NR503 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Confounding Variables (CV) - ✔✔An "extra" variable that you didn't account for.
They can ruin an experiment and give you useless results
✔✔Levels of Evidence - ✔✔A rating system for judging the strength of a study's design.
Based on the methodological quality of their design, validity, and applicability to patient
care
✔✔Rapid cycle improvement model - ✔✔A "quality improvement method that identifies,
implements and measures changes made to improve a process or a system"
✔✔ Epidemiology - ✔✔The science of public health
✔✔Population Health - ✔✔Focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
✔✔Outcome - ✔✔The end result that follows an intervention
✔✔Aggregate - ✔✔Defined population
✔✔Community - ✔✔Composed of multiple aggregates
✔✔Data - ✔✔Compiled information
✔✔Prevalence - ✔✔Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame
✔✔Incidence - ✔✔Measures the appearance of new cases
✔✔Surveillance - ✔✔Collection, analysis, dissemination of data
✔✔High-risk - ✔✔Increased chance of poor health outcome.
✔✔Morbidity - ✔✔Presence of illness in population
✔✔Mortality - ✔✔Related to the tracking of deaths within an aggregate
✔✔Community Health - ✔✔The health status of a defined group of people and the
actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
✔✔Population-base research - ✔✔Addresses health outcomes, health determinants,
and policies and interventions that link the two in efforts to improve population health
and ameliorate health disparities.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Confounding Variables (CV) - ✔✔An "extra" variable that you didn't account for.
They can ruin an experiment and give you useless results
✔✔Levels of Evidence - ✔✔A rating system for judging the strength of a study's design.
Based on the methodological quality of their design, validity, and applicability to patient
care
✔✔Rapid cycle improvement model - ✔✔A "quality improvement method that identifies,
implements and measures changes made to improve a process or a system"
✔✔ Epidemiology - ✔✔The science of public health
✔✔Population Health - ✔✔Focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
✔✔Outcome - ✔✔The end result that follows an intervention
✔✔Aggregate - ✔✔Defined population
✔✔Community - ✔✔Composed of multiple aggregates
✔✔Data - ✔✔Compiled information
✔✔Prevalence - ✔✔Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame
✔✔Incidence - ✔✔Measures the appearance of new cases
✔✔Surveillance - ✔✔Collection, analysis, dissemination of data
✔✔High-risk - ✔✔Increased chance of poor health outcome.
✔✔Morbidity - ✔✔Presence of illness in population
✔✔Mortality - ✔✔Related to the tracking of deaths within an aggregate
✔✔Community Health - ✔✔The health status of a defined group of people and the
actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
✔✔Population-base research - ✔✔Addresses health outcomes, health determinants,
and policies and interventions that link the two in efforts to improve population health
and ameliorate health disparities.
