PNLE ALL IN PRACTICE EXAMS
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?
A. To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion
of health and prevention of illness
B. To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their
health needs
C. To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health
D. To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare,
focusing particularly on mothers and children.
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and
communities to cope with their health needs
Rationale: To contribute to national development through promotion of family
welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children.
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
A. The service is provided in the natural environment of people.
B. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems.
C. The services are based on the available resources within the community.
D. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified.
Answer: (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine
nursing needs and problems.
Rationale: Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own
natural environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.
3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following
processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
D. Epidemiologic process
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis
Rationale: Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the
greater need of the majority of the population. The greater need is identified through
community diagnosis.
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,4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from
number of employees, what other factor must be considered in determining
the occupational health privileges to which the workers will be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, commercial, industrial
B. Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
C. Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
D. Sex and age composition of employees
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
Rationale: Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there
are 30 to 100 employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the
nearest health center.
5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at
least how many employees?
A. 21
B. 101
C. 201
D. 301
Answer: (B) 101
Rationale: Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is
performing which of her roles?
A. Health care provider
B. Health educator
C. Health care coordinator
D. Environmental manager
Answer: (D) Environmental manager
Rationale: Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker's
environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example.
7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall
provide the occupational health needs of the factory workers?
A. Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
B. Physician employed by the factory
C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
D. Rural sanitary inspector of the RHU of their municipality
Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
Rationale: You're right! This question is based on R.A.1054.
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,8. "Public health services are given free of charge." Is this statement true or
false?
A. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide basic
services.
B. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
C. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service required.
D. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the government
concerned.
Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health
services.
Rationale: Community health services, including public health services, are pre-paid
services, though taxation, for example.
9. According to C.E.Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public
Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention of disease
C. For people to have access to basic health services
D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
Answer: (A) For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
Rationale: According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize
their birthrights of health and
10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach
the average lifespan of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to
determine attainment of longevity?
A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop's index
D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (C) Swaroop's index
Rationale: Swaroop's index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or older.
Its inverse represents the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died younger
than 50 years).
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health
nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital.
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area.
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, C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health
nursing services.
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative,
services.
Rationale: The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of
whom are well individual who have greater need for preventive rather than curative
services.
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health nursing
is based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birthrights
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birthrights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man
Rationale: This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland's statements on Public
Health Nursing.
13. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health?
A. Health for all Filipinos
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care
C. Improve the general health status of the population
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020
Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care (none)
14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (D) Tertiary
Rationale: Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training
hospitals for the region.
15. Which is true of primary facilities?
A. They are usually government-run.
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?
A. To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion
of health and prevention of illness
B. To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their
health needs
C. To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health
D. To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare,
focusing particularly on mothers and children.
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and
communities to cope with their health needs
Rationale: To contribute to national development through promotion of family
welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children.
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
A. The service is provided in the natural environment of people.
B. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems.
C. The services are based on the available resources within the community.
D. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified.
Answer: (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine
nursing needs and problems.
Rationale: Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own
natural environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.
3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following
processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
D. Epidemiologic process
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis
Rationale: Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the
greater need of the majority of the population. The greater need is identified through
community diagnosis.
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,4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from
number of employees, what other factor must be considered in determining
the occupational health privileges to which the workers will be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, commercial, industrial
B. Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
C. Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
D. Sex and age composition of employees
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
Rationale: Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there
are 30 to 100 employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the
nearest health center.
5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at
least how many employees?
A. 21
B. 101
C. 201
D. 301
Answer: (B) 101
Rationale: Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is
performing which of her roles?
A. Health care provider
B. Health educator
C. Health care coordinator
D. Environmental manager
Answer: (D) Environmental manager
Rationale: Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker's
environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example.
7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall
provide the occupational health needs of the factory workers?
A. Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
B. Physician employed by the factory
C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
D. Rural sanitary inspector of the RHU of their municipality
Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
Rationale: You're right! This question is based on R.A.1054.
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,8. "Public health services are given free of charge." Is this statement true or
false?
A. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide basic
services.
B. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
C. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service required.
D. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the government
concerned.
Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health
services.
Rationale: Community health services, including public health services, are pre-paid
services, though taxation, for example.
9. According to C.E.Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public
Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention of disease
C. For people to have access to basic health services
D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
Answer: (A) For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
Rationale: According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize
their birthrights of health and
10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach
the average lifespan of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to
determine attainment of longevity?
A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop's index
D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (C) Swaroop's index
Rationale: Swaroop's index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or older.
Its inverse represents the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died younger
than 50 years).
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health
nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital.
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area.
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, C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health
nursing services.
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative,
services.
Rationale: The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of
whom are well individual who have greater need for preventive rather than curative
services.
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health nursing
is based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birthrights
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birthrights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man
Rationale: This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland's statements on Public
Health Nursing.
13. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health?
A. Health for all Filipinos
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care
C. Improve the general health status of the population
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020
Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care (none)
14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (D) Tertiary
Rationale: Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training
hospitals for the region.
15. Which is true of primary facilities?
A. They are usually government-run.
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis.
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