TOP RANK CHN – INTENSIVE
PHASE
Community Health Nursing Board Exam
Reviewer – 100 Questions with Verified
Answers & Rationales
1. Which of the following concepts are true about
community health nursing?
1.
Its primary focus is health promotion
2.
3.
Nurses are generalists in terms of their practice through life's
continuum
4.
5.
The nature of CHN practice requires that current knowledge derived
from biological and social sciences, ecology, clinical Nursing and
community health organization
6.
7.
The goals of professional practice is the promotion and preservation
of the health of populations.
8.
9.
Priority of health-promotive and disease preventive strategies over
curative interventions.
10.
A. 1,2,4,5
B. 1,2,5
C. 1,2,3,4
D. 2,3
1
,Answer: A. 1,2,4,5
Rationale: Community health nursing is characterized by a primary
focus on health promotion (1), nurses practicing as generalists
across the life continuum (2), goals of promoting and preserving
population health (4), and prioritizing health-promotive and disease-
preventive strategies over curative interventions (5). Statement 3 is
not a defining concept of CHN.
2. An Act regarding for the mandatory Philhealth coverage
for Persons with Disability?
A. RA.11228
B. RA 7277
C. RA 7875
D. RA 11223
Answer: A. RA.11228
Rationale: RA 11228 is the law providing for mandatory Philhealth
coverage for persons with disability. RA 7277 is the Magna Carta for
Disabled Persons, RA 7875 is the National Health Insurance Act, and
RA 11223 is the Universal Health Care Act.
3. What is the difference of previous Philhealth law and UHC
(Universal Health Care law?
A. UHC guaranteed Philhealth membership for ALL citizens, while
the previous Philhealth law covers multiple membership schemes.
B. UHC aims to strengthen health purchasing policies and practices
in support of the implementation of the Philhealth Law.
C. Philhealth Law presents health system reforms necessary to
expand financial protection and access to health services to ALL
filipinos.
D. Under the Philhealth Law, all citizens are automatically entitled to
Philhealth benefits while UHC aims to achieve membership through
a variety of subsidized and contributory schemes.
Answer: A. UHC guaranteed Philhealth membership for ALL
citizens, while the previous Philhealth law covers multiple
membership schemes.
Rationale: The Universal Health Care law guarantees Philhealth
membership for all citizens, whereas the previous Philhealth law
covered multiple membership schemes (employed, indigent,
lifetime members, etc.).
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,4. Which among the following are DIRECT CONTRIBUTORS of
PHILHEALTH EXCEPT?
A. Lifetime members
B. Kasambahays
C. Indigents
D. Filipinos living abroad and those with Dual citizenship
Answer: C. Indigents
Rationale: Indigents are not direct contributors to Philhealth; their
premiums are subsidized by the government. Lifetime members,
kasambahays, and Filipinos living abroad are direct contributors.
5. This provides for the main guiding principle in health
promotion efforts adopted by 38 countries.
A. Nuremberg Code
B. Ottawa Charter
C. PHC Charter
D. WHO health promotion and education charter
Answer: B. Ottawa Charter
Rationale: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) is the
main guiding principle in health promotion efforts adopted by 38
countries.
6. Defines health promotion broadly as, "the process of
enabling people to increase control over and to improve
their health."
A. Ottawa charter
B. WHO
C. Health and Welfare Canada
D. UNICEF
Answer: A. Ottawa charter
Rationale: The Ottawa Charter defines health promotion as "the
process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve
their health."
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, 7. Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in
these basic prerequisites which one is not included?
A. Peace
B. Shelter
C. Social justice
D. Political leaders
Answer: D. Political leaders
Rationale: The basic prerequisites for health according to the
Ottawa Charter include peace, shelter, education, food, income, a
stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity.
Political leaders are not a prerequisite.
8. Under the restructured health care delivery system, a
physician, a public health nurse and midwives compose the:
A. Intermediate level health workers
B. Frontliners
C. Grassroot health workers
D. Barangay Health Workers
Answer: A. Intermediate level health workers
Rationale: In the restructured health care delivery system, the
intermediate level health workers are composed of physicians,
public health nurses, and midwives.
9. To empower community members, the community nurse
performs which activity?
A. do all the activities for community members
B. step back at the beginning and giving little output
C. facilitate community members in doing activities
D. let the community members do all the activities
Answer: C. facilitate community members in doing activities
Rationale: To empower community members, the community
nurse facilitates their participation in activities rather than doing
everything for them.
