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TEST BANK M!




COMMUNITY AND PUBLICHEALTH
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NURSING
Evidence for Practice M
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3RD EDITION
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BY DEMARCO & WALSH
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TEST BANK
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,TEST BANK: Community and Public Health Nursing 3rd Edition DeMarco & W
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Contents:
Chapter 1: Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and Future
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Chapter 2: Public Health Systems
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Chapter 3: Health Policy, Politics, and Reform
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Chapter 4: Global Health: A Community Perspective
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Chapter 5: Frameworks for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Risk Reduction
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Chapter 6: Epidemiology: The Science of Prevention
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Chapter 7: Describing Health Conditions: Understanding and Using Rates
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Chapter 8: Gathering Evidence for Public Health Practice
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Chapter 9: Planning for Community Change
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Chapter 10: Cultural Competence: Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respect
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Chapter 11: Community Assessment
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Chapter 12: Care Management, Case Management, and Home Healthcare
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Chapter 13: Family Assessment
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Chapter 14: Risk of Infectious and Communicable Diseases
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Chapter 15: Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Chapter 16: Violence and Abuse
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Chapter 17: Substance Use
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Chapter 18: Underserved Populations
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Chapter 19: Environmental Health
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Chapter 20: Community Preparedness: Disaster and Terrorism
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Chapter 21: Community Mental Health
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Chapter 22: School Health
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Chapter 23: Faith-Oriented Communities and Health Ministries in Faith Communities
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Chapter 24: Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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Chapter 25: Occupational Health Nursing
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,Community and Public Health Nursing 3rd Edition DeMarco Walsh Test B
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and Future 1
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1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-
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centered care at a hospital. Which action best exemplifies providing patient-
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A) Having a client complete a self- M! M! M! M! M!


reported functional status indicator and then reviewing it with the client
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B) Explaining to a client the benefits of computer- M! M! M! M! M! M! M!


assisted robotic surgical techniques, which the hospital recently impl
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emented
C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic health record
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D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is i
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n the hospital M! M
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Ans: A M!


Feedback:
Patient-
centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, families, an
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d lifestyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring h
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ealth becomes the client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare provid
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ers make better decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHR
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Q) has developed a series of tools that empower clients and assist providers in ach
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ieving desired outcomes, including client-
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reported functional status indicators. Computer-
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assisted robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, and continuous glucose
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monitoring in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they d
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o not help the client become a more active participant in his or her care, and thus
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are not good examples of patient-centered care.
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 dia
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betes mellitus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this clien
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t's health? (Select all that apply.)
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A) Household income of $23,000 per year M! M! M! M! M!


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C) Medication ineffective due to error in prescription M! M! M! M! M! M!


D) Originally from Sudan M! M!


E) No family in the are M! M! M! M!


a Ans: A, B, D, E Feed
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back:
The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education,
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literacy, home and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and avai
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lability of health services are the social determinants of health. These conditions
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have an impact on the extent to which a person or community possesses the phy
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sical, social, and personal resources necessary to attain and maintain health. A me
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dical error on the part of the client's primary care provider or nurse would not co
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nstitute a social determinant of the client's health.
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3. APublic
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in at home using a digital scale and record the weight in a log. This strategy is a
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n example of:
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A) Telehealth
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C) Personal responsibility for health M! M! M!


D) Evidence-
based nursing Ans: C M! M
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Personal responsibility for health involves active participation in one's own health
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through education and lifestyle changes. In this case, the client makes a positive ch
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ange in lifestyle by monitoring body weight weekly. Telehealth is the use of electr
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onic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-
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distance clinical healthcare, client and professional health-
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related education, public health, and health administration. Health information tech
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nology (HIT) is defined as the comprehensive management of health information a
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nd its exchange between consumers, providers, government, and insurers in a secu
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re manner. Evidence-
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based nursing is the integration of the best evidence available with clinical expertis
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e and the values of the client to increase the quality of care.
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 4
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4. A nurse performs a variety of tasks as part of the nurse's position at a hospital.
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Which task best exemplifies public health?
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A) Reading current nursing journals and integrating the latest research into d
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C) Participating in a videoconference call with a client who lives in a remote area
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D) Facilitating a community- M! M!


wide smoking cessation program one month out of the year
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Ans: D M!


Feedback:
Public health is what society does collectively to ensure the conditions exist in whi
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ch people can be healthy. A community-
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wide smoking cessation program is a great example of a public health intervention,
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in that it involves the collective effort of society to improve the health of its mem
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bers. Reading and applying the latest nursing research is an example of evidence-
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based nursing. Instructing a client on how to best care for a suture site at home is
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an example of personal responsibility for health, but it is not focused on the health
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of the greater community. Participating in a videoconference call with a client wh
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o lives in a remote area is an example of patient-
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centered care and of an effective implementation of technology, but it is not particu
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larly related to public health.
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