NR442 Exam 2 (Community Health) Questions with Verified
Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: vulnerable populations
Answer: - people experiencing homeless
- older adults
- racial and ethnic minorities
- unemployed
- uninsured
- LGBTQ
- refugees
- veterans
Question 2: underlying social and support system issues
Answer: What must first be addressed in vulnerable populations before health issues?
Question 3: nursing code of ethics provisions
Answer: 1: nurse practices with compassion and respect 2: nurse's primary commitment is to the patient
3: nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects rights, health, and safety of the patient 4: nurse
collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health
diplomacy, and reduce health disparities 5: nursing must articulate values, maintain integrity of the
profession, and integrate principles of social justice
Question 4: health disparities ditterences
Answer: in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to healthcare among ditterent groups or
populations
Question 5: health equity
Answer: - when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible
- highest level of health Factors that attect it:
- discrimination
- healthcare access and use
- occupation
- education
- income
- housing
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, Question 6: federal programs that improve health of minority groups
Answer: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH):
- aims to eliminate CV disease, proper immunizations, breast and cervical cancer screening and
management, diabetes, HIV/ADIS, infant mortality National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early
Detection Program:
- breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment for low income, medically underserved,
and uninsured women; focus on minorities Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency
(CARE)
- provides services to person living with HIV; focus on minorities National Institute on Minority Health
and Health Disparities:
- aims to lead research to improve minority health and reduce disparity
Question 7: culture vs subcultural
Answer: Culture: knowledge, beliefs, values, and customs of a group of people; learned from birth and
shared by members of the same cultural group Subcultural: groups within larger cultural groups; based
on ethnicity, religion, occupation, health related characteristics, age, sex, or geographic location
Question 8: ABCD method for A: a cultural assessment
Answer: attitude
- assess the patient's meaning of illness and use of traditional healing practices vs western health care B:
beliefs
- spiritual and religious beliefs and how to support their needs and practices C: context
- birthplace, language spoke, degree of assimilation in western culture, degree of cultural community
support D: decision making style
- are individual or family decision making processes used?
Question 9: cultural care theory (sunrise model)
Answer: EXAMPLE = jehovah witness Maintenance:
- retain values to maintain well being, recover from illness, or cope with death
- administering NS Accommodation/negotiation:
- adapt to or negotiate with others to reach a beneficial health outcome
- administering clotting factor Repatterning/restructuring:
- reorder, change, or modify ways to attain a health outcome better than before the changes were
implemented
- administering a blood transfusion
Question 10: cultural comptence
Answer: respecting and understanding the values and beliefs of cultural groups when providing
healthcare
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Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: vulnerable populations
Answer: - people experiencing homeless
- older adults
- racial and ethnic minorities
- unemployed
- uninsured
- LGBTQ
- refugees
- veterans
Question 2: underlying social and support system issues
Answer: What must first be addressed in vulnerable populations before health issues?
Question 3: nursing code of ethics provisions
Answer: 1: nurse practices with compassion and respect 2: nurse's primary commitment is to the patient
3: nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects rights, health, and safety of the patient 4: nurse
collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health
diplomacy, and reduce health disparities 5: nursing must articulate values, maintain integrity of the
profession, and integrate principles of social justice
Question 4: health disparities ditterences
Answer: in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to healthcare among ditterent groups or
populations
Question 5: health equity
Answer: - when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible
- highest level of health Factors that attect it:
- discrimination
- healthcare access and use
- occupation
- education
- income
- housing
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, Question 6: federal programs that improve health of minority groups
Answer: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH):
- aims to eliminate CV disease, proper immunizations, breast and cervical cancer screening and
management, diabetes, HIV/ADIS, infant mortality National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early
Detection Program:
- breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment for low income, medically underserved,
and uninsured women; focus on minorities Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency
(CARE)
- provides services to person living with HIV; focus on minorities National Institute on Minority Health
and Health Disparities:
- aims to lead research to improve minority health and reduce disparity
Question 7: culture vs subcultural
Answer: Culture: knowledge, beliefs, values, and customs of a group of people; learned from birth and
shared by members of the same cultural group Subcultural: groups within larger cultural groups; based
on ethnicity, religion, occupation, health related characteristics, age, sex, or geographic location
Question 8: ABCD method for A: a cultural assessment
Answer: attitude
- assess the patient's meaning of illness and use of traditional healing practices vs western health care B:
beliefs
- spiritual and religious beliefs and how to support their needs and practices C: context
- birthplace, language spoke, degree of assimilation in western culture, degree of cultural community
support D: decision making style
- are individual or family decision making processes used?
Question 9: cultural care theory (sunrise model)
Answer: EXAMPLE = jehovah witness Maintenance:
- retain values to maintain well being, recover from illness, or cope with death
- administering NS Accommodation/negotiation:
- adapt to or negotiate with others to reach a beneficial health outcome
- administering clotting factor Repatterning/restructuring:
- reorder, change, or modify ways to attain a health outcome better than before the changes were
implemented
- administering a blood transfusion
Question 10: cultural comptence
Answer: respecting and understanding the values and beliefs of cultural groups when providing
healthcare
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