NR503 EPIDEMIOLOGY TEST PAPER ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Culture - ✔✔Practices, beliefs, values, norms (can be learned or shared) which
guides the actions and decisions of each person in the group.
✔✔Cultural Organizing Factors - ✔✔Communication, personal space, social
organization, time perception, environmental control, and biological variations
✔✔Macro-scale influences - ✔✔Broad understandings of illness, suffering and healing.
Social roles and bureaucratic and economic context of health care services
✔✔Micro-scale influences - ✔✔Face-to-face interaction at front-lines. Successful and
failed communication efforts.
✔✔cultural awareness - ✔✔An in-depth self-examination of one's own background,
recognizing biases, prejudices, and assumptions about other people
✔✔Cultural Humility - ✔✔incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-
critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to
developing mutually beneficial and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf
of individuals and defined populations
✔✔Cultural Knowledge - ✔✔obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the
various worldviews of different cultures. Obtaining knowledge regarding biological
variations, disease, and health conditions and variations in drug metabolism.
✔✔Cultural Skill - ✔✔Ability to collect culturally relevant data regarding the client's
health history and presenting problem and conduct a culturally sensitive assessment.
✔✔Cultural Desire - ✔✔Motivation of the provider to want to engage in the process of
cultural competence, characteristics of compassion, authenticity, humility, openness,
availability, and flexibility, commitment, and passion to caring regardless of conflict.
✔✔4 principles of cultural competence - ✔✔1. Caring is designed for the specific client
2. Care is based in the uniqueness of the person's culture and includes cultural norms
and values
3. Care includes self-employment strategies to facilitate client decisions making to
improve health behaviors.
4. Care is provided with sensitivity and is based on the cultural uniqueness of clients.
✔✔Cross Cultural Health Care Program - ✔✔Includes a plethora of materials to improve
cultural competency among providers including training programs.
, ✔✔National Partnership for Action (NPA) - ✔✔Mobilizes individuals and groups to work
and improve quality and elimination of health disparities
✔✔National Priorities Partnership - ✔✔Key private and public stakeholders who have
agreed to work on major health priorities of patients and families, palliative and end of
life care, care coordination, patient safety, and population of health
✔✔Quality Alliance Steering Committee (QASC) - ✔✔Work to improve healthcare
quality and costs
✔✔Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities - ✔✔Resources used by APNs to
obtain data that demonstrate how minority population compare with the US population
as a whole.
✔✔Ethnicity - ✔✔Aggregate of cultural practices, social influences, religious pursuits,
and racial characteristics shaping the distinctive identity of community
✔✔race - ✔✔A biological designation whereby group members share features (skin
color, bone structure, genetic traits, blood groupings).
✔✔Nationality - ✔✔Country of birth
✔✔Genetic Evaluation - ✔✔Medical history, testing, counseling, next steps, family risk
✔✔Pandemic - ✔✔Global epidemic of disease that spreads to more than one continent
✔✔Outbreak - ✔✔The occurrence of disease within persons in excess of what would
normally be expected in a clearly defined community, location, and time of year.
✔✔Quarantine - ✔✔The separation and restrictions of the movement of people who
were or are exposed to a contagious disease for a set period of time, to see whether
they become ill.
✔✔Isolation - ✔✔The separation of sick people with a contagious disease from those
who are not ill.
✔✔Epidemiological Triangle - ✔✔Explains causation
✔✔Caustive Agent - ✔✔Those factors from which presence or absence cause disease
✔✔Susceptible host - ✔✔Things such as she, gender, race, immune status, genetics
✔✔Environment - ✔✔diverse elements such as water, food, neighborhood, pollution
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Culture - ✔✔Practices, beliefs, values, norms (can be learned or shared) which
guides the actions and decisions of each person in the group.
✔✔Cultural Organizing Factors - ✔✔Communication, personal space, social
organization, time perception, environmental control, and biological variations
✔✔Macro-scale influences - ✔✔Broad understandings of illness, suffering and healing.
Social roles and bureaucratic and economic context of health care services
✔✔Micro-scale influences - ✔✔Face-to-face interaction at front-lines. Successful and
failed communication efforts.
✔✔cultural awareness - ✔✔An in-depth self-examination of one's own background,
recognizing biases, prejudices, and assumptions about other people
✔✔Cultural Humility - ✔✔incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-
critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to
developing mutually beneficial and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf
of individuals and defined populations
✔✔Cultural Knowledge - ✔✔obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the
various worldviews of different cultures. Obtaining knowledge regarding biological
variations, disease, and health conditions and variations in drug metabolism.
✔✔Cultural Skill - ✔✔Ability to collect culturally relevant data regarding the client's
health history and presenting problem and conduct a culturally sensitive assessment.
✔✔Cultural Desire - ✔✔Motivation of the provider to want to engage in the process of
cultural competence, characteristics of compassion, authenticity, humility, openness,
availability, and flexibility, commitment, and passion to caring regardless of conflict.
✔✔4 principles of cultural competence - ✔✔1. Caring is designed for the specific client
2. Care is based in the uniqueness of the person's culture and includes cultural norms
and values
3. Care includes self-employment strategies to facilitate client decisions making to
improve health behaviors.
4. Care is provided with sensitivity and is based on the cultural uniqueness of clients.
✔✔Cross Cultural Health Care Program - ✔✔Includes a plethora of materials to improve
cultural competency among providers including training programs.
, ✔✔National Partnership for Action (NPA) - ✔✔Mobilizes individuals and groups to work
and improve quality and elimination of health disparities
✔✔National Priorities Partnership - ✔✔Key private and public stakeholders who have
agreed to work on major health priorities of patients and families, palliative and end of
life care, care coordination, patient safety, and population of health
✔✔Quality Alliance Steering Committee (QASC) - ✔✔Work to improve healthcare
quality and costs
✔✔Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities - ✔✔Resources used by APNs to
obtain data that demonstrate how minority population compare with the US population
as a whole.
✔✔Ethnicity - ✔✔Aggregate of cultural practices, social influences, religious pursuits,
and racial characteristics shaping the distinctive identity of community
✔✔race - ✔✔A biological designation whereby group members share features (skin
color, bone structure, genetic traits, blood groupings).
✔✔Nationality - ✔✔Country of birth
✔✔Genetic Evaluation - ✔✔Medical history, testing, counseling, next steps, family risk
✔✔Pandemic - ✔✔Global epidemic of disease that spreads to more than one continent
✔✔Outbreak - ✔✔The occurrence of disease within persons in excess of what would
normally be expected in a clearly defined community, location, and time of year.
✔✔Quarantine - ✔✔The separation and restrictions of the movement of people who
were or are exposed to a contagious disease for a set period of time, to see whether
they become ill.
✔✔Isolation - ✔✔The separation of sick people with a contagious disease from those
who are not ill.
✔✔Epidemiological Triangle - ✔✔Explains causation
✔✔Caustive Agent - ✔✔Those factors from which presence or absence cause disease
✔✔Susceptible host - ✔✔Things such as she, gender, race, immune status, genetics
✔✔Environment - ✔✔diverse elements such as water, food, neighborhood, pollution
