NUR 338 Exam Questions With Correct Answers

NUR 338 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers

Epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-significant increase in a disease
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Endemic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-numbers of disease within a
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population


Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-outbreaks around the globe
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Humoral immunity: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-host carries antibodies
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Cellular immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-specific to each type of cell
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Natural immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-specifics-determined, innate
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resistance to an infectious agent
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Active immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-exposure to a disease
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organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that
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disease

, Passive immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a person is given antibodies
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to a disease rather than producing them through his or her own
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immune system |




Acquired immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-derived from actual
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exposure to specific infectious agent, toxin or appropriate vaccine
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Herd immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-immunity in which a large
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proportion of people in a population are not susceptible to a
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communicable disease and the few people who are susceptible will not
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likely be exposed and contract the illness.
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Basics of outbreak investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Prepare for
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field work|




2. Establish the existence of an outbreak
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3. Verify the diagnosis
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4. Define and identify cases
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5. Perform descriptive epidemiology
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6. Develop hypotheses
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7. Evaluate hypotheses
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8. As necessary, reconsider/refine hypotheses and execute additional
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studies
9. Implement control and prevention measures
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