,TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER TOPIC
Chapter 1 The Journey Begins: Introduction
Chapter 2 Public Health Nursing in the Community
Chapter 3 History and Evolution of Public Health Nursing
Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics in Community/Public
Health
Chapter 5 Transcultural Nursing
Chapter 6 Structure and Economics of Community/Public
Health Services
Chapter 7 Epidemiology in the Community
Chapter 8 Communicable Disease
Chapter 9 Environmental Health & Safety
Chapter 10 Communication, Collaboration, and Technology
Chapter 11 Health Promotion Through Education
Chapter 12 Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating
Community
Chapter 13 Policy Making and Advocacy
Chapter 14 Family as Client
Chapter 15 Community as Client
Chapter 16 Global Health Nursing
Chapter 17 Disasters and Their Impact
Chapter 18 Violence & Abuse
Chapter 19 Maternal-Child Health
Chapter 20 school-Age Children and Adolescents
Chapter 21 Adult Health
Chapter 22 Older Adults
Chapter 23 Working with Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 24 Clients with Disabilities
Chapter 25 Behavioral Health in the Community
Chapter 26 Homeless Populations
Chapter 27 Rural, Migrant, and Urban Health Care
Chapter 28 Public Settings
Chapter 29 Private Settings
Chapter 30 Home Health and Hospice Care
, COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 10TH EDITION RECTOR TEST BANK
Chapter 1 The Journey Begins: Introduction
1. Which statement best distinguishes public health nursing from community health nursing?
A. Public health nursing focuses primarily on individual care.
B. Community health nursing is practiced only in institutions.
C. Public health nursing targets populations to improve the health of the entire community.
D. Community health nursing emphasizes hospital-based preventive programs.
Answer: C
Rationale: Public health nursing targets populations and aggregates to promote health, prevent disease,
and protect communities. Community health nursing focuses on designated communities within the
larger public health effort.
2. Which of the following best defines a community of common interest?
A. People who live within the same geographic area
B. People connected by a shared health problem or goal
C. Individuals who share biological relationships
D. Residents within a county or city
Answer: B
Rationale: A community of common interest includes individuals united by a shared purpose or concern
(e.g., a national professional group or patients with a shared health issue).
3. The health continuum is best described as:
A. A linear progression from illness to wellness.
B. A static state that defines a person as either healthy or ill.
C. A relative concept that recognizes varying degrees of wellness and illness.
D. A clinical tool to measure only physical health.
Answer: C
Rationale: The health continuum represents a dynamic range from optimal wellness to death. Health
and illness exist as relative states influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors.
, 4. Which nursing activity is an example of primary prevention?
A. Teaching about safe-sex practices to adolescents
B. Screening for hypertension in older adults
C. Providing rehabilitation for stroke survivors
D. Monitoring blood glucose for diabetics
Answer: A
Rationale: Primary prevention aims to prevent disease before it occurs. Health education and
immunizations fall into this category, unlike screening or rehabilitation.
5. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects secondary prevention?
A. Preventing injury by promoting seat belt use
B. Administering flu vaccines
C. Conducting cholesterol screenings
D. Teaching stress reduction techniques
Answer: C
Rationale: Secondary prevention detects disease in its early stages to reduce severity and complications.
Cholesterol screenings identify risk factors before symptomatic disease develops.
6. The community health nurse ensures the greatest good for the greatest number of people by applying
which ethical principle?
A. Justice
B. Beneficence
C. Utilitarianism
D. Nonmaleficence
Answer: C
Rationale: Utilitarianism focuses on actions that produce the greatest benefit for the greatest number,
aligning with public health goals.
7. Which of the following best reflects the role of the community health nurse as a collaborator?
A. Providing wound care during home visits
B. Working with police, social workers, and educators on a violence prevention initiative
C. Teaching medication adherence to a diabetic client
D. Conducting a school vision screening program
Answer: B
Rationale: Collaboration involves interprofessional teamwork to promote community health outcomes,
such as violence prevention or disease control.
