Nur 3225 Exam 1 Study Guide
Questions with Actual Verified
Answers 2026 Updated.
what is COMMUNITY BASED CARE? - Answer ILLNESS-ORIENTED CARE OF INDIVIDUALS AND
FAMILIES
GOAL: MANAGE ACUTE OR CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS IN THE COMMUNITY AND HOME
SETTINGS RATHER THAN A HOSPITAL SETTING
What is Community health care? - Answer COMMUNITY - ORIENTED; POPULATION-FOCUSED
PROMOTES THE HEALTH OF POPULATIONS; FOCUSES ON THE WHOLE; THOSE SEEKING CARE AS
WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE NOT SEEKING CARE
public health is a specialty of? - Answer COMMUNITY ORIENTED; POPULATION FOCUSED
CARE
( community health care)
4 leading chronic diseases that cause death? - Answer CVD
Cancer
COPD
Diabetes
Role of nurse in acute care setting? - Answer DELIVER CARE BASED ON COMPLETE
ASSESSMENT, PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS, PATIENT CENTERED INTERVENTIONS,
EVALUATION OF CARE
Role of nurse in acute care- ED - Answer ACUTE INTERVENTIONS, RAPID ASSESSMENT AND
RAPID INTERVENTIONS
Role of nurse in acute care-Critical care units - Answer serial assessments and interventions
,Role of nurse in rehab? - Answer PLAN AND DELIVER CARE OF PATIENTS AND FAMILIES
AFFECTED BY CHRONIC ILLNESS OR DISABILITY; REGAINING SELF-CARE, REINTEGRATION INTO
THE COMMUNITY
EMPHASIS ON GOAL SETTING AND GOAL ATTAINMENT
PHYSICAL & PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT; BOWEL & BLADDER MANAGEMENT; SKIN CARE,
NUTRITION, TEACHING, CARE OF THE FAMILY
Role of nurse in community? - Answer EXPERT PRACTICE; ASSESS NEEDS OF GROUPS;
IDENTIFIES PATTERNS OR TRENDS; IMPLEMENTS AND EVALUATES STRATGIES TO IMPROVE
HEALTH OF THE GROUP
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE - SPECIALTY PRACTICE FOR HIGH RISK POPULATIONS
What are family risk factors in a pt? - Answer lifestyle
Environmental factors
Biological
Social and Psychological
Health care system
What is the primary level of illness prevention? - Answer precede the disease
individual considered physically and emotionally healthy
Health education programs, immunizations, nutrition classes
examples of primary level of illness prevention? - Answer PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
PRESENTING PROGRAMS IN HIGH SCHOOL RE: STD
What is the secondary level of illness prevention? - Answer early detection and diagnosis
prompt treatment
nursing care delivered for screening and treatment of early stages of disease
example of secondary level of illness prevention? - Answer screening for postpartum
depression in mothers in well baby clinic
What is the tertiary level of illness prevention? - Answer MINIMIZING EFFECTS OF
PERMANENT, IRREVERSIBLE DISEASE OR DISABILITY
,examples of tertiary level of illness prevention? - Answer NURSE IN GERIATRIC CARE CENTER
REFERS DIABETIC PATIENT TO FOOT CARE EDUCATION PROGRAM; NUTRITION PROGRAM
Alarm reaction - Answer Flight or fight response
Physiologic changes
↑secretion of corticosteroids (adrenal cortex)
↑SNS activity
↑norepinephrine (adrenal medulla)
Low resistance to stressor
stage of resistance - Answer Adapting
↑Resistance to stressor (resources
are mobilized)
Physiologic changes
Corticosteroids back to normal
SNS normalizes
Norepinephrine normalizes
Flight/fight disappears
High resistance to stressor
stage of exhaustion - Answer Final stage
Adaptation unsuccessful
All energy expended
Mild alarm s/s may be seen
Illness/death
May be reversed by external sources (medications)
what is emotion focused coping? - Answer Talk about it with a friend, take a hot bath,
manicure, pedicure, massage, Starbucks
, emotion v. problem coping examples - Answer you fail a test
emotion= go for run
problem solve= get a tutor
-ectomy - Answer excision or removal of
-lysis - Answer destruction of
-orrhapy - Answer repair or suture of
-oscopy - Answer looking into
-ostomy - Answer creation of opening into
-otomy - Answer cutting into or incision of
-plasty - Answer repair or reconstruction of
pre-op nursing assessment subjective data - Answer Psychosocial assessment (anxiety, fear,
stress,situational changes-support systems, personal control- past experiences, knowledge
deficit)
Past health Hx
medications
allergies
ROS
functional health patterns
pre-op nursing assessment objective data - Answer Physical assessment
Labs
Diagnostic data
ex: X-rays, urinalysis, ABGs
Questions with Actual Verified
Answers 2026 Updated.
