Community Nursing Ch. 10 Questions and
Answers
Clinical medicine and epidemiology differ from each other in the major aspect of:
A. practice focus.
B. health monitoring.
C. determinants of health and disease.
D. evaluation of interventions. - answer A. practice focus.
Analytic epidemiology differ from each other in the major aspect of: - answer D.
"why" of disease patterns
A nurse is concerned about the accuracy of the PPD test in identifying cases of TB
exposure for follow up chest x-ray. The nurse's concern is addressing the validity
measure of - answer B. sensitivity
A business executive develops symptoms of the flu 1 day after returning by air from a
cross-Atlantic business trip that ran for 2 consecutive stressful 10-hour days. This
individual's development of flu symptoms illustrates the relationship between:
A. host and agent.
B. host, agent, and environment.
C. risk and causality.
D. morbidity and disease. - answer B. host, agent, and environment.
Nurses in community health often use epidemiology because in the community it is
often difficult to control the environment. Which of the following statements
demonstrates an epidemiologic strategy for monitoring disease trends? - answer A.
A nurse in community health investigates a breakout of whooping cough in a local
middle school
A breast cancer screening program screened 8000 women and discovered 35 women
previously diagnosed with breast cancer and 20 women with no history of breast cancer
diagnosed as a result of the screening. The prevalence proportion would reflect: -
answer B. Current and past breast cancer events in this population of women.
A state public health region reported 39 cases of meningitis in children 15 years of age
and younger to date this year. Seven of those children died. The total population of the
region is 780,000 of whom 84,000 are children age 15 years old and younger. What is
the prevalence proportion of meningitis in this region thus far in the current year? -
answer C. 46/100,000
Which of the following tools are used in analytic epidemiology? - answer A. Cross-
sectional study
Answers
Clinical medicine and epidemiology differ from each other in the major aspect of:
A. practice focus.
B. health monitoring.
C. determinants of health and disease.
D. evaluation of interventions. - answer A. practice focus.
Analytic epidemiology differ from each other in the major aspect of: - answer D.
"why" of disease patterns
A nurse is concerned about the accuracy of the PPD test in identifying cases of TB
exposure for follow up chest x-ray. The nurse's concern is addressing the validity
measure of - answer B. sensitivity
A business executive develops symptoms of the flu 1 day after returning by air from a
cross-Atlantic business trip that ran for 2 consecutive stressful 10-hour days. This
individual's development of flu symptoms illustrates the relationship between:
A. host and agent.
B. host, agent, and environment.
C. risk and causality.
D. morbidity and disease. - answer B. host, agent, and environment.
Nurses in community health often use epidemiology because in the community it is
often difficult to control the environment. Which of the following statements
demonstrates an epidemiologic strategy for monitoring disease trends? - answer A.
A nurse in community health investigates a breakout of whooping cough in a local
middle school
A breast cancer screening program screened 8000 women and discovered 35 women
previously diagnosed with breast cancer and 20 women with no history of breast cancer
diagnosed as a result of the screening. The prevalence proportion would reflect: -
answer B. Current and past breast cancer events in this population of women.
A state public health region reported 39 cases of meningitis in children 15 years of age
and younger to date this year. Seven of those children died. The total population of the
region is 780,000 of whom 84,000 are children age 15 years old and younger. What is
the prevalence proportion of meningitis in this region thus far in the current year? -
answer C. 46/100,000
Which of the following tools are used in analytic epidemiology? - answer A. Cross-
sectional study
