1.6: Review Questions
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Which activity would the nurse perform when engaged in population health activities?
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Treating an individual for a specific disease
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Improving health outcomes for groups of people
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Evaluating a family’s ability to care for a child with diabetes
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Teaching a client health promotion behaviors
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Which method would the nurse utilize when taking an individual-level approach to smoking cessation?
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Forming a smoking cessation support group
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Promoting an increase on taxes on the purchase of tobacco
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Providing nicotine gum to a client to substitute for an inhaled tobacco product
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Researching the reasons for initiation of tobacco use
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Which central tenet of population health should the nurse include when planning population health priorities?
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Proactively promoting health among populations
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Reactively managing health conditions
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Treating diseases in individual people
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Focusing on increasing the number of hospitals
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Which action by the nurse represents a midstream approach to improving population health outcomes?
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Advocating for policy changes regarding fast food
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Providing a workplace lunchtime walking program
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Encouraging a client to lose weight
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Starting a support group for smoking cessation
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Which action by the nurse promotes population health?
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Providing treatment for chronic disease
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Conducting health education workshops
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Offering individual health consultations
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Administering medication for acute illnesses
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Which data should the nurse utilize to determine the leading cause of death across the population?
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Infant mortality
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Life expectancy
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Morbidity rate
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General mortality
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Which potential barrier of siloed health care should the nurse consider when planning health promotion activities?
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Providers and specialists working closely together to improve outcomes
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Treating one disease at a time without evaluating or addressing the full picture of health
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Health systems becoming effectively integrated
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An emphasis on population health and health promotion
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Which action is a characteristic of population-based nursing practice?
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Taking a proactive approach to promoting wellness and preventing disease
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Emphasizing curative care rather than preventive care
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Focusing on reactive approaches to managing acute illnesses
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Providing care only outside of hospital settings
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Which concept should the nurse utilize when planning transitional care for a population?
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Providing care in multiple areas of the care continuum to address all client needs
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Reactively managing health conditions during transitions between health care sites
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Preventing hospital readmissions and adverse events
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Coordinating clients as they move between care settings
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Which health service along the health care continuum would the nurse utilize for a client with health care needs related to a chronic condition?
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A preventive health program
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An ambulatory care clinic
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An acute care department
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A long-term care facility