PN 1003 EXAM 3 2026 HEALTH ASSESSMENT
AND SAFETY STUDY GUIDE FULL PAPER AND
ANSWERS FOR EXAM PREPARATION
◉ ethical issues in research.
Answer: rights of research participants, research ethics board,
informed consent
◉ principles.
Answer: respect for persons and human dignity concern for welfare
respect for privacy and confidentiality justice
◉ applying research findings to nursing practice.
Answer: a sound knowledge base is necessary to support practice.
are we using the most appropriate nursing interventions
◉ qualitative nursing research.
Answer: poses question about nursing phenomena that cannot be
quantified or measured, phenomenology, grounded theory
,ethnography.
◉ grounded theory.
,Answer: is a research method concerned with the generation of
theory 1 which is "grounded" in data that has been systematically
collected and analyzed. 2 its is used to uncover such things as social
relationships and behaviors of groups, known as social processes
◉ ethnography.
Answer: scientific description of customs of individual peoples and
cultures
◉ pathology.
Answer: study of disease
◉ Physiology.
Answer: Study of function
◉ Morphology.
Answer: study of form of things
◉ pathophysiology.
Answer: how physiological processes are affected by disease
◉ etiology.
Answer: the cause of disease or condition
,◉ pathogenesis.
Answer: contraction of a disease
◉ clinical manifestations.
Answer: signs and symptoms that can be either objective when
observed or subjective when observed by patient.
◉ prognosis.
Answer: likely course of disease, estimate of disease end,estimate
chance for recovery
◉ Reliability.
Answer: the consistency of results produced and reproducibility of
the results
◉ Validity.
Answer: how well a test reflects the reality of its claim
◉ sensitivity.
Answer: the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the
disease ( measure of validity of a test)
, ◉ Specificity.
Answer: ability of a test to correctly identify those without the
disease
◉ predictive value.
Answer: the value that predicts the likelihood that a result from a
test reflects the presence or absence of disease
◉ epidemiology.
Answer: the division of medical science concerned with defining and
explaining the interrelationships of the host agent and environment
in causing disease.
◉ Incidence.
Answer: occurrence, rate, the frequency of a disease over a period of
time.
◉ prevalence.
Answer: commonness of disease in a specific population, number of
cases in a population over a period of time.
◉ primary level of prevention.
Answer: intervention that prevents or lessens the onset of disease
AND SAFETY STUDY GUIDE FULL PAPER AND
ANSWERS FOR EXAM PREPARATION
◉ ethical issues in research.
Answer: rights of research participants, research ethics board,
informed consent
◉ principles.
Answer: respect for persons and human dignity concern for welfare
respect for privacy and confidentiality justice
◉ applying research findings to nursing practice.
Answer: a sound knowledge base is necessary to support practice.
are we using the most appropriate nursing interventions
◉ qualitative nursing research.
Answer: poses question about nursing phenomena that cannot be
quantified or measured, phenomenology, grounded theory
,ethnography.
◉ grounded theory.
,Answer: is a research method concerned with the generation of
theory 1 which is "grounded" in data that has been systematically
collected and analyzed. 2 its is used to uncover such things as social
relationships and behaviors of groups, known as social processes
◉ ethnography.
Answer: scientific description of customs of individual peoples and
cultures
◉ pathology.
Answer: study of disease
◉ Physiology.
Answer: Study of function
◉ Morphology.
Answer: study of form of things
◉ pathophysiology.
Answer: how physiological processes are affected by disease
◉ etiology.
Answer: the cause of disease or condition
,◉ pathogenesis.
Answer: contraction of a disease
◉ clinical manifestations.
Answer: signs and symptoms that can be either objective when
observed or subjective when observed by patient.
◉ prognosis.
Answer: likely course of disease, estimate of disease end,estimate
chance for recovery
◉ Reliability.
Answer: the consistency of results produced and reproducibility of
the results
◉ Validity.
Answer: how well a test reflects the reality of its claim
◉ sensitivity.
Answer: the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the
disease ( measure of validity of a test)
, ◉ Specificity.
Answer: ability of a test to correctly identify those without the
disease
◉ predictive value.
Answer: the value that predicts the likelihood that a result from a
test reflects the presence or absence of disease
◉ epidemiology.
Answer: the division of medical science concerned with defining and
explaining the interrelationships of the host agent and environment
in causing disease.
◉ Incidence.
Answer: occurrence, rate, the frequency of a disease over a period of
time.
◉ prevalence.
Answer: commonness of disease in a specific population, number of
cases in a population over a period of time.
◉ primary level of prevention.
Answer: intervention that prevents or lessens the onset of disease
