NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
A nurse is assessing the status of a community's health. Which of
the following will the nurse examine?
a. Health Facilities
b. Health care manpower
c. Community awareness
d. Vital statistics -
correct answer ✅d. Vital statistics
Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their
cigarettes, alcoholics lift the glass to their mouth, and drug addicts
inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following statements best
describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who
engage in poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be
able to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice
helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and
punish unhealthy behaviors to help individuals recognize the
importance of change -
,NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
correct answer ✅b. Society must offer healthy choices, offer
support, and practice helpful policies.
Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the
core competencies for health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and
benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United
States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems -
correct answer ✅a. Obtaining and interpreting information
regarding risks and benefits to the community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse.
Which question would be most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
,NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?" -
correct answer ✅c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for
problems?"
Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health
nursing practice in the community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable
populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in
number
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards -
correct answer ✅a. New services are organized where particular
vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards
Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes rather
than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
, NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in
hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive -
correct answer ✅d. Home care is less expensive
A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be
implemented. Which of the following factors must be considered by
the nurse when making this decision? Select all that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention -
correct answer ✅a. The likelihood that the intervention will
resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in
life expectancy during the 20th century?
(Grade A+)
A nurse is assessing the status of a community's health. Which of
the following will the nurse examine?
a. Health Facilities
b. Health care manpower
c. Community awareness
d. Vital statistics -
correct answer ✅d. Vital statistics
Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their
cigarettes, alcoholics lift the glass to their mouth, and drug addicts
inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following statements best
describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who
engage in poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be
able to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice
helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and
punish unhealthy behaviors to help individuals recognize the
importance of change -
,NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
correct answer ✅b. Society must offer healthy choices, offer
support, and practice helpful policies.
Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the
core competencies for health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and
benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United
States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems -
correct answer ✅a. Obtaining and interpreting information
regarding risks and benefits to the community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse.
Which question would be most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
,NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?" -
correct answer ✅c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for
problems?"
Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health
nursing practice in the community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable
populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in
number
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards -
correct answer ✅a. New services are organized where particular
vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards
Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes rather
than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
, NUR 412 Final Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in
hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive -
correct answer ✅d. Home care is less expensive
A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be
implemented. Which of the following factors must be considered by
the nurse when making this decision? Select all that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention -
correct answer ✅a. The likelihood that the intervention will
resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in
life expectancy during the 20th century?
