NSG 444
NSG 444/ NSG444 | Exam 1 Guide -GCU | Transition
to Practice | Questions & Answers | Grade A| 100%
Correct | (NEW 2025/ 2026)
1. The school health clinic treats common health problems, as well as
conducting health promotion and illness prevention activities. The
clinic provides which level of health care?: Primary care
Characteristics as a profession: Flexure
2. Major Categories of Health Care Services: 1. Health Promotion and
Maintenance
2. Illness Prevention
3. Diagnosis + Treatment
4. Rehabillitation + Long-term care
3. Example of health promotion and maintenance: Talking to a
women's church group about having an annual mammogram
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, 4. The nurse is interested in creating local health promotion and
maintenance services. Which action would the nurse take?: Teach
prenatal classes at a community center.
5. Illness prevention: address health problems AFTER risk factors are
identified
6. Health promotion/maintenance: detect diseases early, remain
healthy, prevent injuries
7. Example of illness prevention: promoting cessation of alcohol in
patients with known liver disease
8. Example of illness prevention: Counseling people recently
experiencing death of a spouse about signs and symptoms of
depression
9. What is the difference between health promotion and illness
prevention?: Health promotion - Prevent disease or increased risk
factors for disease (Ex: Educating about never smoking)
Illness prevention - Preventing disease after a risk factor has been
identified (Ex:
, Educating a client with liver disease to not drink alcohol)
10. Example of rehabilitation and disease management:
eaching patients with newly diagnosed diabetes the signs of
hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
11. Primary care services: when a patient first enters the health
care system
12. Primary care services examples: ED, physicians office, health
clinics, community health centers
13. Secondary care services: management of a condition by a
specialist AFTER being referred by a primary care provider
14. Shared governance: a method that aims to distribute decision
making among a group of people
- Promotes decentralization
- Participation at all levels of nursing
15. Tertiary care services: provided to acutely ill, those requiring
long-term care needing rehabilitation services and terminally ill