WGU community health nursing Questions With Complete Solutions

autonomy correct answer: individuals select those actions that fulfill their goals, clients decision nonmaleficience correct answer: no harm is done when applying standards of care beneficience correct answer: maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms distributive justice correct answer: fair distribution of the benefits and burden in society based on the needs and contributions of its members epidemiology correct answer: investigative study of disease trends in populations for the purposes of disease prevention and health maintenance, relies on statistics agent correct answer: animate or inanimate object that causes the disease (virus, trauma, fumes) host correct answer: the living being that will be affected by the agent environment correct answer: setting or surrounding that sustains the host incidence correct answer: number of new cases prevalence correct answer: existing disease in population at a particular time infant mortality rate correct answer: number of infant deaths before 1 year of age in a year