Stanhope Ch 9
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A nurse is using analytic B
epidemiology when conducting a
research project. Which of the Epidemiology refers not only to infectious
following projects is the nurse most epidemics but also to other health-related events.
likely completing? Analytic epidemiology looks at the etiology
(origins or causes) of disease.
a) Reviewing communicable disease
statistics
b) Determining factors contributing
to childhood obesity
c) Analyzing locations where family
violence is increasing
d) Documenting population
characteristics for healthy older
citizens
,A nurse is employed as a nurse B
epidemiologist. Which of the
following activities would most likely Epidemiology differs from clinical medicine, which
be completed by the nurse? focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease
in individuals. Epidemiology monitors the health of
a) Eliciting the health history of a the population.
client presenting with an illness
b) Evaluating the number of clients
presenting with similar diseases
c) Performing a physical examination
of an ill client
d) Providing treatment and health
education to a client with a disease
Which of the following actions by B
Florence Nightingale demonstrates
her role as an epidemiologist? Nightingale examined the relationship between the
environment and the recovery of the soldiers.
a) She convinced other women to Using simple epidemiological measures, she was
join her in giving nursing care to all able to show that improving environmental
the soldiers conditions and adding nursing care decreased the
mortality rates of the soldiers. Nightingale used
b) She demonstrated that a safer statistics to document decreased mortality rates
environment resulted in decreased when the environmental factors were improved.
mortality rate
c) She obtained safe water and
better food supplies and fought the
lice and rats
d) She met with each soldier each
evening to say goodnight, thereby
giving psychological support
,Which of the following statements C
describes how nursing in the
community is more challenging than In the community, nurses often use epidemiology,
nursing in an acute care setting? since the factors that affect the individual, family,
and population group cannot be as easily
a) There is limited access to controlled as in acute care settings. It is essentially
information useful to the nurse in impossible to control the environment in the
giving care in the community community.
b) More paperwork and forms are
required when giving care in the
home
c) It is more challenging to control
the environment in the community
d) Specialization isn't possible in the
community setting
, Several small communities have D
applied for grant funding from the
state department of health to help Without doing any actual math, it should be fairly
decrease their teenage pregnancy obvious that 23:500, 45:1000, and 90:2000 are all
rate. Which of the following about the same proportion but that 90:1500 is a
communities should the nurse larger proportion. Doing the math, the pregnancy
suggest receive funding first? rates of A, B, and C are 45-46:1000, whereas the
rate in Community D is 60:1000.
a) Community A—with 23 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of 500
b) Community B—with 45 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of 1000
c) Community C—with 90 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of
2000
d) Community D—with 90 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of 1500
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A nurse is using analytic B
epidemiology when conducting a
research project. Which of the Epidemiology refers not only to infectious
following projects is the nurse most epidemics but also to other health-related events.
likely completing? Analytic epidemiology looks at the etiology
(origins or causes) of disease.
a) Reviewing communicable disease
statistics
b) Determining factors contributing
to childhood obesity
c) Analyzing locations where family
violence is increasing
d) Documenting population
characteristics for healthy older
citizens
,A nurse is employed as a nurse B
epidemiologist. Which of the
following activities would most likely Epidemiology differs from clinical medicine, which
be completed by the nurse? focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease
in individuals. Epidemiology monitors the health of
a) Eliciting the health history of a the population.
client presenting with an illness
b) Evaluating the number of clients
presenting with similar diseases
c) Performing a physical examination
of an ill client
d) Providing treatment and health
education to a client with a disease
Which of the following actions by B
Florence Nightingale demonstrates
her role as an epidemiologist? Nightingale examined the relationship between the
environment and the recovery of the soldiers.
a) She convinced other women to Using simple epidemiological measures, she was
join her in giving nursing care to all able to show that improving environmental
the soldiers conditions and adding nursing care decreased the
mortality rates of the soldiers. Nightingale used
b) She demonstrated that a safer statistics to document decreased mortality rates
environment resulted in decreased when the environmental factors were improved.
mortality rate
c) She obtained safe water and
better food supplies and fought the
lice and rats
d) She met with each soldier each
evening to say goodnight, thereby
giving psychological support
,Which of the following statements C
describes how nursing in the
community is more challenging than In the community, nurses often use epidemiology,
nursing in an acute care setting? since the factors that affect the individual, family,
and population group cannot be as easily
a) There is limited access to controlled as in acute care settings. It is essentially
information useful to the nurse in impossible to control the environment in the
giving care in the community community.
b) More paperwork and forms are
required when giving care in the
home
c) It is more challenging to control
the environment in the community
d) Specialization isn't possible in the
community setting
, Several small communities have D
applied for grant funding from the
state department of health to help Without doing any actual math, it should be fairly
decrease their teenage pregnancy obvious that 23:500, 45:1000, and 90:2000 are all
rate. Which of the following about the same proportion but that 90:1500 is a
communities should the nurse larger proportion. Doing the math, the pregnancy
suggest receive funding first? rates of A, B, and C are 45-46:1000, whereas the
rate in Community D is 60:1000.
a) Community A—with 23 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of 500
b) Community B—with 45 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of 1000
c) Community C—with 90 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of
2000
d) Community D—with 90 single
teenage pregnancies in a city of 1500
