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NUR 402 FINAL Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING - answer✔Public Health Nursing public health nursing focuses
on the population, this type of nursing emphasizes on the prevention of disease and disability
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Focus of Care - answer✔Population focused and community
oriented, focus on health, prevention, and interventions at the community and population levels
particularly at the more vulnerable subpopulations. Synthesis of nursing and public health theory
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Nursing Activities - answer✔promote, preserve, and maintain the
health of populations through disease and disability prevention and health protection of the
community as a whole, Solutions include: policy development, or provision of a particular
preventive service, implemented for or with a defined population or subpopulation
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Core Functions - answer✔systematic assessment of the health
populations, development of policies to support the health of populations, and ensuring that
essential health services are available to all persons
COMMUNITY BASED NURSING Focus of Care - answer✔individuals and families
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COMMUNITY BASED NURSING Nursing Activities - answer✔Illness care: Management of
acute and chronic conditions in settings where individuals, families, and groups live, work, and
"attend," schools, camps, prisons
vulnerability - answer✔Vulnerable populations are defined as those at greater risk for poor
health status and health care access
Vulnerable populations - answer✔the poor and homeless, pregnant adolescents, migrant workers,
immigrants, the severely mentally ill, substance abusers, the abused, victims of violence, people
with communicable diseases, HIV positive or have hepatitis B virus, and people with sexually
transmitted diseases
vulnerability outcomes - answer✔Outcomes of vulnerability may be negative, such as lower
health status than the rest of the population, or they may be positive with effective interventions.
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔lack of adequate social, education, and economic resources
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔poverty is a primary cause of vulnerability
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔health status - changes in normal health status predispose
the vulnerable to unique risks, most of which is age (Certain individuals are vulnerable at
particular ages because of the interaction between crucial developmental characteristics and
socioeconomic tensions.)
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔higher levels of morbidity and mortality
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Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔health disparities (racial and ethnic differences in the
quality of care. Disparities refer to lower quality of care or poorer outcomes and may result from
client-level factors, provider-level factors, or health system-level factors)
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔high prevalence of chronic illnesses and higher mortality
rates from crime and violence
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔powerlessness = hopelessness
Barriers to healthcare, Health Literacy - answer✔Health Literacy is a measure of a client's ability
to read, comprehend, and act on medical instructions. Access to health care may be more limited
for lower socioeconomic groups
Barriers to healthcare, Barriers to access - answer✔Barriers to access are policies and financial,
geographical, or cultural features of health care that make services difficult to obtain or so
unappealing that people do not wish to seek care
Epidemiology - answer✔the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states and
events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states,
and the application of this knowledge to control health problems.
Descriptive epidemiology - answer✔studies the distribution of disease and other health-related
states and events in terms of personal characteristics, geographical distribution (place), and
temporal patterns (time).
10/10/2024 11:44 AM
NUR 402 FINAL Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING - answer✔Public Health Nursing public health nursing focuses
on the population, this type of nursing emphasizes on the prevention of disease and disability
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Focus of Care - answer✔Population focused and community
oriented, focus on health, prevention, and interventions at the community and population levels
particularly at the more vulnerable subpopulations. Synthesis of nursing and public health theory
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Nursing Activities - answer✔promote, preserve, and maintain the
health of populations through disease and disability prevention and health protection of the
community as a whole, Solutions include: policy development, or provision of a particular
preventive service, implemented for or with a defined population or subpopulation
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Core Functions - answer✔systematic assessment of the health
populations, development of policies to support the health of populations, and ensuring that
essential health services are available to all persons
COMMUNITY BASED NURSING Focus of Care - answer✔individuals and families
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COMMUNITY BASED NURSING Nursing Activities - answer✔Illness care: Management of
acute and chronic conditions in settings where individuals, families, and groups live, work, and
"attend," schools, camps, prisons
vulnerability - answer✔Vulnerable populations are defined as those at greater risk for poor
health status and health care access
Vulnerable populations - answer✔the poor and homeless, pregnant adolescents, migrant workers,
immigrants, the severely mentally ill, substance abusers, the abused, victims of violence, people
with communicable diseases, HIV positive or have hepatitis B virus, and people with sexually
transmitted diseases
vulnerability outcomes - answer✔Outcomes of vulnerability may be negative, such as lower
health status than the rest of the population, or they may be positive with effective interventions.
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔lack of adequate social, education, and economic resources
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔poverty is a primary cause of vulnerability
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔health status - changes in normal health status predispose
the vulnerable to unique risks, most of which is age (Certain individuals are vulnerable at
particular ages because of the interaction between crucial developmental characteristics and
socioeconomic tensions.)
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔higher levels of morbidity and mortality
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Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔health disparities (racial and ethnic differences in the
quality of care. Disparities refer to lower quality of care or poorer outcomes and may result from
client-level factors, provider-level factors, or health system-level factors)
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔high prevalence of chronic illnesses and higher mortality
rates from crime and violence
Struggles of the vulnerable - answer✔powerlessness = hopelessness
Barriers to healthcare, Health Literacy - answer✔Health Literacy is a measure of a client's ability
to read, comprehend, and act on medical instructions. Access to health care may be more limited
for lower socioeconomic groups
Barriers to healthcare, Barriers to access - answer✔Barriers to access are policies and financial,
geographical, or cultural features of health care that make services difficult to obtain or so
unappealing that people do not wish to seek care
Epidemiology - answer✔the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states and
events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states,
and the application of this knowledge to control health problems.
Descriptive epidemiology - answer✔studies the distribution of disease and other health-related
states and events in terms of personal characteristics, geographical distribution (place), and
temporal patterns (time).
