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Stamler and Yiu’s Community Health Nursing: A Canadian
Perspective, 6th Edition (Dosani,2026) ,Newest Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada
Chapter 2: Policy, Politics, and Power in Health Care
Chapter 3: Nursing Roles, Functions, and Practice Settings
Chapter 4: Population Health and Public Health Nursing
Chapter 5: Home Health Nursing in Canada
Chapter 6: Advocacy, Ethical, and Legal Considerations
Chapter 7: Theoretical Foundations of Community Health Nursing
Chapter 8: Health Promotion
Chapter 9: Anti-Racism Practice in Community Health
Chapter 10: Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing
Chapter 11: Epidemiology
Chapter 12: Communicable Diseases
Chapter 13: Community Consultation, Assessment, and Partnership
Chapter 14: Community Health Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Chapter 15: Data Analyses in Community Health Nursing Practice
Chapter 16: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Chapter 17: School Health
Chapter 18: Family Health
Chapter 19: Gender and Community Health
Chapter 20: Two Spirit, LGBTQIA other Sexual- and Gender-Diverse Clients
Chapter 21: Older Adult Health
Chapter 22: Indigenous Health
Chapter 23: Community Mental Health
Chapter 24: Rural and Remote Health
Chapter 25: Chronic Care, Long-Term Care, and Palliative Care
Chapter 26: Correctional Health
Chapter 27: Ecological Determinants of Health and Planetary Health
Chapter 28: Violence, Societal Structures, and Health
Chapter 29: Poverty, Homelessness and Food Security
Chapter 30: Substance Use
Chapter 31: Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections
Chapter 32: Nursing in Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Chapter 33: Global Health
,Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada Community
Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 6th Edition Stamler
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in Canada?
a. Families who could afford to pay
b. Poor and destitute families
c. The community
d. School children
Correct Answer: b (page 6)
2. Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century Canada to combat
communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity?
a. Visiting nursing
b. District nursing
c. Private duty nursing
d. Public health nursing
Correct Answer: d (page 4)
3. In the early 20th century, health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was over. Which
statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?
a. Public health was the responsibility of doctors
b. Visiting nurses were responsible for community health
c. The state was not responsible for health care
d. Women should not be working outside of the family
Correct Answer: c (page 3)
, 4. What was the primary reason for the establishment of school health programs?
a. Prevent ill children from becoming dependent citizens
b. Promote the health of all children
c. Provide food for children who lived in poverty
d. Treat sick children so they could work and contribute to the family income
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
5. The earliest forms for healthcare in Canada were:
a. The practices of Aboriginal people
b. European settlers who were physicians
c. The wives of surgeons
d. The Grey Nuns-first community nursing
Correct Answer: a (page 2)
6. were Canada’s first community nursing order who made significant
contributions to providing access to health services, food, shelter, and education for the most
vulnerable:
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses
b. The Grey Nuns
c. Public Health Nurses
d. School Nurses
e. nursing sisters -first to provide health care in remote and frontier area)
Correct Answer: b (page 3)
7. The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was held by which
agency?
a. The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission
b. The Victorian Order of Nurses-lady aberdeen led the development
c. Indian Health Services
d. Public Health Services
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
Stamler and Yiu’s Community Health Nursing: A Canadian
Perspective, 6th Edition (Dosani,2026) ,Newest Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada
Chapter 2: Policy, Politics, and Power in Health Care
Chapter 3: Nursing Roles, Functions, and Practice Settings
Chapter 4: Population Health and Public Health Nursing
Chapter 5: Home Health Nursing in Canada
Chapter 6: Advocacy, Ethical, and Legal Considerations
Chapter 7: Theoretical Foundations of Community Health Nursing
Chapter 8: Health Promotion
Chapter 9: Anti-Racism Practice in Community Health
Chapter 10: Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing
Chapter 11: Epidemiology
Chapter 12: Communicable Diseases
Chapter 13: Community Consultation, Assessment, and Partnership
Chapter 14: Community Health Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Chapter 15: Data Analyses in Community Health Nursing Practice
Chapter 16: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Chapter 17: School Health
Chapter 18: Family Health
Chapter 19: Gender and Community Health
Chapter 20: Two Spirit, LGBTQIA other Sexual- and Gender-Diverse Clients
Chapter 21: Older Adult Health
Chapter 22: Indigenous Health
Chapter 23: Community Mental Health
Chapter 24: Rural and Remote Health
Chapter 25: Chronic Care, Long-Term Care, and Palliative Care
Chapter 26: Correctional Health
Chapter 27: Ecological Determinants of Health and Planetary Health
Chapter 28: Violence, Societal Structures, and Health
Chapter 29: Poverty, Homelessness and Food Security
Chapter 30: Substance Use
Chapter 31: Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections
Chapter 32: Nursing in Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Chapter 33: Global Health
,Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada Community
Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 6th Edition Stamler
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in Canada?
a. Families who could afford to pay
b. Poor and destitute families
c. The community
d. School children
Correct Answer: b (page 6)
2. Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century Canada to combat
communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity?
a. Visiting nursing
b. District nursing
c. Private duty nursing
d. Public health nursing
Correct Answer: d (page 4)
3. In the early 20th century, health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was over. Which
statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?
a. Public health was the responsibility of doctors
b. Visiting nurses were responsible for community health
c. The state was not responsible for health care
d. Women should not be working outside of the family
Correct Answer: c (page 3)
, 4. What was the primary reason for the establishment of school health programs?
a. Prevent ill children from becoming dependent citizens
b. Promote the health of all children
c. Provide food for children who lived in poverty
d. Treat sick children so they could work and contribute to the family income
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
5. The earliest forms for healthcare in Canada were:
a. The practices of Aboriginal people
b. European settlers who were physicians
c. The wives of surgeons
d. The Grey Nuns-first community nursing
Correct Answer: a (page 2)
6. were Canada’s first community nursing order who made significant
contributions to providing access to health services, food, shelter, and education for the most
vulnerable:
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses
b. The Grey Nuns
c. Public Health Nurses
d. School Nurses
e. nursing sisters -first to provide health care in remote and frontier area)
Correct Answer: b (page 3)
7. The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was held by which
agency?
a. The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission
b. The Victorian Order of Nurses-lady aberdeen led the development
c. Indian Health Services
d. Public Health Services
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
