COMMUNITY HEALTH END OF COURSE ANSWERS
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Before participating in health care planning, a community health nurse must
understand the concept of
a. community as client.
b. individual as client.
c. family as client.
d. environment as client - ✔✔a. community as client.
It is essential that community health nurses understand and are comfortable with the
concept "community as client" before participating in health care planning. When
focusing on the individual or family, nurses must remember that these clients are
members of a larger population group or community, and environmental factors
influence them.
✔✔A community health nurse is using the Health Planning Model to improve a client's
health. The nurse prepares for unexpected problems or complications in the client's
care. This attention to unexpected problems takes place during which step?
a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Intervention
d. Evaluation - ✔✔c. Intervention
During the intervention step of the Health Planning Model, the nurse must prepare for
unforeseen problems or complications and consider alternatives to meet the client's
needs. The nurse gathers information about the needs of the community during the
assessment step. During the planning step, the nurse determines which problems or
needs require intervention and identifies the desired outcomes or ultimate goals of the
interventions. Evaluation determines success or failure of the project.
✔✔What legislation resulted in increased consumer involvement in the U.S. health care
system and a review of the allocation of health care resources?
, a. Partnership for Health Program
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Regional Medical Services Programs
d. National Health Planning and Resources Development Act - ✔✔d. National Health
Planning and Resources Development Act
The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act addressed the need for
the provider and consumer to be involved in the planning and improving of health
services as well as placing the system of private practice examination. The Partnership
for Health Program provided federal grants to states to establish and administer a local
agency program to enact local comprehensive health care planning. The Hill-Burton Act
was passed by Congress to address the need for better hospital access. The Regional
Medical Programs intended to make the latest technology for the diagnosis and
treatment of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and related diseases available to community
health care providers through the establishment of regional cooperative arrangements
among medical schools, research institutions, and hospitals.
✔✔A community health nurse is working as a school health nurse. She conducted a
community assessment and determined that the focus of programs and health
education should address the problem of childhood obesity. In planning, it is important
for the nurse to allow time for individual nursing assessment and education for children
who are overweight or obese, and to plan classroom education programs. The nurse is
demonstrating an understanding of which important community health nursing concept?
a. Health planning
b. Aggregate health care
c. Community as client
d. Use of the nursing process - ✔✔c. Community as client
Community health nurses focus care on health needs of aggregates; however,
individual, families, and groups are important parts of aggregates. Appropriate nursing
care and health promotion planned for aggregates affect individuals and vice versa. Use
of the nursing process is one part of health planning for the community. Health planning
is an essential component of community health nursing practice.
✔✔✔✔Medicare Part B - ✔✔may be purchased for a monthly fee and helps cover out-
of-pocket costs for physician services, hospital outpatient care, durable medical
equipment, and other services.
✔✔Medicare Part C - ✔✔may be purchased and may include vision, hearing, and
dental care, as well as other services and supplies not covered by Medicare Parts A, B,
and D.
✔✔Medicare Part D - ✔✔may be purchased for a monthly premium and includes a
yearly deductible, copayments, and out-of-pocket costs. It is used to help reduce the
cost of prescription drugs.
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Before participating in health care planning, a community health nurse must
understand the concept of
a. community as client.
b. individual as client.
c. family as client.
d. environment as client - ✔✔a. community as client.
It is essential that community health nurses understand and are comfortable with the
concept "community as client" before participating in health care planning. When
focusing on the individual or family, nurses must remember that these clients are
members of a larger population group or community, and environmental factors
influence them.
✔✔A community health nurse is using the Health Planning Model to improve a client's
health. The nurse prepares for unexpected problems or complications in the client's
care. This attention to unexpected problems takes place during which step?
a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Intervention
d. Evaluation - ✔✔c. Intervention
During the intervention step of the Health Planning Model, the nurse must prepare for
unforeseen problems or complications and consider alternatives to meet the client's
needs. The nurse gathers information about the needs of the community during the
assessment step. During the planning step, the nurse determines which problems or
needs require intervention and identifies the desired outcomes or ultimate goals of the
interventions. Evaluation determines success or failure of the project.
✔✔What legislation resulted in increased consumer involvement in the U.S. health care
system and a review of the allocation of health care resources?
, a. Partnership for Health Program
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Regional Medical Services Programs
d. National Health Planning and Resources Development Act - ✔✔d. National Health
Planning and Resources Development Act
The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act addressed the need for
the provider and consumer to be involved in the planning and improving of health
services as well as placing the system of private practice examination. The Partnership
for Health Program provided federal grants to states to establish and administer a local
agency program to enact local comprehensive health care planning. The Hill-Burton Act
was passed by Congress to address the need for better hospital access. The Regional
Medical Programs intended to make the latest technology for the diagnosis and
treatment of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and related diseases available to community
health care providers through the establishment of regional cooperative arrangements
among medical schools, research institutions, and hospitals.
✔✔A community health nurse is working as a school health nurse. She conducted a
community assessment and determined that the focus of programs and health
education should address the problem of childhood obesity. In planning, it is important
for the nurse to allow time for individual nursing assessment and education for children
who are overweight or obese, and to plan classroom education programs. The nurse is
demonstrating an understanding of which important community health nursing concept?
a. Health planning
b. Aggregate health care
c. Community as client
d. Use of the nursing process - ✔✔c. Community as client
Community health nurses focus care on health needs of aggregates; however,
individual, families, and groups are important parts of aggregates. Appropriate nursing
care and health promotion planned for aggregates affect individuals and vice versa. Use
of the nursing process is one part of health planning for the community. Health planning
is an essential component of community health nursing practice.
✔✔✔✔Medicare Part B - ✔✔may be purchased for a monthly fee and helps cover out-
of-pocket costs for physician services, hospital outpatient care, durable medical
equipment, and other services.
✔✔Medicare Part C - ✔✔may be purchased and may include vision, hearing, and
dental care, as well as other services and supplies not covered by Medicare Parts A, B,
and D.
✔✔Medicare Part D - ✔✔may be purchased for a monthly premium and includes a
yearly deductible, copayments, and out-of-pocket costs. It is used to help reduce the
cost of prescription drugs.
