TEST BANK: PUBLIC / COMMUNITY HEALTH AND NURSING PRACTICE:CARING FOR POPULATIONS, 2ND EDITION, CHRISTINE L. SAVAGE

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TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
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v Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine
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v L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. vBasis vfor vPublic vHealth vNursing vKnowledge vand vSkills

, Public/Community vHealth vand vNursing vPractice: vCaring vfor vPopulations

1. vPublic vHealth vand vNursing vPractice
2. vOptimizing vPopulation vHealth
3. vEpidemiology vand vNursing vPractice
4. vIntroduction vto vCommunity vAssessment
5. vHealth vProgram vPlanning
6. vEnvironmental vHealth
II. vCommunity vHealth vAcross vPopulations: vPublic vHealth vIssues
7. vHealth vDisparities vand vthe vSocial vDeterminants vof vHealth
8. vHealth vand vVulnerable vPopulations
9. vCommunicable vDiseases
10. vNoncommunicable vDiseases
11. vMental vHealth
12. vSubstance vUse vand vthe vHealth vof vCommunities
13. vInjury vand vViolence
III. vPublic vHealth vPlanning
14. vHealth vPlanning vfor vLocal vPublic vHealth vDepartments
15. vHealth vPlanning vfor vAcute vCare vSettings
16. vHealth vPlanning vfor vPrimary vCare vSettings
17. vHealth vPlanning vwith vRural vand vUrban vCommunities
18. vHealth vPlanning vfor vMaternal-Infant vand vChild vHealth vSettings
19. vHealth vPlanning vfor vSchool vSettings
20. vHealth vPlanning vfor vOccupational vand vEnvironmental vHealth
21. vHealth vPlanning, vPublic vHealth vPolicy, vand vFinance
22. vHealth vPlanning vfor vEmergency vPreparedness vand vDisaster vManagement

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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice v v




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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v 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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v issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
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v develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
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v from two perspectives:
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1. Disease; individual v



2. Intervention; government v



3. Epidemic; population v



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v 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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v disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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infections,and
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1. Risk assessment for disease
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2. Promotion of primary care v v v

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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the v v v v v v v



v earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations v v




v 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
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v worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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v Organization(WHO), which is: v v v



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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v globalpopulation. v



3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above.
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v 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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v Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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v Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
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v there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
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v supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
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following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment