NUR 402 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS 2024-2025
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING - ANSWER Public Health Nursing public health nursing
focuses on the population, this type of nursing emphasizes on the prevention of disease
and disability
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Focus of Care - ANSWER Population focused and
community oriented, focus on health, prevention and interventions at the community
and population levels particularly at the more vulnerable subpopulations. Synthesis of
nursing and public health theory
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Nursing Activities - ANSWER promote, preserve, and
maintain the health of populations through disease and disability prevention and health
protection of the community as a whole, Solutions include: policy development, or
provision of a particular preventive service, implemented for or with a defined
population or subpopulation
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING Core Functions - ANSWER systematic assessment of the
health populations, development of policies to support the health of populations, and
ensuring that essential health services are available to all persons
COMMUNITY BASED NURSING Focus of Care - ANSWER individuals and families
COMMUNITY BASED NURSING Nursing Activities - ANSWER Disease care: Management
of acute and chronic conditions in settings where people, families and groups reside,
work, and "attend, " schools, camps, prisons
vulnerability - ANSWER Vulnerable populations are defined as those at increased risk
for poor health status and health care access
,Vulnerable populations - ANSWER the poor and homeless, pregnant adolescents,
migrant workers, immigrants, the severely mentally ill, substance abusers, the abused,
victims of violence, people with communicable diseases, HIV positive or have hepatitis B
virus, and people with sexually transmitted diseases
vulnerability outcomes - ANSWER Outcomes of vulnerability may be negative, such as
lower health status than the rest of the population, or they may be positive with effective
interventions.
Issues of the vulnerable-ANSWER deficiency in appropriate social, education, and
economic resources
Struggles of the vulnerable-ANSWER poverty is a cause of vulnerability
Struggles of the vulnerable-ANSWER health status-change in normal health status puts
the vulnerable at risk to special dangers, majority which is age (Some people are
vulnerable due to specific age due to the interaction between critical developmental
traits and socioeconomic stresses.
PFight of the vulnerable - ANSWER higher morbidity and mortality rates
Fight of the vulnerable - ANSWER health disparities, which are racial and ethnic
differences in the quality of care one receives. Disparities denote lower quality of care
or poorer outcomes and can be because of client-level factors, provider-level factors, or
health system-level factors.
Fight of the vulnerable - ANSWER high prevalence of chronic illnesses and also higher
mortality rates from crime and violence
Struggles of the vulnerable - ANSWER powerlessness = hopelessness
Barriers to healthcare, Health Literacy - ANSWER Health Literacy is a measure of a
client's ability to read, understand, and follow through with medical instructions. Access
, to health care may be more limited for lower socioeconomic groups
Barriers to health Access barriers - ANSWER Access barriers are policies and financial,
geographical, or cultural features of health care that render services hard to obtain or
so unappealing that individuals do not wish to seek care
Epidemiology - The study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states and
events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such
states, and the application of this knowledge to control health problems.
Descriptive epidemiology - Studies the distribution of disease and other health-related
states and events in terms of personal characteristics, geographical distribution
(place), and temporal patterns (time).
Analytic epidemiology- ANSWER Analytic epidemiology studies the origins and causal
factors of these events.
proportion- ANSWER ratio, ex: 28% of deaths in the US are caused by heart disease
rate- ANSWER rate is the frequency, how fast something is happening
risk- ANSWER probability
incidence proportion- ANSWER proportion of population-at-risk who experience the
event over some period
incidence rate - ANSWER number of new cases developing in a population-at-risk,
estimates the risk of developing the disease in the observed population within a
specified time, number of new cases in the population at a specific time ÷ population
total x 1,000 = blank per 1,000