TESTBANKPublic/CommunityHealthandNursing
Practice:CaringforPopulations2ndEditionbyChristineL.
Savage,Chapters1-22,Complete
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
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15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
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18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
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19. Health Planning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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Chapter1:PublicHealthandNursingPractice
MultipleChoice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
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Identifythechoicethat bestcompletesthestatement or answersthequestion.
1. Public healthnurses (PHNs) know theymust approach a public healthissu
ewithan understanding of therelated underlying riskfactorstodevelop effe
ctive nursing interventions. They evaluate theseriskfactorsfromtwoperspe
ctives:
1. Disease;individual
2. Intervention;government
3. Epidemic;population
4. Individual;population
2. Anursing student isstudying publichealth.She learns that,according to
C.E.A. Winslow’sdefinition, some of the goals of public healthinclude diseas
eprevention,promotinghealth,controlofcommunicableinfections,and
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1. Riskassessment fordisease
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2. Promotionofprimarycare
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services fortheearlydi
agnosis and preventivetreatment of disease
4. Governmentalsafetyregulations
3. If theinternational medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, theywouldlooktothe World Health Organization(
WHO),which is:
1. Thepublic healtharmof the United Nations.
2. Working toimprove health and well-
being fortheglobalpopulation.
3. Workingwithnursesto promote publichealth interventions.
4. Allof the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine(IOM), now known asthe Health and Medicine Di
vision (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medici
ne, stated intheirreport, The Futureofthe Public’s Health, that therearethre
e core functions that society carries outtocollectively supporttheoptimumc
onditionsforpublichealth.Which oneof thefollowingisnotoneof these funct
ions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment