NUR 471 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE | COMPLETE NURSING MIDTERM EXAM
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Population Health - ANS ✔✔The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of
such outcomes within the group
Approach to health that aims to improve the health outcomes of an entire human population
Consists of 3 components
1. Health outcomes
2. Patterns of health determinants
3. Policies and interventions
Describe the history and evolution of Community/Population health nursing - ANS ✔✔Community
health nursing development—> 4 stages:
Early home care (before mid 1800s)
-The focus of this care was to reduce suffering and promote healing
District nursing (mid-1800s to 1900)
-The aim of the district nurse is to give first-rate nursing to the sick or poor at the home
Public health nursing (1900 to 1970)
-Focus expanded to health and welfare of the general public
-Specialized programs
-Lilliam Wald→ first to use the term public health nursing
Community health nursing (1970 to present)
-Margaret Sanger
--The Comstock Act of 1973
--Birth control information
--First birth control clinic in America
-National League of Nursing Education
--The first collegiate public health nursing program
-Visiting Nurses Association
-Frontier Nursing Service
Describe the community assessment - ANS ✔✔Regular collection, analysis, and sharing of information
about health conditions, risks, and resources in a community
Make sure to be taking in racial and health considerations
Define health indicators - ANS ✔✔-A way of measuring specified health characteristics in a given
population
Leading indicators include:
, Access to health care, clinical preventive services, environmental quality, injury and violence,
maternal/infant/child health, mental health, physical activity and obesity, oral health, reproductive and
sexual health, social determinants, substance and tobacco use, responsible sexual behavior
Which statement would best describe the difference between public health nursing and community
health nursing? - ANS ✔✔A. Public health nursing is focused on the private aspects of health, and
community health nursing is focused on the public aspects of health.
B. Community health practice refers to a focus on specific, designated communities and is part of the
larger public health efforts.
C. Public health nursing and community health nursing relate to the very same types of services and
perspectives.
D. Both public health and community health nursing are practiced exclusively within institutions.
B
Describe various forms of the family across the continuum - ANS ✔✔Family defined vary by organization,
discipline and individual
most theorists agree that a family consists of:
-2 or more individuals who share a residence or live near one another
-Possess some common emotional bond
-Engage in interrelated social positions, roles, and tasks
-Share a sense of affection and belonging
Universal characteristics include:
-Every family is a small social system
-Every family has its own cultural values and rules
-Every family has structure
-Every family has certain basic functions
-Every family moves through stages in its life cycle
Define the Family cycle - ANS ✔✔2 broad stages:
1. Expansion🡪 adding of new members; increase in relationships
2. Contraction🡪 leaving of members; starting own lives or dying
More specific phases within each stage, that's launching of kids, retirement of parents
Describe the nursing process as families and clients. - ANS ✔✔1. Assessment: collect detailed health
information about families from observations, interactions
2. Diagnosis: identify patterns of behavior, constraints to health, potential risks, actual risks, unhealthy
routines within and outside family relationships
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Population Health - ANS ✔✔The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of
such outcomes within the group
Approach to health that aims to improve the health outcomes of an entire human population
Consists of 3 components
1. Health outcomes
2. Patterns of health determinants
3. Policies and interventions
Describe the history and evolution of Community/Population health nursing - ANS ✔✔Community
health nursing development—> 4 stages:
Early home care (before mid 1800s)
-The focus of this care was to reduce suffering and promote healing
District nursing (mid-1800s to 1900)
-The aim of the district nurse is to give first-rate nursing to the sick or poor at the home
Public health nursing (1900 to 1970)
-Focus expanded to health and welfare of the general public
-Specialized programs
-Lilliam Wald→ first to use the term public health nursing
Community health nursing (1970 to present)
-Margaret Sanger
--The Comstock Act of 1973
--Birth control information
--First birth control clinic in America
-National League of Nursing Education
--The first collegiate public health nursing program
-Visiting Nurses Association
-Frontier Nursing Service
Describe the community assessment - ANS ✔✔Regular collection, analysis, and sharing of information
about health conditions, risks, and resources in a community
Make sure to be taking in racial and health considerations
Define health indicators - ANS ✔✔-A way of measuring specified health characteristics in a given
population
Leading indicators include:
, Access to health care, clinical preventive services, environmental quality, injury and violence,
maternal/infant/child health, mental health, physical activity and obesity, oral health, reproductive and
sexual health, social determinants, substance and tobacco use, responsible sexual behavior
Which statement would best describe the difference between public health nursing and community
health nursing? - ANS ✔✔A. Public health nursing is focused on the private aspects of health, and
community health nursing is focused on the public aspects of health.
B. Community health practice refers to a focus on specific, designated communities and is part of the
larger public health efforts.
C. Public health nursing and community health nursing relate to the very same types of services and
perspectives.
D. Both public health and community health nursing are practiced exclusively within institutions.
B
Describe various forms of the family across the continuum - ANS ✔✔Family defined vary by organization,
discipline and individual
most theorists agree that a family consists of:
-2 or more individuals who share a residence or live near one another
-Possess some common emotional bond
-Engage in interrelated social positions, roles, and tasks
-Share a sense of affection and belonging
Universal characteristics include:
-Every family is a small social system
-Every family has its own cultural values and rules
-Every family has structure
-Every family has certain basic functions
-Every family moves through stages in its life cycle
Define the Family cycle - ANS ✔✔2 broad stages:
1. Expansion🡪 adding of new members; increase in relationships
2. Contraction🡪 leaving of members; starting own lives or dying
More specific phases within each stage, that's launching of kids, retirement of parents
Describe the nursing process as families and clients. - ANS ✔✔1. Assessment: collect detailed health
information about families from observations, interactions
2. Diagnosis: identify patterns of behavior, constraints to health, potential risks, actual risks, unhealthy
routines within and outside family relationships
