NUR 442 Exam with Accurate Answers. Latest
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Coalition - ✔✔Group of consumers, health professionals, policy makers, and others working
together to improve community health status or to solve a specific community health problem.
Key informant - ✔✔Person knowledgeable about specific aspects of a problem and the
community's current and past attempts to address it.
Logic model - ✔✔Visual representation of how a program is organized including activities,
resources, short-term and intermediate outcomes, and program goals.
Population aggregate - ✔✔A defined subset of the population such as people with or at risk for
a specific health problem or having specific social or demographic characteristics.
Stakeholder - ✔✔An individual, organization, or group that has an interest (stake) in a specific
community health issue or the outcome of a community level intervention.
Sustainability - ✔✔Establishing the conditions for the health improvements achieved by an
intervention to continue beyond the period of a formal community health program or for a
program to continue after grant funding ends.
Culture - ✔✔Knowledge, values, practices, customs, and beliefs of a group.
Cross-cultural/Transcultural nursing - ✔✔Any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse
are from different cultures.
Cultural competence - ✔✔Openness to others' ideas and ways of life; respect, curiosity,
patience, and self-awareness of one's own culture and culturally mediated ideas.
, Cultural safety - ✔✔Culturally appropriate health services to disadvantaged groups while
stressing dignity and avoiding institutional racism, assimilation (forcing people to adopt a
dominant culture), and repressive practices.
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔The assumption that others believe and behave as the dominant culture
does, or the belief that the dominant culture is superior to others.
Subculture - ✔✔A group sharing some practices language, or other characteristics in common,
within a larger society that does not share those characteristics.
Asset-based assessment - ✔✔Attention is directed to community strengths and resources as a
primary approach to community assessment.
Collaborative models - ✔✔An approach to assessment that begins with planning that includes
representative parties of a population including service organizations, corporations, and
government officials.
Community - ✔✔A group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and
environment; an interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests.
Community as partner - ✔✔Within the process of community assessment, considering the
expertise of community dwellers as central to the task of understanding the health and well-
being of the community.
Developmental models - ✔✔A retrospective, historical analysis of system parameters such as
the physical environment, education, safety and transportation, politics and government,
health and social services, communication, economics, and recreation in a community
Epidemiologic model - ✔✔A process used to assess a community using data collected from
descriptions and statistical relationships to evaluate the level of health and well-being within a
community to address identified healthcare needs.
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Coalition - ✔✔Group of consumers, health professionals, policy makers, and others working
together to improve community health status or to solve a specific community health problem.
Key informant - ✔✔Person knowledgeable about specific aspects of a problem and the
community's current and past attempts to address it.
Logic model - ✔✔Visual representation of how a program is organized including activities,
resources, short-term and intermediate outcomes, and program goals.
Population aggregate - ✔✔A defined subset of the population such as people with or at risk for
a specific health problem or having specific social or demographic characteristics.
Stakeholder - ✔✔An individual, organization, or group that has an interest (stake) in a specific
community health issue or the outcome of a community level intervention.
Sustainability - ✔✔Establishing the conditions for the health improvements achieved by an
intervention to continue beyond the period of a formal community health program or for a
program to continue after grant funding ends.
Culture - ✔✔Knowledge, values, practices, customs, and beliefs of a group.
Cross-cultural/Transcultural nursing - ✔✔Any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse
are from different cultures.
Cultural competence - ✔✔Openness to others' ideas and ways of life; respect, curiosity,
patience, and self-awareness of one's own culture and culturally mediated ideas.
, Cultural safety - ✔✔Culturally appropriate health services to disadvantaged groups while
stressing dignity and avoiding institutional racism, assimilation (forcing people to adopt a
dominant culture), and repressive practices.
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔The assumption that others believe and behave as the dominant culture
does, or the belief that the dominant culture is superior to others.
Subculture - ✔✔A group sharing some practices language, or other characteristics in common,
within a larger society that does not share those characteristics.
Asset-based assessment - ✔✔Attention is directed to community strengths and resources as a
primary approach to community assessment.
Collaborative models - ✔✔An approach to assessment that begins with planning that includes
representative parties of a population including service organizations, corporations, and
government officials.
Community - ✔✔A group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and
environment; an interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests.
Community as partner - ✔✔Within the process of community assessment, considering the
expertise of community dwellers as central to the task of understanding the health and well-
being of the community.
Developmental models - ✔✔A retrospective, historical analysis of system parameters such as
the physical environment, education, safety and transportation, politics and government,
health and social services, communication, economics, and recreation in a community
Epidemiologic model - ✔✔A process used to assess a community using data collected from
descriptions and statistical relationships to evaluate the level of health and well-being within a
community to address identified healthcare needs.
