NURSING 108 FINALS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔What are the Toronto Charter 2002 social determinants? - ✔✔early childhood
development, education, employment/working conditions, food security, health care
services, housing shortages, income, social exclusion and social safety nets.
✔✔what are the 4 predictors of individual health? - ✔✔Poverty, Income, Residence,
Education
-if you can control these 4 things, its easier to make healthier life choices
✔✔what are the lay perspectives of health? - ✔✔diverse, difficult to define, dynamic,
perceptions are individual
✔✔what are the roles of a CHN? - ✔✔identifying problems, intervene to control the
cause, build trusting relationships, collaborate with clients to address issues, advocate
patient strengths and provide health related education
✔✔which province did universal health care start in? - ✔✔Saskatchewan in 1947
✔✔what does the federal gov't fund? - ✔✔healthcare, welfare and post-secondary
education
✔✔what does the provincial gov't fund? - ✔✔public health
✔✔what are the 5 main requirements to receive federal health funding? - ✔✔public
administration, comprehensiveness, universality,portability, and accessibility
✔✔what does the provincial gov't control? - ✔✔individual practitioners (nurses, doctors
etc), ambulance services, laboratories, drug programs, independent health facilities and
public health
,✔✔what does LIHN stand for? and what is it? - ✔✔Local Integrated Health Networks
-have responsibility for public and private hospitals, community care access centres,
mental health agencies, community health centres/support organizations and long term
care homes
-kingston is section 13/14
✔✔what is the 2014 healed accord? - ✔✔the deal that sets funding and health care
service delivery agreements b/w the federal and provincial gov'ts ...this expires and
must be renegotiated
✔✔what is primary health care? - ✔✔an approach to health and a spectrum of services
beyond the traditional health care system. Includes all services that play a part in health
like income, housing, education and environment.
✔✔why is primary health care important to nurses? - ✔✔the PHC principles are
important to client centred health care and the CNA uses it as a way to provide
equitable and accessible health to canadians.
✔✔what is primary care? - ✔✔the element within primary health care that focuses on
health care services. include health promotion, illness/injury prevention, biomedical
model and diagnosis/treatment of illness/injuries
-it is the first contact with the health care system, focuses on patient's with
curable/treatable diseases and preventative risk factors
✔✔what are the primary health care values? explain. - ✔✔1)social justice= equal
opportunity for health and socially-economically productive roles for everybody in
society. ex; no matter how much $ you have, you get health care
2)equity=absence of differences in health status based on things such as social status,
age, gender, race etc. ex; access to healthcare no matter where you live
✔✔what are the 5 primary healthcare principles? - ✔✔1) accessibility for all
2) health promotion and disease prevention
3) public participation
4) intersectoral collaboration
5) appropriate use of health care resources
✔✔what are some primary health care essential elements? - ✔✔education, food
supply/proper nutrition, safe water/sanitation, maternal/child/family planning care,
immunizations, prevention/control of diseases and provision of essential drugs
✔✔what does WHO stand for? - ✔✔World Health Organization (report in 2008)
✔✔what is WHO concerned with? - ✔✔-stress has caused health care systems to not
work up to their potential and people are becoming impatient with the system. health
care systems need to respond faster and better, PHC can change this.
, ✔✔what is epidemiology? - ✔✔pattern of disease. How often diseases occur in different
groups of people and why. This info is used to plan and evaluate illness prevention and
to help patient's with those diseases.
✔✔what are the goals of epidemiology? - ✔✔-find origin and risk factors of disease
-determine disease strength and how it progressed
-evaluate current and new measures of prevention
-collect data on how to improve things
-provide evidence to develop public policies
✔✔who is Hippocrates? - ✔✔first person to observe and record relationship b/w the
environment and disease of people
✔✔who is John Graunt? - ✔✔man who studied the statistics available on births and
deaths
✔✔who is William Farr? - ✔✔found death rates based on occupation or imprisonment
✔✔who is John Snow? - ✔✔involved in research of the cholera epidemic in England
and SOHO. By observing he found the link b/w contaminated water and disease
✔✔who is Florence Nightingale? - ✔✔she recorded deaths and their causes during the
Crimean War and promoted infection control processes
✔✔what is susceptibility/risk for disease dependent on? - ✔✔the host, agent and
environment
✔✔what are the 3 assessment variables (related to disease risk)? - ✔✔person= age,
ethnicity, gender, class, lifestyle
place= region, urban/rural, geographical location
time= cyclic or seasonal (flu) or following specific events (post partum depression)
✔✔what are the 2 modes of disease transmission? explain. - ✔✔Direct= involves
contact with a person with a disease
Indirect= when the disease is spread by 'vehicle' that moves the disease to a new host
✔✔what is the web of causation? - ✔✔a map of what might cause a specific disease
and what could happen to a person based on their symptoms=all are interrelated
✔✔what are the three stages of prevention and explain? - ✔✔Primary=
preexposure/preclinical stage ex; you may have been exposed to HIV so you get tested
Second= clinical stage ex; you have HIV, nurses help a manage the disease at that time
Tertiary= resolution stage ex; nurse knows what will happen in the long run so they help
you prepare for it
SURE A+
✔✔What are the Toronto Charter 2002 social determinants? - ✔✔early childhood
development, education, employment/working conditions, food security, health care
services, housing shortages, income, social exclusion and social safety nets.