CHAPTER TOPIC
Chapter 1 The Journey Begins: Introduction
Chapter 2 Public Health Nursing in the Community
Chapter 3 History and Evolution of Public Health Nursing
Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics in Community/Public
Health
Chapter 5 Transcultural Nursing
Chapter 6 Structure and Economics of Community/Public
Health Services
Chapter 7 Epidemiology in the Community
Chapter 8 Communicable Disease
Chapter 9 Environmental Health & Safety
Chapter 10 Communication, Collaboration, and Technology
Chapter 11 Health Promotion Through Education
Chapter 12 Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating
Community
Chapter 13 Policy Making and Advocacy
Chapter 14 Family as Client
Chapter 15 Community as Client
Chapter 16 Global Health Nursing
Chapter 17 Disasters and Their Impact
Chapter 18 Violence & Abuse
Chapter 19 Maternal-Child Health
Chapter 20 school-Age Children and Adolescents
Chapter 21 Adult Health
Chapter 22 Older Adults
Chapter 23 Working with Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 24 Clients with Disabilities
Chapter 25 Behavioral Health in the Community
Chapter 26 Homeless Populations
Chapter 27 Rural, Migrant, and Urban Health Care
Chapter 28 Public Settings
Chapter 29 Private Settings
Chapter 30 Home Health and Hospice Care
, COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 10TH EDITION RECTOR TEST BANK
Chapter 1 The Journey Begins: Introduction
1. Which statement best distinguishes public health nursing from community health nursing?
A. Public health nursing focuses primarily on individual care.
B. Community health nursing is practiced only in institutions.
C. Public health nursing targets populations to improve the health of the entire community.
D. Community health nursing emphasizes hospital-based preventive programs.
Answer: C
Rationale: Public health nursing targets populations and aggregates to promote health, prevent disease,
and protect communities. Community health nursing focuses on designated communities within the
larger public health effort.
2. Which of the following best defines a community of common interest?
A. People who live within the same geographic area
B. People connected by a shared health problem or goal
C. Individuals who share biological relationships
D. Residents within a county or city
Answer: B
Rationale: A community of common interest includes individuals united by a shared purpose or concern
(e.g., a national professional group or patients with a shared health issue).
3. The health continuum is best described as:
A. A linear progression from illness to wellness.
B. A static state that defines a person as either healthy or ill.
C. A relative concept that recognizes varying degrees of wellness and illness.
D. A clinical tool to measure only physical health.
Answer: C
Rationale: The health continuum represents a dynamic range from optimal wellness to death. Health
and illness exist as relative states influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors.
, 4. Which nursing activity is an example of primary prevention?
A. Teaching about safe-sex practices to adolescents
B. Screening for hypertension in older adults
C. Providing rehabilitation for stroke survivors
D. Monitoring blood glucose for diabetics
Answer: A
Rationale: Primary prevention aims to prevent disease before it occurs. Health education and
immunizations fall into this category, unlike screening or rehabilitation.
5. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects secondary prevention?
A. Preventing injury by promoting seat belt use
B. Administering flu vaccines
C. Conducting cholesterol screenings
D. Teaching stress reduction techniques
Answer: C
Rationale: Secondary prevention detects disease in its early stages to reduce severity and complications.
Cholesterol screenings identify risk factors before symptomatic disease develops.
6. The community health nurse ensures the greatest good for the greatest number of people by applying
which ethical principle?
A. Justice
B. Beneficence
C. Utilitarianism
D. Nonmaleficence
Answer: C
Rationale: Utilitarianism focuses on actions that produce the greatest benefit for the greatest number,
aligning with public health goals.
7. Which of the following best reflects the role of the community health nurse as a collaborator?
A. Providing wound care during home visits
B. Working with police, social workers, and educators on a violence prevention initiative
C. Teaching medication adherence to a diabetic client
D. Conducting a school vision screening program
Answer: B
Rationale: Collaboration involves interprofessional teamwork to promote community health outcomes,
such as violence prevention or disease control.