what is COMMUNITY BASED CARE? - Answer ILLNESS-ORIENTED CARE OF INDIVIDUALS AND
FAMILIES
GOAL: MANAGE ACUTE OR CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS IN THE COMMUNITY AND HOME
SETTINGS RATHER THAN A HOSPITAL SETTING
What is Community health care? - Answer COMMUNITY - ORIENTED; POPULATION-FOCUSED
PROMOTES THE HEALTH OF POPULATIONS; FOCUSES ON THE WHOLE; THOSE SEEKING CARE AS
WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE NOT SEEKING CARE
public health is a specialty of? - Answer COMMUNITY ORIENTED; POPULATION FOCUSED
CARE
( community health care)
4 leading chronic diseases that cause death? - Answer CVD
Cancer
COPD
Diabetes
Role of nurse in acute care setting? - Answer DELIVER CARE BASED ON COMPLETE
ASSESSMENT, PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS, PATIENT CENTERED INTERVENTIONS,
EVALUATION OF CARE
Role of nurse in acute care- ED - Answer ACUTE INTERVENTIONS, RAPID ASSESSMENT AND
RAPID INTERVENTIONS
Role of nurse in acute care-Critical care units - Answer serial assessments and interventions
,Role of nurse in rehab? - Answer PLAN AND DELIVER CARE OF PATIENTS AND FAMILIES
AFFECTED BY CHRONIC ILLNESS OR DISABILITY; REGAINING SELF-CARE, REINTEGRATION INTO
THE COMMUNITY
EMPHASIS ON GOAL SETTING AND GOAL ATTAINMENT
PHYSICAL & PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT; BOWEL & BLADDER MANAGEMENT; SKIN CARE,
NUTRITION, TEACHING, CARE OF THE FAMILY
Role of nurse in community? - Answer EXPERT PRACTICE; ASSESS NEEDS OF GROUPS;
IDENTIFIES PATTERNS OR TRENDS; IMPLEMENTS AND EVALUATES STRATGIES TO IMPROVE
HEALTH OF THE GROUP
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE - SPECIALTY PRACTICE FOR HIGH RISK POPULATIONS
What are family risk factors in a pt? - Answer lifestyle
Environmental factors
Biological
Social and Psychological
Health care system
What is the primary level of illness prevention? - Answer precede the disease
individual considered physically and emotionally healthy
Health education programs, immunizations, nutrition classes
examples of primary level of illness prevention? - Answer PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
PRESENTING PROGRAMS IN HIGH SCHOOL RE: STD
What is the secondary level of illness prevention? - Answer early detection and diagnosis
prompt treatment
nursing care delivered for screening and treatment of early stages of disease
example of secondary level of illness prevention? - Answer screening for postpartum
depression in mothers in well baby clinic
What is the tertiary level of illness prevention? - Answer MINIMIZING EFFECTS OF
PERMANENT, IRREVERSIBLE DISEASE OR DISABILITY
,examples of tertiary level of illness prevention? - Answer NURSE IN GERIATRIC CARE CENTER
REFERS DIABETIC PATIENT TO FOOT CARE EDUCATION PROGRAM; NUTRITION PROGRAM
Alarm reaction - Answer Flight or fight response
Physiologic changes
↑secretion of corticosteroids (adrenal cortex)
↑SNS activity
↑norepinephrine (adrenal medulla)
Low resistance to stressor
stage of resistance - Answer Adapting
↑Resistance to stressor (resources
are mobilized)
Physiologic changes
Corticosteroids back to normal
SNS normalizes
Norepinephrine normalizes
Flight/fight disappears
High resistance to stressor
stage of exhaustion - Answer Final stage
Adaptation unsuccessful
All energy expended
Mild alarm s/s may be seen
Illness/death
May be reversed by external sources (medications)
what is emotion focused coping? - Answer Talk about it with a friend, take a hot bath,
manicure, pedicure, massage, Starbucks
, emotion v. problem coping examples - Answer you fail a test
emotion= go for run
problem solve= get a tutor
-ectomy - Answer excision or removal of
-lysis - Answer destruction of
-orrhapy - Answer repair or suture of
-oscopy - Answer looking into
-ostomy - Answer creation of opening into
-otomy - Answer cutting into or incision of
-plasty - Answer repair or reconstruction of
pre-op nursing assessment subjective data - Answer Psychosocial assessment (anxiety, fear,
stress,situational changes-support systems, personal control- past experiences, knowledge
deficit)
Past health Hx
medications
allergies
ROS
functional health patterns
pre-op nursing assessment objective data - Answer Physical assessment
Labs
Diagnostic data
ex: X-rays, urinalysis, ABGs
