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“ EXAM PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING “ NEWEST UPDATED
EXAM 2025 – 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
VERIFIED 100% GRADED A+ (LATEST VERSION)
Exam Public Health Nursing
A clinic treating a child for otitis media is an example of:
A. Community-based care
B. Public health care
C. Tertiary health care
D. Community-oriented care
Answer: A - In community-based nursing, the nurse focuses on "illness care" of
individuals and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic
health conditions in the community, and the practice is family-centered illness care.
Community-based nursing is not a specialty in nursing but, rather, a philosophy that
guides care in all nursing specialties.
A state agency has received multiple complaints regarding the availability of
elder transportation services to a specific county senior center. The state
agency assigns a public health nurse to work with the community to evaluate
its program for elder transportation services to publicly sponsored elder care
programs. The public health core function applied is:
A. Assurance
B. Primary prevention
C. Policy development
D. Public transportation
Answer: A - The public health core function of assurance focuses on the
responsibility of public health agencies to be sure that activities are appropriately
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carried out to meet public health goals and plans. This role requires skill in
assessment, investigative functions, collaboration, consultation, and cooperation.
Assurance also includes assisting communities to implement and evaluate plans and
projects.
A nurse planning a smoking cessation clinic for adolescents in the local
middle schools and high schools is providing:
A. Community-oriented care
B. Community-based care
C. Secondary care
D. Tertiary care
Answer: A - Community-oriented nurses emphasize health protection, maintenance,
and promotion and disease prevention, as well as self-reliance among clients.
Regardless of whether the client is a person, a family, or a group, the goal is to
promote health through education about prevailing health problems, proper nutrition,
beneficial forms of exercise, and environmental factors such as safe food, water, air,
and buildings.
A public health department makes sure that the essential community-oriented
health services
are available in the community. Which of the following core public health
functions is being
implemented?
a.Policy development
b.Assessment
c.Assurance
d.Scientific knowledge-based care
ANS: C
Assurance focuses on the responsibility of public health agencies to ensure certain
activities have
been appropriately carried out to meet public health goals and plans. Policy
development seeks
to build constituencies that can help bring about change in public policy. Assessment
includes
activities that involve collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on both the
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health
status and the health-related aspects of a community or a specific population. Public
health is
based on scientific knowledge, but is not a core function.
DIF:Cognitive level: ApplyingREF:p. 14
TOP: Nursing process: Assessment MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
Collecting data and monitoring the health status of the population defines
which of the core public health functions?
a.Assessment
b.Prevention
c.Assurance
d.Policy development
a.Assessment
Public health nurses who develop and implement local public health policies
through partnerships with agencies, organizations, and consumers within the
community are using which core public health function?
a.Assessment
b.Prevention
c.Assurance
d.Policy development
d.Policy development
Providing for the availability of essential personal health services for people
who would otherwise not receive health care defines which public health core
function?
a.Assessment
b.Prevention
c.Assurance
d.Policy development
c. Assurance
A public health nurse provides a clinic for HIV-positive citizens in the
community. This is an example of:
a.Primary prevention
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b.Secondary prevention
c.Tertiary prevention
d.Policy making
c.Tertiary prevention
In the past, community-oriented nurses have been called:
a. District nurses
b. Almshouse nurses
c. Soldier nurses
d.Sisters
ANS: A
In the past, community-oriented nurses have been called public health nurses,
district nurses, visiting nurses, school nurses, occupational health nurses, and home
health nurses.
Nurses have worked in the community to improve the health care status of
individuals, families, populations, and vulnerable groups. Part of the appeal of
this type of nursing is:
1. Working with wealthy contributors who provide the funds
2. Locating the source of disease and curing patients
3. The autonomy of practice and independence in problem solving and
decision making
4.Caring for soldiers on the battlefield
ANS: 3
Community health nurses have a long history of autonomous practice, problem
solving, and decision making. The other three answers relate to acute care nursing
or gathering funding. Community health care nurses did engage in these activities in
the nineteenth century, but overall, they have been best known for autonomy of
practice.
