NFDN 2006 EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔True or false: Clinical medicine focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
in individuals, and epidemiology focuses on understanding the causes of disease in
populations - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: All elements of the epidemiological triangle must be affected if disease
is to occur. - ✔✔False
✔✔True or false: The use of treadmill stress tests is an activity of secondary prevention
for cardiovascular disease - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: The consistency or repeatability of a measure is called the reliability of
a measure - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: Specificity is a type of validity that indicates how accurately the test
identifies those people without a particular disease - ✔✔True
✔✔The complex contributory interrelationship of many factors that interact to affect
disease is which of the following?
A. Epidemiological triangle
B. Preclinical pathogenesis
C. Web of causality
D. Primary prevention - ✔✔C
✔✔Which one of the following illustrates a host factor?
A. Radiation
B. Crowding
C. Pesticides
D. Diet - ✔✔D
✔✔Which one of the following best describes a rate?
A. A measure of the frequency of a health event in a defined population during a
specified period of time
B. An investigation of the causes and associations between factors, events, and health
C. Simultaneous investigation of outcomes and exposures for a characteristic of interest
D. A measure of the level of occurrence of disease exceeding expectations - ✔✔A
✔✔When using the epidemiological method, how does a community health nurse
describe the disease, event or injury? - ✔✔Describes the distribution of the disease,
event or injury - who, where, and when it is affecting - and searches for factors that
explain the patterns or risk of occurrence of the disease
, ✔✔List the steps that the nurse in community health should take to assess community
health problems - ✔✔- Identify major causes of disease through incidence, morbidity
and mortality rates
- discuss community health problems with key community leaders
- hold community focus groups involved in health
- assess community residents health literacy
✔✔Identify the five essential characteristics of a successful screening program - ✔✔1.
valid (accurate)
2. reliable (precise)
3. efficient (fast, inexpensive)
4. innocuous (safe)
5. high yield
✔✔What is the difference between reliability and validity - ✔✔reliability = consistency or
repeatability of a test
validity = does the test measure what it is supposed to (can it isolate people who are
positive or negative for a disease)
✔✔Which two diseases caused the greatest numbers of death in the early 1900s? -
✔✔TB and influenza
✔✔What level of prevention: screening for glaucoma - ✔✔secondary
✔✔What level of prevention: environmental control measures - ✔✔primary
✔✔What level of prevention: rehabilitating stroke victims - ✔✔tertiary
✔✔What level of prevention: a health fair exhibit distributing information about radon
exposure in the home - ✔✔primary
✔✔What level of prevention: educating young women about birth control and prenatal
care - ✔✔primary
✔✔What level of prevention: support groups - ✔✔tertiary
✔✔What level of prevention: a health fair offering blood pressure checks -
✔✔secondary
✔✔What level of prevention: immunizing children against measles - ✔✔primary
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔True or false: Clinical medicine focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
in individuals, and epidemiology focuses on understanding the causes of disease in
populations - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: All elements of the epidemiological triangle must be affected if disease
is to occur. - ✔✔False
✔✔True or false: The use of treadmill stress tests is an activity of secondary prevention
for cardiovascular disease - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: The consistency or repeatability of a measure is called the reliability of
a measure - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false: Specificity is a type of validity that indicates how accurately the test
identifies those people without a particular disease - ✔✔True
✔✔The complex contributory interrelationship of many factors that interact to affect
disease is which of the following?
A. Epidemiological triangle
B. Preclinical pathogenesis
C. Web of causality
D. Primary prevention - ✔✔C
✔✔Which one of the following illustrates a host factor?
A. Radiation
B. Crowding
C. Pesticides
D. Diet - ✔✔D
✔✔Which one of the following best describes a rate?
A. A measure of the frequency of a health event in a defined population during a
specified period of time
B. An investigation of the causes and associations between factors, events, and health
C. Simultaneous investigation of outcomes and exposures for a characteristic of interest
D. A measure of the level of occurrence of disease exceeding expectations - ✔✔A
✔✔When using the epidemiological method, how does a community health nurse
describe the disease, event or injury? - ✔✔Describes the distribution of the disease,
event or injury - who, where, and when it is affecting - and searches for factors that
explain the patterns or risk of occurrence of the disease
, ✔✔List the steps that the nurse in community health should take to assess community
health problems - ✔✔- Identify major causes of disease through incidence, morbidity
and mortality rates
- discuss community health problems with key community leaders
- hold community focus groups involved in health
- assess community residents health literacy
✔✔Identify the five essential characteristics of a successful screening program - ✔✔1.
valid (accurate)
2. reliable (precise)
3. efficient (fast, inexpensive)
4. innocuous (safe)
5. high yield
✔✔What is the difference between reliability and validity - ✔✔reliability = consistency or
repeatability of a test
validity = does the test measure what it is supposed to (can it isolate people who are
positive or negative for a disease)
✔✔Which two diseases caused the greatest numbers of death in the early 1900s? -
✔✔TB and influenza
✔✔What level of prevention: screening for glaucoma - ✔✔secondary
✔✔What level of prevention: environmental control measures - ✔✔primary
✔✔What level of prevention: rehabilitating stroke victims - ✔✔tertiary
✔✔What level of prevention: a health fair exhibit distributing information about radon
exposure in the home - ✔✔primary
✔✔What level of prevention: educating young women about birth control and prenatal
care - ✔✔primary
✔✔What level of prevention: support groups - ✔✔tertiary
✔✔What level of prevention: a health fair offering blood pressure checks -
✔✔secondary
✔✔What level of prevention: immunizing children against measles - ✔✔primary
