NURS 4465 Vulnerability and Vulnerable Populations
QUESTIONS With COMPLETE Solutions
How can age affect vulnerabilitiy? Correct Answers Extreme
ends of the different ages (infants/older adults) are less able to
physiologically adapt to stressors. E.g. low birth weight infants
are at risk for a lot of physiological and developmental problems
and older adults are more likely to develop infections from
comunicable diseases like TB
How can nurses obtain info from vulnerable populations?
Correct Answers Nursing assesment must balance the need to
be comprehensive with the ability to focus only on info that the
nurse requires and the client is willing to provide because of the
client's multiple stressors. Also nurse must have a reason to
obtain the data before asking clients
How can you remove barriers to access? Correct Answers By
providing extended clinic hours, low-cost or free health services
for people who are unisured or underinsured, transportation,
mobile vans, interpretors
How do nurses empower clients? Correct Answers They do it
by helping them acquire the skills needed for healthy living and
for being effective health care consumers.
What are barriers to access? Correct Answers Policies and
financial, geographic, or cultural features of health care that
make services difficult to obtain or so unappealing that people
do not wish to seek care.
, What are carve outs? Correct Answers when some vulnerable
populations groups are such high financial risks and have such
unique needs that their care is contracted to specialty groups.
E.g. mental health and substance abuse services are often
contracted out to behavioral managed care firms.
What are comprehensive services? Correct Answers Health
services that focus on more than one health problem or concern.
E.g. a single client encounter might focus on an acute health
problem such as the influenza, but it may include health
education related to diet and exercise, counseling related to
smoking cessation, and a follow-up appointment for
immunizations
What are disadvantaged populations? Correct Answers Those
that have fewer resources for promoting health and treating
illness than the average person in the United States. E.g. a
family below the poverty line is considered disadvantaged in
terms of access to economic resources
What are disparities Correct Answers racial or ethnic
differences in the quality of care that are not due to access-
related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and
appropriateness of intervention
IT is lower quality of care or poorer outcomes
What are examples of vulnerable populations? Correct Answers
- poor and homeless
- pregnant adolescents
- migrant workers and immigrants
- individuals with mental health problems
QUESTIONS With COMPLETE Solutions
How can age affect vulnerabilitiy? Correct Answers Extreme
ends of the different ages (infants/older adults) are less able to
physiologically adapt to stressors. E.g. low birth weight infants
are at risk for a lot of physiological and developmental problems
and older adults are more likely to develop infections from
comunicable diseases like TB
How can nurses obtain info from vulnerable populations?
Correct Answers Nursing assesment must balance the need to
be comprehensive with the ability to focus only on info that the
nurse requires and the client is willing to provide because of the
client's multiple stressors. Also nurse must have a reason to
obtain the data before asking clients
How can you remove barriers to access? Correct Answers By
providing extended clinic hours, low-cost or free health services
for people who are unisured or underinsured, transportation,
mobile vans, interpretors
How do nurses empower clients? Correct Answers They do it
by helping them acquire the skills needed for healthy living and
for being effective health care consumers.
What are barriers to access? Correct Answers Policies and
financial, geographic, or cultural features of health care that
make services difficult to obtain or so unappealing that people
do not wish to seek care.
, What are carve outs? Correct Answers when some vulnerable
populations groups are such high financial risks and have such
unique needs that their care is contracted to specialty groups.
E.g. mental health and substance abuse services are often
contracted out to behavioral managed care firms.
What are comprehensive services? Correct Answers Health
services that focus on more than one health problem or concern.
E.g. a single client encounter might focus on an acute health
problem such as the influenza, but it may include health
education related to diet and exercise, counseling related to
smoking cessation, and a follow-up appointment for
immunizations
What are disadvantaged populations? Correct Answers Those
that have fewer resources for promoting health and treating
illness than the average person in the United States. E.g. a
family below the poverty line is considered disadvantaged in
terms of access to economic resources
What are disparities Correct Answers racial or ethnic
differences in the quality of care that are not due to access-
related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and
appropriateness of intervention
IT is lower quality of care or poorer outcomes
What are examples of vulnerable populations? Correct Answers
- poor and homeless
- pregnant adolescents
- migrant workers and immigrants
- individuals with mental health problems