✔✔what are the 4 predictors of individual health? - ✔✔Poverty, Income, Residence,
Education
-if you can control these 4 things, its easier to make healthier life choices
✔✔what are the lay perspectives of health? - ✔✔diverse, difficult to define, dynamic,
perceptions are individual
✔✔what are the roles of a CHN? - ✔✔identifying problems, intervene to control the
cause, build trusting relationships, collaborate with clients to address issues, advocate
patient strengths and provide health related education
✔✔which province did universal health care start in? - ✔✔Saskatchewan in 1947
✔✔what does the federal gov't fund? - ✔✔healthcare, welfare and post-secondary
education
✔✔what does the provincial gov't fund? - ✔✔public health
✔✔what are the 5 main requirements to receive federal health funding? - ✔✔public
administration, comprehensiveness, universality,portability, and accessibility
✔✔what does the provincial gov't control? - ✔✔individual practitioners (nurses, doctors
etc), ambulance services, laboratories, drug programs, independent health facilities and
public health
,✔✔what does LIHN stand for? and what is it? - ✔✔Local Integrated Health Networks
-have responsibility for public and private hospitals, community care access centres,
mental health agencies, community health centres/support organizations and long term
care homes
-kingston is section 13/14
✔✔what is the 2014 healed accord? - ✔✔the deal that sets funding and health care
service delivery agreements b/w the federal and provincial gov'ts ...this expires and
must be renegotiated
✔✔what is primary health care? - ✔✔an approach to health and a spectrum of services
beyond the traditional health care system. Includes all services that play a part in health
like income, housing, education and environment.
✔✔why is primary health care important to nurses? - ✔✔the PHC principles are
important to client centred health care and the CNA uses it as a way to provide
equitable and accessible health to canadians.
✔✔what is primary care? - ✔✔the element within primary health care that focuses on
health care services. include health promotion, illness/injury prevention, biomedical
model and diagnosis/treatment of illness/injuries
-it is the first contact with the health care system, focuses on patient's with
curable/treatable diseases and preventative risk factors
✔✔what are the primary health care values? explain. - ✔✔1)social justice= equal
opportunity for health and socially-economically productive roles for everybody in
society. ex; no matter how much $ you have, you get health care
2)equity=absence of differences in health status based on things such as social status,
age, gender, race etc. ex; access to healthcare no matter where you live
✔✔what are the 5 primary healthcare principles? - ✔✔1) accessibility for all
2) health promotion and disease prevention
3) public participation
4) intersectoral collaboration
5) appropriate use of health care resources
✔✔what are some primary health care essential elements? - ✔✔education, food
supply/proper nutrition, safe water/sanitation, maternal/child/family planning care,
immunizations, prevention/control of diseases and provision of essential drugs
✔✔what does WHO stand for? - ✔✔World Health Organization (report in 2008)
✔✔what is WHO concerned with? - ✔✔-stress has caused health care systems to not
work up to their potential and people are becoming impatient with the system. health
care systems need to respond faster and better, PHC can change this.
, ✔✔what is epidemiology? - ✔✔pattern of disease. How often diseases occur in different
groups of people and why. This info is used to plan and evaluate illness prevention and
to help patient's with those diseases.
✔✔what are the goals of epidemiology? - ✔✔-find origin and risk factors of disease
-determine disease strength and how it progressed
-evaluate current and new measures of prevention
-collect data on how to improve things
-provide evidence to develop public policies
✔✔who is Hippocrates? - ✔✔first person to observe and record relationship b/w the
environment and disease of people
✔✔who is John Graunt? - ✔✔man who studied the statistics available on births and
deaths
✔✔who is William Farr? - ✔✔found death rates based on occupation or imprisonment
✔✔who is John Snow? - ✔✔involved in research of the cholera epidemic in England
and SOHO. By observing he found the link b/w contaminated water and disease
✔✔who is Florence Nightingale? - ✔✔she recorded deaths and their causes during the
Crimean War and promoted infection control processes
✔✔what is susceptibility/risk for disease dependent on? - ✔✔the host, agent and
environment
✔✔what are the 3 assessment variables (related to disease risk)? - ✔✔person= age,
ethnicity, gender, class, lifestyle
place= region, urban/rural, geographical location
time= cyclic or seasonal (flu) or following specific events (post partum depression)
✔✔what are the 2 modes of disease transmission? explain. - ✔✔Direct= involves
contact with a person with a disease
Indirect= when the disease is spread by 'vehicle' that moves the disease to a new host
✔✔what is the web of causation? - ✔✔a map of what might cause a specific disease
and what could happen to a person based on their symptoms=all are interrelated
✔✔what are the three stages of prevention and explain? - ✔✔Primary=
preexposure/preclinical stage ex; you may have been exposed to HIV so you get tested
Second= clinical stage ex; you have HIV, nurses help a manage the disease at that time
Tertiary= resolution stage ex; nurse knows what will happen in the long run so they help
you prepare for it
