Exam 23: Working With Vulnerable Populations

A community health nurse is preparing a presentation for a group of local community nurses about measures to help decrease health disparities. Which suggestion would be the least effective?

After teaching a group of students about the socioeconomic gradient in health, the instructor determines that the students understand the concept when they state that the relationship between social class and health is:

Which action would be most important for a community health nurse to take first when working with vulnerable populations?

Which action would be least helpful to a novice community health nurse working with vulnerable populations who is feeling overwhelmed and somewhat guilty about his or her personal situation as compared to his or her clients?

When preparing to conduct research on a vulnerable population, which would the community health nurse attribute to the differential vulnerability hypothesis?

Which statement about relative risk is most accurate?

When teaching the causes of vulnerability to a group of students, which information would the instructor integrate into the teaching plan?

Which statement is true regarding social capital?

Which types of health disparities are due to inequities that can be corrected? Select all that apply.