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TEST BANK FOR GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
EXAM PREP QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
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Chapter 1 - Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - Health, History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by setting the retirement
age at 65 years? - A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - - Decade during which one was born or his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - Women usually live alone after
widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? - Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - Health: influenced by
culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is true? - Health is a
broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - Wellness involves achieving a balance between one's internal and
external environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following except: - psychiatric
screenings
, Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and well being? - Uses
a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends weekly baseball games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to have the fastest
growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010 and 2050? - Hispanic Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for understanding individuals and
their concerns was developed by who? - Abraham Maslow
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological nursing: A client's basic needs have been met
when they have been what? - Fed a warm breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? - self-actualization
Chapter 2 - Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Discuss the implications of a growing older adult population on nursing education, practice and
research:
What type of care is projected to be the fastest growing employment sector in the health care industry?
- Eldercare
Based on the current demographic data, which of the following statements identifies a predictive trend
regarding the health care needs of society? - More nursing services will be required to serve the needs
of the population older than 85 years of age.
Identify the best statement about gerontological nursing: - Purposes of gerontological nursing include
the promotion of health and support for maximal independence.
Identify several factors that have influenced the development of gerontological nursing as a specialty
practice: - - shortages in nursing faculty prepared in gerontological nursing, there is a critical need for
nurses to have higher educations and expertise in care of older adults
- the majority of nurses practicing today and in the future will be caring for older adult patients
Examine the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Gerontological Nursing Practice and
the recommended competencies for gerontological nursing practice: - "Nurses have to have the
knowledge and skills to assist older adults in a broad range of nursing care issues, from maintaining
health and preventing illnesses, to managing complex, overlapping chronic conditions and progressive,
protracted frailty in physical and mental functions, to palliative care."
Recognize and discuss the importance of certification: - Specialization provides experts in caring for
older people
Compare various gerontological nursing roles and requirements:
As a nurse contemplating a future in gerontological nursing, you might plan on achieving a Master's
degree and becoming one of the following except: - Geriatric Nurse Generalist
As a nursing student who is interested in furthering his or her education in gerontological nursing, which
of the following would be beneficial? - Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC)
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