N402 Final Exam questions with correct answers
Nursing's Role in Population Health Correct Answer-Nursing's Role in
Population Health
What is the goal of population based nursing? Correct Answer-Provide
evidence-based practice to target groups with similar needs to improve
health outcomes
Who is Clara Barton? Correct Answer-Founder of the American Red
Cross
Supply issues at frontlines
Improve outcomes for injured soldiers
Who is Florence Nightingale? Correct Answer-Founder of modern
nursing
Statistical analysis
Preventable disease
Evaluation of interventions
Who is Mary Breckinridge? Correct Answer-Frontier Nursing Services
Midwifery improves infant mortality rates
What did the figures in history of nursing and population health do?
Correct Answer-Worked with at risk populations and attempted to
improve health outcomes
,How did they attempt to improve health outcomes? Correct Answer-
Policy change
Advocacy work
Research (use date to drive interventions/change)
Evaluated the changes
What changed in history to deemphasize population health nursing?
Correct Answer-Decades of shift from primary to tertiary care
Value was placed on hospital care not preventative care
What was the impact to the practice of nursing? Correct Answer-Less
autonomous nursing
Decrease of nursing participation in community and population health
care
Rising health costs (for poor-moderate health outcomes)
What lead to the resurgence of population health? Correct Answer-High
cost of healthcare
US health outcomes are 42nd globally (infant mortality, life expectancy)
Broad impact of population interventions
Standard interventions
Targeted group
Discovery of new and effective strategies to improve health
, What is the Baccalaureate Nursing Essential V? Correct Answer-
Finance, regulation directly & indirectly influence the nature and
functioning of the healthcare system
What is the Baccalaureate Nursing Essential VII? Correct Answer-
Health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and
population level are necessary to improve population health
What are aggregates/subpopulations? Correct Answer-Ethnicity
Geographical location
Age
Occupation
Shared diagnosis
Shared risk factors
What is a community? Correct Answer-Has multiple aggregates
What is the most common aggregate? Correct Answer-High risk
Why is data essential to population health? Correct Answer-Determines
high risk
Shapes our understanding of health
Provides a starting point for our work
What factor impact health? Correct Answer-Physical environment
Nursing's Role in Population Health Correct Answer-Nursing's Role in
Population Health
What is the goal of population based nursing? Correct Answer-Provide
evidence-based practice to target groups with similar needs to improve
health outcomes
Who is Clara Barton? Correct Answer-Founder of the American Red
Cross
Supply issues at frontlines
Improve outcomes for injured soldiers
Who is Florence Nightingale? Correct Answer-Founder of modern
nursing
Statistical analysis
Preventable disease
Evaluation of interventions
Who is Mary Breckinridge? Correct Answer-Frontier Nursing Services
Midwifery improves infant mortality rates
What did the figures in history of nursing and population health do?
Correct Answer-Worked with at risk populations and attempted to
improve health outcomes
,How did they attempt to improve health outcomes? Correct Answer-
Policy change
Advocacy work
Research (use date to drive interventions/change)
Evaluated the changes
What changed in history to deemphasize population health nursing?
Correct Answer-Decades of shift from primary to tertiary care
Value was placed on hospital care not preventative care
What was the impact to the practice of nursing? Correct Answer-Less
autonomous nursing
Decrease of nursing participation in community and population health
care
Rising health costs (for poor-moderate health outcomes)
What lead to the resurgence of population health? Correct Answer-High
cost of healthcare
US health outcomes are 42nd globally (infant mortality, life expectancy)
Broad impact of population interventions
Standard interventions
Targeted group
Discovery of new and effective strategies to improve health
, What is the Baccalaureate Nursing Essential V? Correct Answer-
Finance, regulation directly & indirectly influence the nature and
functioning of the healthcare system
What is the Baccalaureate Nursing Essential VII? Correct Answer-
Health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and
population level are necessary to improve population health
What are aggregates/subpopulations? Correct Answer-Ethnicity
Geographical location
Age
Occupation
Shared diagnosis
Shared risk factors
What is a community? Correct Answer-Has multiple aggregates
What is the most common aggregate? Correct Answer-High risk
Why is data essential to population health? Correct Answer-Determines
high risk
Shapes our understanding of health
Provides a starting point for our work
What factor impact health? Correct Answer-Physical environment
