Philippine NLE Board Exam: Community Health Nursing Practice
Questions & Review 2026/2027
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health
needs. To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing particularly
on mothers and children. - Ans✅✅✅ 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) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and problems.
Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own natural environments: the
home, school and workplace, for example. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (C) Community diagnosis 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. - Ans✅✅✅ 3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following
processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
D. Epidemiologic process
,Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities 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. - Ans✅✅✅ 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) 101Again, this is based on R.A. 1054. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (D) Environmental manager Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the
worker's environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality You're right! This question is based on
R.A.1054. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services. Community health
services, including public health services, are pre-paid services, though taxation. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (A) For people to attain their birth rights of health and longevity According to Winslow, all
public health efforts are for people to realize their birth rights of health and longevity. - Ans✅✅✅ 9.
According to C.E. Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birth rights 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: (C) 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). - Ans✅✅✅
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: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services. The catchment area in
PHN consists of a residential community, many of whom are well individuals who have greater need for
preventive rather than curative services. - Ans✅✅✅ 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.
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health nursing service.
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland's
statements on Public Health Nursing. - Ans✅✅✅ 12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy
of public health nursing is based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birth rights
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birth rights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (D) Tertiary Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training hospitals for
the region. - Ans✅✅✅ 14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (B) Their services are provided on an out-patient basis. Primary facilities government and non-
government facilities that provide basic out-patient services. - Ans✅✅✅ 15. Which is true of primary
facilities?
A. They are usually government-run.
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis.
Questions & Review 2026/2027
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health
needs. To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing particularly
on mothers and children. - Ans✅✅✅ 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) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and problems.
Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own natural environments: the
home, school and workplace, for example. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (C) Community diagnosis 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. - Ans✅✅✅ 3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following
processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
D. Epidemiologic process
,Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities 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. - Ans✅✅✅ 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) 101Again, this is based on R.A. 1054. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (D) Environmental manager Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the
worker's environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality You're right! This question is based on
R.A.1054. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services. Community health
services, including public health services, are pre-paid services, though taxation. - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (A) For people to attain their birth rights of health and longevity According to Winslow, all
public health efforts are for people to realize their birth rights of health and longevity. - Ans✅✅✅ 9.
According to C.E. Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birth rights 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: (C) 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). - Ans✅✅✅
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: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services. The catchment area in
PHN consists of a residential community, many of whom are well individuals who have greater need for
preventive rather than curative services. - Ans✅✅✅ 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.
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health nursing service.
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland's
statements on Public Health Nursing. - Ans✅✅✅ 12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy
of public health nursing is based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birth rights
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birth rights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care - Ans✅✅✅ 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: (D) Tertiary Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training hospitals for
the region. - Ans✅✅✅ 14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (B) Their services are provided on an out-patient basis. Primary facilities government and non-
government facilities that provide basic out-patient services. - Ans✅✅✅ 15. Which is true of primary
facilities?
A. They are usually government-run.
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis.
