Test Bank: Stanhope & Lancaster's Foundations for
Population Health in Community/Public Health
Nursing, 7th Edition (Turner & Jones)
,
,Chapter 1: Community- and Prevention-Oriented Practice to
Improve Population Health
Question 1: Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
A) A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families
B) Providing care with a focus on the group's needs
C) Giving care with a focus on the aggregate's needs
D) A value system in which all clients receive optimal care
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for "sick" individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The
emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated,
and continuous care. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to
individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems .
Question 2: Which of the following best describes community-oriented nursing?
A) Focusing on the provision of care to individuals and families
B) Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
C) Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
D) Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
Correct Answer: D
Explanation: Community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All nurses may
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting,
and help manage acute or chronic conditions, but these definitions are not specific to
community-oriented nursing .
, Question 3: A community-oriented nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the
middle school. The next step in a population-focused practice is to make information
available about the health of the middle school students. This describes which public
health core function?
A) Assessment
B) Assurance
C) Policy development
D) Research
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The three public health core functions are assessment, policy development,
and assurance. Assessment is systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the
population's health status, and making information available about the health of the
community. Policy development refers to efforts to develop policies that support the health
of the population. Assurance is making sure that essential community-oriented health
services are available .
Question 4: When a state agency receives multiple reports regarding the lack of elder
transportation services to a specific county senior center, a public health nurse is
assigned to work with the community. The nurse is tasked with evaluating its program
for elder transportation services to publicly sponsored elder care programs. Which
public health core function is being applied?
A) Assurance
B) Policy development
C) Primary prevention
D) Public transportation
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The public health core function of assurance focuses on the responsibility of
public health agencies to be sure that activities are appropriately carried out to meet
public health goals and plans. The assurance function makes sure that the activities
assigned during the policy development or planning phase are carried out, including
assisting communities to obtain necessary services such as transportation .
Population Health in Community/Public Health
Nursing, 7th Edition (Turner & Jones)
,
,Chapter 1: Community- and Prevention-Oriented Practice to
Improve Population Health
Question 1: Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
A) A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families
B) Providing care with a focus on the group's needs
C) Giving care with a focus on the aggregate's needs
D) A value system in which all clients receive optimal care
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for "sick" individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The
emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated,
and continuous care. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to
individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems .
Question 2: Which of the following best describes community-oriented nursing?
A) Focusing on the provision of care to individuals and families
B) Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
C) Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
D) Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
Correct Answer: D
Explanation: Community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All nurses may
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting,
and help manage acute or chronic conditions, but these definitions are not specific to
community-oriented nursing .
, Question 3: A community-oriented nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the
middle school. The next step in a population-focused practice is to make information
available about the health of the middle school students. This describes which public
health core function?
A) Assessment
B) Assurance
C) Policy development
D) Research
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The three public health core functions are assessment, policy development,
and assurance. Assessment is systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the
population's health status, and making information available about the health of the
community. Policy development refers to efforts to develop policies that support the health
of the population. Assurance is making sure that essential community-oriented health
services are available .
Question 4: When a state agency receives multiple reports regarding the lack of elder
transportation services to a specific county senior center, a public health nurse is
assigned to work with the community. The nurse is tasked with evaluating its program
for elder transportation services to publicly sponsored elder care programs. Which
public health core function is being applied?
A) Assurance
B) Policy development
C) Primary prevention
D) Public transportation
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The public health core function of assurance focuses on the responsibility of
public health agencies to be sure that activities are appropriately carried out to meet
public health goals and plans. The assurance function makes sure that the activities
assigned during the policy development or planning phase are carried out, including
assisting communities to obtain necessary services such as transportation .
