NGR 6638 HEALTH PROMOTION FINAL EXAM – UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS REVIEW FOR ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE 2025–
2026
DESCRIPTION
This document contains final exam preparation material for NGR 6638 Health Promotion,
focusing on key topics such as health promotion strategies, disease prevention, and population
health in advanced nursing practice. It includes exam-style questions and answers to help
reinforce important course concepts.
The material is designed to assist graduate nursing students in reviewing core content and
preparing effectively for the NGR 6638 Health Promotion final exam.
ANSWER FORMAT
The document Contains Questons with Correct and Verified Answers
What is primordial prevention?
- works to eliminate predisposing risk factors such as environmental controls, maternal
deprivation or illiteracy.
- Avoiding the development of risk factors and/or stopping the appearance of risk factors
- Individual and mass education, whole population through public health policies
- no smoking in restaurants/government buildings, etc
What is primary prevention?
- Reduce risk factors, prevent disease well before it develops.
- Immunizations, routine consultations/primary care advice
- whole population-selected groups & healthy people
What is secondary prevention?
- uses screening procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible.
- primary risk factor reduction for those at risk of chronic diseases, falls, injury
- Involves screening asymptomatic individuals for a disease to detect it early, and with
early intervention achieve a better outcome than with later detection and treatment
- PSA for prostate cancer detection
- PAP smear screening
- Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible
What is tertiary prevention?
, - Aimed at stopping the progress of established disease.
- Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of health to prevent complications or further
illness, injury, or disability
- For example, after a heart attack, a patient may undergo cardiac rehabilitation to
prevent a relapse
- Speech therapy after CVA
Examples of Primary Prevention
- youth violence
- personal safety (encouraging the use of seatbelts, bike helmets)
- disease prevention (counseling about safer sex practices, sunscreen, vaccinations,
chemoprophylaxis)
- healthy lifestyle (exercise, diet)
- providing information on accident and fall prevention
- Tobacco control programs
- bully prevention
Examples of Secondary Prevention
- PSA for prostate cancer detection
- PAP smear screening
- Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible
- any lab test to screen for disease (CBC for anemia, TSH for thyroid)
- US Task Force recommendations for screening examinations- mammography and
PAP smears
- Testing for hearing loss
- BP measurements to detect HTN
- lipid profile to rule out hyperlipidemia
- breast self-exam, testicular exam
Examples of Tertiary Prevention
- Rehab (cardiac rehabilitation after MI)
- support groups
AND ANSWERS REVIEW FOR ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE 2025–
2026
DESCRIPTION
This document contains final exam preparation material for NGR 6638 Health Promotion,
focusing on key topics such as health promotion strategies, disease prevention, and population
health in advanced nursing practice. It includes exam-style questions and answers to help
reinforce important course concepts.
The material is designed to assist graduate nursing students in reviewing core content and
preparing effectively for the NGR 6638 Health Promotion final exam.
ANSWER FORMAT
The document Contains Questons with Correct and Verified Answers
What is primordial prevention?
- works to eliminate predisposing risk factors such as environmental controls, maternal
deprivation or illiteracy.
- Avoiding the development of risk factors and/or stopping the appearance of risk factors
- Individual and mass education, whole population through public health policies
- no smoking in restaurants/government buildings, etc
What is primary prevention?
- Reduce risk factors, prevent disease well before it develops.
- Immunizations, routine consultations/primary care advice
- whole population-selected groups & healthy people
What is secondary prevention?
- uses screening procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible.
- primary risk factor reduction for those at risk of chronic diseases, falls, injury
- Involves screening asymptomatic individuals for a disease to detect it early, and with
early intervention achieve a better outcome than with later detection and treatment
- PSA for prostate cancer detection
- PAP smear screening
- Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible
What is tertiary prevention?
, - Aimed at stopping the progress of established disease.
- Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of health to prevent complications or further
illness, injury, or disability
- For example, after a heart attack, a patient may undergo cardiac rehabilitation to
prevent a relapse
- Speech therapy after CVA
Examples of Primary Prevention
- youth violence
- personal safety (encouraging the use of seatbelts, bike helmets)
- disease prevention (counseling about safer sex practices, sunscreen, vaccinations,
chemoprophylaxis)
- healthy lifestyle (exercise, diet)
- providing information on accident and fall prevention
- Tobacco control programs
- bully prevention
Examples of Secondary Prevention
- PSA for prostate cancer detection
- PAP smear screening
- Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible
- any lab test to screen for disease (CBC for anemia, TSH for thyroid)
- US Task Force recommendations for screening examinations- mammography and
PAP smears
- Testing for hearing loss
- BP measurements to detect HTN
- lipid profile to rule out hyperlipidemia
- breast self-exam, testicular exam
Examples of Tertiary Prevention
- Rehab (cardiac rehabilitation after MI)
- support groups
