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Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
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Chapter 02: The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing Stanhope: Chapter
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3: US and Global Health Care
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Chapter 04: Government, the Law, and Policy Activism C
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hapter 05: Economics of US Health Care Delivery
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Chapter 06: Ethics in Public and Community Health Nursing Practice Ch
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apter 07: Culture of Populations in Communities
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Chapter 08: Environmental Health Chapte fg fg fg fg
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al Applications
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Chapter 11: Infectious Disease Prevention and Control C
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hapter12: Communicable and Infection Disease Risks Cha
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pter 13: Community Assessment and Evaluation Chapter
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14: Health Education in the Community Chapter 15: Cas
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Chapter 16: Disaster Management fg fg fg
Chapter 17: Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation Chap
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ter 18: Program Management
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Chapter 19: Healthcare Improvement in the Community
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Chapter 20: Family Development, Family Nursing Assessment, and Genomics Cha
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pter 21: Family Health Risks
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Chapter 23: Health Equity and Care of Vulnerable Populations Chapter 2
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4: Rural Health and Migrant Health
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Chapter 25: Poverty, Homelessness, Teen Pregnancy, and Mental Illness Chapter
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26: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems in the Community Chapter 27: Vio
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lence and Human Abuse fg fg fg
Chapter 28: Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National Levels in Public Health Chapter
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29: The Faith Community Nurse
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Chapter 30: The Nurse in Public Health, Home Health, Palliative Care, and Hospice Chapter 3
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1: The Nurse in the Schools
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Chapter 32: The Nurse in Occupational Health fg fg fg fg fg fg
, Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
MULTIPLE CHOICE fg
1. WHICH statement best describes community-based nursing?
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a. A practice in WHICH care is provided for individuals and families.
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d. A value system in WHICH all clients receive optimal care.
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By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-
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s is on acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care. Th
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s or specialists in maternal–infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric mental health nursing. Community-
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based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to individuals and families, rather than focusing on gro
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2. WHICH statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
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d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
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onic conditions. These definitions are not specific to community-oriented nursing.
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3. WHICH of the Following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
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d families. The goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the commun
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n it. Community-based Nurses deal primarily with illness-
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oriented care of individuals and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic he
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unity, and the focus of practice is on individual or
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ments in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water supplies, (3) making workplaces safer, (4) improving food and dru
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alth of populations that have come largely from public health accomplishments.
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5. A Nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the community. WHICH of the
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, 6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relates to public health efforts?
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b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
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c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
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d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
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er community. Public health practice focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the commu
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s) on the health of individuals, families, and groups. The goal is to prevent disease and disability and prom
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he community as a whole. Public health can be described as what society collectively does to ensure that
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people can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not judge the morality of health disparit
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on of illness not on spending more on illness care. Additionally, individual responsibility for making hea
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or lengthening life span not the role of the government.
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7. WHICH of the Following actions would most likely be performed by a public health Nurse?
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a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
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eded health services fg fg
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the environment
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ANS D f g
Although the public health Nurse might engage in any of the tasks listed, he or she works primarily with
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o carry out core public health functions, including assessment of the population as a whole and engaging
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roving the environment. The interventions of asking community leaders WHICH interventions should be
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unity and deciding on appropriate interventions, and using data from health care institutions do not demon
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community when making decisions about what the community actually wants and needs.
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8. WHICH public health Nurse most clearly fulfills the responsibilities of this role?
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a. The Nurse who met with several groups to discuss community recreation issues
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b. The Nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies
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c. The Nurse who talked to several people about their particular health concerns
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d. The Nurse who watched the city council meeting on local cable television
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ANS B f g
Any of these descriptions might represent a Nurse communicating, cooperating, or collaborating with co
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about health concerns. A major challenge for the future is the need for public health nursing specialists t
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king collaboratively with various groups in the community as well as professional colleagues in instituti
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riers to health. However, the Nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies is th
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se in public health, concerns are addressed from a broader perspective. In public health, broad concerns o
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ddressed. Concerns are broader than recreation, individual concerns are not as important as aggregate prio
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n (a one-way form of communication) is less effective than interacting with others.
