WGU D450 HEALTH HESI UPDATED TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Epidemiology - ✔✔Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states and events in populations and the application of this study to the control of health
problems. It tracks the incidence of communicable diseases, searches for casual
relationships in health and illness, and reduces debilitating injuries in the workplace.
✔✔Hospice care - ✔✔Interdisciplinary program of palliative care and supportive
services that address the physical, spiritual, social, and economic needs of terminally ill
clients and their families. The primary objective of this type of nursing is focused
towards helping maintain client integrity and comfort.
✔✔Biophysical factor - ✔✔A factor that affects one's health.
✔✔Psychosocial factor - ✔✔A factor that affects one' mental health.
✔✔Sociocultural factor - ✔✔A factor that affects family structure, unemployment,
poverty, theater performances, art shows, and urban redevelopment.
✔✔Physical environment - ✔✔Is assessed by obtaining information about homes.
(example: the number of homes in the area with in-ground swimming pools).
✔✔Incubation - ✔✔Exposure to an organism has occurred and now the organism is
multiplying to produce a host reaction.
✔✔Enabling behavior - ✔✔A person who shields or prevents the addict from
experiencing the consequences of addiction.
✔✔Social index - ✔✔Indicated by the number of protective services available in the
community. (example: ratio of firefighters to residents).
, ✔✔Health promotion programs - ✔✔Purpose is to move individuals, groups,
communities closer to optimal well-being by educating. Expand the potential for health
and personal development.
✔✔Susceptibility - ✔✔Disease progression stage where disease is not present and
individuals have not been exposed.
✔✔Exposure - ✔✔Disease progression stage that occurs when individuals have been
exposed to a disease but are asymptomatic.
✔✔Clinical or Culmination - ✔✔Disease progression stage that occurs when the
disease or health condition causes sufficient anatomic or functional changes to produce
recognizable signs and symptoms.
✔✔Early pathogenesis - ✔✔Disease progression stage where signs and symptoms
actually begin to develop.
✔✔Duty - ✔✔Obligation to use due care (what a reasonable, prudent nurse would do).
The nurse must anticipate foreseeable risks.
✔✔Breach of duty - ✔✔Failure to perform according to the established standard of
conduct in providing nursing care.
✔✔Injury/damages - ✔✔Failure to meet standard of care, which causes actual injury or
damage to the client, either physical or mental.
✔✔Causality - ✔✔Relationship between cause and effect which allows community
health nurses to understand why conditions/illness develop. Uses statistics to determine
if a relationship exists between two or more factors or events.
✔✔Web of Causality - ✔✔Complex interrelations of factors interacting with each other
to influence the risk for or distribution of health outcomes.
✔✔Caregiver strain - ✔✔Evidenced by feelings of depression which would include
crying, decreased interest in activities of pleasure or interest, insomnia, or anger of
having to provide care.
✔✔Endemic - ✔✔The constant presence of an infectious disease within a specific
geographical area in greater numbers than would normally be expected.
✔✔Pandemic - ✔✔Worldwide outbreak of an epidemic disease.
✔✔Horizontal transmission - ✔✔Person-to-person spread of infection. Examples:
Pneumonia, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Syphilis and other STIs.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Epidemiology - ✔✔Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states and events in populations and the application of this study to the control of health
problems. It tracks the incidence of communicable diseases, searches for casual
relationships in health and illness, and reduces debilitating injuries in the workplace.
✔✔Hospice care - ✔✔Interdisciplinary program of palliative care and supportive
services that address the physical, spiritual, social, and economic needs of terminally ill
clients and their families. The primary objective of this type of nursing is focused
towards helping maintain client integrity and comfort.
✔✔Biophysical factor - ✔✔A factor that affects one's health.
✔✔Psychosocial factor - ✔✔A factor that affects one' mental health.
✔✔Sociocultural factor - ✔✔A factor that affects family structure, unemployment,
poverty, theater performances, art shows, and urban redevelopment.
✔✔Physical environment - ✔✔Is assessed by obtaining information about homes.
(example: the number of homes in the area with in-ground swimming pools).
✔✔Incubation - ✔✔Exposure to an organism has occurred and now the organism is
multiplying to produce a host reaction.
✔✔Enabling behavior - ✔✔A person who shields or prevents the addict from
experiencing the consequences of addiction.
✔✔Social index - ✔✔Indicated by the number of protective services available in the
community. (example: ratio of firefighters to residents).
, ✔✔Health promotion programs - ✔✔Purpose is to move individuals, groups,
communities closer to optimal well-being by educating. Expand the potential for health
and personal development.
✔✔Susceptibility - ✔✔Disease progression stage where disease is not present and
individuals have not been exposed.
✔✔Exposure - ✔✔Disease progression stage that occurs when individuals have been
exposed to a disease but are asymptomatic.
✔✔Clinical or Culmination - ✔✔Disease progression stage that occurs when the
disease or health condition causes sufficient anatomic or functional changes to produce
recognizable signs and symptoms.
✔✔Early pathogenesis - ✔✔Disease progression stage where signs and symptoms
actually begin to develop.
✔✔Duty - ✔✔Obligation to use due care (what a reasonable, prudent nurse would do).
The nurse must anticipate foreseeable risks.
✔✔Breach of duty - ✔✔Failure to perform according to the established standard of
conduct in providing nursing care.
✔✔Injury/damages - ✔✔Failure to meet standard of care, which causes actual injury or
damage to the client, either physical or mental.
✔✔Causality - ✔✔Relationship between cause and effect which allows community
health nurses to understand why conditions/illness develop. Uses statistics to determine
if a relationship exists between two or more factors or events.
✔✔Web of Causality - ✔✔Complex interrelations of factors interacting with each other
to influence the risk for or distribution of health outcomes.
✔✔Caregiver strain - ✔✔Evidenced by feelings of depression which would include
crying, decreased interest in activities of pleasure or interest, insomnia, or anger of
having to provide care.
✔✔Endemic - ✔✔The constant presence of an infectious disease within a specific
geographical area in greater numbers than would normally be expected.
✔✔Pandemic - ✔✔Worldwide outbreak of an epidemic disease.
✔✔Horizontal transmission - ✔✔Person-to-person spread of infection. Examples:
Pneumonia, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Syphilis and other STIs.
