Question 1

What term is used to answer the question "how bad is it?" and to describe the effect of a given disease?

Accepted Answer

A)  Survival rate 
B)  Incidence rate 
C)  Prevalence rate 
D)  Mortality rate 
A)  Survival rate 
B)  Incidence rate 
C)  Prevalence rate 
D)  Mortality rate

Question 2

A nurse is working with the school-aged population during the prepathogenesis period. What primary prevention activity would promote the health of this population?

Accepted Answer

A)  Case finding children who may have been exposed to a teacher with hepatitis A 
B)  Teaching handwashing and respiratory hygiene 
C)  Providing antimicrobials for newly diagnosed contacts 
D)  Advocating for testing of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) at a school-based clinic 
A)  Case finding children who may have been exposed to a teacher with hepatitis A 
B)  Teaching handwashing and respiratory hygiene 
C)  Providing antimicrobials for newly diagnosed contacts 
D)  Advocating for testing of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) at a school-based clinic

Question 3

Which of the following terms is used to compare the number of deaths from a specific cause within the entire population?

Accepted Answer

A)  Specific mortality rate 
B)  Infant death date 
C)  Crude mortality rate 
D)  Relative death rate 
A)  Specific mortality rate 
B)  Infant death date 
C)  Crude mortality rate 
D)  Relative death rate

Question 4

What statistic is used to answer the question, "How likely is it that I will die from this disease?"

Accepted Answer

A)  Case-fatality rate 
B)  Specific mortality rate 
C)  Relative risk 
D)  Incidence 
A)  Case-fatality rate 
B)  Specific mortality rate 
C)  Relative risk 
D)  Incidence

Question 5

Describe three areas that Florence Nightingale addressed during the Crimean War that advanced the science of epidemiology. Give an example for each area that illustrates the relationship with current community health nursing practice.

Accepted Answer

- increased the recording of death stati

Question 6

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics to understand population health. The PHN is comparing the incidence of childhood asthma in a population exposed to a certain air pollutant with the incidence in a population not exposed to that pollutant to determine relative risk. The PHN asks the student to select the statistic, which supports that the risk for asthma is greater in the exposed population. What is the correct answer?

Accepted Answer

A)  1.0 
A)  1.0

Question 7

Choose any infectious disease, such as tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infection, influenza, leprosy, etc. Apply your chosen disease to the natural history of disease process and describe two interventions that could be done by CHNs in each of the five levels of preventive measures.

Accepted Answer

Sexually transmitted infections
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Question 8

Who is believed to be the first person to notice and record the relationship between the environment and health

Accepted Answer

A)  Labonte 
B)  Nightingale 
C)  Epp 
D)  Hippocrates 
A)  Labonte 
B)  Nightingale 
C)  Epp 
D)  Hippocrates

Question 9

A nurse is working with a student nurse and explains that 12% of deaths were from colorectal cancer in 2010. What word is used to describe this type of statistical information?

Accepted Answer

A)  Crude mortality 
B)  Relative risk 
C)  Prevalence 
D)  Proportional mortality 
A)  Crude mortality 
B)  Relative risk 
C)  Prevalence 
D)  Proportional mortality

Question 10

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics to understand population health. The PHN asks the nursing student how participant privacy will be managed in the study. What strategy presented by the student would be best at meeting this ethical concern?

Accepted Answer

A)  Data will be used in a confidential manner 
B)  The survey will be anonymous 
C)  The participants will sign a consent form 
D)  Ethics approval will be sought 
A)  Data will be used in a confidential manner 
B)  The survey will be anonymous 
C)  The participants will sign a consent form 
D)  Ethics approval will be sought

Exam 11: Epidemiology

What term is used to answer the question "how bad is it?" and to describe the effect of a given disease?

A nurse is working with the school-aged population during the prepathogenesis period. What primary prevention activity would promote the health of this population?

Which of the following terms is used to compare the number of deaths from a specific cause within the entire population?

What statistic is used to answer the question, "How likely is it that I will die from this disease?"

Describe three areas that Florence Nightingale addressed during the Crimean War that advanced the science of epidemiology. Give an example for each area that illustrates the relationship with current community health nursing practice.

Choose any infectious disease, such as tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infection, influenza, leprosy, etc. Apply your chosen disease to the natural history of disease process and describe two interventions that could be done by CHNs in each of the five levels of preventive measures.

Who is believed to be the first person to notice and record the relationship between the environment and health

A nurse is working with a student nurse and explains that 12% of deaths were from colorectal cancer in 2010. What word is used to describe this type of statistical information?

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics to understand population health. The PHN asks the nursing student how participant privacy will be managed in the study. What strategy presented by the student would be best at meeting this ethical concern?

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