425 Final Exam Study Questions
a. - Answer-A school nurse carries out many activities to find new cases of health problems within the
school. Case Finding is the individual level for which of the public health interventions?
a. Consultation, counseling, and health teaching
b. Advocacy, social marketing, policy development,
and enforcement
c. Community organizing, coalition building, and collaboration
d. Surveillance, disease and health investigation, outreach, and screening
c. - Answer-A public health nursing student needs to demonstrate the competency "utilizes
collaboration to achieve public health goals." Which would be the most appropriate activity to meet this
competency:
a. Take blood pressures at a health fair
b. Make a home visit to a new mother and baby
c. Meet with pastors and lay leaders in a church to help develop a pandemic flu response plan for their
congregation
d. Write an ar cle for a healthy communi es newsle er on stress preven on
c. - Answer-The school nurse is carrying out the public health core function of assessment when
completing which of the following activities?
a. Development of comprehensive school health policies
b. Implementa on of legisla ve immuniza on mandates
c. Surveillance of a kindergarten classroom for lice
d. Assist families who do not have adequate insurance coverage to low cost health resources.
,c. - Answer-As you think about your role as a public health nurse you are reminded of the nurse who
coined the term "public health nurse" when working in a New York settlement. She was:
a. Madeline Leininger
b. Clara Barton
c. Lillian Wald
d. Florence Nigh ngale
d. - Answer-A PHN is working with the park board to develop procedures for screening of child care
assistants for a summer program. This action is consistent with which of the following interventions?
a. Social Marke ng
b. Advocacy
c. Surveillance
d. Policy development
b. - Answer-A high school Healthy Foods Task Force is recommending that vending machines in the high
school be limited to 100% fruit juice, water, and fresh fruits. The PHN's participation on the task force is
which intervention?
a. Social marke ng at the community level
b. Collaboration at the community level
c. Community organizing at the systems level
d. Advocacy at the systems level
a. - Answer-The school nurse is performing population-based care with which of the following activities?
a. Advertising a teen violence prevention program on posters in school restrooms
b. Performing a blood pressure at on a teacher who has high pressure
c. Administering an epi-pen in a public school se ng to a child
d. Teaching a child how to wash their hands prior to eating.
,b. - Answer-A school nurse reviews student immunization records. The nurse knows that up to date
immunizations are an important means of:
a. Secondary prevent on
b. Primary prevention
c. Secondary preven on
d. Disease treatment
b. - Answer-A public health nurse meets with a group of community health officials to develop a law
which defines a public health nuisance. This is an example of the core function of:
a. Assessment
b. Policy development
c. Assurance
d. Research
b. - Answer-A public health nurse working to reduce teen violence meets with a coalition of people from
local schools, churches, and businesses to increase after school programming. This is an example of:
a. Individual/family level intervention
b. Community level intervention
c. Systems level intervention
a. - Answer-All immunizations given in a county are required to be entered into a vaccine registry. This is
an example of:
a. Systems level intervention
b. Community level interven on
c. Individual/family interven on
, b. - Answer-Newborn screening for metabolic disorders is an example of:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. - Answer-The cornerstones of public health nursing are:
a. Interventions public health nurses perform.
b. Described in the nurse practice act.
c. Assessment, policy development, and assurance.
d. Concepts from public health and nursing practice.
d. - Answer-Teaching infant care and development to an immigrant family is:
a. Risk reduction
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Primary prevention
a. - Answer-Primary prevention focuses on:
a. Promoting and protecting health
b. Stopping disease progression
c. Detecting disease in early stages
d. Restoring function
a. - Answer-How is the public health process similar or different from the nursing process?
a. The public health nursing process includes three levels of practice.
a. - Answer-A school nurse carries out many activities to find new cases of health problems within the
school. Case Finding is the individual level for which of the public health interventions?
a. Consultation, counseling, and health teaching
b. Advocacy, social marketing, policy development,
and enforcement
c. Community organizing, coalition building, and collaboration
d. Surveillance, disease and health investigation, outreach, and screening
c. - Answer-A public health nursing student needs to demonstrate the competency "utilizes
collaboration to achieve public health goals." Which would be the most appropriate activity to meet this
competency:
a. Take blood pressures at a health fair
b. Make a home visit to a new mother and baby
c. Meet with pastors and lay leaders in a church to help develop a pandemic flu response plan for their
congregation
d. Write an ar cle for a healthy communi es newsle er on stress preven on
c. - Answer-The school nurse is carrying out the public health core function of assessment when
completing which of the following activities?
a. Development of comprehensive school health policies
b. Implementa on of legisla ve immuniza on mandates
c. Surveillance of a kindergarten classroom for lice
d. Assist families who do not have adequate insurance coverage to low cost health resources.
,c. - Answer-As you think about your role as a public health nurse you are reminded of the nurse who
coined the term "public health nurse" when working in a New York settlement. She was:
a. Madeline Leininger
b. Clara Barton
c. Lillian Wald
d. Florence Nigh ngale
d. - Answer-A PHN is working with the park board to develop procedures for screening of child care
assistants for a summer program. This action is consistent with which of the following interventions?
a. Social Marke ng
b. Advocacy
c. Surveillance
d. Policy development
b. - Answer-A high school Healthy Foods Task Force is recommending that vending machines in the high
school be limited to 100% fruit juice, water, and fresh fruits. The PHN's participation on the task force is
which intervention?
a. Social marke ng at the community level
b. Collaboration at the community level
c. Community organizing at the systems level
d. Advocacy at the systems level
a. - Answer-The school nurse is performing population-based care with which of the following activities?
a. Advertising a teen violence prevention program on posters in school restrooms
b. Performing a blood pressure at on a teacher who has high pressure
c. Administering an epi-pen in a public school se ng to a child
d. Teaching a child how to wash their hands prior to eating.
,b. - Answer-A school nurse reviews student immunization records. The nurse knows that up to date
immunizations are an important means of:
a. Secondary prevent on
b. Primary prevention
c. Secondary preven on
d. Disease treatment
b. - Answer-A public health nurse meets with a group of community health officials to develop a law
which defines a public health nuisance. This is an example of the core function of:
a. Assessment
b. Policy development
c. Assurance
d. Research
b. - Answer-A public health nurse working to reduce teen violence meets with a coalition of people from
local schools, churches, and businesses to increase after school programming. This is an example of:
a. Individual/family level intervention
b. Community level intervention
c. Systems level intervention
a. - Answer-All immunizations given in a county are required to be entered into a vaccine registry. This is
an example of:
a. Systems level intervention
b. Community level interven on
c. Individual/family interven on
, b. - Answer-Newborn screening for metabolic disorders is an example of:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. - Answer-The cornerstones of public health nursing are:
a. Interventions public health nurses perform.
b. Described in the nurse practice act.
c. Assessment, policy development, and assurance.
d. Concepts from public health and nursing practice.
d. - Answer-Teaching infant care and development to an immigrant family is:
a. Risk reduction
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Primary prevention
a. - Answer-Primary prevention focuses on:
a. Promoting and protecting health
b. Stopping disease progression
c. Detecting disease in early stages
d. Restoring function
a. - Answer-How is the public health process similar or different from the nursing process?
a. The public health nursing process includes three levels of practice.
