NR-503 Midterm Practice Test With Complete
Solution
/vital statistics - Answer-The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning
birth, marriage, divorce, sickness, and death.
/.Morbidity - Answer-presence of illness in population
/.mortality - Answer-related to tracking of deaths in a population
/.cases - Answer-people afflicted (those who are sick)
/.social justice - Answer-justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and
privileges within a society.
/.Epidemiology - Answer-the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence,
distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
/.Population Health - Answer-health outcomes of a group of people, and the distribution
of those outcomes within the group
/.Incidence - Answer-number of new cases
/.Prevalence - Answer-The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condition present in a population at a within a specific time frame
/.Outcomes - Answer-End result that follows an intervention
/.Inter-professional collaboration - Answer-Health professionals work together in small
groups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR, end of life or primary care.
/.Healthy People 2020 - Answer-A set of disease prevention and health promotion
objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium.
/.Determinants of health - Answer-Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a
population or individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict trends in
health and why some groups have better or worse health than others.
/.Campaign for Action - Answer-mobilizes nurses, health providers, consumers to
strengthen nursing through policy changes. Goal based on IOM future of nursing report.
, /.primary intervention - Answer-process of altering susceptibility or reducing exposure to
prevent disease prior to the person getting it, ex: immunizations, tobacco prevention
initiatives
/.secondary intervention - Answer-early detection of disease or risk factors and
intervention during an asymptomatic phase, ex: pap smear, rapid HIV, annual
cholesterol test
/.tertiary intervention - Answer-an intervention that occurs after the initial occurrence of
symptoms but before irreversible disability occurs, ex: cardiac rehab programs
/.aggregate - Answer-defined population
/.community - Answer-composed of multiple aggregates
/.high risk populations - Answer-Certain groups of people who have a higher risk of
getting an illness than others
/.Validity - Answer-The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
/.specificity - Answer-The ability of the test to identify correctly those who do not have
the disease.
/.sensitivity - Answer-the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the disease
/.continuous variable screenings - Answer-those that are not either positive or negative
but occur on a continuum of values
/.Two stage testing - Answer-less sensitive first specific test is used often at a lower cost
or less risk to the patient, ex: TB skin
/.Positive predictive value - Answer-The probability that a person with a positive test
result actually has the disease
/.Negative predictive value - Answer-the probably that a person with a negative test is
truly free of disease
/.internal validity - Answer-interpreting the findings of a study depends on the- design,
conduct and analyses, does the study measure what it is supposed to measure
/.external validity - Answer-the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized
to other situations and to other people
/.gold standard - Answer-tests with 100% sensitivity and specificity
Solution
/vital statistics - Answer-The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning
birth, marriage, divorce, sickness, and death.
/.Morbidity - Answer-presence of illness in population
/.mortality - Answer-related to tracking of deaths in a population
/.cases - Answer-people afflicted (those who are sick)
/.social justice - Answer-justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and
privileges within a society.
/.Epidemiology - Answer-the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence,
distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
/.Population Health - Answer-health outcomes of a group of people, and the distribution
of those outcomes within the group
/.Incidence - Answer-number of new cases
/.Prevalence - Answer-The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condition present in a population at a within a specific time frame
/.Outcomes - Answer-End result that follows an intervention
/.Inter-professional collaboration - Answer-Health professionals work together in small
groups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR, end of life or primary care.
/.Healthy People 2020 - Answer-A set of disease prevention and health promotion
objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium.
/.Determinants of health - Answer-Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a
population or individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict trends in
health and why some groups have better or worse health than others.
/.Campaign for Action - Answer-mobilizes nurses, health providers, consumers to
strengthen nursing through policy changes. Goal based on IOM future of nursing report.
, /.primary intervention - Answer-process of altering susceptibility or reducing exposure to
prevent disease prior to the person getting it, ex: immunizations, tobacco prevention
initiatives
/.secondary intervention - Answer-early detection of disease or risk factors and
intervention during an asymptomatic phase, ex: pap smear, rapid HIV, annual
cholesterol test
/.tertiary intervention - Answer-an intervention that occurs after the initial occurrence of
symptoms but before irreversible disability occurs, ex: cardiac rehab programs
/.aggregate - Answer-defined population
/.community - Answer-composed of multiple aggregates
/.high risk populations - Answer-Certain groups of people who have a higher risk of
getting an illness than others
/.Validity - Answer-The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
/.specificity - Answer-The ability of the test to identify correctly those who do not have
the disease.
/.sensitivity - Answer-the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the disease
/.continuous variable screenings - Answer-those that are not either positive or negative
but occur on a continuum of values
/.Two stage testing - Answer-less sensitive first specific test is used often at a lower cost
or less risk to the patient, ex: TB skin
/.Positive predictive value - Answer-The probability that a person with a positive test
result actually has the disease
/.Negative predictive value - Answer-the probably that a person with a negative test is
truly free of disease
/.internal validity - Answer-interpreting the findings of a study depends on the- design,
conduct and analyses, does the study measure what it is supposed to measure
/.external validity - Answer-the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized
to other situations and to other people
/.gold standard - Answer-tests with 100% sensitivity and specificity
