NURS 440 – Community Test 1 Study Guide – [ODU] – Academic Year
[2025/2026] – Foundations of Community and Public Health Nursing
Community Based Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is illness management of
individuals and families in settings where they live, work, and attend school.
Community Oriented Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is determining health needs of
a community and intervening at the individual level to improve the collective health of the
community
Community Health Nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is to synthesize nursing
and public health care through delivery of health services in order to impact community health
Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is to synthesize nuring and
public health care through disease and disability prevention and health protection of the
community as a whole
Core function of Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✔✔ Assessment of population,
development of policies, avail essential health services to all persons
Public Health - correct answer ✔✔ what society does collectively to ensure the conditions exist
in which people can be healthy
Public Health Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ population base practice within the context of
preventing disease and disability and promoting and protecting the health of the entire
community
Domains of Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✔✔ analytic assessment, policy
development, communication, cultural competency, community dimensions of practice skills,
basic science skills, financial planning and management, leadership and systems thinking
,Principles of Public Health - correct answer ✔✔ focus on aggregate, promote prevention,
encourage organization, ethical theory of the greater good, leadership in health,
epidemiological knowledge and methods
Roots of Public Health Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ Middle Ages- monks and nuns
14th Century- black plague
1601- state assisted relief for poor (English Poor Law)
1800s- hospitals known as "death houses"
Lemuel Shattuck - correct answer ✔✔ asked for state health department to collect vital
statistics and look into sanitation and disease control
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔ began lifelong campaign to help the mentally ill
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔ established american red cross and help with soldiers in Civil
War
Lillian Wald - correct answer ✔✔ established settlement in NYC for sick poor
Mary Breckinridge - correct answer ✔✔ founded frontier nursing service in 1925 to provide care
in remote Appalacian regions in Kentucky
Federal Health Care Initiatives - correct answer ✔✔ started health departments, US surgeon
general, social security, etc
Patient Client Centered Care - correct answer ✔✔ clients became active participants in their
own care and allowed to ask questions and make decision for next steps
, increased use of technology - correct answer ✔✔ rapidly advancing forms of technology are
dramatically improving lives. Average of 32 medical devices approved each year
Health Information Technology (HIT) - correct answer ✔✔ comprehensive management of
health information and its exchange between consumers, providers, government, and insurers
in a secure manner
HIT Benefits - correct answer ✔✔ improved coordination of care, elimination of paperwork,
reduced error, increased prevention of disease, improved tracking of infectious disease
outbreaks, chronic disease management, evaluation measures
Increased Personal Responsibility for Health - correct answer ✔✔ preventing or modifying
unhealthy behaviors, review one's own medical records, monitoring effects of prescription and
OTC drugs, showing up for appointments
Engaging in Evidence based Practice - correct answer ✔✔ for individual, public health, and for
Epidemiology
Scope and Standard of Practice - correct answer ✔✔ established by ANA to articulate the
essentials of PH nursing, the activities and accountability
Education - correct answer ✔✔ entry into community health or public health nursing practice
require baccalaureate degree
Competencies - correct answer ✔✔ set by Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations for
both generalist and advanced practice nurses in Public health
Certification - correct answer ✔✔ available for specialty practice
[2025/2026] – Foundations of Community and Public Health Nursing
Community Based Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is illness management of
individuals and families in settings where they live, work, and attend school.
Community Oriented Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is determining health needs of
a community and intervening at the individual level to improve the collective health of the
community
Community Health Nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is to synthesize nursing
and public health care through delivery of health services in order to impact community health
Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✔✔ focus of care is to synthesize nuring and
public health care through disease and disability prevention and health protection of the
community as a whole
Core function of Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✔✔ Assessment of population,
development of policies, avail essential health services to all persons
Public Health - correct answer ✔✔ what society does collectively to ensure the conditions exist
in which people can be healthy
Public Health Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ population base practice within the context of
preventing disease and disability and promoting and protecting the health of the entire
community
Domains of Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✔✔ analytic assessment, policy
development, communication, cultural competency, community dimensions of practice skills,
basic science skills, financial planning and management, leadership and systems thinking
,Principles of Public Health - correct answer ✔✔ focus on aggregate, promote prevention,
encourage organization, ethical theory of the greater good, leadership in health,
epidemiological knowledge and methods
Roots of Public Health Nursing - correct answer ✔✔ Middle Ages- monks and nuns
14th Century- black plague
1601- state assisted relief for poor (English Poor Law)
1800s- hospitals known as "death houses"
Lemuel Shattuck - correct answer ✔✔ asked for state health department to collect vital
statistics and look into sanitation and disease control
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔ began lifelong campaign to help the mentally ill
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔ established american red cross and help with soldiers in Civil
War
Lillian Wald - correct answer ✔✔ established settlement in NYC for sick poor
Mary Breckinridge - correct answer ✔✔ founded frontier nursing service in 1925 to provide care
in remote Appalacian regions in Kentucky
Federal Health Care Initiatives - correct answer ✔✔ started health departments, US surgeon
general, social security, etc
Patient Client Centered Care - correct answer ✔✔ clients became active participants in their
own care and allowed to ask questions and make decision for next steps
, increased use of technology - correct answer ✔✔ rapidly advancing forms of technology are
dramatically improving lives. Average of 32 medical devices approved each year
Health Information Technology (HIT) - correct answer ✔✔ comprehensive management of
health information and its exchange between consumers, providers, government, and insurers
in a secure manner
HIT Benefits - correct answer ✔✔ improved coordination of care, elimination of paperwork,
reduced error, increased prevention of disease, improved tracking of infectious disease
outbreaks, chronic disease management, evaluation measures
Increased Personal Responsibility for Health - correct answer ✔✔ preventing or modifying
unhealthy behaviors, review one's own medical records, monitoring effects of prescription and
OTC drugs, showing up for appointments
Engaging in Evidence based Practice - correct answer ✔✔ for individual, public health, and for
Epidemiology
Scope and Standard of Practice - correct answer ✔✔ established by ANA to articulate the
essentials of PH nursing, the activities and accountability
Education - correct answer ✔✔ entry into community health or public health nursing practice
require baccalaureate degree
Competencies - correct answer ✔✔ set by Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations for
both generalist and advanced practice nurses in Public health
Certification - correct answer ✔✔ available for specialty practice
