Tracking deaths in an aggregate
• Vital statistics. CORRECT ANSWER: statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths,
marriages and divorces
• Cases. CORRECT ANSWER: Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient
has a disease or health event
• Social Justice. CORRECT ANSWER: The view that everyone deserves equal
economic, political and social rights and opportunities-including the right to good health
• Inter-professional collaboration. CORRECT ANSWER: Collaborative action oriented
toward a common goal of improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation,
assertiveness, mutual respect, and autonomy.
, • HP2020. CORRECT ANSWER: 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve health of all groups
3) create social and physical environments that promote good health.
4) promote quality of life, healthy development, and health
• Determinants of Care. CORRECT ANSWER: Range of personal, social, economic,
and environmental factors that influence health status
• Risk Analysis. CORRECT ANSWER: Characterization of the potential adverse health
effects of human exposures to environmental hazards
• health disparities. CORRECT ANSWER: Differences of health statuses between
various populations.
• Sensitivity. CORRECT ANSWER: Measures the proportion of actual positives that are
correctly identified as such (e.g., % of sick people who are correctly identified as having
the condition)
• Specificity. CORRECT ANSWER: True negative rate
Measures actual negatives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of healthy
people who are correctly ID's as not having the condition)
• Positive Predictive Value (PPV). CORRECT ANSWER: Probability that subjects with a
positive screening test truly have the disease
• Epidemiological triangle. CORRECT ANSWER: Triad with an external agent, host, and
an environment that cause the disease.
Environmental factors and genetics play a role.
Disease transmitted directly or indirectly.
Outright symptoms or subclinical disease.
• Confounding Variable. CORRECT ANSWER: Extra variable not accounted for and can
ruin the experiment.
Can introduce bias.
• Study methods. CORRECT ANSWER: Descriptive.
Analytic.
Experimental.
