NUR 452 Final Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
Acute vs chronic illness Correct Answers -acute: one time cost
-chronic: ongoing expenses, community resources allocated
Assessment Correct Answers -monitor health status to identify
community health problems
-diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in
the community
assurance Correct Answers -enforce laws and regulations that
protect health and assure safety
-link people to needed personal health services and assure
provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
-assure competent public health and personal healthcare
workforce
-evaluate effectiveness
-research new insights and innovative solutions to health
problems
Behaviors/Responses that may indicate limited literacy Correct
Answers -incomplete patient forms, frequently missed appts,
noncompliance with meds, lack of follow through, unable to
name meds, unable to identify when to take med
Care management vs Case Management Correct Answers -
Care: a process in which a population manager (nurse)
establishes systems and monitors the health status, resources,
and outcomes for an aggregate
,-Case: collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements,
coordinates, and monitors and evaluates options and services
required to meet the client's health and human services needs
Cause of death: teens Correct Answers unintentional injury
chain of infection Correct Answers -infectious agents:
microbes, pathogenicity, virulence
-reservoirs: humans, animals, plants/soil
-portal of exit: respiratory, integumentary, blood, GI, sexual
-means of transmission: vertical, horizontal, direct, indirect,
common vehicles, vectors
-Portal of re-entry: same as exit
-susceptible host: defense mechanisms, immunity, natural,
acquired
Characteristics of a successful screening program Correct
Answers -valid (accurate)-high probability or corrected
classification of persons tested
-reliable (precise)-results consistent from place to place, time to
time, and person to person
-Capable of large group administration- fast admin and results,
inexpensive (personnel and materials)
-innocuous- few side effects, minimally invasive
-high yield-able to detect enough news cases- amount previous
unrecognized but now diagnosed and treated as result of
screening program
Communicable disease Correct Answers -agents of
bioterrorism: bacillus anthracis in soil, anthrax, plague,
botulism, smallpox in freezers
, -Emerging: West Nile (mosquito, bird carrier), MRSA
-Vaccine preventable: dtap
-foodborne (salmonella), waterborne (tyhoid)
-vectorborne and zoonosis: lyme, west nile
-parasitic: pinworms, protozoa
-disease of travelers: TB, malaria
-healthcare acquired: MRSA, CAUTI
Communicable Diseases Correct Answers -immunization:
prevention through vaccine; eradication of smallpox
-tuberculosis
-AIDS
-Malaria
Community based Correct Answers -hands on care
-acute or chronic diseases
-providing care to individuals or families
-ex: school nurse, home health nurse
community oriented Correct Answers -no direct care
-providing care to a whole population or community
-goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health of
individuals, families, groups, populations, communities
community rights versus individual rights Correct Answers -is
it ethical to allow families to choose NOT to vaccinate their
children, placing other children, especially those who are unable
to be vaccinated at risk?
constitutional law Correct Answers -from federal and state
constitution