Nursing 303 Final Exam Review questions
with answers
What is a disaster? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Any natural or
human-made incident that causes disruption, destruction, and/or
devastation requiring external assistance.
The number of reported natural and human-made disasters
continues to rise worldwide.
What are the four stages of disaster management cycle and nursing
role? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Prevention (or mitigation)
Preparedness
Response
Recovery
What is the Nursing role applied to Disaster Management? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Nursing skills and competencies:
Assessment
Priority setting
,Collaboration
Addressing both preventive and acute care needs
Public Health Nurses provide health education, screening, mass
clinic expertise, essential public health services, community
resource referral, psychological first aid, and rapid needs
assessment
YOU HAVE TO PRIORITIZE
What are social determinants of health? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Lack of adequate social, educational, and economic resources
predisposes people to vulnerability and disparities in health
outcomes.
What is the intrapersonal level? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔individual characteristics that influence behavior: knowledge,
skills, self-efficacy
What is the interpersonal (family, friends, peers social networks)
level? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔interpersonal processes and
groups providing identity and support
,What is the Community (social, networks, norms) level? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔community norms/regulations
What is the Organizational (churches, stores, community orgs,
regulations, informal structures) level? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔rules, regulations, policies, structures constraining or
promoting behaviors
What is the Public policy (local, state, federal, international) level? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔policies and laws that impact, regulate,
or support healthy practices and actions
On the Health Pyramid, What is the smallest impact? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Counseling & education: eat healthy, be physically
active
On the Health Pyramid, What is the biggest impact? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔ocioeconomic factors: poverty, education, housing,
inequality
What are the healthy people 2020 goals and objectives? - CORRECT
, ANSWERS ✔✔To achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
improve the health of all groups àrequires a broad approach
o Healthy equity: attainment of the highest level of health for all
people. Requires valuing everyone equally with focused and
ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities
· Global health
o Reduce the number of cases of malaria reported in the US
o Reduce the TB case rate for foreign-born persons living in the US
o Increase the number of GDD regional centers worldwide to detect
and contain emerging health threats
o Increase the # of public health professionals trained by the GDD
programs worldwide
o Increase diagnostic testing capacity in host countries and
regionally through the GDD regional centers
What can you tell me about population health practice? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The health outcomes of a group of
individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the
group; health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and
policies & interventions that link these two
with answers
What is a disaster? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Any natural or
human-made incident that causes disruption, destruction, and/or
devastation requiring external assistance.
The number of reported natural and human-made disasters
continues to rise worldwide.
What are the four stages of disaster management cycle and nursing
role? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Prevention (or mitigation)
Preparedness
Response
Recovery
What is the Nursing role applied to Disaster Management? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Nursing skills and competencies:
Assessment
Priority setting
,Collaboration
Addressing both preventive and acute care needs
Public Health Nurses provide health education, screening, mass
clinic expertise, essential public health services, community
resource referral, psychological first aid, and rapid needs
assessment
YOU HAVE TO PRIORITIZE
What are social determinants of health? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Lack of adequate social, educational, and economic resources
predisposes people to vulnerability and disparities in health
outcomes.
What is the intrapersonal level? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔individual characteristics that influence behavior: knowledge,
skills, self-efficacy
What is the interpersonal (family, friends, peers social networks)
level? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔interpersonal processes and
groups providing identity and support
,What is the Community (social, networks, norms) level? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔community norms/regulations
What is the Organizational (churches, stores, community orgs,
regulations, informal structures) level? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔rules, regulations, policies, structures constraining or
promoting behaviors
What is the Public policy (local, state, federal, international) level? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔policies and laws that impact, regulate,
or support healthy practices and actions
On the Health Pyramid, What is the smallest impact? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Counseling & education: eat healthy, be physically
active
On the Health Pyramid, What is the biggest impact? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔ocioeconomic factors: poverty, education, housing,
inequality
What are the healthy people 2020 goals and objectives? - CORRECT
, ANSWERS ✔✔To achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
improve the health of all groups àrequires a broad approach
o Healthy equity: attainment of the highest level of health for all
people. Requires valuing everyone equally with focused and
ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities
· Global health
o Reduce the number of cases of malaria reported in the US
o Reduce the TB case rate for foreign-born persons living in the US
o Increase the number of GDD regional centers worldwide to detect
and contain emerging health threats
o Increase the # of public health professionals trained by the GDD
programs worldwide
o Increase diagnostic testing capacity in host countries and
regionally through the GDD regional centers
What can you tell me about population health practice? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The health outcomes of a group of
individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the
group; health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and
policies & interventions that link these two
