COMMUNITY HEALTH (NURS 3000) FINAL
EXAM REVIEW| 270+ ACTUAL QUESTIONS
& CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
1. Health care organizations: A purposefully designed, structured social system
developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to
defined communities, populations or markets
2. Health policy: A goal directed decision making about health that is the result of
an authorized, public decision-making process
3. Culture: A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions, norms, roles and
values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a
defined geographical area
4. Medical model: A model where the emphasis is placed on the cure
5. Community health nursing: The broader term that encompasses "subspecial-
ties" such as public health nursing, home care nursing, and occupational health
nursing
6. District nursing: Nurses were assigned a particular geographic section of the
city and were responsible for the health of the people living in that section
7. Lilian Wald: American Social Reformer who invented public health nursing; es-
tablished an American system of insurance payment for home based care
8. Maisie Parsons: The first Newfoundland educated nurse to join the war effort
during World War 1
9. Maya Bennett: A district nurse under the Outport Nursing Scheme
10. LaLonde report: The health promotion movement in Canada, which focused on
healthy individual lifestyles
11. Community health nurses of Canada (CHNC): The national voice of commu-
nity health nurses
12. Public health: Focus on promoting, protecting and preserving the health of
populations; links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and
communities to population health promotion practice
13. Home health: Focus on prevention, health restoration, maintenance, and palli-
ation
,14. RN in primary care/family nursing: Focus on preventative health screening,
health education, comprehensive assessment, treatment of minor acute illness,
chronic disease management, case management, system navigation, therapeutic
intervention (wound care, immunizations), and medication review with individuals
and families
15. Health promotion: The process of enabling people to increase control over, and
to improve their health
16. Socioecological model: Focuses on sustainable solutions
17. Professional relationships: These relationships include optimizing participa-
tion and self-determination of the client
, 18. Capacity building: The focus is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilize
and build on existing strengths
19. Cultural safety: Means the practitioner can communicate competently with a
client in that client's social, political, linguistic, economic, and spiritual realm
20. Cultural humility: An approach to health care based on humble acknowledge-
ment of oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding a person's experience.
It is a life-long process of learning and being self-reflective
21. Indigenous ways of knowing: Comprises the complex set of technologies
developed and sustained by Indigenous civilizations. Often oral and symbolic, it is
transmitted through the structure of Indigenous language and passed on to the next
generation through modeling, practice, and animation, rather than written word
22. Critical appraisal: Assess internal validity, the results and the relevance to
practice
23. Knowledge translation: Refers to a dynamic and iterative process that includes
synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound use of knowledge to im-
prove the health of Canadians
24. Interprofessional competencies: Reflect what CHNs are working to improve
health care delivery including effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-cen-
teredness, and equity
25. Professional identity: A sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics,
norms and values of the nursing discipline resulting in an individual thinking, acting
and feeling like a nurse
26. Leadership: An interactive process that provides needed guidance and direc-
tion
27. Ethics: The study or examination of morality through a variety of different
approaches
28. Community: A locally based entity composed of systems of formal organiza-
tions
29. Interdependent: An area that is feasible for resources
30. People: Community population
31. Place: Geographic area where the community is
32. Function: The aims of the community
33. Role of the nurse: Regularly examine how the people, place, and function meet
the needs of the residents
34. Geographic communities: Face to face/neighbourhood community
35. Community of identifiable need: Can cross a number of geographical bound-
aries; they have a service in a specific community that is needed
EXAM REVIEW| 270+ ACTUAL QUESTIONS
& CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
1. Health care organizations: A purposefully designed, structured social system
developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to
defined communities, populations or markets
2. Health policy: A goal directed decision making about health that is the result of
an authorized, public decision-making process
3. Culture: A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions, norms, roles and
values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a
defined geographical area
4. Medical model: A model where the emphasis is placed on the cure
5. Community health nursing: The broader term that encompasses "subspecial-
ties" such as public health nursing, home care nursing, and occupational health
nursing
6. District nursing: Nurses were assigned a particular geographic section of the
city and were responsible for the health of the people living in that section
7. Lilian Wald: American Social Reformer who invented public health nursing; es-
tablished an American system of insurance payment for home based care
8. Maisie Parsons: The first Newfoundland educated nurse to join the war effort
during World War 1
9. Maya Bennett: A district nurse under the Outport Nursing Scheme
10. LaLonde report: The health promotion movement in Canada, which focused on
healthy individual lifestyles
11. Community health nurses of Canada (CHNC): The national voice of commu-
nity health nurses
12. Public health: Focus on promoting, protecting and preserving the health of
populations; links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and
communities to population health promotion practice
13. Home health: Focus on prevention, health restoration, maintenance, and palli-
ation
,14. RN in primary care/family nursing: Focus on preventative health screening,
health education, comprehensive assessment, treatment of minor acute illness,
chronic disease management, case management, system navigation, therapeutic
intervention (wound care, immunizations), and medication review with individuals
and families
15. Health promotion: The process of enabling people to increase control over, and
to improve their health
16. Socioecological model: Focuses on sustainable solutions
17. Professional relationships: These relationships include optimizing participa-
tion and self-determination of the client
, 18. Capacity building: The focus is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilize
and build on existing strengths
19. Cultural safety: Means the practitioner can communicate competently with a
client in that client's social, political, linguistic, economic, and spiritual realm
20. Cultural humility: An approach to health care based on humble acknowledge-
ment of oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding a person's experience.
It is a life-long process of learning and being self-reflective
21. Indigenous ways of knowing: Comprises the complex set of technologies
developed and sustained by Indigenous civilizations. Often oral and symbolic, it is
transmitted through the structure of Indigenous language and passed on to the next
generation through modeling, practice, and animation, rather than written word
22. Critical appraisal: Assess internal validity, the results and the relevance to
practice
23. Knowledge translation: Refers to a dynamic and iterative process that includes
synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound use of knowledge to im-
prove the health of Canadians
24. Interprofessional competencies: Reflect what CHNs are working to improve
health care delivery including effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-cen-
teredness, and equity
25. Professional identity: A sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics,
norms and values of the nursing discipline resulting in an individual thinking, acting
and feeling like a nurse
26. Leadership: An interactive process that provides needed guidance and direc-
tion
27. Ethics: The study or examination of morality through a variety of different
approaches
28. Community: A locally based entity composed of systems of formal organiza-
tions
29. Interdependent: An area that is feasible for resources
30. People: Community population
31. Place: Geographic area where the community is
32. Function: The aims of the community
33. Role of the nurse: Regularly examine how the people, place, and function meet
the needs of the residents
34. Geographic communities: Face to face/neighbourhood community
35. Community of identifiable need: Can cross a number of geographical bound-
aries; they have a service in a specific community that is needed
