POPULATION HEALTH IN NURSING END
OF COURSE STUDY GUIDE LATEST
UPDATED ACTUAL TESTED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ The nurse working in the emergency department notices that every
patient admitted this evening with nausea and vomiting ate at the local
county fair. Which criteria for causality has the nurse identified? (Select
all that apply.)
a. Consistency
b. Coherence
c. Specificity
d. Temporal relationship
e. Strength of association.
Answer: Consistency
Correct: Consistency is an association between the supposed cause and
its effect that is consistent and always occurs in the same direction.
Temporal relationship
Correct: Temporal relationship says the supposed cause always occurs
before the effect.
,Strength of association
Correct: The greater the correlation between supposed cause and effect,
the greater the possibility the relationship is a causal one.
⩥ Care of the sick and caring for the welfare of others became to be
known as a responsibility, mainly due to which influence?
a. Events of the Middle Ages
b. Rise of Christianity
c. The Capture of Jerusalem
d. Crusades.
Answer: Rise of Christianity
Correct: The advent of Christianity brought an emphasis to personal
responsibility for the corporal and spiritual welfare of others. Care of the
sick was seen as one means of fulfilling this responsibility, and early
Christians employed their time and monetary wealth ministering to the
sick. Such efforts were intended to provide comfort and material goods
to the sick and suffering and bore little resemblance to modern nursing.
⩥ In which way does the population health nurse demonstrate true
advocacy?
,a. Providing occupational health screenings within industrial sections of
the city.
b. Providing teaching and education sessions to new teenage mothers in
a public school setting.
c. Securing a grant for a wellness vehicle to provide health screenings at
homeless shelters.
d. Helping to open a free clinic to underserved clients within a private,
affluent hospital..
Answer: Helping to open a free clinic to underserved clients within a
private, affluent hospital.
Correct: Advocacy situations include three essential categories: the
recipient (in this case underserved clients), an advocate (in this case the
nurse), and an adversary (in this case the private, affluent hospital that
likely does not cater to poor, underserved clients).
⩥ Case management involves goals centered on the client and the
system. Which goals would the nurse classify as system-centered?
a. Best care provided most efficiently
b. Decrease need for acute care services
c. Decrease fragmentation of care
d. Prevention of deterioration in health status
e. Cost containment.
, Answer: Best care provided most efficiently
Correct: Cost-efficiency is a system-centered goal.
Decreased fragmentation of care
Correct: Reduced duplication and fragmentation of services is a system-
centered goal.
Cost containment
Correct: Cost containment is a system-centered goal.
⩥ A state health department has adopted "expedited partner therapy" in
the treatment of sexually transmitted infections. Which direction would
the nurse provide a client having this therapy?
a. "Your partner will be seen immediately upon arrival at the health
department and will not need to wait."
b. "Give this medicine to your partner."
c. "Computers will be used to track down the list of sexual contacts you
have provided."
d. "A nurse from the health department will schedule a time for your
sexual contacts to be examined.".
Answer: "Give this medicine to your partner."
OF COURSE STUDY GUIDE LATEST
UPDATED ACTUAL TESTED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ The nurse working in the emergency department notices that every
patient admitted this evening with nausea and vomiting ate at the local
county fair. Which criteria for causality has the nurse identified? (Select
all that apply.)
a. Consistency
b. Coherence
c. Specificity
d. Temporal relationship
e. Strength of association.
Answer: Consistency
Correct: Consistency is an association between the supposed cause and
its effect that is consistent and always occurs in the same direction.
Temporal relationship
Correct: Temporal relationship says the supposed cause always occurs
before the effect.
,Strength of association
Correct: The greater the correlation between supposed cause and effect,
the greater the possibility the relationship is a causal one.
⩥ Care of the sick and caring for the welfare of others became to be
known as a responsibility, mainly due to which influence?
a. Events of the Middle Ages
b. Rise of Christianity
c. The Capture of Jerusalem
d. Crusades.
Answer: Rise of Christianity
Correct: The advent of Christianity brought an emphasis to personal
responsibility for the corporal and spiritual welfare of others. Care of the
sick was seen as one means of fulfilling this responsibility, and early
Christians employed their time and monetary wealth ministering to the
sick. Such efforts were intended to provide comfort and material goods
to the sick and suffering and bore little resemblance to modern nursing.
⩥ In which way does the population health nurse demonstrate true
advocacy?
,a. Providing occupational health screenings within industrial sections of
the city.
b. Providing teaching and education sessions to new teenage mothers in
a public school setting.
c. Securing a grant for a wellness vehicle to provide health screenings at
homeless shelters.
d. Helping to open a free clinic to underserved clients within a private,
affluent hospital..
Answer: Helping to open a free clinic to underserved clients within a
private, affluent hospital.
Correct: Advocacy situations include three essential categories: the
recipient (in this case underserved clients), an advocate (in this case the
nurse), and an adversary (in this case the private, affluent hospital that
likely does not cater to poor, underserved clients).
⩥ Case management involves goals centered on the client and the
system. Which goals would the nurse classify as system-centered?
a. Best care provided most efficiently
b. Decrease need for acute care services
c. Decrease fragmentation of care
d. Prevention of deterioration in health status
e. Cost containment.
, Answer: Best care provided most efficiently
Correct: Cost-efficiency is a system-centered goal.
Decreased fragmentation of care
Correct: Reduced duplication and fragmentation of services is a system-
centered goal.
Cost containment
Correct: Cost containment is a system-centered goal.
⩥ A state health department has adopted "expedited partner therapy" in
the treatment of sexually transmitted infections. Which direction would
the nurse provide a client having this therapy?
a. "Your partner will be seen immediately upon arrival at the health
department and will not need to wait."
b. "Give this medicine to your partner."
c. "Computers will be used to track down the list of sexual contacts you
have provided."
d. "A nurse from the health department will schedule a time for your
sexual contacts to be examined.".
Answer: "Give this medicine to your partner."
