Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
TESTBANKPublic/CommunityHealthandNursingPractice:
CaringforPopulations3rdEditionbyChristineL.Savage,Cha
pters1-22,Complete
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
TABLEOFCONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
AnswersareattheendofEachchapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to dev
elop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors fro
m two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include di
sease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections
,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the earl
ydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain seve
ral worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organiz
ation(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-
being for the globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medici
ne Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, an
d Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that t
here are three core functions that society carries out to collectively suppo
rtthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is
notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
TESTBANKPublic/CommunityHealthandNursingPractice:
CaringforPopulations3rdEditionbyChristineL.Savage,Cha
pters1-22,Complete
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
TABLEOFCONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
AnswersareattheendofEachchapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to dev
elop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors fro
m two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include di
sease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections
,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caringfor Populations
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the earl
ydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain seve
ral worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organiz
ation(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-
being for the globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medici
ne Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, an
d Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that t
here are three core functions that society carries out to collectively suppo
rtthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is
notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
