NSG 522- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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NSG 522- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)NSG 522- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)NSG 522- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)NSG 522- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/202...
NSG 522- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
When stage do the onset of symptoms take place? - ANS ✓Stage of Clinical
Disease
When stage do pathologic changes occur? - ANS
✓Preclinical/Subclinical/Presymptomatic/Latent Disease
What stage is the usual time of diagnosis? - ANS ✓Stage of Clinical Disease
What stage may pathology be detected by screening? - ANS ✓Subclinical
Disease
What is true of infectious diseases in the stage of subclinical disease? - ANS
✓This is their incubation period
What is true of chronic diseases in the stage of subclinical disease? - ANS
✓This is their latency period.
What stage is the typical onset of Symptoms? - ANS ✓Stage of Clinical Disease
What stage is primary prevention used in? - ANS ✓The Stage of susceptibility
What is the focus of primary prevention? - ANS ✓To protect against disease:
Place the host in good health
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Immunizations
Public health measures
What stage of disease is Secondary Prevention used in? - ANS ✓During the
preclinical and early clinical stages of disease
What does secondary prevention focus on? - ANS ✓Early detection and
prompt intervention to control the disease and minimize or eliminate
complications.
Provide an example of Secondary prevention? - ANS ✓COVID_19 Screening in
asymptomatic patients
Are screening tests diagnostic? - ANS ✓No they are not. They are used to
identify people who might have a disease.
People who screen positive need what next? - ANS ✓Need to have additional
tests to confirm the presence of disease.
When is tertiary prevention used? - ANS ✓During the advanced stage of
clinical disease or when disability has occurred
What is the goal of tertiary prevention? - ANS ✓To reduce the long term
impact of disease and disability.
Primary Prevention occurs in which stage of disease? - ANS ✓Stage of
Susceptibility
Secondary Prevention occurs in which stage of disease? - ANS
✓Preclinical/Subclinical/Presymptomatic/Latent disease
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Which levels of prevention occur in the stage of clinical disease? - ANS
✓Secondary prevention during the early part of stage
Tertiary prevention occurs during more advanced disease
Define Communicability of Disease? - ANS ✓The ability of a disease to be
transmitted from one person to another OR to spread through the population.
What elements make up the Chain of infection? - ANS ✓Reservoir
Portal of Exit
Transmission- Direct, Indirect, Airborne
Portal of Entry
Susceptible Host
Define Reservoir? - ANS ✓Habitat in which the agent grows and lives
Reservoirs can be? - ANS ✓Human
Animal
Invertebrates (insects, arachnoids)
Environment
Is the Reservoir always the source from which an agent is transferred to a
host? - ANS ✓No. For example the reservoir of Clostridium botulinum is soil but
the source of most botulism infections is improperly canned food.
Do Reservoirs show the effects of illness? - ANS ✓Not always
Define a carrier? - ANS ✓A person with inapparent infection who is capable of
transmitting the pathogen to others.
Define Portal of Exit? - ANS ✓The path by which a pathogen leaves it's host.
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