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9. WHICH of the Following best defines aggregate? fg fg fg fg fg fg
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b. A collection of individuals and families
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c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
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d. Another name for demographic group fg fg fg fg
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unity can be defined in terms of either geography (e.g., a county, a group of counties, or a state) or a spec
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ending a particular school). These members make up a population. The term population may be used interc
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regate. A large group of persons, a collection of individuals and families, and another name for demogra
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efinitions of the term aggregate. fg fg fg fg
10. WHICH question asked by a novice Nurse would be the most reflective of an understanding of the role of
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b. “WHICH patients should I see first as I begin my day?” fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
FOUNDATIONSFORPOPULATIONHEALTHIN COMMU
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HEALTH NURSING
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by Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster
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Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
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Chapter 02: The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing Stanhope: Chapter
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3: US and Global Health Care
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Chapter 04: Government, the Law, and Policy Activism C
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hapter 05: Economics of US Health Care Delivery
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Chapter 06: Ethics in Public and Community Health Nursing Practice Ch
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apter 07: Culture of Populations in Communities
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Chapter 08: Environmental Health Chapte fg fg fg fg
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Based Practice Chapter 10: Epidemiologic fg fg fg fg
al Applications
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Chapter 11: Infectious Disease Prevention and Control C
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hapter12: Communicable and Infection Disease Risks Cha
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pter 13: Community Assessment and Evaluation Chapter
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14: Health Education in the Community Chapter 15: Cas
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e Management
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Chapter 16: Disaster Management fg fg fg
Chapter 17: Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation Chap
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ter 18: Program Management
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Chapter 19: Healthcare Improvement in the Community
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Chapter 20: Family Development, Family Nursing Assessment, and Genomics Cha
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pter 21: Family Health Risks
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Chapter 22: Health Risks Across the Life Span fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
Chapter 23: Health Equity and Care of Vulnerable Populations Chapter 2
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4: Rural Health and Migrant Health
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Chapter 25: Poverty, Homelessness, Teen Pregnancy, and Mental Illness Chapter
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26: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems in the Community Chapter 27: Vio
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lence and Human Abuse fg fg fg
Chapter 28: Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National Levels in Public Health Chapter
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29: The Faith Community Nurse
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1: The Nurse in the Schools
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, Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
MULTIPLE CHOICE fg
1. WHICH statement best describes community-based nursing?
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a. A practice in WHICH care is provided for individuals and families.
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b. Providing care with a focus on the group’s needs. fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs. fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
d. A value system in WHICH all clients receive optimal care.
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ANS A f g
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-
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specific practice in WHICH care is provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and
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s is on acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care. Th
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s or specialists in maternal–infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric mental health nursing. Community-
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based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to individuals and families, rather than focusing on gro
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2. WHICH statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
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a. Providing care to individuals and families fg fg fg fg fg
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
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d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
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ANS D f g
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Nurses may focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting, a
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onic conditions. These definitions are not specific to community-oriented nursing.
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3. WHICH of the Following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
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ANS D f g
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d families. The goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the commun
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n it. Community-based Nurses deal primarily with illness-
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oriented care of individuals and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic he
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unity, and the focus of practice is on individual or
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family-centered illness care. fg fg
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b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures fg fg fg fg fg
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs fg fg fg fg fg
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections fg fg fg fg fg
ANS C f g
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ments in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water supplies, (3) making workplaces safer, (4) improving food and dru
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(5) immunizing children, and (6) improving nutrition, hygiene, and housing. Although people are excite
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alth of populations that have come largely from public health accomplishments.
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, 6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relates to public health efforts?
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c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
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d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
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ANS C f g
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er community. Public health practice focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the commu
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he community as a whole. Public health can be described as what society collectively does to ensure that
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people can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not judge the morality of health disparit
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on of illness not on spending more on illness care. Additionally, individual responsibility for making hea
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or lengthening life span not the role of the government.
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7. WHICH of the Following actions would most likely be performed by a public health Nurse?
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eded health services fg fg
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the environment
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ANS D f g
Although the public health Nurse might engage in any of the tasks listed, he or she works primarily with
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o carry out core public health functions, including assessment of the population as a whole and engaging
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roving the environment. The interventions of asking community leaders WHICH interventions should be
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unity and deciding on appropriate interventions, and using data from health care institutions do not demon
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community when making decisions about what the community actually wants and needs.
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8. WHICH public health Nurse most clearly fulfills the responsibilities of this role?
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a. The Nurse who met with several groups to discuss community recreation issues
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b. The Nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies
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c. The Nurse who talked to several people about their particular health concerns
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d. The Nurse who watched the city council meeting on local cable television
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ANS B f g
Any of these descriptions might represent a Nurse communicating, cooperating, or collaborating with co
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about health concerns. A major challenge for the future is the need for public health nursing specialists t
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king collaboratively with various groups in the community as well as professional colleagues in instituti
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riers to health. However, the Nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies is th
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se in public health, concerns are addressed from a broader perspective. In public health, broad concerns o
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ddressed. Concerns are broader than recreation, individual concerns are not as important as aggregate prio
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n (a one-way form of communication) is less effective than interacting with others.
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9. WHICH of the Following best defines aggregate? fg fg fg fg fg fg
a. A large group of persons fg fg fg fg
b. A collection of individuals and families
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c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
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d. Another name for demographic group fg fg fg fg
ANS C f g
An aggregate is defined a collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental charact
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unity can be defined in terms of either geography (e.g., a county, a group of counties, or a state) or a spec
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ending a particular school). These members make up a population. The term population may be used interc
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regate. A large group of persons, a collection of individuals and families, and another name for demogra
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efinitions of the term aggregate. fg fg fg fg
10. WHICH question asked by a novice Nurse would be the most reflective of an understanding of the role of
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a. “WHICH groups are at the greatest risk for problems?” fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
b. “WHICH patients should I see first as I begin my day?” fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg fg
