PPNC Exam 1 Questions and Answers Already Graded
How is a community defined?
Ans: 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.
Individual Health
Ans: nurses working with individuals in a community setting
Population centered practice
Ans: seeking a healthful change for the whole communities benefit
Ecology
Ans: 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.
Passive Participation
Ans: community residents are viewed as sources of information and receivers of information
Partnership
Ans: being informed, flexibility, and negotiation
What are the three parts of a community nursing diagnosis?
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,Ans: 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
What are the steps of evidenced based practice?
Ans: 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
What are the five social determinants of health?
Ans: Education
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Economic Stability
Health and Health Care
Social and Community Context
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,Who is the largest group of practicing nurse professionals?
Ans: Medical Surgical nurses
Nursing Executive Center of The Advisory Board
Ans: Data collection and best practices
Reported an academic-practice gap for recent graduates
Where do new nurses lack the most competency according to the Nursing Executive Center of
The Advisory Board?
Ans: Knowledge of pathophysiology of patient conditions
Knowledge of pharmacological implications of medications
Decision making based upon the nursing process
Interpretation of assessment data
What is the foundation of professional nursing care?
Ans: evidence based practice
What are the different levels of evidence based practice?
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, Ans: 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
Level VII: Evidence from expert individual authorities or committees
Systematic reviews of RCTs (Level 1)
Ans: the highest level of evidence
because they include data from selected studies that randomly assign
participants to control and experimental groups
Randomized control studies
Ans: considered the gold standard of research,
with their findings most valuable
Quasi-experimental studies (Level III)
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How is a community defined?
Ans: 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.
Individual Health
Ans: nurses working with individuals in a community setting
Population centered practice
Ans: seeking a healthful change for the whole communities benefit
Ecology
Ans: 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.
Passive Participation
Ans: community residents are viewed as sources of information and receivers of information
Partnership
Ans: being informed, flexibility, and negotiation
What are the three parts of a community nursing diagnosis?
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,Ans: 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
What are the steps of evidenced based practice?
Ans: 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
What are the five social determinants of health?
Ans: Education
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Economic Stability
Health and Health Care
Social and Community Context
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,Who is the largest group of practicing nurse professionals?
Ans: Medical Surgical nurses
Nursing Executive Center of The Advisory Board
Ans: Data collection and best practices
Reported an academic-practice gap for recent graduates
Where do new nurses lack the most competency according to the Nursing Executive Center of
The Advisory Board?
Ans: Knowledge of pathophysiology of patient conditions
Knowledge of pharmacological implications of medications
Decision making based upon the nursing process
Interpretation of assessment data
What is the foundation of professional nursing care?
Ans: evidence based practice
What are the different levels of evidence based practice?
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, Ans: 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
Level VII: Evidence from expert individual authorities or committees
Systematic reviews of RCTs (Level 1)
Ans: the highest level of evidence
because they include data from selected studies that randomly assign
participants to control and experimental groups
Randomized control studies
Ans: considered the gold standard of research,
with their findings most valuable
Quasi-experimental studies (Level III)
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