ATI C228 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions

Primary prevention: correct answer: preventative education, vaccination, before a disease occurs, healthy behaviors (i.e. school exercise program) Secondary prevention correct answer: screenings, early treatment of disease . If it has the word screening in it, you know it's probably secondary. Tertiary prevention correct answer: rehabilitation, preventing further complications from disease, how to adjust life when living with a disease. If it has the word rehabilitation in it, you know it's tertiary. Community Based correct answer: RN works in a facility in the community, such as a community clinic for low income patients, usually disease/illness is involved, and the focus is the individual. Community focused correct answer: RN works in the community (such as a home health nurse, a school nurse, the local health department, a parish nurse), giving direct nursing care and/or promoting health and activities or education for disease prevention. Focus can be the individual, the family, or the community. Population focused correct answer: RN works in the local or state health departments to improve the health and lives of the community members by evaluating statistics, programs, health education initiatives, advocating for legislation, etc. Focus is the community or entire populations in a city, county, state or larger group. Population based correct answer: RN works for a national outreach program such as MADD, where the population is defined and the objectives are clear in addressing a problem that is not unique to a specific area. The focus is on assessing, planning and change of the systems-level interventions and policies to improve or impact the awareness/issue, not an individual.