Chapter 32: Vulnerability and Vulnerable Populations: An Overview

Chapter 32: Vulnerability and Vulnerable Populations: An Overview

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. What is implied by the web of causation model?

a.	Variables interact resulting in higher probability of illness.
b.	One disease causes another, especially in vulnerable populations.
c.	The greater the poverty, the more likely people are to have diseases.
d.	Immunizations are necessary because vulnerable populations spread disease.

 

 

ANS:   A

The web of causation model implies that not only are there more variables, but the variables interact, resulting in higher probability of illness. The relative risk for poor health is greater for vulnerable populations.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Understanding         REF:    p. 716

TOP:    Nursing process: Evaluation

MSC:   NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care

 

2. Which of the following is a characteristic of a vulnerable population?

a.	Have worse health outcomes and an increased sensitivity to risk factors than the general population
b.	Have a single risk factor but experience worse health outcomes than the general population
c.	Have multiple risk factors but equal health outcomes to the general population
d.	Have worse outcomes with better access to health care than the general population

 

 

ANS:   A

Vulnerable population groups are more sensitive to risk factors and have worse health outcomes. Vulnerable populations experience multiple risk factors. Vulnerable populations have worse health outcomes than the general population. Vulnerable populations have more problems accessing health care than the general population.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Understanding         REF:    p. 716

TOP:    Nursing process: Assessment

MSC:   NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care

 

3. Resilience refers to the:

a.	resistance of certain groups to risk factors.
b.	increased susceptibility to cumulative risk factors among vulnerable groups.
c.	variability in the effects of stressors according to socioeconomic status.
d.	increased sensitivity of the very young and the very old to risk factors.

 

 

ANS:   A

Resilience refers to how vulnerable populations are able to resist or overcome the effects of the vulnerability. These populations do not succumb to the health risks that impinge on them.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Understanding         REF:    p. 716

TOP:    Nursing process: Evaluation

MSC:   NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care

 

4. A nurse is working with a vulnerable population. Which of the following is the nurse most likely working with?

a.	Families earning more than $50,000/year
b.	Families earning less than $15,000/year
c.	Residents of urban areas
d.	African American physicians

 

 

ANS:   B

Vulnerable populations of concern to nurses are persons who are poor or homeless (families earning less than $15,000 per year would be considered poor), persons who have special needs, pregnant teens, migrant workers and immigrants, individuals with mental health problems, people who abuse addictive substances, persons who have been incarcerated, people with communicable diseases and those who are at risk, and persons who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive or have hepatitis B virus or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Applying                  REF:    p. 716

TOP:    Nursing process: Evaluation

MSC:   NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care