Chapter 09- Epidemiological Applications Stanhope- Foundations for Population
Health in Community-Public Health Nursing Questions And Answers (A+
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1. A nurse is using analytic epidemiology when conducting a research project. Which of
the following projects is the nurse most likely completing?
a. Reviewing communicable disease statistics
b. Determining factors contributing to childhood obesity
c. Analyzing locations where family violence is increasing
d. Documenting population characteristics for healthy older citizens - ANS: B
Epidemiology refers not only to infectious epidemics but also to other health-related
events. Analytic epidemiology looks at the etiology (origins or causes) of disease. It
discusses the disease in terms of how and why. Descriptive epidemiology considers
health outcomes in terms of what, who, where, and when. It discusses a disease in
terms of person, place, and time.
2. A nurse is employed as a nurse epidemiologist. Which of the following activities
would most likely be completed by the nurse?
a. Eliciting the health history of a client presenting with an illness
b. Evaluating the number of clients presenting with similar diseases
c. Performing a physical examination of an ill client
d. Providing treatment and health education to a client with a disease - ANS: B
Epidemiology monitors the health of the population. Epidemiology differs from clinical
medicine, which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease in individuals.
3. Which of the following actions by Florence Nightingale demonstrates her role as an
epidemiologist?
a. She convinced other women to join her in giving nursing care to all the soldiers. b.
She demonstrated that a safer environment resulted in decreased mortality rate. c. She
obtained safe water and better food supplies and fought the lice and rats. d. She met
with each soldier each evening to say goodnight, thereby giving
psychological support. - ANS: B
Nightingale examined the relationship between the environment and the recovery of the
soldiers. Using simple epidemiological measures, she was able to show that improving
environmental conditions and adding nursing care decreased the mortality rates of the
soldiers. Nightingale used statistics to document decreased mortality rates when the
environmental factors were improved. Asking other women to assist with providing
nursing care, obtaining safe water, and meeting with each soldier are not interventions
that demonstrate the use of epidemiology (the relationship between the health events
and th determinants or factors that influence those patterns).
4. Which of the following statements describes how nursing in the community is more
challenging than nursing in an acute care setting?
a. There is limited access to information useful to the nurse in giving care in the
community.
b. More paperwork and forms are required when giving care in the home.
c. It is more challenging to control the environment in the community.
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