10. Descriptors of a healthy community include:
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PHASE
Community Health Nursing Board Exam
Reviewer – 100 Questions with Verified
Answers & Rationales
1. Which of the following concepts are true about
community health nursing?
1.
Its primary focus is health promotion
2.
3.
Nurses are generalists in terms of their practice through life's
continuum
4.
5.
The nature of CHN practice requires that current knowledge derived
from biological and social sciences, ecology, clinical Nursing and
community health organization
6.
7.
The goals of professional practice is the promotion and preservation
of the health of populations.
8.
9.
Priority of health-promotive and disease preventive strategies over
curative interventions.
10.
A. 1,2,4,5
B. 1,2,5
C. 1,2,3,4
D. 2,3
1
,Answer: A. 1,2,4,5
Rationale: Community health nursing is characterized by a primary
focus on health promotion (1), nurses practicing as generalists
across the life continuum (2), goals of promoting and preserving
population health (4), and prioritizing health-promotive and disease-
preventive strategies over curative interventions (5). Statement 3 is
not a defining concept of CHN.
2. An Act regarding for the mandatory Philhealth coverage
for Persons with Disability?
A. RA.11228
B. RA 7277
C. RA 7875
D. RA 11223
Answer: A. RA.11228
Rationale: RA 11228 is the law providing for mandatory Philhealth
coverage for persons with disability. RA 7277 is the Magna Carta for
Disabled Persons, RA 7875 is the National Health Insurance Act, and
RA 11223 is the Universal Health Care Act.
3. What is the difference of previous Philhealth law and UHC
(Universal Health Care law?
A. UHC guaranteed Philhealth membership for ALL citizens, while
the previous Philhealth law covers multiple membership schemes.
B. UHC aims to strengthen health purchasing policies and practices
in support of the implementation of the Philhealth Law.
C. Philhealth Law presents health system reforms necessary to
expand financial protection and access to health services to ALL
filipinos.
D. Under the Philhealth Law, all citizens are automatically entitled to
Philhealth benefits while UHC aims to achieve membership through
a variety of subsidized and contributory schemes.
Answer: A. UHC guaranteed Philhealth membership for ALL
citizens, while the previous Philhealth law covers multiple
membership schemes.
Rationale: The Universal Health Care law guarantees Philhealth
membership for all citizens, whereas the previous Philhealth law
covered multiple membership schemes (employed, indigent,
lifetime members, etc.).
2
,4. Which among the following are DIRECT CONTRIBUTORS of
PHILHEALTH EXCEPT?
A. Lifetime members
B. Kasambahays
C. Indigents
D. Filipinos living abroad and those with Dual citizenship
Answer: C. Indigents
Rationale: Indigents are not direct contributors to Philhealth; their
premiums are subsidized by the government. Lifetime members,
kasambahays, and Filipinos living abroad are direct contributors.
5. This provides for the main guiding principle in health
promotion efforts adopted by 38 countries.
A. Nuremberg Code
B. Ottawa Charter
C. PHC Charter
D. WHO health promotion and education charter
Answer: B. Ottawa Charter
Rationale: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) is the
main guiding principle in health promotion efforts adopted by 38
countries.
6. Defines health promotion broadly as, "the process of
enabling people to increase control over and to improve
their health."
A. Ottawa charter
B. WHO
C. Health and Welfare Canada
D. UNICEF
Answer: A. Ottawa charter
Rationale: The Ottawa Charter defines health promotion as "the
process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve
their health."
3
, 7. Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in
these basic prerequisites which one is not included?
A. Peace
B. Shelter
C. Social justice
D. Political leaders
Answer: D. Political leaders
Rationale: The basic prerequisites for health according to the
Ottawa Charter include peace, shelter, education, food, income, a
stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity.
Political leaders are not a prerequisite.
8. Under the restructured health care delivery system, a
physician, a public health nurse and midwives compose the:
A. Intermediate level health workers
B. Frontliners
C. Grassroot health workers
D. Barangay Health Workers
Answer: A. Intermediate level health workers
Rationale: In the restructured health care delivery system, the
intermediate level health workers are composed of physicians,
public health nurses, and midwives.
9. To empower community members, the community nurse
performs which activity?
A. do all the activities for community members
B. step back at the beginning and giving little output
C. facilitate community members in doing activities
D. let the community members do all the activities
Answer: C. facilitate community members in doing activities
Rationale: To empower community members, the community
nurse facilitates their participation in activities rather than doing
everything for them.
10. Descriptors of a healthy community include:
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