Community Nursing Exam 4 | Practice
Questions, Answers & Study Guide
2026/2027
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Term
incubation period
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• Predisaster activities include:
> Notification of the appropriate officials
> Warning the population
> Advising what response to take
-> voluntary or mandatory evacuation
• U.S. policy based on prohibition and criminal sanctions against use and sale of
illicit drugs
> Criminal activities (violence and drug trafficking)
> Drinking and driving, working while intoxicated
> Impact on fetus (FAS)
• Modes of intervention
> Limit access
, > Media campaigns
> Educational programs
> National organizations that promote community education, research, and support
- The connection between people, communities, and their surrounding
environments that affects health behaviors and habits, interpersonal relationships,
cultural values, and customs
- Examples
> Some items in the built community such as drunk driving, urban crowding, second
hand smoke need to be addressed
PG. 255-258
• The time interval between invasion by an infectious agent and the first
appearance of signs and symptoms of the disease is called:
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Definition
• Review “Ethical Insights” page 521and Table 27.8, pg 537
The three focus areas for Healthy People 2020 that apply to infectious
diseases are
• immunization and infectious diseases,
• sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and
• HIV/AIDS.
•
Treatable STDs, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis, are still
occurring at significant rates. Gonorrhea had plateaued or
declined until 2009 but increased steadily since that time. Reported
infections with chlamydia reached
,an all-time high in 2011
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communicable disease workplace violence
psychological triage prevention strategies
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Term
environmental health
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• Implemented once the disaster occurs
• Aimed at preventing further injury or destruction
• “Safety before search and rescue.”
• Cultural variations exist in how symptoms and disease conditions are perceived,
diagnosed, labeled, and treated.
• Expression of pain is culturally determined.
• Some conditions are culturally defined—a culture-bound syndrome.
- Some are stoic with pain and some are not
, years of living
Toxins (lead, pesticides, mercury, asbestos, radon gas)
Air Pollution (carbon monoxide, tobacco smoke, ozone, propane)
Water pollution (erosion after mining/timbering, runoff)
& growth hormones/antibiotics in food source)
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Questions, Answers & Study Guide
2026/2027
1 of 158
Term
incubation period
Give this one a try later!
• Predisaster activities include:
> Notification of the appropriate officials
> Warning the population
> Advising what response to take
-> voluntary or mandatory evacuation
• U.S. policy based on prohibition and criminal sanctions against use and sale of
illicit drugs
> Criminal activities (violence and drug trafficking)
> Drinking and driving, working while intoxicated
> Impact on fetus (FAS)
• Modes of intervention
> Limit access
, > Media campaigns
> Educational programs
> National organizations that promote community education, research, and support
- The connection between people, communities, and their surrounding
environments that affects health behaviors and habits, interpersonal relationships,
cultural values, and customs
- Examples
> Some items in the built community such as drunk driving, urban crowding, second
hand smoke need to be addressed
PG. 255-258
• The time interval between invasion by an infectious agent and the first
appearance of signs and symptoms of the disease is called:
Don't know?
2 of 158
Definition
• Review “Ethical Insights” page 521and Table 27.8, pg 537
The three focus areas for Healthy People 2020 that apply to infectious
diseases are
• immunization and infectious diseases,
• sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and
• HIV/AIDS.
•
Treatable STDs, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis, are still
occurring at significant rates. Gonorrhea had plateaued or
declined until 2009 but increased steadily since that time. Reported
infections with chlamydia reached
,an all-time high in 2011
Give this one a try later!
communicable disease workplace violence
psychological triage prevention strategies
Don't know?
3 of 158
Term
environmental health
Give this one a try later!
• Implemented once the disaster occurs
• Aimed at preventing further injury or destruction
• “Safety before search and rescue.”
• Cultural variations exist in how symptoms and disease conditions are perceived,
diagnosed, labeled, and treated.
• Expression of pain is culturally determined.
• Some conditions are culturally defined—a culture-bound syndrome.
- Some are stoic with pain and some are not
, years of living
Toxins (lead, pesticides, mercury, asbestos, radon gas)
Air Pollution (carbon monoxide, tobacco smoke, ozone, propane)
Water pollution (erosion after mining/timbering, runoff)
& growth hormones/antibiotics in food source)
Don't know?
