NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH UNIVERSITY| A GRADED
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NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED
NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED
NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED
NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED 2023-2024
1. Which of the following is a primary prevention measure for a 76-year-old man newly diagnosed with a
testosterone deficiency?
a. Calcium supplementation
b. Testicular self-examination
c. Bone density test
d. Digital rectal examination - ANSWER--a. calcium supplementation
2. Which of the following is an example of secondary prevention in a 50-year-old woman?
a. Yearly mammogram
b. Low animal fat diet
c. Use ofseat belt
d. Daily application ofsunscreen - ANSWER--a. yearly mammogram
3. Which of the following is an example of tertiary prevention in a patient with chronic renal failure?
a. Fluid restriction
b. Hemodialysis 4 days a week
c. High-protein diet
d. Maintenance of blood pressure at 120/80 - ANSWER--b. Hemodialysis 4 days a week
4. Immunizations are an example of which type of prevention?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary - ANSWER--a. Primary
1. Prevalence is the number of new cases of a particular disease. - ANSWER--False
2. The number of cases of a particular disease for the past 5 years is an example of the incidence rate -
ANSWER--False
, NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED 2023-2024
3. ―There are 1,185,000 cases of HIV/AIDS in the United States‖ is an example of the morbidity rate. -
ANSWER--True
4. Endemic is the term used when the presence of an event is constant. - ANSWER--True
5. The ―bird‖ flu of 2005 to 2006 is considered a sporadic outbreak. - ANSWER--False
6. A pandemic affects many communities in a short period of time. - ANSWER--True
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. The World Health
Organization defines self-care as:
a. An important global activity for all health-care providers
b. A set of deliberate actions that all individuals, families, and communities should engage in to maintain
good health
c. Essential to efficacious advanced practice nursing (APRN) practice
d. An awareness by the APRN of their self-care behaviors as related to diet, activity, and mental attitude
- ANSWER--b. A set of deliberate actions that all individuals, families, and communities should engage in
to maintain good health
a. Attainment of professional self-development goals
b. Ability to persevere through hardship
c. Striving to attain balance and harmony in one's life
d. Comprising activities that are performed independently by an individual to promote and maintain
well-being throughout life - ANSWER--d. Comprising activities that are performed independently by an
individual to promote and mai
3. Self-care and personal development are built into the standards of practice of:
a. The American Holistic Nurses Association
, NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED 2023-2024
b. The American Nurses Association
c. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
d. The American Academy of Nursing - ANSWER--a. The American Holistic Nurses Association
4. There are many pressures inherent in primary care practice today for APRNs. These pressures include
all of the following:
a. Electronic medical record, the Affordable Care Act, and the implementation of socialized medicine b.
Patient care outcomes being tied to reimbursement, role diffusion with physicians and physician
assistants
c. Uncertainty, the team approach to care, and the need for patient-centered care
d. Availability of medical information on the internet, educational programs for patients, and Medicare
drug benefits - ANSWER--b. Patient care outcomes being tied to reimbursement, role diffusion with
physicians and physician assistants
5. A new era of health care leads to:
a. Greater opportunity for independent practice, yet increased legal risk in accountability for patients
b. Lowered reimbursement for all health-care services and providers
c. Decrease in status for health-care providers
d. No ability to individualize care - ANSWER--a. Greater opportunity for independent practice, yet
increased legal risk in accountability for patients
6. Compassion fatigue is another side-effect of today's health-care delivery system. This term means:
a. The APRN feels sudden guilt and distress when he or she cannot rescue or save an individual, such as
when bad health habits persist despite the best efforts of the APRN.
b. This happens over time related to the need to see increasing numbers of patients in busy primary care
practices.
c. This may persist over time, even when the APRN transfers to a new and different setting.
d. Patients' problems and circumstances can be so overwhelming that the APRN needs to set severe
boundaries to maintain safe function. - ANSWER--a. The APRN feels sudden guilt and distress when he or
she cannot rescue or save an individual, such as when bad health habits persist despite the best efforts
of the APRN.
, NSG 6440 EXAM WEEK 9 PREDICTOR TEST | SOUTH
UNIVERSITY| A GRADED 2023-2024
7. Another term used, burn out, is differentiated by:
a. Numbness of feelings leading to substance abuse
b. How novice APRNs feel at the end of the day in primary care
c. Feelings of aloneness, desperation, and despair
d. A gradual response to the inability to achieve one's goals with patients in the work setting; it is
characterized by frustration and diminishing morale - ANSWER--d. A gradual response to the inability to
achieve one's goals with patients in the work setting; it is characterized by frustration and diminishing
morale
8. The following statement is true:
a. APRNs are often sensitive to patients' deficiencies but not their own. b. APRNs always respond
appropriately to patients, families, and team members.
c. APRNs are well-equipped from their APRN educational programs to care for self.
d. Relicensure in some states mandates continuing education units in self-care. - ANSWER--a. APRNs are
often sensitive to patients' deficiencies but not their own.
9. Self-compassion is the ability to be compassionate to one's self and is positively correlated with
emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is defined as:
a. Being highly attuned to the needs of others
b. The ability to engage in self-care
c. Being aware of self, having the capacity to self-regulate, possessing motivation, empathy, and social
skills
d. The holistic integration ofself-care and self-development practices - ANSWER--c. Being aware of self,
having the capacity to self-regulate, possessing motivation, empathy, and social skills
10. APRNs need to develop their own self-management plans. Two key elements of self management
plans are:
a. Taking vacations and keeping up with new knowledge and developments in medicine
b. Resilience and positive intentionality c. Family support and a healthy diet
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