NUR 416 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Graded A+ Latest Update 2025
Community/public health focus is on... - Answers prevention, populations, and health promotion
Community-based nursing is... - Answers a setting-specific practice for clients and families where they
live, work, attend school. Focus is acute and chronic care
Focus on illness care of individuals and families
Manage acute and chronic illness in the community
Family centered illness care
Community-oriented nursing is... - Answers Goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health of
Individuals, families, groups, populations, communities
Health care to promote quality of life
Also called population health/ population focused/ population oriented
Main focus is community/ population health
Home Health & Hospice - Answers refers to a wide variety of holistic services provided to clients of all
ages in their residences and other non-institutional settings
Services provided by formal caregivers such as:
oNurses
oSocial workers
oPhysical and occupational therapists
oHome health aides
oChaplains
oPhysicians
-a team approach and inter professional collaboration are required
Primary Prevention: - Answers Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring
Secondary Prevention: - Answers -focuses on early identification of individuals or communities
experiencing illness, providing treatment, and conducting activities that are geared to prevent
worsening health status
-examples: communicable disease screening and case finding; early detection and treatment of
diabetes; exercise programs for older adult clients who are frail
,Tertiary Prevention: - Answers -aims to prevent the long-term consequences of a chronic illness or
disability and to support optimal functioning
-examples: prevention of pressure ulcers as complication of a spinal cord injury; promoting
independence for the client who has traumatic brain injury
Medicare Requirements for home health - Answers The client must be home-bound
Services must be intermittent and include a skilled service provided by a nurse, physical therapist, or
speech and language pathologist
A plan of care must be initiated and followed
Medicare forms, physician orders, and client records must be completed on a timely basis
Hospice Services - Answers Interprofessional team
Medications related to terminal illness
Short in-patient stays
Intermittent respite care
Equipment
-Bereavement follow-up
School Nurse Roles - Answers children get the health care they need, including emergency care in the
school
keeps track of the state-required vaccinations that children have received
carries out the required screening of the children based on state law
ensures children with health problems are able to learn in the classroom
Direct caregivers, educators, counselors, consultants, and case managers.
They must coordinate the health care of many students in their schools with the health care that the
children receive from their own health care providers
Occupational Health Nursing - Answers focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and
restoration of health within the context of a safe and healthy environment.
Includes the prevention of adverse health effects from occupational and environmental hazards
Public Health Nursing Interventions... - Answers •Are focused on an entire population
•Are guided by an assessment of community health
, •Consider broad determinants of health
•Consider all levels of prevention
•Consider all levels of practice
What are the 3 levels of public health practice? - Answers Population based Individual-focused practice
Population based community-focused practice
Population based systems-focused practice
Individual-focused practice - Answers Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors of
individuals.
Alone, part of a family, class or group.
Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population-at-risk.
Community-focused practice - Answers Goal is to improve population health.
Aims to change community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community practices,
and community behavior.
Systems-focused practice - Answers Changes organizations, policies, laws, and power structures.
Often a more effective and long-lasting way to impact health than addressing individuals.
Public Health Interventions: Surveillance - Answers Describes and monitors health events through
ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of
planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions
Public Health Interventions: Disease Investigation - Answers Systematically gathers and analyzes data
regarding threats to the health of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and
others at risk, and determines control measures
Public Health Interventions: Outreach - Answers Locates populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk
and provides information about the nature of the concern, what can be done about it, and how services
can be obtained
Public Health Interventions: Screening - Answers Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk
factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations
Public Health Interventions: Case Finding - Answers Locates individuals and families with identified risk
factors and connects them with resources
Community/public health focus is on... - Answers prevention, populations, and health promotion
Community-based nursing is... - Answers a setting-specific practice for clients and families where they
live, work, attend school. Focus is acute and chronic care
Focus on illness care of individuals and families
Manage acute and chronic illness in the community
Family centered illness care
Community-oriented nursing is... - Answers Goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health of
Individuals, families, groups, populations, communities
Health care to promote quality of life
Also called population health/ population focused/ population oriented
Main focus is community/ population health
Home Health & Hospice - Answers refers to a wide variety of holistic services provided to clients of all
ages in their residences and other non-institutional settings
Services provided by formal caregivers such as:
oNurses
oSocial workers
oPhysical and occupational therapists
oHome health aides
oChaplains
oPhysicians
-a team approach and inter professional collaboration are required
Primary Prevention: - Answers Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring
Secondary Prevention: - Answers -focuses on early identification of individuals or communities
experiencing illness, providing treatment, and conducting activities that are geared to prevent
worsening health status
-examples: communicable disease screening and case finding; early detection and treatment of
diabetes; exercise programs for older adult clients who are frail
,Tertiary Prevention: - Answers -aims to prevent the long-term consequences of a chronic illness or
disability and to support optimal functioning
-examples: prevention of pressure ulcers as complication of a spinal cord injury; promoting
independence for the client who has traumatic brain injury
Medicare Requirements for home health - Answers The client must be home-bound
Services must be intermittent and include a skilled service provided by a nurse, physical therapist, or
speech and language pathologist
A plan of care must be initiated and followed
Medicare forms, physician orders, and client records must be completed on a timely basis
Hospice Services - Answers Interprofessional team
Medications related to terminal illness
Short in-patient stays
Intermittent respite care
Equipment
-Bereavement follow-up
School Nurse Roles - Answers children get the health care they need, including emergency care in the
school
keeps track of the state-required vaccinations that children have received
carries out the required screening of the children based on state law
ensures children with health problems are able to learn in the classroom
Direct caregivers, educators, counselors, consultants, and case managers.
They must coordinate the health care of many students in their schools with the health care that the
children receive from their own health care providers
Occupational Health Nursing - Answers focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and
restoration of health within the context of a safe and healthy environment.
Includes the prevention of adverse health effects from occupational and environmental hazards
Public Health Nursing Interventions... - Answers •Are focused on an entire population
•Are guided by an assessment of community health
, •Consider broad determinants of health
•Consider all levels of prevention
•Consider all levels of practice
What are the 3 levels of public health practice? - Answers Population based Individual-focused practice
Population based community-focused practice
Population based systems-focused practice
Individual-focused practice - Answers Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors of
individuals.
Alone, part of a family, class or group.
Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population-at-risk.
Community-focused practice - Answers Goal is to improve population health.
Aims to change community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community practices,
and community behavior.
Systems-focused practice - Answers Changes organizations, policies, laws, and power structures.
Often a more effective and long-lasting way to impact health than addressing individuals.
Public Health Interventions: Surveillance - Answers Describes and monitors health events through
ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of
planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions
Public Health Interventions: Disease Investigation - Answers Systematically gathers and analyzes data
regarding threats to the health of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and
others at risk, and determines control measures
Public Health Interventions: Outreach - Answers Locates populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk
and provides information about the nature of the concern, what can be done about it, and how services
can be obtained
Public Health Interventions: Screening - Answers Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk
factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations
Public Health Interventions: Case Finding - Answers Locates individuals and families with identified risk
factors and connects them with resources
