EVALUATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR NR 503

EVALUATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR NR 503 Internal validity - CORRECT ANSWER-whether the study measures what it was supposed to measure. external validity - CORRECT ANSWER-the generalizability of the results to other populations probability - CORRECT ANSWER-the study of the lows of chance specificity - CORRECT ANSWER-the test ability to yield a negative results when the person does not have the conditions gold standard - CORRECT ANSWER-test with 100% sensitivity and specificity Positive Predictive Value (PPV) - CORRECT ANSWER-the probability of the person actually having the disease when the screening test or diagnostic test is negative clinical significance - CORRECT ANSWER-referring to the results that have clinical significance natural history of the disease - CORRECT ANSWER-natural of the disease and how it progress primary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-refers to the process of altering susceptibility or reducing exposure to susceptible individuals and includes general health promotion and specific measures designed to prevent disease prior to a person getting the disease interventions aimed at preventing the condition, disorder, and disease educating to prevent disease secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-intervention aim at detecting the disease early in its source, ex screening for hypertension screening to identify the disease at the earliest stage tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-strategies are implemented during the middle or late stages of clinical disease and refer to measures taken to alleviate disability and restore effective functioning. limiting the effects of the disease once is established ex rehabilitations programs. True Positive (TP) - CORRECT ANSWER-occurs when the test correctly reports disease presence when disease is in fact present. false positive test - CORRECT ANSWER-occurs when the test incorrectly reports disease presence when disease is in fact absent false negative - CORRECT ANSWER-occurs when the test incorrectly reports the absence of disease when disease is in fact present Likehood ratio test (LD) - CORRECT ANSWER-combines sensitivity and specificity data to help the clinician quantify how much the odds of disease changed based on a positive or negative test results. early and middle childhood - CORRECT ANSWER-person to person interventions aim to modify adolescents risk/ protective behaviours and health outcomes by improving their caregiver's parenting skills. adolescent health - CORRECT ANSWER-the us preventive service task force (USPSTF) strongly recommends that all adolescents and adults are at increase risk for HIV infection to be screen. blood disorder and blood safety - CORRECT ANSWER-the us preventive service task force (USPSTF) recommends screening of sickle cell in newborns genomics guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER-the us preventive service task force (USPSTF) recommends that woman whose family hx us associated with an increase risk of deleterious mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes to be referred for genetic counseling and evaluation for BRCA testing. social determinant of health - CORRECT ANSWER-assess the cleanliness of clients water, food and air. Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER-the science of public health. study and analysis of the distributions, patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations population health - CORRECT ANSWER-focuses on risk, data, demographics and outcomes for large groups outcome - CORRECT ANSWER-the end results follows and interventions aggregate - CORRECT ANSWER-defined population data - CORRECT ANSWER-compiled information prevalence rates - CORRECT ANSWER-measures the number of cases of disease during a specific period of time snd is measure of burden incidence rates - CORRECT ANSWER-describe the occurrence of new events in a population over a period of time relative to the size of the population at risk. surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER-collection, analysis, dissemination of data high risk - CORRECT ANSWER-increase change of poor health outcome morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER-presence of illness population mortality rates - CORRECT ANSWER-also known as death rates can be useful when evaluating and comparing populations vital statistics - CORRECT ANSWER-quantitative data concerning the population such as # of births, marriages and deaths morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER-refers to having a disease or a symptoms of disease or to amount of disease within a population mortality cases - CORRECT ANSWER-measures of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during an specific interval. social justice - CORRECT ANSWER-the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities this includes the right to good health population - CORRECT ANSWER-focuses on risk data demographics and outcomes campaing of action - CORRECT ANSWER-to implement solutions to the challenges facing the nursing profession and to build upon nurse based approaches to improving quality and transforming health outcomes. population health - CORRECT ANSWER-focuses on risk data, demographics and outcomes