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Nurses working with diabetes patients know that this noncommunicable chronic disease (NCD) has which of the following characteristics? (Select all that apply.)
It cannot be prevented by a vaccination.
It cannot be cured by a medication.
It requires long-term management.
Cardiovascular nurses know that more than a third of adults have two or more risk factors for heart disease and stroke, which may include:
Both A and B.
A PHN, concerned about the increase in NCDs in a community, could include in his/her assessment of the community which of the following?
All of the above
When screening a patient for NCD risk, a nurse reviews the social determinants of health, including which of the following?
All of the above
A PHN evaluating an increase in lung cancer cases in a certain area would conduct which of the following epidemiological studies to help understand the rising incidence in cases? (Select all that apply.)
Conduct a retrospective cohort study.
Examine hospital discharge data.
Examine cancer registry data.
A public health nurse (PHN) employs which two type of studies to help determine whether specific risk factors are associated with the development of disease?
Case-control study, cohort study
A nurse working in a community clinic understands that lack of access to health care can increase the risk for morbidity and mortality related to NCD. Which of the following is not associated with access to care?
Adherence to medication regimen
In caring for patients with noncommunicable diseases (NCD), nurses in a primary care clinic must not only understand the pathophysiology of the disease but also must primarily:
Focus on the full continuum of the disease.
Nurses working with patients who have a noncommunicable disease (NCD) consider it important to know about the burden of disease associated with a specific disease primarily because it does which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
Takes into account what impact the disease will have on the community as a whole.
Provides an overview of the disease’s social and economic impact.
Helps determine promotion and prevention efforts targeting most common NCDs.
Suzanne, a PHN, has taken on an internship with the World Health Organization. She is working with a team focused on reducing heart disease in low-income countries. She is aware that the life expectancy is lower but was not familiar with other measures to help understand the burden of disease. She learns that the further analysis of the burden of disease examines how much the disease, injury, or risk factor contribute to:
Overall disability and premature death in the population.
Nurses working on a medical unit focused on treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) decide to put together a program to reduce risk for the development of CVD and reduce morbidity in persons who have already been diagnosed with CVD. They include in their program all but which of the following?
How to get genetic testing
Nurses working with patients who have chronic noncommunicable disease (NCDs) assess them based on specific risk factors. The four common modifiable risk factors that account for much of the NCDs in the U.S. are:
Poor nutrition, low physical activity, tobacco use, and alcohol use.
A nurse working with adult patients diagnosed with diabetes noted that most of them were obese and that this is a risk factor not only for developing the disease but for morbidity and mortality associated with the disease. The nurse knows that a body mass index of ____ indicates a person is obese.
³30
When the nurse is applying the chronic care model when seeing patients, she or he is:
Focused on long-term management of disease.
When a nurse works with a patient diagnosed with heart disease to help build a plan for long-term management of the disease, which of the following is not one of the common behavioral level risk factors that the patient can modify?
Access to health-care services
A cardiovascular nurse working at a large medical center is examining the evidence on how to help her patients who smoke. Which of the following is an evidence-based behavioral level intervention aimed at reducing harm associated with tobacco use?
Offering a smoking cessation counseling program to her patients
To educate their patients about the risks of developing NCDs, nurses might share which of the following facts?
Both A and C.