Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Gerontologic Clinical Nurse Specialist - correct
answers✅Master's prepared RN who functions as
clinician, educator, consultant, administrator, or
researcher.
Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner -
correct answers✅Practice in various settings and
function as a provider of primary care and a case
manager.
Gerontologic Nursing - correct answers✅nursing
specialty concerned with the care of the older adult
Gerontic Nursing - correct answers✅emphasizes
nurturing, caring, and comforting more than treatment of
disease.
Reasons for an increase in elderly population. - correct
answers✅Falling fertility rates, reduced infant and child
mortality, improved sanitation, vaccinations, increasing
survival at older ages.
Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social
interaction. - correct answers✅Why is marital status an
important determinant of health and well being?
,Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Functional independence with consideration for safety
and social interaction. - correct answers✅Housing
should promote..
Low level of education Impairments - correct
answers✅This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
Social Security - correct answers✅The major income
source for older individuals and couples in 2014.
75% - correct answers✅What percentage of all deaths
are caused by: heart disease, lung cancer, COPD,
accidents, strokes, alzheimers, diabetes, kidney disease,
flu/pneu, and suicide.
Functional Ability - correct answers✅The capacity to
carry out the basic self-care activities that ensure overall
health and well-being.
,Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Medicare Part A - correct answers✅The part of the
Medicare program that pays for hospitalization, care in a
skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice
care.
Medicare Part B - correct answers✅The part of the
Medicare program that pays for physician services,
outpatient hospital services, durable medical equipment,
and other services and supplies.
Medicare Part C - correct answers✅Managed care
health plans offered to medicare beneficiaries under the
medicare advantage program.
Acute Care Setting - correct answers✅Used for acute
conditions and do not do well in preventing functional
decline or prompting independence.
Subacute Care Units - correct answers✅Aimed at high-
risk, hospitalized older adults, bridge between hospital
and home.
Theories - correct answers✅Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
, Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Provides a sense of order
Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
Human Aging - correct answers✅This is influenced by a
composite of biologic, psychologic, social, functional and
spiritual factors.
Process that begins at conception.
Biologic Theories of Aging - correct
answers✅Concerned with answering basic questions
regarding physiologic processes that occur in all living
organisms over time.
Deleterious effects leading to decreasing function of the
organism, gradually occurring age related changes that
progress over time, intrinsic changes that may affect all
members of a species of chronologic age.
Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory - correct
answers✅Free radicals are byproducts of fundamental
metabolic activities within the body. Increased by
pollutants (ozone and pesticides.)
Question And Answers 2024
Gerontologic Clinical Nurse Specialist - correct
answers✅Master's prepared RN who functions as
clinician, educator, consultant, administrator, or
researcher.
Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner -
correct answers✅Practice in various settings and
function as a provider of primary care and a case
manager.
Gerontologic Nursing - correct answers✅nursing
specialty concerned with the care of the older adult
Gerontic Nursing - correct answers✅emphasizes
nurturing, caring, and comforting more than treatment of
disease.
Reasons for an increase in elderly population. - correct
answers✅Falling fertility rates, reduced infant and child
mortality, improved sanitation, vaccinations, increasing
survival at older ages.
Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social
interaction. - correct answers✅Why is marital status an
important determinant of health and well being?
,Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Functional independence with consideration for safety
and social interaction. - correct answers✅Housing
should promote..
Low level of education Impairments - correct
answers✅This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
Social Security - correct answers✅The major income
source for older individuals and couples in 2014.
75% - correct answers✅What percentage of all deaths
are caused by: heart disease, lung cancer, COPD,
accidents, strokes, alzheimers, diabetes, kidney disease,
flu/pneu, and suicide.
Functional Ability - correct answers✅The capacity to
carry out the basic self-care activities that ensure overall
health and well-being.
,Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Medicare Part A - correct answers✅The part of the
Medicare program that pays for hospitalization, care in a
skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice
care.
Medicare Part B - correct answers✅The part of the
Medicare program that pays for physician services,
outpatient hospital services, durable medical equipment,
and other services and supplies.
Medicare Part C - correct answers✅Managed care
health plans offered to medicare beneficiaries under the
medicare advantage program.
Acute Care Setting - correct answers✅Used for acute
conditions and do not do well in preventing functional
decline or prompting independence.
Subacute Care Units - correct answers✅Aimed at high-
risk, hospitalized older adults, bridge between hospital
and home.
Theories - correct answers✅Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
, Jersey College – Geriatrics Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Provides a sense of order
Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
Human Aging - correct answers✅This is influenced by a
composite of biologic, psychologic, social, functional and
spiritual factors.
Process that begins at conception.
Biologic Theories of Aging - correct
answers✅Concerned with answering basic questions
regarding physiologic processes that occur in all living
organisms over time.
Deleterious effects leading to decreasing function of the
organism, gradually occurring age related changes that
progress over time, intrinsic changes that may affect all
members of a species of chronologic age.
Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory - correct
answers✅Free radicals are byproducts of fundamental
metabolic activities within the body. Increased by
pollutants (ozone and pesticides.)
