TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
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q Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
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q L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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, Public/Community qHealth qand qNursing qPractice: qCaring qfor qPopulations
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. qBasis qfor qPublic qHealth qNursing qKnowledge qand qSkills
1. qPublic qHealth qand qNursing qPractice
2. qOptimizing qPopulation qHealth
3. qEpidemiology qand qNursing qPractice
4. qIntroduction qto qCommunity qAssessment
5. qHealth qProgram qPlanning
6. qEnvironmental qHealth
II. qCommunity qHealth qAcross qPopulations: qPublic qHealth qIssues
7. qHealth qDisparities qand qthe qSocial qDeterminants qof qHealth
8. qHealth qand qVulnerable qPopulations
9. qCommunicable qDiseases
10. qNoncommunicable qDiseases
11. qMental qHealth
12. qSubstance qUse qand qthe qHealth qof qCommunities
13. qInjury qand qViolence
III. qPublic qHealth qPlanning
14. qHealth qPlanning qfor qLocal qPublic qHealth qDepartments
15. qHealth qPlanning qfor qAcute qCare qSettings
16. qHealth qPlanning qfor qPrimary qCare qSettings
17. qHealth qPlanning qwith qRural qand qUrban qCommunities
18. qHealth qPlanning qfor qMaternal-Infant qand qChild qHealth qSettings
19. qHealth qPlanning qfor qSchool qSettings
20. qHealth qPlanning qfor qOccupational qand qEnvironmental qHealth
21. qHealth qPlanning, qPublic qHealth qPolicy, qand qFinance
22. qHealth qPlanning qfor qEmergency qPreparedness qand qDisaster qManagement
, Public/Community qHealth qand qNursing qPractice: qCaring qfor qPopulations
Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice q q
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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q 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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q issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
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q develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
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q factors from two perspectives:
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1. Disease; individual q
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q 2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
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C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
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q disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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q infections,and q _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
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2. Promotion of primary care q q q
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the q q q q q q q
q earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations q q
q 3. If the international medical community was working to contain
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q several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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q Organization(WHO), which is: q q q
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
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2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above. q q q
q 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and
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q Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences,
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q Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the
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q Public’s Health, that there are three core functions that society carries
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q out to collectively supportthe optimum conditions for public health.
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Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment