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PPNC Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Question: How is a community defined?
Answer: A group of people, often living in a defined geographical area,
who share a common culture, values and norms, and are engaged in a
social structure according to relationships which the community has
developed over a period of time. Members of a community gain their
personal and social identity by sharing common beliefs, values and norms
which have been developed by the community in the past and may be
modified in the future.
Question: Individual Health
Answer: nurses working with individuals in a community setting
Question: Population centered practice
Answer: seeking a healthful change for the whole communities benefit
Question: Ecology
Answer: the branch of biology which studies the interactions among
organisms and their environment. Objects of study include interactions of
organisms that include biotic and abiotic components of their
environment.
Question: Passive Participation
Answer: community residents are viewed as sources of information and
receivers of information
Question: Partnership
Answer: being informed, flexibility, and negotiation
Question: What are the three parts of a community nursing diagnosis?
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Answer: Risk of - what are the strengths, challenges/problems
Among - who are you wanting to help
Related to - what is the level of knowledge or motivation
Question: What are the steps of evidenced based practice?
Answer: Develop the question
Search and collect the best evidence
Evaluate the quality of the evidence
Integrate evidence into practice
Evaluate outcomes of practice change
Disseminate the evidence
Question: What are the five social determinants of health?
Answer: Education
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Economic Stability
Health and Health Care
Social and Community Context
Question: Who is the largest group of practicing nurse professionals?
Answer: Medical Surgical nurses
Question: Nursing Executive Center of The Advisory Board
Answer: Data collection and best practices
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Reported an academic-practice gap for recent graduates
Question: Where do new nurses lack the most competency according to
the Nursing Executive Center of The Advisory Board?
Answer: Knowledge of pathophysiology of patient conditions
Knowledge of pharmacological implications of medications
Decision making based upon the nursing process
Interpretation of assessment data
Question: What is the foundation of professional nursing care?
Answer: evidence based practice
Question: What are the different levels of evidence based practice?
Answer: Level I: Evidence from systematic reviews of randomized
controlled studies
(RCTs)
Level II: Evidence from at least one RCT
Level III: Evidence from quasi-experimental studies
Level IV: Evidence from case-control and cohort studies
Level V: Evidence from systematic reviews of descriptive or qualitative
studies
Level VI: Evidence from a single descriptive or qualitative study
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Level VII: Evidence from expert individual authorities or committees
Question: Systematic reviews of RCTs (Level 1)
Answer: the highest level of evidence
because they include data from selected studies that randomly assign
participants to control and experimental groups
Question: Randomized control studies
Answer: considered the gold standard of research,
with their findings most valuable
Question: Quasi-experimental studies (Level III)
Answer: use the control and experimental
groups but lack the random assignment.
Question: Case-control study
Answer: two groups, those with a specific disorder and those without.
Question: Cohort studies
Answer: use a group of people (cohort) who are initially free of disease
and are then followed
over a period of time to examine whether development of new cases
differs between those with and without exposure to some type of disease,
hazard, etc.
Question: Has there been an increasing or decreasing amount of one on
one time with physicians and patients?
Answer: Decreasing
Question: Where is the importance of patient centered care highlighted?
Answer: Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report Health Professions
Education: A Bridge to Quality AND
The Joint Commission (TJC) Standards for Hospitals
Pretest - Stuvia US
PPNC Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Question: How is a community defined?
Answer: A group of people, often living in a defined geographical area,
who share a common culture, values and norms, and are engaged in a
social structure according to relationships which the community has
developed over a period of time. Members of a community gain their
personal and social identity by sharing common beliefs, values and norms
which have been developed by the community in the past and may be
modified in the future.
Question: Individual Health
Answer: nurses working with individuals in a community setting
Question: Population centered practice
Answer: seeking a healthful change for the whole communities benefit
Question: Ecology
Answer: the branch of biology which studies the interactions among
organisms and their environment. Objects of study include interactions of
organisms that include biotic and abiotic components of their
environment.
Question: Passive Participation
Answer: community residents are viewed as sources of information and
receivers of information
Question: Partnership
Answer: being informed, flexibility, and negotiation
Question: What are the three parts of a community nursing diagnosis?
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Answer: Risk of - what are the strengths, challenges/problems
Among - who are you wanting to help
Related to - what is the level of knowledge or motivation
Question: What are the steps of evidenced based practice?
Answer: Develop the question
Search and collect the best evidence
Evaluate the quality of the evidence
Integrate evidence into practice
Evaluate outcomes of practice change
Disseminate the evidence
Question: What are the five social determinants of health?
Answer: Education
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Economic Stability
Health and Health Care
Social and Community Context
Question: Who is the largest group of practicing nurse professionals?
Answer: Medical Surgical nurses
Question: Nursing Executive Center of The Advisory Board
Answer: Data collection and best practices
Pretest - Stuvia US
,3
Reported an academic-practice gap for recent graduates
Question: Where do new nurses lack the most competency according to
the Nursing Executive Center of The Advisory Board?
Answer: Knowledge of pathophysiology of patient conditions
Knowledge of pharmacological implications of medications
Decision making based upon the nursing process
Interpretation of assessment data
Question: What is the foundation of professional nursing care?
Answer: evidence based practice
Question: What are the different levels of evidence based practice?
Answer: Level I: Evidence from systematic reviews of randomized
controlled studies
(RCTs)
Level II: Evidence from at least one RCT
Level III: Evidence from quasi-experimental studies
Level IV: Evidence from case-control and cohort studies
Level V: Evidence from systematic reviews of descriptive or qualitative
studies
Level VI: Evidence from a single descriptive or qualitative study
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 4
Level VII: Evidence from expert individual authorities or committees
Question: Systematic reviews of RCTs (Level 1)
Answer: the highest level of evidence
because they include data from selected studies that randomly assign
participants to control and experimental groups
Question: Randomized control studies
Answer: considered the gold standard of research,
with their findings most valuable
Question: Quasi-experimental studies (Level III)
Answer: use the control and experimental
groups but lack the random assignment.
Question: Case-control study
Answer: two groups, those with a specific disorder and those without.
Question: Cohort studies
Answer: use a group of people (cohort) who are initially free of disease
and are then followed
over a period of time to examine whether development of new cases
differs between those with and without exposure to some type of disease,
hazard, etc.
Question: Has there been an increasing or decreasing amount of one on
one time with physicians and patients?
Answer: Decreasing
Question: Where is the importance of patient centered care highlighted?
Answer: Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report Health Professions
Education: A Bridge to Quality AND
The Joint Commission (TJC) Standards for Hospitals
Pretest - Stuvia US
