NUR 4390 Final Exam Questions with
Complete/Verified Solutions 2025-2026
Updated.
Health - Answer holistic state of well-being, state of complete physical, mental, & social well-
being
Wellness - Answer dynamic balance among physical, psychological, social, spiritual aspects
of a person's life
Aggregate - Answer a population or group
Population - Answer a collection of people who share one or more personal or
environmental characteristics
Community-Based Nursing - Answer focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families
Community-Oriented Nursing - Answer focuses on promoting quality of life, focuses on the
healthcare of community as a "whole" in addition to individuals, families, and groups
Public Health - Answer goal is to organize community efforts that will use scientific and
technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health
Benefits from Public Health - Answer increase in life expectancy, decreased deaths from
stroke, CAD, and cancer, declines in death rates in adults and kids
Public Health Core Functions - Answer assessment, policy development, assurance
Assessment - Answer systematic data collection on the population, monitoring health
statuses, and publishing info on community health
Policy Development - Answer the need to provide leadership in developing policies that
support the health of the population
Assurance - Answer the way public health practice ensures the availability of essential
community-wide health services, includes ensuring the availability of a competent public health
and personal health care workforce
,Primary Prevention - Answer health promotion and assessing risk factors
Secondary Prevention - Answer screening of at risk individuals, control of risk factors, early
interventions
Tertiary Prevention - Answer rehabilitation, preventing complications and improving quality
of life
Autonomy - Answer individuals select actions that fulfill their goals, right to self-
determination
Nonmaleficence - Answer do no harm
Beneficence - Answer maximize possible benefits and minimize harm
Distributive Justice - Answer fair distribution of benefits and burden in society based on the
needs and contributions of its members (i.e determining who will be eligible for healthcare
based on income)
Healthy People 2030 - Answer 10 year plan to address most critical public health priorities
and challenges, designed to measure progress over time
Social Determinants of Health - Answer education, economic status, social support,
transportation, neighborhood and physical environment, employment
Elizabethan Poor Law - Answer gave local government the power to raise taxes and use the
funds to build and maintain almshouses (provided relief for aged, handicapped, and the poor)
Shattuck Report - Answer first use of demographic data to look at birth and death records,
most illness was found to be related to unsanitary conditions, established first state and local
health departments
Florence Nightingale - Answer political activist, first nursing school, introduced the principles
of asepsis and infection control through EBP
Lillian Wald - Answer developed a viable practice for PH nursing (Henry Street Settlement),
provided well baby care, health ed, disease prevention, and tx of minor illnesses, developed the
first nursing service for occupational health (Metropolitan Life Insurance)
, John Snow - Answer father of epidemiology, determined the cause of cholera by going door
to door collecting data on daily habits ("Shoe Leather" method), used disease plot mapping
Mary Breckinridge - Answer frontier nursing services to provide rural healthcare
Dorothea Dix - Answer first hospital for the mentally ill
Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 - Answer expanded community health nursing roles for
maternal and child health
Parish Nurse - Answer works closely with individuals, families, and faith communities to
establish programs and services that significantly affect health, healing, and wholeness
Health Ministries - Answer activities and programs in faith communities organized around
health and healing. (visiting homebound, providing meals for families in crisis, prayer circles,
volunteering in community care groups, serving church dinners, holding grief support groups)
Congregational Model - Faith Nursing - Answer the nurse is autonomous and accountable to
the congregation, the development of a parish nurse program arises from the individual
community of faith
Institutional Model - Faith Nursing - Answer includes greater collabs and partnerships than
the congregational model. the nurse may be in a contractual relationships with hospitals, med
centers, long-term care establishments, or educational institutions
Home Health Benefits - Answer clients and families are more comfortable, it is easier to
make health-related lifestyle changes,accessible for homebound patients
Hospice - Answer delivery of palliative care of the very ill and dying, offering both respite
and comfort
Palliative Care - Answer interdisciplinary team-based care that is focused on the relief of
suffering for clients with serious illnesses, best possible quality of life for clients and families
Roles of School Nurses - Answer give care to children as direct caregivers, educators,
counselors, and case managers
Occupational Health Nursing - Answer specialty practice that focuses on the promotion,
prevention, and restoration of health within the context of a safe and healthy work
Complete/Verified Solutions 2025-2026
Updated.