Threats to health from communicable diseases, the environment, chronic
illness, and the aging process have changed over time. The newer threats to
health in the United States that community health nurses are currently faced
with include:
“ EXAM PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING “ NEWEST UPDATED
EXAM 2025 – 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
VERIFIED 100% GRADED A+ (LATEST VERSION)
Exam Public Health Nursing
A clinic treating a child for otitis media is an example of:
A. Community-based care
B. Public health care
C. Tertiary health care
D. Community-oriented care
Answer: A - In community-based nursing, the nurse focuses on "illness care" of
individuals and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic
health conditions in the community, and the practice is family-centered illness care.
Community-based nursing is not a specialty in nursing but, rather, a philosophy that
guides care in all nursing specialties.
A state agency has received multiple complaints regarding the availability of
elder transportation services to a specific county senior center. The state
agency assigns a public health nurse to work with the community to evaluate
its program for elder transportation services to publicly sponsored elder care
programs. The public health core function applied is:
A. Assurance
B. Primary prevention
C. Policy development
D. Public transportation
Answer: A - The public health core function of assurance focuses on the
responsibility of public health agencies to be sure that activities are appropriately
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carried out to meet public health goals and plans. This role requires skill in
assessment, investigative functions, collaboration, consultation, and cooperation.
Assurance also includes assisting communities to implement and evaluate plans and
projects.
A nurse planning a smoking cessation clinic for adolescents in the local
middle schools and high schools is providing:
A. Community-oriented care
B. Community-based care
C. Secondary care
D. Tertiary care
Answer: A - Community-oriented nurses emphasize health protection, maintenance,
and promotion and disease prevention, as well as self-reliance among clients.
Regardless of whether the client is a person, a family, or a group, the goal is to
promote health through education about prevailing health problems, proper nutrition,
beneficial forms of exercise, and environmental factors such as safe food, water, air,
and buildings.
A public health department makes sure that the essential community-oriented
health services
are available in the community. Which of the following core public health
functions is being
implemented?
a.Policy development
b.Assessment
c.Assurance
d.Scientific knowledge-based care
ANS: C
Assurance focuses on the responsibility of public health agencies to ensure certain
activities have
been appropriately carried out to meet public health goals and plans. Policy
development seeks
to build constituencies that can help bring about change in public policy. Assessment
includes
activities that involve collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on both the
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health
status and the health-related aspects of a community or a specific population. Public
health is
based on scientific knowledge, but is not a core function.
DIF:Cognitive level: ApplyingREF:p. 14
TOP: Nursing process: Assessment MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
Collecting data and monitoring the health status of the population defines
which of the core public health functions?
a.Assessment
b.Prevention
c.Assurance
d.Policy development
a.Assessment
Public health nurses who develop and implement local public health policies
through partnerships with agencies, organizations, and consumers within the
community are using which core public health function?
a.Assessment
b.Prevention
c.Assurance
d.Policy development
d.Policy development
Providing for the availability of essential personal health services for people
who would otherwise not receive health care defines which public health core
function?
a.Assessment
b.Prevention
c.Assurance
d.Policy development
c. Assurance
A public health nurse provides a clinic for HIV-positive citizens in the
community. This is an example of:
a.Primary prevention
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b.Secondary prevention
c.Tertiary prevention
d.Policy making
c.Tertiary prevention
In the past, community-oriented nurses have been called:
a. District nurses
b. Almshouse nurses
c. Soldier nurses
d.Sisters
ANS: A
In the past, community-oriented nurses have been called public health nurses,
district nurses, visiting nurses, school nurses, occupational health nurses, and home
health nurses.
Nurses have worked in the community to improve the health care status of
individuals, families, populations, and vulnerable groups. Part of the appeal of
this type of nursing is:
1. Working with wealthy contributors who provide the funds
2. Locating the source of disease and curing patients
3. The autonomy of practice and independence in problem solving and
decision making
4.Caring for soldiers on the battlefield
ANS: 3
Community health nurses have a long history of autonomous practice, problem
solving, and decision making. The other three answers relate to acute care nursing
or gathering funding. Community health care nurses did engage in these activities in
the nineteenth century, but overall, they have been best known for autonomy of
practice.
Threats to health from communicable diseases, the environment, chronic
illness, and the aging process have changed over time. The newer threats to
health in the United States that community health nurses are currently faced
with include:
