NUR 345 EXAM 3 STUDY QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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What is vulnerability? Susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to an adverse effect
What does vulnerability result from? Results from the interaction of internal and external factors that cause a person to be susceptible to poor health
What are vulnerable populations? Those ...
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NUR 345 EXAM 3 STUDY QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is vulnerability? ✅Susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to
an adverse effect
What does vulnerability result from? ✅Results from the interaction of internal and
external factors that cause a person to be susceptible to poor health
What are vulnerable populations? ✅Those groups with increased risk for adverse
health outcomes
True or false, vulnerable populations are more likely than the general population to
suffer from health disparities? ✅True
What are health disparities? ✅The wide variations in health services and health status
among certain population groups
What are vulnerable populations more likely to develop? ✅Health problems as a result
of exposure to risk or to have worse outcomes from those health problems than the
population as a whole
What causes vulnerability? ✅Vulnerability results from the combined effects of limited
physical, environmental, personal resources, and biopsychosocial resources
What are the social determinants of health? ✅Factors such as economic status,
education, environmental factors, nutrition, stress, and prejudice that lead to resource
constraints, poor health, and health risk.
What are the 5 key determinants? ✅- Economic Stability
- Education
- Social and Community Context
- Health and Health Care
- Neighborhood and Built Environment
What are positive and negative outcomes of vulnerability? ✅Outcomes of vulnerability
can be negative, such as lower health status, or they may be positive with effective
interventions
What is the cycle to vulnerability? What does it lead to? ✅Sometimes when one
problem is solved, another quickly emerges. It leads to feelings of hopelessness
, What is the Social Security Act ✅Created largest federal support program for elderly
and poor Americans
What is the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965, Medicare, and Medicaid?
✅Provided for health care needs of elderly, poor, and disabled people
What is the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)? ✅Provide funds to
uninsured children
What was the intention of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 (HIPAA)? ✅Was intended to help people keep their health insurance when
moving from one place to another.
What is the Balanced Budget Act of 1997? ✅Influenced the use of resources for
providing health services
What is The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010? ✅Has provisions for
reducing the growth of future Medicare expenditures.
What are wrap-around services? ✅Comprehensive health services are available and
social and economic services are "wrapped around" these services
What are comprehensive services? ✅Are health services that focus on more than one
health problem or concern
What is advocacy? ✅Being a voice for patient's rights, and respecting them
What is social justice? ✅Distribution of equality
What is culturally and linguistically appropriate health care ✅Making sure they
understand everything in basic terms
Mr. Schmidt is treating a 52-year-old male for eye infection. While the patient is at the
clinic, Mr. Schmidt also requests a dental evaluation and educates the patient about diet
and exercise, smoking and alcohol cessation counseling, and the importance of follow-
up for influenza immunization at a future clinic. What type of nursing approach is being
used?
A. Holistic
B. Comprehensive services
C. Wrap-around services
D. Family-centered services ✅B. Comprehensive services
When working with the vulnerable populations, it is imperative that the nurse:
A. Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.
B. Refers clients to the hospital emergency department when appropriate.
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