NUR 324 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions
assessments Correct Answers What are the characteristics of
the population
What is the health status of the people
What local factors are affecting their health and what impact do
they have (good and bad)
What services are currently being provided
What do local people see as their health needs
What are the national and local priorities for health
behaviors portrayed as individual risk factors Correct Answers
Lifestyle and behavioural choices are a target of interventions.
Social patterning of behaviour
The study of the social determination of health behaviour
Modifying individual lifestyle is a daunting task
Blaming people for illness is often counterproductive and unfair
if significant factors are beyond their control
Blaming the victim approach
blood pressure Correct Answers Effects of intensive blood
pressure lowering on cardiovascular and renal outcomes:
updated systematic review and meta-analysis
The study found that hitting the lower 120 target reduced the
risk of dying from cardiovascular causes by 43 percent.
Important to know who was included in the studies - women,
men, social economic level?
,Here in the United State we have attempted to take the guess
work out of identifying high and low pressures with research
that identifies at what pressure do we see problems occurring.
We still need to keep in mind the population that was included
or not included in the study. In the past - including recent past -
studies such as this included only men or predominantly men
and were predominantly white. This makes it more difficult to
generalize this knowledge to other populations.
building blocks of theory Correct Answers neo-materialist,
materialist and psychosocial
capacity building Correct Answers Capacity building is a
process that enables individuals, families and communities to
meet their objectives and better perform, resulting in improved
health outcomes. Capacity building requires working at all
levels in order to achieve maximum effect.
-Individual
-Family
-Community
Carpers four ways of knowing Correct Answers Empirical
Esthetic
Personal
Ethical
A nurse works with a community, not in a community. To work
with a community, they need to know the community, using the
four ways of knowing.
,collective efficacy Correct Answers a community's social
capital, derived from its members' common values and goals;
The ability of communities to establish informal social
structures and a broader sense of mutual trust and shared values.
More than the social connections - this includes social control of
behavior of others and supervising children.
community and social context (social determinant of health)
Correct Answers This social determinant of health includes:
Social integration
Support systems
Community engagement
Discrimination
community assessment Correct Answers Process of critically
thinking about the community and getting to know and
understand the community as a client. Assessments help identify
community needs, clarify problems, and identify strengths and
resources.
first step: Windshield Survey
Focus on the social determinants of health
Economic stability
Education
Health and health care
Social and community contact
Neighborhood and build environment
Follow the guide in D2L
Talk to people
Don't drive and write or drive and take pictures.
Make sure you cannot see people's faces in the pictures
, How can you bring the concepts of Carper's four ways of
knowing to the windshield survey? How can you come to know
the area from these different vantage points?
Personal
Ethical
Aesthetic
Empirical
How does developing a broad sense of knowing of the
community help you to:
Understand their environment
Care for them
Develop a working relationship built on shared participation
community based health promotion initiatives Correct Answers
Optimal Interaction strategy: Participation action inquiry based
on multiple ways of knowing
Skills to achieve optimal interaction strategy:
Talking circle
Appreciative inquiry (collecting stories)
Nursing diagnosis:
Deficient community Health
Assessment tools:
Windshield survey
Demographics from Census, CDC and Healthy People 2020
Dot surveys
Focus groups
assessments Correct Answers What are the characteristics of
the population
What is the health status of the people
What local factors are affecting their health and what impact do
they have (good and bad)
What services are currently being provided
What do local people see as their health needs
What are the national and local priorities for health
behaviors portrayed as individual risk factors Correct Answers
Lifestyle and behavioural choices are a target of interventions.
Social patterning of behaviour
The study of the social determination of health behaviour
Modifying individual lifestyle is a daunting task
Blaming people for illness is often counterproductive and unfair
if significant factors are beyond their control
Blaming the victim approach
blood pressure Correct Answers Effects of intensive blood
pressure lowering on cardiovascular and renal outcomes:
updated systematic review and meta-analysis
The study found that hitting the lower 120 target reduced the
risk of dying from cardiovascular causes by 43 percent.
Important to know who was included in the studies - women,
men, social economic level?
,Here in the United State we have attempted to take the guess
work out of identifying high and low pressures with research
that identifies at what pressure do we see problems occurring.
We still need to keep in mind the population that was included
or not included in the study. In the past - including recent past -
studies such as this included only men or predominantly men
and were predominantly white. This makes it more difficult to
generalize this knowledge to other populations.
building blocks of theory Correct Answers neo-materialist,
materialist and psychosocial
capacity building Correct Answers Capacity building is a
process that enables individuals, families and communities to
meet their objectives and better perform, resulting in improved
health outcomes. Capacity building requires working at all
levels in order to achieve maximum effect.
-Individual
-Family
-Community
Carpers four ways of knowing Correct Answers Empirical
Esthetic
Personal
Ethical
A nurse works with a community, not in a community. To work
with a community, they need to know the community, using the
four ways of knowing.
,collective efficacy Correct Answers a community's social
capital, derived from its members' common values and goals;
The ability of communities to establish informal social
structures and a broader sense of mutual trust and shared values.
More than the social connections - this includes social control of
behavior of others and supervising children.
community and social context (social determinant of health)
Correct Answers This social determinant of health includes:
Social integration
Support systems
Community engagement
Discrimination
community assessment Correct Answers Process of critically
thinking about the community and getting to know and
understand the community as a client. Assessments help identify
community needs, clarify problems, and identify strengths and
resources.
first step: Windshield Survey
Focus on the social determinants of health
Economic stability
Education
Health and health care
Social and community contact
Neighborhood and build environment
Follow the guide in D2L
Talk to people
Don't drive and write or drive and take pictures.
Make sure you cannot see people's faces in the pictures
, How can you bring the concepts of Carper's four ways of
knowing to the windshield survey? How can you come to know
the area from these different vantage points?
Personal
Ethical
Aesthetic
Empirical
How does developing a broad sense of knowing of the
community help you to:
Understand their environment
Care for them
Develop a working relationship built on shared participation
community based health promotion initiatives Correct Answers
Optimal Interaction strategy: Participation action inquiry based
on multiple ways of knowing
Skills to achieve optimal interaction strategy:
Talking circle
Appreciative inquiry (collecting stories)
Nursing diagnosis:
Deficient community Health
Assessment tools:
Windshield survey
Demographics from Census, CDC and Healthy People 2020
Dot surveys
Focus groups
