NUR 412 – MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
A nurse in a clinic that provides direct care services to clients with tuberculosis would be
classified as practicing:
a. Community-based nursing
b. community -oriented nursing
c. institutional nursing
d. Public health nursing ✅a. Community-based nursing
Jennifer is a nurse in a family medicine clinic. Today she is assessing Jose, a 4-year-old
who is being seen for an earache. The
type of nursing Jennifer practices is:
a. Community oriented nursing
b. Community based nursing
c. Public health nursing
d. Tertiary health nursing ✅b. Community based nursing
A school nurse teaches three middle school students with asthma conditions techniques
to minimize their incidence of bronchial
spasms. This is an application of:
a. Community based nursing
b. Community oriented nursing
c. Institutional nursing
d. Public health nursing ✅a. Community based nursing
The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to determine
the community's health status. Which of
the following activities should be considered in the assessment phase?
a. Assisting communities to implement and evaluate plans and projects
b. Building constituencies to work with the community
c. Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community ✅c. Collecting,
analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community
In a federally funded preschool program such as Head Start, nursing services that
include conducting developmental-level
screening for cognitive and psychomotor development of individual children would most
likely be considered community-
oriented nursing care when:
,a. individual results are compared with established standards for children of the same
age group
b. program characteristics are assessed for their effectiveness in making the school
population healthier
c. referral is provided for a child identified with delayed psychomotor development.
d. treatment is initiated for a child with an identified learning disability. ✅a. individual
results are compared with established standards for children of the same age group
Public health nursing is a specialty with a distinct focus and scope of practice and
requires a special knowledge base different
from other specialty areas of nursing. A public health nurse would first be interested in:
a. Drug treatments for diabetes
b. Populations with the highest rate of diabetes
c. Educational material for individual with diabetes
d. New technology for diabetic care ✅b. Populations with the highest rate of diabetes
A state agency has received multiple complaints regarding the availability of elder
transportation services to a specific county
senior center. The state agency assigns a public health nurse to work with the
community to evaluate its program for elder
transportation services to publicly sponsored elder care programs. The public health
core function applied is:
a. Assurance
b. Policy development
c. Primary prevention
d. Public transportation ✅a. Assurance
A nurse planning a smoking cessation clinic for adolescents in the local middle schools
and high schools is providing:
a. Community oriented care
b. Community based care
c. Secondary care
d. Tertiary care ✅a. Community oriented care
In a community clinic that screens and treats individuals for cardiovascular disorders,
the nurse practicing public
health/population-focused nursing would most likely ascertain:
a. A holistic treatment plan
b. A specific clinical diagnosis
c. Individual dietary interventions for cardiovascular disorders
d. The prevalence rate of cardiovascular disorders among various groups ✅d. The
prevalence rate of cardiovascular disorders among various groups
A community-oriented nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the middle school.
The next step in a population-focused
, practice is to make information available about the health of the middle school students.
This describes the public health core
function of:
a. Assessment
b. Assurance
c. Policy development
d. Research ✅Assessment
A nurse in community health contacts three individuals who have had sexual
encounters with an individual recently diagnosed
with syphilis. The concept basic to community-oriented nursing practice that is best
described by this intervention is:
a. Community
b. Community as client
c. Individual as client
d. Partnership ✅b. Community as client
The nurse in community health defines goals and measurable objectives during the
planning phase of a community health
intervention. This also marks the beginning of the:
a. Evaluation phase
b. Implementation phase
c. Needs assessment
d. Problem analysis ✅a. Evaluation phase
The nurse in community health identifies an elder abuse problem related to caregiver
stress among families. The nurse further
identifies a lack of caregiver support services in the local community. The next step in
the community-oriented nursing process
would be to:
a. Analyze the community problem
b. Establish priorities
c. Establish goals and objectives
d. Identity intervention activities ✅a. Analyze the community problem
Two nurses in community health schedule a day to ride through a low-income
community to better understand the community
and what factors affect the health of that community. This direct data collection method
is often referred to as:
a. Composite database
b. Participation observation
c. Secondary analysis
d. Windshield survey ✅d. Windshield survey
Which of the following best support the concept of community-oriented nursing
practice?
AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
A nurse in a clinic that provides direct care services to clients with tuberculosis would be
classified as practicing:
a. Community-based nursing
b. community -oriented nursing
c. institutional nursing
d. Public health nursing ✅a. Community-based nursing
Jennifer is a nurse in a family medicine clinic. Today she is assessing Jose, a 4-year-old
who is being seen for an earache. The
type of nursing Jennifer practices is:
a. Community oriented nursing
b. Community based nursing
c. Public health nursing
d. Tertiary health nursing ✅b. Community based nursing
A school nurse teaches three middle school students with asthma conditions techniques
to minimize their incidence of bronchial
spasms. This is an application of:
a. Community based nursing
b. Community oriented nursing
c. Institutional nursing
d. Public health nursing ✅a. Community based nursing
The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to determine
the community's health status. Which of
the following activities should be considered in the assessment phase?
a. Assisting communities to implement and evaluate plans and projects
b. Building constituencies to work with the community
c. Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community ✅c. Collecting,
analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community
In a federally funded preschool program such as Head Start, nursing services that
include conducting developmental-level
screening for cognitive and psychomotor development of individual children would most
likely be considered community-
oriented nursing care when:
,a. individual results are compared with established standards for children of the same
age group
b. program characteristics are assessed for their effectiveness in making the school
population healthier
c. referral is provided for a child identified with delayed psychomotor development.
d. treatment is initiated for a child with an identified learning disability. ✅a. individual
results are compared with established standards for children of the same age group
Public health nursing is a specialty with a distinct focus and scope of practice and
requires a special knowledge base different
from other specialty areas of nursing. A public health nurse would first be interested in:
a. Drug treatments for diabetes
b. Populations with the highest rate of diabetes
c. Educational material for individual with diabetes
d. New technology for diabetic care ✅b. Populations with the highest rate of diabetes
A state agency has received multiple complaints regarding the availability of elder
transportation services to a specific county
senior center. The state agency assigns a public health nurse to work with the
community to evaluate its program for elder
transportation services to publicly sponsored elder care programs. The public health
core function applied is:
a. Assurance
b. Policy development
c. Primary prevention
d. Public transportation ✅a. Assurance
A nurse planning a smoking cessation clinic for adolescents in the local middle schools
and high schools is providing:
a. Community oriented care
b. Community based care
c. Secondary care
d. Tertiary care ✅a. Community oriented care
In a community clinic that screens and treats individuals for cardiovascular disorders,
the nurse practicing public
health/population-focused nursing would most likely ascertain:
a. A holistic treatment plan
b. A specific clinical diagnosis
c. Individual dietary interventions for cardiovascular disorders
d. The prevalence rate of cardiovascular disorders among various groups ✅d. The
prevalence rate of cardiovascular disorders among various groups
A community-oriented nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the middle school.
The next step in a population-focused
, practice is to make information available about the health of the middle school students.
This describes the public health core
function of:
a. Assessment
b. Assurance
c. Policy development
d. Research ✅Assessment
A nurse in community health contacts three individuals who have had sexual
encounters with an individual recently diagnosed
with syphilis. The concept basic to community-oriented nursing practice that is best
described by this intervention is:
a. Community
b. Community as client
c. Individual as client
d. Partnership ✅b. Community as client
The nurse in community health defines goals and measurable objectives during the
planning phase of a community health
intervention. This also marks the beginning of the:
a. Evaluation phase
b. Implementation phase
c. Needs assessment
d. Problem analysis ✅a. Evaluation phase
The nurse in community health identifies an elder abuse problem related to caregiver
stress among families. The nurse further
identifies a lack of caregiver support services in the local community. The next step in
the community-oriented nursing process
would be to:
a. Analyze the community problem
b. Establish priorities
c. Establish goals and objectives
d. Identity intervention activities ✅a. Analyze the community problem
Two nurses in community health schedule a day to ride through a low-income
community to better understand the community
and what factors affect the health of that community. This direct data collection method
is often referred to as:
a. Composite database
b. Participation observation
c. Secondary analysis
d. Windshield survey ✅d. Windshield survey
Which of the following best support the concept of community-oriented nursing
practice?
