NR 503 Epi Final UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORECT Answers
Cultural competence - CORRECT ANSWER - A dynamic, fluid, continuous process
whereby an individual, system or healthcare agency find meaningful and useful care delivery
strategies based in knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of those to
whom they tender care
Norms and values - CORRECT ANSWER - Specific practices that guide their actions and
decisions of each person in a group based on their culture. Can be either learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of questions the advanced
practice nurse can use in order to assess the culture of a patient
Socio economic status - CORRECT ANSWER - A measure that takes into account three
interrelated dimensions: a persons income level, education level, and type of occupation. Some
measures of socioeconomic status use only one dimension such as income.
Disparities - CORRECT ANSWER - A higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or
mortality experienced by one group in relation to another
Minorities - CORRECT ANSWER - A group of people who because of their physical or
cultural characteristics are singled out from the others in society; black, Hispanic, Native
American, Asian Pacific.
Food desert - CORRECT ANSWER - Neighborhoods and communities that have limited
access to affordable and nutritious food
Social determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWER - Things like poverty, education
level, racism, income and poor housing that affect access to healthcare
, Social justice theory - CORRECT ANSWER - The goal that all people will have equal
opportunity to healthcare access and quality of healthcare will be the same
Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER - To create an environment that accommodates
health practice and ritual from other cultures within a plan of care
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER - Degree To which an individual from one culture
has given up the traits of that culture and adopted the traits of the dominant culture in which they
now reside
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - This social, economic, and political integration of a
cultural group into main stream society to which it may have emigrated
Genetic risk assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - When a patient is determined to get to
have a gene that faces them at a higher risk of having a disease such as cancer, diabetes, or
cardiovascular disease
Genomics - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of all genes in the human genome as well
as their interaction with other genes, the individuals environment, and the influence of cultural
and psychosocial factors.
Pharmacogenomics - CORRECT ANSWER - Medication efficacy, toxicity, and drug
interaction based on genetic variations
Genetic epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER - The link between epidemiology and
genetic
Genetics Non-Discrimination Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Was passed to offer some
protection against the potential misuse of genetic information
Epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Outbreak at a population level
Exam Questions and CORECT Answers
Cultural competence - CORRECT ANSWER - A dynamic, fluid, continuous process
whereby an individual, system or healthcare agency find meaningful and useful care delivery
strategies based in knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of those to
whom they tender care
Norms and values - CORRECT ANSWER - Specific practices that guide their actions and
decisions of each person in a group based on their culture. Can be either learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of questions the advanced
practice nurse can use in order to assess the culture of a patient
Socio economic status - CORRECT ANSWER - A measure that takes into account three
interrelated dimensions: a persons income level, education level, and type of occupation. Some
measures of socioeconomic status use only one dimension such as income.
Disparities - CORRECT ANSWER - A higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or
mortality experienced by one group in relation to another
Minorities - CORRECT ANSWER - A group of people who because of their physical or
cultural characteristics are singled out from the others in society; black, Hispanic, Native
American, Asian Pacific.
Food desert - CORRECT ANSWER - Neighborhoods and communities that have limited
access to affordable and nutritious food
Social determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWER - Things like poverty, education
level, racism, income and poor housing that affect access to healthcare
, Social justice theory - CORRECT ANSWER - The goal that all people will have equal
opportunity to healthcare access and quality of healthcare will be the same
Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER - To create an environment that accommodates
health practice and ritual from other cultures within a plan of care
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER - Degree To which an individual from one culture
has given up the traits of that culture and adopted the traits of the dominant culture in which they
now reside
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - This social, economic, and political integration of a
cultural group into main stream society to which it may have emigrated
Genetic risk assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - When a patient is determined to get to
have a gene that faces them at a higher risk of having a disease such as cancer, diabetes, or
cardiovascular disease
Genomics - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of all genes in the human genome as well
as their interaction with other genes, the individuals environment, and the influence of cultural
and psychosocial factors.
Pharmacogenomics - CORRECT ANSWER - Medication efficacy, toxicity, and drug
interaction based on genetic variations
Genetic epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER - The link between epidemiology and
genetic
Genetics Non-Discrimination Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Was passed to offer some
protection against the potential misuse of genetic information
Epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Outbreak at a population level
