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FNP 590 Midterm and Finals Questions with Answers and
Explanations.
Midterm Ch 1-8
Finals Ch 1-14, 25
CHAPTER 1
Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health
care?
Question options:
Clinical model
Role performance model
Adaptive model
Eudaimonistic model
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of health.
People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as receives
acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
Question options:
Clinical model
Role performance model
Adaptive model
Eudaimonistic model
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
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Explanations.
in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who believes in
the eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look for alternative
providers of care.
A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and
is experienced within a developmental context is known as:
Question options:
growth and development.
health.
functioning.
high-level wellness.
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
Question options:
The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A Midcourse Review
Healthy People 2020
Healthy People 2000
The U.S. Surgeon General Report
Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark documents in which
a consortium of people representing national organizations worked with US Public Health Service
officials to create a more global approach to health.
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Explanations.
Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?
Question options:
Informational session about healthy lifestyles
Blood pressure screening
Interventional cardiac catheterization
Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific
protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this
definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.
Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
Question options:
Self–breast examination education
Yearly mammograms
Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify individuals in an
early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a screening tool for breast cancer and
thus is considered a method of secondary prevention.
In reviewing a person’s medical claims, a nurse realizes that the individual with moderate
persistent asthma has had several emergency department visits and is not on inhaled steroids as
recommended by the NHLBI asthma management guidelines. The nurse discusses this with the
person’s primary care provider. In this scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
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FNP 590 Midterm and Finals Questions with Answers and
Explanations.
Question options:
advocate.
care manager.
consultant.
educator.
Care managers act to prevent duplication of service and reduce cost. Care managers base
recommendation on reliable data sources such as evidence-based practices and protocols.
During a home visit, a nurse assists an individual to complete an application for disability
services. The nurse is acting as a(n):
Question options:
advocate.
care manager.
consultant.
educator.
The advocacy role of the nurse helps individuals obtain what they are entitled to receive from the health
care system, tries to make the system more responsive to individuals’ community needs, and assists
individuals in developing skills to advocate for themselves.
During a home visit, a nurse discusses the dangers of smoking with an individual. In this
scenario the nurse is acting as a(n):
Question options:
advocate.
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FNP 590 Midterm and Finals Questions with Answers and
Explanations.
Midterm Ch 1-8
Finals Ch 1-14, 25
CHAPTER 1
Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health
care?
Question options:
Clinical model
Role performance model
Adaptive model
Eudaimonistic model
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of health.
People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as receives
acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
Question options:
Clinical model
Role performance model
Adaptive model
Eudaimonistic model
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
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FNP 590 Midterm and Finals Questions with Answers and
Explanations.
in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who believes in
the eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look for alternative
providers of care.
A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and
is experienced within a developmental context is known as:
Question options:
growth and development.
health.
functioning.
high-level wellness.
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
Question options:
The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A Midcourse Review
Healthy People 2020
Healthy People 2000
The U.S. Surgeon General Report
Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark documents in which
a consortium of people representing national organizations worked with US Public Health Service
officials to create a more global approach to health.
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FNP 590 Midterm and Finals Questions with Answers and
Explanations.
Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?
Question options:
Informational session about healthy lifestyles
Blood pressure screening
Interventional cardiac catheterization
Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific
protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this
definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.
Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
Question options:
Self–breast examination education
Yearly mammograms
Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify individuals in an
early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a screening tool for breast cancer and
thus is considered a method of secondary prevention.
In reviewing a person’s medical claims, a nurse realizes that the individual with moderate
persistent asthma has had several emergency department visits and is not on inhaled steroids as
recommended by the NHLBI asthma management guidelines. The nurse discusses this with the
person’s primary care provider. In this scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
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FNP 590 Midterm and Finals Questions with Answers and
Explanations.
Question options:
advocate.
care manager.
consultant.
educator.
Care managers act to prevent duplication of service and reduce cost. Care managers base
recommendation on reliable data sources such as evidence-based practices and protocols.
During a home visit, a nurse assists an individual to complete an application for disability
services. The nurse is acting as a(n):
Question options:
advocate.
care manager.
consultant.
educator.
The advocacy role of the nurse helps individuals obtain what they are entitled to receive from the health
care system, tries to make the system more responsive to individuals’ community needs, and assists
individuals in developing skills to advocate for themselves.
During a home visit, a nurse discusses the dangers of smoking with an individual. In this
scenario the nurse is acting as a(n):
Question options:
advocate.
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