NUR 345 EXAM 3 STUDY QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is vulnerability? ✅Susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to
an adverse effect
What does vulnerability result from? ✅Results from the interaction of internal and
external factors that cause a person to be susceptible to poor health
What are vulnerable populations? ✅Those groups with increased risk for adverse
health outcomes
True or false, vulnerable populations are more likely than the general population to
suffer from health disparities? ✅True
What are health disparities? ✅The wide variations in health services and health status
among certain population groups
What are vulnerable populations more likely to develop? ✅Health problems as a result
of exposure to risk or to have worse outcomes from those health problems than the
population as a whole
What causes vulnerability? ✅Vulnerability results from the combined effects of limited
physical, environmental, personal resources, and biopsychosocial resources
What are the social determinants of health? ✅Factors such as economic status,
education, environmental factors, nutrition, stress, and prejudice that lead to resource
constraints, poor health, and health risk.
What are the 5 key determinants? ✅- Economic Stability
- Education
- Social and Community Context
- Health and Health Care
- Neighborhood and Built Environment
What are positive and negative outcomes of vulnerability? ✅Outcomes of vulnerability
can be negative, such as lower health status, or they may be positive with effective
interventions
What is the cycle to vulnerability? What does it lead to? ✅Sometimes when one
problem is solved, another quickly emerges. It leads to feelings of hopelessness
, What is the Social Security Act ✅Created largest federal support program for elderly
and poor Americans
What is the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965, Medicare, and Medicaid?
✅Provided for health care needs of elderly, poor, and disabled people
What is the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)? ✅Provide funds to
uninsured children
What was the intention of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 (HIPAA)? ✅Was intended to help people keep their health insurance when
moving from one place to another.
What is the Balanced Budget Act of 1997? ✅Influenced the use of resources for
providing health services
What is The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010? ✅Has provisions for
reducing the growth of future Medicare expenditures.
What are wrap-around services? ✅Comprehensive health services are available and
social and economic services are "wrapped around" these services
What are comprehensive services? ✅Are health services that focus on more than one
health problem or concern
What is advocacy? ✅Being a voice for patient's rights, and respecting them
What is social justice? ✅Distribution of equality
What is culturally and linguistically appropriate health care ✅Making sure they
understand everything in basic terms
Mr. Schmidt is treating a 52-year-old male for eye infection. While the patient is at the
clinic, Mr. Schmidt also requests a dental evaluation and educates the patient about diet
and exercise, smoking and alcohol cessation counseling, and the importance of follow-
up for influenza immunization at a future clinic. What type of nursing approach is being
used?
A. Holistic
B. Comprehensive services
C. Wrap-around services
D. Family-centered services ✅B. Comprehensive services
When working with the vulnerable populations, it is imperative that the nurse:
A. Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.
B. Refers clients to the hospital emergency department when appropriate.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is vulnerability? ✅Susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to
an adverse effect
What does vulnerability result from? ✅Results from the interaction of internal and
external factors that cause a person to be susceptible to poor health
What are vulnerable populations? ✅Those groups with increased risk for adverse
health outcomes
True or false, vulnerable populations are more likely than the general population to
suffer from health disparities? ✅True
What are health disparities? ✅The wide variations in health services and health status
among certain population groups
What are vulnerable populations more likely to develop? ✅Health problems as a result
of exposure to risk or to have worse outcomes from those health problems than the
population as a whole
What causes vulnerability? ✅Vulnerability results from the combined effects of limited
physical, environmental, personal resources, and biopsychosocial resources
What are the social determinants of health? ✅Factors such as economic status,
education, environmental factors, nutrition, stress, and prejudice that lead to resource
constraints, poor health, and health risk.
What are the 5 key determinants? ✅- Economic Stability
- Education
- Social and Community Context
- Health and Health Care
- Neighborhood and Built Environment
What are positive and negative outcomes of vulnerability? ✅Outcomes of vulnerability
can be negative, such as lower health status, or they may be positive with effective
interventions
What is the cycle to vulnerability? What does it lead to? ✅Sometimes when one
problem is solved, another quickly emerges. It leads to feelings of hopelessness
, What is the Social Security Act ✅Created largest federal support program for elderly
and poor Americans
What is the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965, Medicare, and Medicaid?
✅Provided for health care needs of elderly, poor, and disabled people
What is the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)? ✅Provide funds to
uninsured children
What was the intention of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 (HIPAA)? ✅Was intended to help people keep their health insurance when
moving from one place to another.
What is the Balanced Budget Act of 1997? ✅Influenced the use of resources for
providing health services
What is The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010? ✅Has provisions for
reducing the growth of future Medicare expenditures.
What are wrap-around services? ✅Comprehensive health services are available and
social and economic services are "wrapped around" these services
What are comprehensive services? ✅Are health services that focus on more than one
health problem or concern
What is advocacy? ✅Being a voice for patient's rights, and respecting them
What is social justice? ✅Distribution of equality
What is culturally and linguistically appropriate health care ✅Making sure they
understand everything in basic terms
Mr. Schmidt is treating a 52-year-old male for eye infection. While the patient is at the
clinic, Mr. Schmidt also requests a dental evaluation and educates the patient about diet
and exercise, smoking and alcohol cessation counseling, and the importance of follow-
up for influenza immunization at a future clinic. What type of nursing approach is being
used?
A. Holistic
B. Comprehensive services
C. Wrap-around services
D. Family-centered services ✅B. Comprehensive services
When working with the vulnerable populations, it is imperative that the nurse:
A. Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.
B. Refers clients to the hospital emergency department when appropriate.
