NR 503 Midterm Exam Questions and
Answers (2026) | Latest Exam Practice
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• Primary Prevention -✓✓preventing the initial development of disease or an
action taken to prevent the development of a disease in a person who is well and
does not have that disease
• Secondary prevention -✓✓early detection of existing disease to reduce severity
and complications or identifying people in whom a disease process has already
begun, but who have not developed symptoms
• tertiary prevention -✓✓reducing the impact of the disease or preventing
complications in those who have already developed signs and symptoms of an
illness and have been diagnosed
• clinical disease -✓✓disease characterized by signs and symptoms
• subclinical disease -✓✓disease that is not clinically apparent and is not destined
to become clinically apparent
• persistent (chronic) disease -✓✓disease or symptoms that persist for years or for
a lifetime
• latent disease -✓✓an infection with no active multiplication of the agent
• pandemic -✓✓an excessive occurrence of disease present globally
Answers (2026) | Latest Exam Practice
Questions | Fully Verified Answers | A+
• Primary Prevention -✓✓preventing the initial development of disease or an
action taken to prevent the development of a disease in a person who is well and
does not have that disease
• Secondary prevention -✓✓early detection of existing disease to reduce severity
and complications or identifying people in whom a disease process has already
begun, but who have not developed symptoms
• tertiary prevention -✓✓reducing the impact of the disease or preventing
complications in those who have already developed signs and symptoms of an
illness and have been diagnosed
• clinical disease -✓✓disease characterized by signs and symptoms
• subclinical disease -✓✓disease that is not clinically apparent and is not destined
to become clinically apparent
• persistent (chronic) disease -✓✓disease or symptoms that persist for years or for
a lifetime
• latent disease -✓✓an infection with no active multiplication of the agent
• pandemic -✓✓an excessive occurrence of disease present globally
