Gerontological Nurse Exam – Gerontological Nursing
Certification – Comprehensive Practice Questions and
Exam Preparation Material
Chapter 1 - Correct Answer -Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - Correct Answer -
Health, History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by
setting the retirement age at 65 years? - Correct Answer -A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - Correct Answer -- Decade during which one was born or
his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - Correct
Answer -Women usually live alone after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - Correct Answer -
Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the
future? - Correct Answer -Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - Correct
Answer -Health: influenced by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is
true? - Correct Answer -Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and
behaviors
What does wellness involve? - Correct Answer -Wellness involves achieving a
balance between one's internal and external environment and one's emotional,
spiritual, social, cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following
except: - Correct Answer -psychiatric screenings
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, Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health
and well being? - Correct Answer -Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial
disease, attends weekly baseball games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to
have the fastest growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010
and 2050? - Correct Answer -Hispanic Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for
understanding individuals and their concerns was developed by who? - Correct
Answer -Abraham Maslow
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological nursing: A client's basic needs
have been met when they have been what? - Correct Answer -Fed a warm
breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? -
Correct Answer -self-actualization
Chapter 2 - Correct Answer -Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Discuss the implications of a growing older adult population on nursing education,
practice and research:
What type of care is projected to be the fastest growing employment sector in the
health care industry? - Correct Answer -Eldercare
Based on the current demographic data, which of the following statements identifies
a predictive trend regarding the health care needs of society? - Correct Answer -
More nursing services will be required to serve the needs of the population older
than 85 years of age.
Identify the best statement about gerontological nursing: - Correct Answer -
Purposes of gerontological nursing include the promotion of health and support for
maximal independence.
Identify several factors that have influenced the development of gerontological
nursing as a specialty practice: - Correct Answer -- shortages in nursing faculty
prepared in gerontological nursing, there is a critical need for nurses to have higher
educations and expertise in care of older adults
- the majority of nurses practicing today and in the future will be caring for older adult
patients
Examine the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Gerontological
Nursing Practice and the recommended competencies for gerontological nursing
practice: - Correct Answer -"Nurses have to have the knowledge and skills to assist
older adults in a broad range of nursing care issues, from maintaining health and
preventing illnesses, to managing complex, overlapping chronic conditions and
progressive, protracted frailty in physical and mental functions, to palliative care."
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Certification – Comprehensive Practice Questions and
Exam Preparation Material
Chapter 1 - Correct Answer -Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - Correct Answer -
Health, History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by
setting the retirement age at 65 years? - Correct Answer -A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - Correct Answer -- Decade during which one was born or
his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - Correct
Answer -Women usually live alone after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - Correct Answer -
Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the
future? - Correct Answer -Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - Correct
Answer -Health: influenced by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is
true? - Correct Answer -Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and
behaviors
What does wellness involve? - Correct Answer -Wellness involves achieving a
balance between one's internal and external environment and one's emotional,
spiritual, social, cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following
except: - Correct Answer -psychiatric screenings
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, Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health
and well being? - Correct Answer -Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial
disease, attends weekly baseball games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to
have the fastest growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010
and 2050? - Correct Answer -Hispanic Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for
understanding individuals and their concerns was developed by who? - Correct
Answer -Abraham Maslow
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological nursing: A client's basic needs
have been met when they have been what? - Correct Answer -Fed a warm
breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? -
Correct Answer -self-actualization
Chapter 2 - Correct Answer -Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Discuss the implications of a growing older adult population on nursing education,
practice and research:
What type of care is projected to be the fastest growing employment sector in the
health care industry? - Correct Answer -Eldercare
Based on the current demographic data, which of the following statements identifies
a predictive trend regarding the health care needs of society? - Correct Answer -
More nursing services will be required to serve the needs of the population older
than 85 years of age.
Identify the best statement about gerontological nursing: - Correct Answer -
Purposes of gerontological nursing include the promotion of health and support for
maximal independence.
Identify several factors that have influenced the development of gerontological
nursing as a specialty practice: - Correct Answer -- shortages in nursing faculty
prepared in gerontological nursing, there is a critical need for nurses to have higher
educations and expertise in care of older adults
- the majority of nurses practicing today and in the future will be caring for older adult
patients
Examine the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Gerontological
Nursing Practice and the recommended competencies for gerontological nursing
practice: - Correct Answer -"Nurses have to have the knowledge and skills to assist
older adults in a broad range of nursing care issues, from maintaining health and
preventing illnesses, to managing complex, overlapping chronic conditions and
progressive, protracted frailty in physical and mental functions, to palliative care."
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