NUR 514: EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
1) Why must definitions of health and prevention be clarified?
A) To provide clinicians with a standard point of view
B) To shift from an illness-centered focus toward wellness
C) To establish clarity and protocol
D) To streamline health counseling and education -- Answer ✔✔ b. To
shift from an illness-centered focus toward wellness
2) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the presence of a disease
state
A) necessitates prompt medical attention
B) excludes a person from being considered healthy
C) does not exclude a person from being considered healthy
D) classifies a person as in poor health. -- Answer ✔✔ c. does not
exclude a person from being considered healthy
3) Which approach to health promotion comes closest to that advocated by the
text?
A) Is determined primarily by the clinician
B) Pays close attention to cost effectiveness
C) Focuses on the absence of disease
, D) Considers the patient and his or her cultural perceptions -- Answer
✔✔ d. Considers the patient and his or her cultural perceptions
4) Which of the following is considered primary prevention?
A) Targeted immunization
B) Serves that limit an existing disability
C) Routine laboratory screening
D) Rehabilitation -- Answer ✔✔ a. Targeted immunization
5) What ratio of ambulatory visits most closely represents those due to chronic or
acute problems versus preventative care?
A) 2/1
B) 1/1
C) 3/1
D) 5/1 -- Answer ✔✔ c. 3/1
6) What area of injury prevention is a focus of the USPSTF's guidelines for
counseling all healthy, asymptomatic women?
A) motor vehicle accidents
B) falls
C) domestic violence
D) All of the above -- Answer ✔✔ a. motor vehicle accidents
7) What is the USPSTF recommendation regarding firearms?
A) Removed from homes with children under the age of ten
B) Stored in locked compartments
C) Removed from home or stored, unloaded, in locked compartments
D) Removed from private homes -- Answer ✔✔ c. Removed from
home or stored, unloaded, in locked compartments
8) Which type of counseling results in a statistically significant reduction in STIs?
A) Abstinence-only education
B) Counseling delivered in multiple individual or group sessions totaling
more than 3 hours
, C) Remote counseling via Internet or phone
D) Brief, individual sessions in the primary care setting -- Answer ✔✔
b. Counseling delivered in multiple individual or group sessions
totaling more than 3 hours
9) What is the leading preventable cause of death across all populations in the U.S.?
A) Motor vehicle accidents
B) Tobacco
C) Obesity
D) Alcoholism -- Answer ✔✔ b. Tobacco
10) What percentage of older women does NOT receive the recommended
immunizations for their age group, according to a recent study?
A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent -- Answer ✔✔ c. 50 percent
11) A major contributor to pelvic stability is
A) the coccyx
B) the pubis
C) the ilium and its ligaments
D) the sacrum. -- Answer ✔✔ c. the ilium and its ligaments
12) The sheet made up of dense fibrous tissue that spans the opening of the anterior
pelvic outlet is/are the
A) sphincter muscles.
B) deep perineal space.
C) perineal membrane
D) distal vagina. -- Answer ✔✔ a. sphincter muscles.
13) How many different fiber sections subdivide the levator ani muscular sheet?
A) 2
B) 3
SOLUTIONS
1) Why must definitions of health and prevention be clarified?
A) To provide clinicians with a standard point of view
B) To shift from an illness-centered focus toward wellness
C) To establish clarity and protocol
D) To streamline health counseling and education -- Answer ✔✔ b. To
shift from an illness-centered focus toward wellness
2) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the presence of a disease
state
A) necessitates prompt medical attention
B) excludes a person from being considered healthy
C) does not exclude a person from being considered healthy
D) classifies a person as in poor health. -- Answer ✔✔ c. does not
exclude a person from being considered healthy
3) Which approach to health promotion comes closest to that advocated by the
text?
A) Is determined primarily by the clinician
B) Pays close attention to cost effectiveness
C) Focuses on the absence of disease
, D) Considers the patient and his or her cultural perceptions -- Answer
✔✔ d. Considers the patient and his or her cultural perceptions
4) Which of the following is considered primary prevention?
A) Targeted immunization
B) Serves that limit an existing disability
C) Routine laboratory screening
D) Rehabilitation -- Answer ✔✔ a. Targeted immunization
5) What ratio of ambulatory visits most closely represents those due to chronic or
acute problems versus preventative care?
A) 2/1
B) 1/1
C) 3/1
D) 5/1 -- Answer ✔✔ c. 3/1
6) What area of injury prevention is a focus of the USPSTF's guidelines for
counseling all healthy, asymptomatic women?
A) motor vehicle accidents
B) falls
C) domestic violence
D) All of the above -- Answer ✔✔ a. motor vehicle accidents
7) What is the USPSTF recommendation regarding firearms?
A) Removed from homes with children under the age of ten
B) Stored in locked compartments
C) Removed from home or stored, unloaded, in locked compartments
D) Removed from private homes -- Answer ✔✔ c. Removed from
home or stored, unloaded, in locked compartments
8) Which type of counseling results in a statistically significant reduction in STIs?
A) Abstinence-only education
B) Counseling delivered in multiple individual or group sessions totaling
more than 3 hours
, C) Remote counseling via Internet or phone
D) Brief, individual sessions in the primary care setting -- Answer ✔✔
b. Counseling delivered in multiple individual or group sessions
totaling more than 3 hours
9) What is the leading preventable cause of death across all populations in the U.S.?
A) Motor vehicle accidents
B) Tobacco
C) Obesity
D) Alcoholism -- Answer ✔✔ b. Tobacco
10) What percentage of older women does NOT receive the recommended
immunizations for their age group, according to a recent study?
A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent -- Answer ✔✔ c. 50 percent
11) A major contributor to pelvic stability is
A) the coccyx
B) the pubis
C) the ilium and its ligaments
D) the sacrum. -- Answer ✔✔ c. the ilium and its ligaments
12) The sheet made up of dense fibrous tissue that spans the opening of the anterior
pelvic outlet is/are the
A) sphincter muscles.
B) deep perineal space.
C) perineal membrane
D) distal vagina. -- Answer ✔✔ a. sphincter muscles.
13) How many different fiber sections subdivide the levator ani muscular sheet?
A) 2
B) 3
