NUR 412 Final Exam Questions and
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A nurse is assessing the status of a community's health. Which of the following will the
nurse examine?
a. Health Facilities
b. Health care manpower
c. Community awareness
d. Vital statistics ✅d. Vital statistics
Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their cigarettes, alcoholics lift the
glass to their mouth, and drug addicts inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following
statements best describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who
engage in poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be able to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and punish unhealthy
behaviors to help individuals recognize the importance of change ✅b. Society must
offer healthy choices, offer support, and practice helpful policies.
Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the core competencies for
health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems ✅a. Obtaining and
interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse. Which question would
be most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?" ✅c. "Which groups are the
greatest risk for problems?"
Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health nursing practice in the
community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in number
,d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for health hazards ✅a. New
services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for health hazards
Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes rather than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive ✅d. Home care is less expensive
A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be implemented. Which of the
following factors must be considered by the nurse when making this decision? Select all
that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular intervention ✅a. The
likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular intervention
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during
the 20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
c. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
d. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures ✅b. Sanitation and other
population-based prevention programs
A community health nurse drives through her assigned community before visiting the
community groups scheduled for the day. She then drives through the community again
that evening before going home. Which of the following best describes the nurse's
reason for driving through the community twice in the same day?
a. Driving through twice allows the nurse to see the community when many residents
are at work or at school and then again when most are at home
b. On the second trip, the nurse can carefully confirm the results of the first assessment
c. When leaving in the evening, the nurse has more time to write down the results of the
earlier assessment
d. Repeating the experience ensures that the nurse absorbed all the relevant details
✅a. Driving through twice allows the nurse to see the community when many residents
are at work or at school and then again when most are at home
A community health nurse is beginning to work with a newly assigned community.
Which of the following would be appropriate actions for the nurse to help ensure
acceptance? Select all that apply.
, a. Completing a comprehensive physical assessment on nearby neighbors
b. Asking those with whom the nurse interacts in the course of daily living their
perception of the community (e.g., clerks in the grocery stores or pharmacies)
c. Attending Community events such as festivals or fairs and interacting with the
participants
d. Becoming involved in and contributing to volunteer community organizations ✅b.
Asking those with whom the nurse interacts in the course of daily living their perception
of the community (e.g., clerks in the grocery stores or pharmacies)
c. Attending Community events such as festivals or fairs and interacting with the
participants
Which of the following defines aggregate?
a. Another name for a demographic group
b. A collection of individuals and families
c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
d. A large group of persons ✅c. A collection of people who share one or more
characteristics
Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
a. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care
b. Providing care with a focus on the group's needs
c. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families
d. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate's needs ✅c. A practice in which care is
provided for individuals and families
A nurse is assessing a community's openness to change. Which of the following
variables indicate that the community is ready?
a. Long hx of dependency on the community health agency and its staff
b. Minimal level of participation by community members
c. High socioeconomic status in the community as a whole
d. Commitment to current processes and policies ✅c. High socioeconomic status in
the community as a whole
The nurse often has to make resource allocation decisions. Which of the following best
describes the criterion the nurse should use in such cases?
a. The specific moral or ethical principal related to the situation
b. The most rational, probable outcome
c. The cheapest, most economical approach
d. The needs of the aggregate rather than a few individuals ✅d. The needs of the
aggregate rather than a few individuals
During which of the following activities is the nurse in the community health acting as a
partner in change?
a. Establishing an elder care center for older adults who live with family members who
work
b. Analyzing community problems to determine best interventions
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A nurse is assessing the status of a community's health. Which of the following will the
nurse examine?
a. Health Facilities
b. Health care manpower
c. Community awareness
d. Vital statistics ✅d. Vital statistics
Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their cigarettes, alcoholics lift the
glass to their mouth, and drug addicts inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following
statements best describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who
engage in poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be able to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and punish unhealthy
behaviors to help individuals recognize the importance of change ✅b. Society must
offer healthy choices, offer support, and practice helpful policies.
Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the core competencies for
health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems ✅a. Obtaining and
interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse. Which question would
be most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?" ✅c. "Which groups are the
greatest risk for problems?"
Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health nursing practice in the
community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in number
,d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for health hazards ✅a. New
services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for health hazards
Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes rather than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive ✅d. Home care is less expensive
A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be implemented. Which of the
following factors must be considered by the nurse when making this decision? Select all
that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular intervention ✅a. The
likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular intervention
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during
the 20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
c. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
d. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures ✅b. Sanitation and other
population-based prevention programs
A community health nurse drives through her assigned community before visiting the
community groups scheduled for the day. She then drives through the community again
that evening before going home. Which of the following best describes the nurse's
reason for driving through the community twice in the same day?
a. Driving through twice allows the nurse to see the community when many residents
are at work or at school and then again when most are at home
b. On the second trip, the nurse can carefully confirm the results of the first assessment
c. When leaving in the evening, the nurse has more time to write down the results of the
earlier assessment
d. Repeating the experience ensures that the nurse absorbed all the relevant details
✅a. Driving through twice allows the nurse to see the community when many residents
are at work or at school and then again when most are at home
A community health nurse is beginning to work with a newly assigned community.
Which of the following would be appropriate actions for the nurse to help ensure
acceptance? Select all that apply.
, a. Completing a comprehensive physical assessment on nearby neighbors
b. Asking those with whom the nurse interacts in the course of daily living their
perception of the community (e.g., clerks in the grocery stores or pharmacies)
c. Attending Community events such as festivals or fairs and interacting with the
participants
d. Becoming involved in and contributing to volunteer community organizations ✅b.
Asking those with whom the nurse interacts in the course of daily living their perception
of the community (e.g., clerks in the grocery stores or pharmacies)
c. Attending Community events such as festivals or fairs and interacting with the
participants
Which of the following defines aggregate?
a. Another name for a demographic group
b. A collection of individuals and families
c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
d. A large group of persons ✅c. A collection of people who share one or more
characteristics
Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
a. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care
b. Providing care with a focus on the group's needs
c. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families
d. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate's needs ✅c. A practice in which care is
provided for individuals and families
A nurse is assessing a community's openness to change. Which of the following
variables indicate that the community is ready?
a. Long hx of dependency on the community health agency and its staff
b. Minimal level of participation by community members
c. High socioeconomic status in the community as a whole
d. Commitment to current processes and policies ✅c. High socioeconomic status in
the community as a whole
The nurse often has to make resource allocation decisions. Which of the following best
describes the criterion the nurse should use in such cases?
a. The specific moral or ethical principal related to the situation
b. The most rational, probable outcome
c. The cheapest, most economical approach
d. The needs of the aggregate rather than a few individuals ✅d. The needs of the
aggregate rather than a few individuals
During which of the following activities is the nurse in the community health acting as a
partner in change?
a. Establishing an elder care center for older adults who live with family members who
work
b. Analyzing community problems to determine best interventions
