C HAPTER 26: C ORRECTIONAL H EALTH
Community Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition Stamler
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does a nurse in a correctional facility build trust with inmates?
a. Becoming involved with disciplining an inmate
b. Protecting confidential health care information
c. Meeting all requests for health care services
d. Having a correctional officer within hearing distance at all times
Correct Answer: b (page 464)
2. A nurse is working in a provincial correctional facility. What skill will b e
essential in this setting that is less important in a federal facility?
a. Gerontological assessment
b. Addiction counselling
c. Caring for inmates with mental health concerns
d. Assessment and triage
Correct Answer: d (page 457)
3. What infectious disease has the potential to increase in prevalence through
overcrowding in correctional settings?
a. Hepatitis C
b. Tuberculosis (TB)
c. HIV
d. Salmonella
, Correct Answer: b (page 463)
4. What infection is 30 times higher in the incarcerated population?
a. HIV
b. Chlamydia
c. Syphilis
d. Hepatitis C
Correct Answer: c (page 462)
5. Nurses in correctional facilities are able to develop policy that will improve the
health of inmates. What is an example of such a policy?
a. Creating a methadone initiation program
b. Creating a needle exchange program
c. Implementing a ban on tattooing
d. Pandemic planning
Correct Answer: d (page 465)
6. A nurse in a correctional facility learns that an inmate is HIV positive. What
should the nurse do?
a. Request that the inmate be transferred to hospital
b. Teach the correctional officers standard precautions
c. Tell the corrections officers of the HIV status
d. Have the inmate moved into a cell with another inmate who is HIV
positive
Correct Answer: b (page 464)
,7. A nurse in a federal correctional facility responds to an inmate with a possible
cardiac arrest. When is this care most likely to occur?
a. During the time inmates are out of their cells
b. Between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
c. During the night
d. At any time
Correct Answer: d (page 457)
8. What activity might a nurse engage in while working in a correction al facility?
a. Informing correctional staff about an inmate's HIV status
b. Supplying inmates with toothbrushes and floss to keep in their cells
c. Initiating a methadone maintenance treatment program
d. Using magazines and folded paper as safety splints for injured limbs
Correct Answer: d (page 462)
9. What has contributed to the increase in people with mental illness being
incarcerated?
a. An increase in violence on television and in society
b. Overcrowding in correctional facilities
c. An increase in stress in people's lives
d. The deinstitutionalizing of the mentally ill
Correct Answer: d (page 457)
10. What is an example of dynamic security in a correctional facility?
a. Managing professional boundaries
b. Personal protection alarms
, c. Counting equipment
d. Video monitoring
Correct Answer: a (page 465)
11. Kris, 22 years old, has been sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking.
What type of facility will he be sent to?
a. Territorial correctional centre
b. Federal correctional institution
c. Provincial correctional centre
d. Remand centre
Correct Answer: b (page 456)
12. How should a new nurse develop therapeutic relationships with children in a
young offenders' facility?
a. Get caught up in the sensationalism that surrounds a particular offender
b. Managing professional boundaries
c. Suppress her reactions to the inmates' alleged offences or crimes
d. Change security regulations that interfere with nursing care
Correct Answer: b (page 465)
13. Which statement is true about people of Aboriginal descent in correctional
facilities?
a. They are sent to facilities that specialize in Aboriginal offenders
b. A large percentage is HIV positive
c. In Quebec, Aboriginal offenders are less likely to be incarcerated
d. Aboriginal people are overrepresented in corrections
Community Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition Stamler
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does a nurse in a correctional facility build trust with inmates?
a. Becoming involved with disciplining an inmate
b. Protecting confidential health care information
c. Meeting all requests for health care services
d. Having a correctional officer within hearing distance at all times
Correct Answer: b (page 464)
2. A nurse is working in a provincial correctional facility. What skill will b e
essential in this setting that is less important in a federal facility?
a. Gerontological assessment
b. Addiction counselling
c. Caring for inmates with mental health concerns
d. Assessment and triage
Correct Answer: d (page 457)
3. What infectious disease has the potential to increase in prevalence through
overcrowding in correctional settings?
a. Hepatitis C
b. Tuberculosis (TB)
c. HIV
d. Salmonella
, Correct Answer: b (page 463)
4. What infection is 30 times higher in the incarcerated population?
a. HIV
b. Chlamydia
c. Syphilis
d. Hepatitis C
Correct Answer: c (page 462)
5. Nurses in correctional facilities are able to develop policy that will improve the
health of inmates. What is an example of such a policy?
a. Creating a methadone initiation program
b. Creating a needle exchange program
c. Implementing a ban on tattooing
d. Pandemic planning
Correct Answer: d (page 465)
6. A nurse in a correctional facility learns that an inmate is HIV positive. What
should the nurse do?
a. Request that the inmate be transferred to hospital
b. Teach the correctional officers standard precautions
c. Tell the corrections officers of the HIV status
d. Have the inmate moved into a cell with another inmate who is HIV
positive
Correct Answer: b (page 464)
,7. A nurse in a federal correctional facility responds to an inmate with a possible
cardiac arrest. When is this care most likely to occur?
a. During the time inmates are out of their cells
b. Between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
c. During the night
d. At any time
Correct Answer: d (page 457)
8. What activity might a nurse engage in while working in a correction al facility?
a. Informing correctional staff about an inmate's HIV status
b. Supplying inmates with toothbrushes and floss to keep in their cells
c. Initiating a methadone maintenance treatment program
d. Using magazines and folded paper as safety splints for injured limbs
Correct Answer: d (page 462)
9. What has contributed to the increase in people with mental illness being
incarcerated?
a. An increase in violence on television and in society
b. Overcrowding in correctional facilities
c. An increase in stress in people's lives
d. The deinstitutionalizing of the mentally ill
Correct Answer: d (page 457)
10. What is an example of dynamic security in a correctional facility?
a. Managing professional boundaries
b. Personal protection alarms
, c. Counting equipment
d. Video monitoring
Correct Answer: a (page 465)
11. Kris, 22 years old, has been sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking.
What type of facility will he be sent to?
a. Territorial correctional centre
b. Federal correctional institution
c. Provincial correctional centre
d. Remand centre
Correct Answer: b (page 456)
12. How should a new nurse develop therapeutic relationships with children in a
young offenders' facility?
a. Get caught up in the sensationalism that surrounds a particular offender
b. Managing professional boundaries
c. Suppress her reactions to the inmates' alleged offences or crimes
d. Change security regulations that interfere with nursing care
Correct Answer: b (page 465)
13. Which statement is true about people of Aboriginal descent in correctional
facilities?
a. They are sent to facilities that specialize in Aboriginal offenders
b. A large percentage is HIV positive
c. In Quebec, Aboriginal offenders are less likely to be incarcerated
d. Aboriginal people are overrepresented in corrections
