NR-503 Midterm ACTUAL UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORECT Answers
Campaign for Action - CORRECT ANSWER - organization that improves access to care,
fosters inter-professional collaboration, promotes nursing leadership, transforms nursing
education, increase diversity in nursing, collects workforce data.
Population Health - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on risk, data, demographics, and
outcome.
Four Components included in the definition:
1. Population: Group of people
2. Health: "A state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease." (Riegelman, 2020, pg. 8).
3. Health issues affecting entire society.
4. Health issues affecting vulnerable groups.
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of disease distribution within
populations and the risk factors that affect increases or decreases in distribution
Social Justice - CORRECT ANSWER - the framework for the analysis of strategies to
address health disparities across socially, demographically, or geographically defined
populations. Equality of care. NPs should incorporate social justice and ANA ethical statements
to guide practice.
Vital Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - quantitative data concerning population like no.
of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, etc.
Risk analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - The review of risks assoc with a particular even or
action
Cases - CORRECT ANSWER - people afflicted with a disease
, Outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER - change in health status related to the intervention
provided
Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - collection, analysis, dissemination of data
Surveillance is used to monitor causation to understand the etiology of disease and hopefully
prevent them.
10 Elements of Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - mortality, morbidity, epidemic
reporting, epidemic field investigation, surveys, utilization of biologic agents/drugs, distribution
of animal reservoirs, and demographic/environmental data.
Passive Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - this information is pulled from a database.
Although you often hear of descriptive epidemiology for outbreaks, this information is gathered
on any (acute or chronic) disease over time to track who is at risk. The three key areas of
information gathered include person, place, and time.
Active Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - on a case-by-case basis where each specific
person's information is entered into a database.
Case Reports - CORRECT ANSWER - Type of Surveillance
succinct written accounts of generally rare or unusual cases in which treatment of disease is
worth repeating
Case Series - CORRECT ANSWER - *Surveillance* a report of a series of patients with
similar diseases that describe their management or treatment in order to identify new strategies to
help other patients
Correlation (ecological) - CORRECT ANSWER - *Surveillance*used to conduct studies
of aggregates or population characteristics. Rates are calculated for characteristics that describe
populations and are used to compare frequencies b/t different groups at the same time or the
same group at different times *long term trends, seasonal patterns, event related clusters*
Exam Questions and CORECT Answers
Campaign for Action - CORRECT ANSWER - organization that improves access to care,
fosters inter-professional collaboration, promotes nursing leadership, transforms nursing
education, increase diversity in nursing, collects workforce data.
Population Health - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on risk, data, demographics, and
outcome.
Four Components included in the definition:
1. Population: Group of people
2. Health: "A state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease." (Riegelman, 2020, pg. 8).
3. Health issues affecting entire society.
4. Health issues affecting vulnerable groups.
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of disease distribution within
populations and the risk factors that affect increases or decreases in distribution
Social Justice - CORRECT ANSWER - the framework for the analysis of strategies to
address health disparities across socially, demographically, or geographically defined
populations. Equality of care. NPs should incorporate social justice and ANA ethical statements
to guide practice.
Vital Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - quantitative data concerning population like no.
of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, etc.
Risk analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - The review of risks assoc with a particular even or
action
Cases - CORRECT ANSWER - people afflicted with a disease
, Outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER - change in health status related to the intervention
provided
Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - collection, analysis, dissemination of data
Surveillance is used to monitor causation to understand the etiology of disease and hopefully
prevent them.
10 Elements of Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - mortality, morbidity, epidemic
reporting, epidemic field investigation, surveys, utilization of biologic agents/drugs, distribution
of animal reservoirs, and demographic/environmental data.
Passive Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - this information is pulled from a database.
Although you often hear of descriptive epidemiology for outbreaks, this information is gathered
on any (acute or chronic) disease over time to track who is at risk. The three key areas of
information gathered include person, place, and time.
Active Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - on a case-by-case basis where each specific
person's information is entered into a database.
Case Reports - CORRECT ANSWER - Type of Surveillance
succinct written accounts of generally rare or unusual cases in which treatment of disease is
worth repeating
Case Series - CORRECT ANSWER - *Surveillance* a report of a series of patients with
similar diseases that describe their management or treatment in order to identify new strategies to
help other patients
Correlation (ecological) - CORRECT ANSWER - *Surveillance*used to conduct studies
of aggregates or population characteristics. Rates are calculated for characteristics that describe
populations and are used to compare frequencies b/t different groups at the same time or the
same group at different times *long term trends, seasonal patterns, event related clusters*
