NSG 440 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ACCURATE ANSWERS
All of the cases of a disease - Answers - prevalence
Number of new cases - Answers - incidence
A nurse undergoes _______ when they try to find the origin of start of a disease
outbreak - Answers - analytic epidemiology
What kind of nurse is the only nurse that performs contact tracing - Answers - public
health nurse
You have 3 clients at GCU with all of the same s/s. What do you need to do - Answers -
epidemiology investigation (contact tracing)
What is the best way to prevent the spread of disease` - Answers - hand washing
What is the best way to increase a client immune response prior to getting a disease -
Answers - immunizations
What two populations are considered high risk for disease - Answers - homeless and IV
drug users
Number of new cases and number of total cases is the same - Answers - endemic
Why can't schools provide the nursing care they would like to their children - Answers -
each school can't afford a RN
Why do we perform health screenings - Answers - to know if they need an intervention
Who started public health nursing - Answers - Lillian Wald
Multiple environmental factors that influence our health - Answers - social determinants
of health
What is the first thing we do as nurses, typically - Answers - assess
Why do we talk to key informants - Answers - we need an intervention that is acceptable
to the client
1885 cholera outbreak - Answers - John Snow
Term to describe how nurses are protected by certain laws in the public - Answers -
sovereign immunity
ACCURATE ANSWERS
All of the cases of a disease - Answers - prevalence
Number of new cases - Answers - incidence
A nurse undergoes _______ when they try to find the origin of start of a disease
outbreak - Answers - analytic epidemiology
What kind of nurse is the only nurse that performs contact tracing - Answers - public
health nurse
You have 3 clients at GCU with all of the same s/s. What do you need to do - Answers -
epidemiology investigation (contact tracing)
What is the best way to prevent the spread of disease` - Answers - hand washing
What is the best way to increase a client immune response prior to getting a disease -
Answers - immunizations
What two populations are considered high risk for disease - Answers - homeless and IV
drug users
Number of new cases and number of total cases is the same - Answers - endemic
Why can't schools provide the nursing care they would like to their children - Answers -
each school can't afford a RN
Why do we perform health screenings - Answers - to know if they need an intervention
Who started public health nursing - Answers - Lillian Wald
Multiple environmental factors that influence our health - Answers - social determinants
of health
What is the first thing we do as nurses, typically - Answers - assess
Why do we talk to key informants - Answers - we need an intervention that is acceptable
to the client
1885 cholera outbreak - Answers - John Snow
Term to describe how nurses are protected by certain laws in the public - Answers -
sovereign immunity
