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NR442 Final Exam/NR 442 Community Health Nursing
Final 2025/2026 Actual Exam Complete 200 Questions And
Correct Detailed Answers (Verified Answers) |Already
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What historically have been public health nurses' two most important
priorities? (Select all that apply.)
a. Establishing school nursing to improve care of children
b. Engaging in political activity to improve living conditions
c. Giving superb clinical bedside care in the home
d. Increasing funding to public health efforts
e. Teaching family members how to care for their family
f. Working with the community to confront health issues and poverty -
ANSWER-b,f
As in Healthy People 2010, what are the two primary goals of Healthy
People 2020? (Select all that apply.)
a. Eliminate health disparities
b. Expand health promotion activities in every community
c. Improve funding, including diverting funds from other priorities to
health care
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d. Improve health outcomes measures to be more consistent with other
developed nations' outcomes
e. Increase quality and years of healthy life
f. Reduce mortality and morbidity figures nationwide - ANSWER-a,e
Which of the following best describes the first measures used by large
communities to ensure community health?
a. Building safe sewage disposal systems
b. Healthy food choices and exercise
c. Praying to the gods for preservation
d. Use of medicine and other herbal remedies - ANSWER-a
A nurse has determined that there is always a consistent level of people
in the population who experience pneumonia. Which of the following
best describes the prevalence of this disease?
a. Prevalent
b. Endemic
c. Epidemic
d. Pandemic - ANSWER-b
Which of the following best describes a modern public health practice
that was originally developed as a means of self-protection from the
Black Death (bubonic plague)?
a. Care in a hospital
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b. Chemical intervention
c. Isolation and quarantine
d. Herbal remedies - ANSWER-c
A scholar during the Sanitary Revolution created medical topographies.
What was the advantage of these surveys?
a. Citizens knew which wells were safe to use for drinking water.
b. People knew what housing areas to avoid.
c. Results demonstrated environmental factors related to regional
disease.
d. The king could isolate areas of disease from safe areas. - ANSWER-c
How did Edwin Chadwick's ideas help decrease disease in the nineteenth
century?
a. The minimum wage was increased leading to improved quality of life.
b. Parish workhouses where poverty-level children labored for their
room and board were closed.
c. Social reform legislation resulted in changes such as sidewalks.
d. The new emphasis on individual responsibility encouraged people to
act to protect their own health. - ANSWER-c
Which of the following best describes how John Snow was able to
decrease deaths from cholera?
a. Removed a source of contaminated water
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b. Created the world's first antibiotic
c. Encouraged the new process of vaccination
d. Helped pass laws that required home quarantine - ANSWER-a
Which of the following nursing interventions would have most likely
been used by Florence Nightingale when treating wounded soldiers?
a. Establishing private visits with spouses
b. Improving food, clothing, and cleanliness
c. Administering intravenous medications
d. Completing a community assessment of the army hospital -
ANSWER-b
Which of the following best describes how Nightingale responded to
challenges about her suggestions for reform of health care?
a. She influenced male friends as political leaders to publicize her ideas.
b. She conveyed her statistical data in more detail and depth, and shared
it with political leaders.
c. She encouraged those who challenged her to come up with more
acceptable approaches to lowering the death rate.
d. She understood their concerns and tried to word her suggestions in a
more politically acceptable way. - ANSWER-b
Which of the following groups was primarily responsible for the
establishment of the first school of public health?
NR442 Final Exam/NR 442 Community Health Nursing
Final 2025/2026 Actual Exam Complete 200 Questions And
Correct Detailed Answers (Verified Answers) |Already
Graded A+
What historically have been public health nurses' two most important
priorities? (Select all that apply.)
a. Establishing school nursing to improve care of children
b. Engaging in political activity to improve living conditions
c. Giving superb clinical bedside care in the home
d. Increasing funding to public health efforts
e. Teaching family members how to care for their family
f. Working with the community to confront health issues and poverty -
ANSWER-b,f
As in Healthy People 2010, what are the two primary goals of Healthy
People 2020? (Select all that apply.)
a. Eliminate health disparities
b. Expand health promotion activities in every community
c. Improve funding, including diverting funds from other priorities to
health care
,2|Page
d. Improve health outcomes measures to be more consistent with other
developed nations' outcomes
e. Increase quality and years of healthy life
f. Reduce mortality and morbidity figures nationwide - ANSWER-a,e
Which of the following best describes the first measures used by large
communities to ensure community health?
a. Building safe sewage disposal systems
b. Healthy food choices and exercise
c. Praying to the gods for preservation
d. Use of medicine and other herbal remedies - ANSWER-a
A nurse has determined that there is always a consistent level of people
in the population who experience pneumonia. Which of the following
best describes the prevalence of this disease?
a. Prevalent
b. Endemic
c. Epidemic
d. Pandemic - ANSWER-b
Which of the following best describes a modern public health practice
that was originally developed as a means of self-protection from the
Black Death (bubonic plague)?
a. Care in a hospital
,3|Page
b. Chemical intervention
c. Isolation and quarantine
d. Herbal remedies - ANSWER-c
A scholar during the Sanitary Revolution created medical topographies.
What was the advantage of these surveys?
a. Citizens knew which wells were safe to use for drinking water.
b. People knew what housing areas to avoid.
c. Results demonstrated environmental factors related to regional
disease.
d. The king could isolate areas of disease from safe areas. - ANSWER-c
How did Edwin Chadwick's ideas help decrease disease in the nineteenth
century?
a. The minimum wage was increased leading to improved quality of life.
b. Parish workhouses where poverty-level children labored for their
room and board were closed.
c. Social reform legislation resulted in changes such as sidewalks.
d. The new emphasis on individual responsibility encouraged people to
act to protect their own health. - ANSWER-c
Which of the following best describes how John Snow was able to
decrease deaths from cholera?
a. Removed a source of contaminated water
, 4|Page
b. Created the world's first antibiotic
c. Encouraged the new process of vaccination
d. Helped pass laws that required home quarantine - ANSWER-a
Which of the following nursing interventions would have most likely
been used by Florence Nightingale when treating wounded soldiers?
a. Establishing private visits with spouses
b. Improving food, clothing, and cleanliness
c. Administering intravenous medications
d. Completing a community assessment of the army hospital -
ANSWER-b
Which of the following best describes how Nightingale responded to
challenges about her suggestions for reform of health care?
a. She influenced male friends as political leaders to publicize her ideas.
b. She conveyed her statistical data in more detail and depth, and shared
it with political leaders.
c. She encouraged those who challenged her to come up with more
acceptable approaches to lowering the death rate.
d. She understood their concerns and tried to word her suggestions in a
more politically acceptable way. - ANSWER-b
Which of the following groups was primarily responsible for the
establishment of the first school of public health?