Health - Answer holistic state of well-being, state of complete physical, mental, & social well-
being
Wellness - Answer dynamic balance among physical, psychological, social, spiritual aspects
of a person's life
Aggregate - Answer a population or group
Population - Answer a collection of people who share one or more personal or
environmental characteristics
Community-Based Nursing - Answer focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families
Community-Oriented Nursing - Answer focuses on promoting quality of life, focuses on the
healthcare of community as a "whole" in addition to individuals, families, and groups
Public Health - Answer goal is to organize community efforts that will use scientific and
technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health
Benefits from Public Health - Answer increase in life expectancy, decreased deaths from
stroke, CAD, and cancer, declines in death rates in adults and kids
Public Health Core Functions - Answer assessment, policy development, assurance
Assessment - Answer systematic data collection on the population, monitoring health
statuses, and publishing info on community health
Policy Development - Answer the need to provide leadership in developing policies that
support the health of the population
Assurance - Answer the way public health practice ensures the availability of essential
community-wide health services, includes ensuring the availability of a competent public health
and personal health care workforce
,Primary Prevention - Answer health promotion and assessing risk factors
Secondary Prevention - Answer screening of at risk individuals, control of risk factors, early
interventions
Tertiary Prevention - Answer rehabilitation, preventing complications and improving quality
of life
Autonomy - Answer individuals select actions that fulfill their goals, right to self-
determination
Nonmaleficence - Answer do no harm
Beneficence - Answer maximize possible benefits and minimize harm
Distributive Justice - Answer fair distribution of benefits and burden in society based on the
needs and contributions of its members (i.e determining who will be eligible for healthcare
based on income)
Healthy People 2030 - Answer 10 year plan to address most critical public health priorities
and challenges, designed to measure progress over time
Social Determinants of Health - Answer education, economic status, social support,
transportation, neighborhood and physical environment, employment
Elizabethan Poor Law - Answer gave local government the power to raise taxes and use the
funds to build and maintain almshouses (provided relief for aged, handicapped, and the poor)
Shattuck Report - Answer first use of demographic data to look at birth and death records,
most illness was found to be related to unsanitary conditions, established first state and local
health departments
Florence Nightingale - Answer political activist, first nursing school, introduced the principles
of asepsis and infection control through EBP
Lillian Wald - Answer developed a viable practice for PH nursing (Henry Street Settlement),
provided well baby care, health ed, disease prevention, and tx of minor illnesses, developed the
first nursing service for occupational health (Metropolitan Life Insurance)
, John Snow - Answer father of epidemiology, determined the cause of cholera by going door
to door collecting data on daily habits ("Shoe Leather" method), used disease plot mapping
Mary Breckinridge - Answer frontier nursing services to provide rural healthcare
Dorothea Dix - Answer first hospital for the mentally ill
Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 - Answer expanded community health nursing roles for
maternal and child health
Parish Nurse - Answer works closely with individuals, families, and faith communities to
establish programs and services that significantly affect health, healing, and wholeness
Health Ministries - Answer activities and programs in faith communities organized around
health and healing. (visiting homebound, providing meals for families in crisis, prayer circles,
volunteering in community care groups, serving church dinners, holding grief support groups)
Congregational Model - Faith Nursing - Answer the nurse is autonomous and accountable to
the congregation, the development of a parish nurse program arises from the individual
community of faith
Institutional Model - Faith Nursing - Answer includes greater collabs and partnerships than
the congregational model. the nurse may be in a contractual relationships with hospitals, med
centers, long-term care establishments, or educational institutions
Home Health Benefits - Answer clients and families are more comfortable, it is easier to
make health-related lifestyle changes,accessible for homebound patients
Hospice - Answer delivery of palliative care of the very ill and dying, offering both respite
and comfort
Palliative Care - Answer interdisciplinary team-based care that is focused on the relief of
suffering for clients with serious illnesses, best possible quality of life for clients and families
Roles of School Nurses - Answer give care to children as direct caregivers, educators,
counselors, and case managers
Occupational Health Nursing - Answer specialty practice that focuses on the promotion,
prevention, and restoration of health within the context of a safe and healthy work
