NR 442 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURS ING
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED)
GRADED A+
Acculturation --------- Correct Answer -------- Process of merging with or adopting the traits of a different culture.
Cultural Awareness --------- Correct Answer -------- Self-awareness of one's own cultural background, biases, and differences. Nurses who are culturally aware are more likely to explore cultural variations among clients, better able to understand how a persons beliefs impact client care, and are able to recognize the meaning of health differs with each culture.
Biomedical Beliefs --------- Correct Answer -------- Focus on identifying a cause for every effect on the body; that the body functions like a machine. This is the basis for the U.S. health system and is science-based.
Naturalistic Beliefs --------- Correct Answer -------- The individual is viewed as a part of nature or creation. An imbalance in nature is believed to cause disease. Basis of Eastern or Chinese medicine.
Magico-Religious Beliefs --------- Correct Answer -------- Links health to supernatural forces, or good and evil. Including the belief in faith healing used by some Christian religions, or voodoo and witchcraft practices use in Caribbean nations.
Environmental Health --------- Correct Answer -------- The quality of air, land, water, and other surroundings to which people come into contact.
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Hospice Care --------- Correct Answer -------- Enhancing the quality of life through the prevision of palliative care, supporting the client and family through the dying process, and providing bereavement support to the family following the client's death.Medical care is terminated.Patient is expected to live less than 6 months.Family can continue working with hospice for 1 year following the death of client.
Communicable Diseases --------- Correct Answer -------- Responsible for the deaths of millions annually, worldwide.
Leading cause of death: respiratory infections.
Transmission is airborne, foodborne, food intoxication, waterborne, vector-borne, and direct contact.
Herd Immunity --------- Correct Answer -------- Protection due to the immunity of most community members making exposure unlikely.
Natural Immunity --------- Correct Answer -------- Natural defense mechanisms of the body to resist specific antigens or toxins.
Acquired Immunity --------- Correct Answer -------- Develops through actual exposure to the infectious agent.
Natural:
Active - Natural contact and infection with the antigen Passive - Natural contact with antibody transplacentally or through colostrum and breast milk
Artificial:
Active - Inoculation of antigen Passive - Inoculation of antibody or antitoxin
Systems Thinking --------- Correct Answer -------- Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with other organizations or systems.This is useful in examining cause and effect relationships.
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