BSN 246 Community and Population-Focused Nursing Study Guide |
120 Multiple-Choice Practice Questions with Answers and
Explanations
Choose one best answer for each question. The complete answer key follows question
120.
Foundations and prevention
1. What best defines population-focused nursing?
A. Treating only referred individuals
B. Providing only bedside care
C. Focusing exclusively on hospital efficiency
D. Improving outcomes for a defined group
2. Which activity is primary prevention?
A. Rehabilitation after a stroke
B. Screening for undiagnosed disease
C. Managing an existing complication
D. Providing recommended immunizations
3. Which activity is secondary prevention?
A. Rehabilitating after injury
B. Providing long-term disability support
C. Vaccinating susceptible people
D. Screening eligible people for disease
4. Which activity is tertiary prevention?
A. Rehabilitation after a stroke
B. A vaccination campaign
C. A safe-water intervention before illness
D. A first-time screening test
5. Which intervention is most upstream?
A. Providing individual wound care
B. Treating one acute infection
C. Improving safe and affordable housing
D. Teaching one patient medication use
,6. What is a population aggregate?
A. Only residents of one household
B. Only people with the same diagnosis
C. Every person in a hospital building
D. People sharing a relevant characteristic
7. What distinguishes primary health care from primary prevention?
A. The terms have identical meanings
B. Primary health care is limited to immunization
C. Primary health care includes prevention and ongoing care
D. Primary prevention includes all rehabilitation
8. Which is a population-level intervention?
A. Changing traffic design to reduce injuries
B. Administering one prescribed dose
C. Completing one bedside assessment
D. Teaching one patient crutch use
9. What best reflects health promotion?
A. Measuring disease without acting
B. Providing treatment only after diagnosis
C. Helping people and communities increase control over health
D. Waiting for disease to develop
10. A nurse proposes a walking group. What should happen first?
A. Set the schedule without consultation
B. Assume all residents can participate
C. Purchase equipment immediately
D. Assess residents' priorities and access barriers
Community assessment and planning
11. What is a windshield survey?
A. A household laboratory test
B. An individual psychiatric interview
C. Structured observation of a community
D. A randomized intervention
12. What is a limitation of a windshield survey?
A. It replaces community consultation
B. It confirms all causal relationships
C. It cannot fully explain residents' experiences
D. It provides no useful information
, 13. Which is primary community assessment data?
A. Interviews conducted with local residents
B. A previously published survey
C. An existing hospital report
D. A published census table
14. Which is secondary assessment data?
A. A new household interview
B. Existing census statistics
C. A nurse's current observations
D. A newly conducted focus group
15. Why include community assets in an assessment?
A. They eliminate the need to assess problems
B. They prove every service is accessible
C. They guarantee funding
D. They identify strengths available for action
16. What is a key informant?
A. A person selected solely at random
B. Someone with relevant community knowledge
C. Only the wealthiest resident
D. Only a licensed physician
17. What is triangulation in assessment?
A. Comparing information from multiple methods or sources
B. Averaging all findings without interpretation
C. Using only the largest dataset
D. Excluding qualitative evidence
18. How should community priorities be selected?
A. Consider burden, inequity, feasibility, and resident priorities
B. Choose only the easiest problem
C. Choose only the most publicized condition
D. Use only the nurse's preference
19. Which objective is measurable?
A. Provide excellent care
B. Increase completed referrals from 40% to 60% in six months
C. Make everyone healthier
D. Improve health soon
120 Multiple-Choice Practice Questions with Answers and
Explanations
Choose one best answer for each question. The complete answer key follows question
120.
Foundations and prevention
1. What best defines population-focused nursing?
A. Treating only referred individuals
B. Providing only bedside care
C. Focusing exclusively on hospital efficiency
D. Improving outcomes for a defined group
2. Which activity is primary prevention?
A. Rehabilitation after a stroke
B. Screening for undiagnosed disease
C. Managing an existing complication
D. Providing recommended immunizations
3. Which activity is secondary prevention?
A. Rehabilitating after injury
B. Providing long-term disability support
C. Vaccinating susceptible people
D. Screening eligible people for disease
4. Which activity is tertiary prevention?
A. Rehabilitation after a stroke
B. A vaccination campaign
C. A safe-water intervention before illness
D. A first-time screening test
5. Which intervention is most upstream?
A. Providing individual wound care
B. Treating one acute infection
C. Improving safe and affordable housing
D. Teaching one patient medication use
,6. What is a population aggregate?
A. Only residents of one household
B. Only people with the same diagnosis
C. Every person in a hospital building
D. People sharing a relevant characteristic
7. What distinguishes primary health care from primary prevention?
A. The terms have identical meanings
B. Primary health care is limited to immunization
C. Primary health care includes prevention and ongoing care
D. Primary prevention includes all rehabilitation
8. Which is a population-level intervention?
A. Changing traffic design to reduce injuries
B. Administering one prescribed dose
C. Completing one bedside assessment
D. Teaching one patient crutch use
9. What best reflects health promotion?
A. Measuring disease without acting
B. Providing treatment only after diagnosis
C. Helping people and communities increase control over health
D. Waiting for disease to develop
10. A nurse proposes a walking group. What should happen first?
A. Set the schedule without consultation
B. Assume all residents can participate
C. Purchase equipment immediately
D. Assess residents' priorities and access barriers
Community assessment and planning
11. What is a windshield survey?
A. A household laboratory test
B. An individual psychiatric interview
C. Structured observation of a community
D. A randomized intervention
12. What is a limitation of a windshield survey?
A. It replaces community consultation
B. It confirms all causal relationships
C. It cannot fully explain residents' experiences
D. It provides no useful information
, 13. Which is primary community assessment data?
A. Interviews conducted with local residents
B. A previously published survey
C. An existing hospital report
D. A published census table
14. Which is secondary assessment data?
A. A new household interview
B. Existing census statistics
C. A nurse's current observations
D. A newly conducted focus group
15. Why include community assets in an assessment?
A. They eliminate the need to assess problems
B. They prove every service is accessible
C. They guarantee funding
D. They identify strengths available for action
16. What is a key informant?
A. A person selected solely at random
B. Someone with relevant community knowledge
C. Only the wealthiest resident
D. Only a licensed physician
17. What is triangulation in assessment?
A. Comparing information from multiple methods or sources
B. Averaging all findings without interpretation
C. Using only the largest dataset
D. Excluding qualitative evidence
18. How should community priorities be selected?
A. Consider burden, inequity, feasibility, and resident priorities
B. Choose only the easiest problem
C. Choose only the most publicized condition
D. Use only the nurse's preference
19. Which objective is measurable?
A. Provide excellent care
B. Increase completed referrals from 40% to 60% in six months
C. Make everyone healthier
D. Improve health soon
