Exam 2 Questions With Complete

NURS 440 Community Health Nursing (Exam 2) Questions With Complete Solutions Ch. 21 Vulnerability and Vulnerable Populations Advocacy - Correct Answers ✅Actions taken on behalf of another Determinants of health - Correct Answers ✅(1) the social and economic environment, (2) the physical environment, and (3) the person's individual characteristics and behaviors.Disenfranchisement - Correct Answers ✅A feeling of separation from mainstream society.Health Disparities - Correct Answers ✅The wide variations in health services and health status among certain population groups

(ex: uninsured, underinsured have issues gaining medical

access) Poverty - Correct Answers ✅A primary cause of vulnerability, and it is a growing problem in the United States.Social Determinants of Health - Correct Answers ✅Are factors such as economic status, education, environmental factors, nutrition, stress, and prejudice that lead to resource constraints, poor health, and health risk. 1 / 4

NURS 440 Community Health Nursing (Exam 2) Questions With Complete Solutions Social Justice - Correct Answers ✅The concepts of egalitarianism and equality Vulnerability - Correct Answers ✅Susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to an adverse effect

• May not apply to everyone, but rather an individual
• Combined effects of lower resources to population

Vulnerable Populations - Correct Answers ✅- Those groups with increased risk for adverse health outcome

• More likely to have health problems from an overall

population Examples of vulnerable populations - Correct Answers ✅- poor and homeless (environmental) -veterans

• pregnant adolescents
• migrant workers and immigrants
• individuals with mental health problems
• drug addicts (substance abusers)
• abuse victims, domestic violence 2 / 4

NURS 440 Community Health Nursing (Exam 2) Questions With Complete Solutions

• people with communicable diseases (people with

HIV/Hepatitis B or an STD) Factors Contributing to Vulnerability - Correct Answers

✅Social determinates of health: economic status, education,

environmental, nutrition, stress, prejudice

Health Status: age, change in normal physiology

Homeless/vulnerable population learn to: - Correct Answers

✅- be resilient

• to adapt to their environment
• to utilize the community resources

Box on p. 359 - Correct Answers ✅ How to plan and implement care for vulnerable populations? - Correct Answers ✅- Create a trusting environment.

• Show respect, compassion, and concern.
• Do not make assumptions.
• Coordinate services and providers.
• Advocate for accessible health care services.
• Focus on prevention. 3 / 4

NURS 440 Community Health Nursing (Exam 2) Questions With Complete Solutions

• Know when to "walk beside" the client and when to

encourage the client to "walk ahead."

• Know what resources are available.
• Develop your own support network.

Levels of Prevention - Correct Answers ✅- Primary (Influenza vaccinations)

• Secondary (TB screening)
• Tertiary (Therapy group for severely mentally ill adults)

Ch. 22 Rural Health and Migrant Health - Correct Answers ✅ Farm Residency - Correct Answers ✅Residency outside the area zoned as "city limits"; usually infers involvement in agriculture.

The most common health issues related to farmworkers are:

• 379 - Correct Answers ✅(1) pesticide exposure

(2) heat and sun exposure (3) hazardous tools and machinery (4) infectious diseases (5) musculoskeletal injuries

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