NUR 2710 Midterm Exam Questions and
All Actual Answers 2026-2027 Updated.
What is Healthy Peoples 2020 approach to social determinants of health? - Answer - A "place-
based" organizing framework, reflecting five key areas of social determinants of health (SDOH)
five keys areas:
1) Economic stability
2) Education
3) Social and community context
4) Health and health care
5) Neighborhood and Built Environment
What is the role of Gordon's functional health pattern? - Answer -recognizes the
interconnection between people and their physical environment
-disease is physiological
-illness is subjective experience between the illness and the physical manifestation of the
disease
What is health? - Answer a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning
What did the healthy people initiative recognize? - Answer -attempted to reduce death in
adults and children
-indentified 3 causes of major health issues; (1) careless habits, (2) environmental pollution, (3)
harmful social conditions, such as: hunger and poverty
-one of the goals was to reduce sick days in adults and children
What are four goals for the healthy people initiative for 2020? - Answer 1) high quality, longer
lives free of preventable diseases, disability, injury, and premature death
2) Achieve health equality, eliminate disparities and improve health in all age groups
3) Create social and physical environments which promote goof health for all cultures of health
4) Promote quality of life, healthy development and behaviors across all life stages
What are the three levels of prevention? - Answer 1) Primary: health protection and health
promotion (Ex: health education, immunizations)
2) Secondary: screenings and treating disease (Ex: screenings for early detection, promote
health teaching, nurse provides vital information to prevent further complications)
, 3) Tertiary: minimizing effects of disease and disability and return the affected individual to
useful place in society (Ex: after disability or defect is permanent and irreversible.... minimize
effects)
What is nursing? - Answer nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities; preventions of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals , families, communities,
and populations.
What does the role of a nurse advocate pertain to? - Answer -helping individuals attain what
they are entitled to receive through the health care system
-spends great deal of time identifying and coordinating resources in complex cases
What is the role of a care manager? - Answer -prevent duplication of services
-maintain quality and safety
-reduce costs
-use EBP and practice standards to avoid care that is unproven, ineffective or unsafe
-collaborative effort between physicians, other nurses, family, and insurance providers
What is the role of a nurse as a consultant? - Answer -nurse specialists
-company consultants
-community consultants
What is the nurses role as a deliverer for services - Answer -foundation of public health
nursing
-combination of many role: educator, provider, promotor
What is the role of a nurse as an educator? - Answer -important in primary prevention
-lack of knowledge = lack of application
-how do people learn
-teaching-learning process
What is the role of a nurse as a healer? - Answer - must be able to read people to identify
needs
-What is important to that individual and how incorprate insights into care plans
-holistic approach
All Actual Answers 2026-2027 Updated.
What is Healthy Peoples 2020 approach to social determinants of health? - Answer - A "place-
based" organizing framework, reflecting five key areas of social determinants of health (SDOH)
five keys areas:
1) Economic stability
2) Education
3) Social and community context
4) Health and health care
5) Neighborhood and Built Environment
What is the role of Gordon's functional health pattern? - Answer -recognizes the
interconnection between people and their physical environment
-disease is physiological
-illness is subjective experience between the illness and the physical manifestation of the
disease
What is health? - Answer a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning
What did the healthy people initiative recognize? - Answer -attempted to reduce death in
adults and children
-indentified 3 causes of major health issues; (1) careless habits, (2) environmental pollution, (3)
harmful social conditions, such as: hunger and poverty
-one of the goals was to reduce sick days in adults and children
What are four goals for the healthy people initiative for 2020? - Answer 1) high quality, longer
lives free of preventable diseases, disability, injury, and premature death
2) Achieve health equality, eliminate disparities and improve health in all age groups
3) Create social and physical environments which promote goof health for all cultures of health
4) Promote quality of life, healthy development and behaviors across all life stages
What are the three levels of prevention? - Answer 1) Primary: health protection and health
promotion (Ex: health education, immunizations)
2) Secondary: screenings and treating disease (Ex: screenings for early detection, promote
health teaching, nurse provides vital information to prevent further complications)
, 3) Tertiary: minimizing effects of disease and disability and return the affected individual to
useful place in society (Ex: after disability or defect is permanent and irreversible.... minimize
effects)
What is nursing? - Answer nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities; preventions of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals , families, communities,
and populations.
What does the role of a nurse advocate pertain to? - Answer -helping individuals attain what
they are entitled to receive through the health care system
-spends great deal of time identifying and coordinating resources in complex cases
What is the role of a care manager? - Answer -prevent duplication of services
-maintain quality and safety
-reduce costs
-use EBP and practice standards to avoid care that is unproven, ineffective or unsafe
-collaborative effort between physicians, other nurses, family, and insurance providers
What is the role of a nurse as a consultant? - Answer -nurse specialists
-company consultants
-community consultants
What is the nurses role as a deliverer for services - Answer -foundation of public health
nursing
-combination of many role: educator, provider, promotor
What is the role of a nurse as an educator? - Answer -important in primary prevention
-lack of knowledge = lack of application
-how do people learn
-teaching-learning process
What is the role of a nurse as a healer? - Answer - must be able to read people to identify
needs
-What is important to that individual and how incorprate insights into care plans
-holistic approach
