NUR 452 Final Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
1) Agent Correct Answers Microbes: bacteria, fungus, virus,
parasites
Factors
-Virulence: refers to the proportion of people with clinical
disease who will become severely ill or die. Highly virulent =
greater morbidity/mortality-Invasiveness: ability to penetrate
and spread
-Pathogenicity: measures the proportion of the infected people
who actually develop the disease (clinical reaction)
-Infectivity: the ability to enter or multiply in the hot
-Resistance: ability resist meds, alter genetic structure
A. Bacteria - antibiotics (bacteriocidal drug)
B. Pasteurization of milk/juices
C. Virus - anti-virals
D. Chlorine/boiling of water
E.Sterilizing/bleach
F. Cooking
1) Assessment of the learner (readiness to learn) Correct
Answers Emotional: learner's motivation, based on the
attitudes and beliefs, internally motivated, externally motivated
-Make it personal, ask questions (i.e. Do you think you will pass
this course? Nursing school? what motivates you to succeed in
nursing school? What are your attitudes and beliefs?)
,Experiential: client's background (culture, life experiences),
client's ability to learn (grade/development level), how do they
prefer to learn
-Ask about their culture, life experiences, grade levels
1) Content Correct Answers Superior: purpose is explicitly
stated in the title, cover illustration
Adequate: purpose is not explicit. It is implied or multiple
purposes are stated
Not suitable: no purpose is stated in the title, illustration or
introduction
1) Prevention (Mitigation) Correct Answers is an emergency
management term for reducing risks to people and property from
natural hazards before they occur
Prevention against natural disasters: structural and non-structural
measures
Prevention against man-made disasters: include heightened
inspections; improved surveillance and security operations;
public health and agricultural surveillance and testing;
immunizations; isolation; or quarantine and halting of chemical,
biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats.
2) Literacy demand Correct Answers 2) Literacy demand
Superior: 5th grade level or lower
Adequate: 6-8th grade
Not suitable: 9th grade or higher
,2) Nursing diagnosis/learning diagnosis Correct Answers
learning diagnosis is made
2) Preparedness Correct Answers Nurses role: facilitate
preparation in community and place of employment, Initiate and
update disaster plan, Provide educational programs and
materials, organize drills, provide info on vulnerable populations
in the community, assess and report environmental health
hazards, knowledge of resources
Personal preparedness: disaster kits, red cross, FEMA
Professional preparedness: national disaster medical system,
disaster medical assistance team, medical reserve corps,
community emergency response team
•Community preparedness: office of emergency management,
public health security and bioterrorism preparedness and
response act of 2002, FEMA, disaster and mass casualty
exercises
2) Reservoir Correct Answers Humans: the principle reservoir
-Frank cases: obvious, but usually not spreading due to
precautions
-Subclinical: cases that are not known yet (walking around)
-Carriers: no symptoms, circulate freely
-Incubation period: time interval between invasion by an
infectious agent and the first appearance of symptoms
-Communicable period: in the interval during which an agent
may be transmitted directly or indirectly
, Animals: pets, rodents (rabies, plague, brucellosis)
Soil and plants: free living fungi or molds
A. Segregate - humans/animals = isolation/quarantine/exclusion
B. Eradicate - surgery, debridement
C. Kill animals
3) Behavioral objectives Correct Answers Statement of results
the nurse wants the learner to achieve (not what the teacher's
activities will be), must ne stated before the teaching begins,
observable and measurable, will guide the remainder of the
teaching process, start with a main objective (goal), support with
more specific behavioral objectives
Components of behavioral objectives (what, when, who, how)
I.e.: the first grade students (who) will demonstrate (how) the 5
steps of the handwashing process (what) by the end of class
(when)
3) Escape from the reservoir (exit) Correct Answers
Respiratory tract: the most common and most dangerous.
Moisture, droplets and close contact
Integumentary: open lesions, blood borne pathogens (BBP)
-Blood/serum: needles, transfusions, BBP
GI tract: vomit/feces