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Jersey College - Geriatrics 2024 Exam
Practice Questions and Answers
Gerontologic Clinical Nurse Specialist - Answer✔️✔️-Master's
prepared RN who functions as clinician, educator, consultant,
administrator, or researcher.
Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Answer✔️✔️-
Practice in various settings and function as a provider of primary
care and a case manager.
Gerontologic Nursing - Answer✔️✔️-nursing specialty concerned with
the care of the older adult
Gerontic Nursing - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes nurturing, caring, and
comforting more than treatment of disease.
Reasons for an increase in elderly population. - Answer✔️✔️-Falling
fertility rates, reduced infant and child mortality, improved
sanitation, vaccinations, increasing survival at older ages.
Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social interaction. -
Answer✔️✔️-Why is marital status an important determinant of
health and well being?
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Functional independence with consideration for safety and social
interaction. - Answer✔️✔️-Housing should promote..
Low level of education Impairments - Answer✔️✔️-This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
Social Security - Answer✔️✔️-The major income source for older
individuals and couples in 2014.
75% - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-The capacity to carry out the basic
self-care activities that ensure overall health and well-being.
Medicare Part A - Answer✔️✔️-The part of the Medicare program that
pays for hospitalization, care in a skilled nursing facility, home
health care, and hospice care.
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Medicare Part B - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-Managed care health plans offered to
medicare beneficiaries under the medicare advantage program.
Acute Care Setting - Answer✔️✔️-Used for acute conditions and do
not do well in preventing functional decline or prompting
independence.
Subacute Care Units - Answer✔️✔️-Aimed at high-risk, hospitalized
older adults, bridge between hospital and home.
Theories - Answer✔️✔️-Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
Provides a sense of order
Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
Human Aging - Answer✔️✔️-This is influenced by a composite of
biologic, psychologic, social, functional and spiritual factors.
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Process that begins at conception.
Biologic Theories of Aging - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-Free radicals are
byproducts of fundamental metabolic activities within the body.
Increased by pollutants (ozone and pesticides.)
Neutralized by enzymatic activity or natural antioxidants, but if
they are not neutralized, they may cause cell damage.
Administration of antioxidants postpones the appearance of
diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer and can
influence the decline of the immune system and on degenerative
neurologic diseases.
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