FULL TEST BANK FOR ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH
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Which statement best ANS: A
describes community- By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-
based nursing? specific practice in which care is provided for "sick"
A. A practice in which care individuals and families
is provided for individuals where they live, work, and attend school. The
and families. emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the
b. Providing care with a provision of comprehensive,
focus on the group's coordinated, and continuous care. These nurses may
needs. be generalists or specialists in maternal-infant,
c. Giving care with a focus pediatric, adult, or psychiatric
on the aggregate's needs. mental health nursing. Community-based nursing
d. A value system in which emphasizes acute and chronic care to individuals and
all clients receive optimal families, rather than
care. focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems
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Which statement best ANS: D
describes the goal of By definition, community-oriented nursing has the
community-oriented goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining health
nursing? and preventing disease to
A. Providing care to promote the quality of life. All nurses may focus on
individuals and families individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons
b. Providing care to within their family
manage acute or chronic setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions.
conditions These definitions are not specific to community-
c. Giving direct care to ill oriented nursing
individuals within their
family setting
d. To preserve, protect,
promote, or maintain
health and prevent
disease
ANS: D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the
Which of the following is health care of communities and populations rather
the primary focus of than on individuals, groups,
public health nursing? and families. The goal is to prevent disease and
A. Families and groups preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the
b. Illness-oriented care community and the population
c. Individuals within the within it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with
family unit illness-oriented care of individuals and families across
d. Health care of the life span. The
communities and aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions
populations in the community, and the focus of practice is on
individual or
family-centered illness care.
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ANS: C
Which of the following is There has to be indisputable evidence collected over
responsible for the time that public health policies and programs were
dramatic increase in life primarily responsible for
expectancy during the increasing the average life span from 47 in 1900 to
20th century? 78.6 years in 2017, an increase of approximately 60% in
a. Technology increases in just over a century plus
the field of medical through improvements in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water
laboratory research supplies, (3) making workplaces safer, (4) improving
b. Advances in surgical food and drug safety,
techniques and (5) immunizing children, and (6) improving nutrition,
procedures hygiene, and housing. Although people are excited
c. Sanitation and other when a new drug is
population-based discovered that cures a disease or when a new way to
prevention programs transplant organs is perfected, it is important to know
d. Use of antibiotics to about the significant
fight infections gains in the health of populations that have come
largely from public health accomplishments
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A nurse is developing a ANS: B
plan to decrease the The central feature in the Patient Protection and
number of premature Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 are the
deaths in the community. mechanisms to increase the number of
Which of the following people with health insurance. The care provided is not
interventions necessarily free. While the cost of health care and the
would most likely be burden it places on the
implemented by the American government are serious concerns, they are
nurse? not the primary focus of ACA
a. Provide free health care
to all citizens
b. To increase the number
of individuals with access
to effective health care
benefits
c. Lower the cost of health
care to the American
population
d. To lessen the
governmental burden of
providing health care to
Americans
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