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NSG 3480 Final Exam Community Health
Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area. According to the
American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics (2015), community health nurses must
align themselves with public health programs that promote and preserve the health of
populations by influencing
sociocultural issues
Mary is a nursing student doing her senior project in community health. Part of her
assignment is to conduct an activity that illustrates "social health" within a group in her
community. The most appropriate activity for Mary to organize would be a
food bank in a local church
It has been estimated that individual behaviors and environmental factors are
responsible for what percentage of all premature deaths in the United States?
50%
Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in addressing
health and disease in the immigrant community by
supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant
families.
Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the effects of disease. An
example of primary disease prevention is
administering vaccines to children before kindergarten.
Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes a
national prevention initiative titled Healthy People. One of the new objectives for
Healthy People 2020 is to
improve the nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a
major health incident.
Which is an example of "community health nursing" rather than "community-based
nursing"?
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An RN reviewing school clinic records to determine which children are not up to date on
their immunizations
Which entity strives to improve the health of all the public by promoting healthy
lifestyles, preventing disease and injury, and protecting the health of communities?
Public health system
A variety of health indicators are used by health providers, policy makers, and
community health nurses to measure the health of the community. Indicators that
illustrate the health status of a community and may be useful in analyzing health
patterns over time include
Morbidity, Mortality, Life Expectancy, and Cancer Incidence rates
Public health efforts focus on prevention and promotion of population health. The local
level of the health care system provides direct services to community members through
community and personal health services. An example of a health service that targets the
larger community, rather than individuals, is
a mobile immunization clinic.
condemning or repairing unsafe housing.
airing a weekly public service announcement to remind women to do breast self-
examination.
Which statement is not true about the "thinking upstream" model of community health
nursing practice?
It focuses the nurse on short-term, individual-based nursing interventions.
A microscopic approach to the community health problem of childhood obesity would
focus on
asking an obese child and his or her parent(s) to complete a 24-hour food diary
Which theory is based on the assumption that individual needs and related activities are
the focus of nursing care?
Orem's self-care deficit theory
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A community health nurse explores a group of teenagers' beliefs about the seriousness
of eating disorders and their related susceptibility. The nurse is applying principles
from which theory?
The Health Belief Model
The belief that health deficits result from an imbalance between the population's health
needs and its health-sustaining resources is the premise of which theory?
Milio's framework
The community health nurse is teaching a prenatal class and includes the societal cost of
fetal alcohol syndrome in one of the educational sessions. The nurse is demonstrating an
understanding of
critical theoretical perspective.
Which nurse leader formulated the first theory-based conceptual model for nursing
care?
Florence Nightingale
Using theory to guide community health nursing practice serves to
guide data collection and interpretation in a clear and organized manner.
improve community health nursing practice.
focus the student on factors that are critical to understanding the situation.
The use of theory in population-focused community health nursing encourages
a proactive approach to care.
development of population-focused programs.
A major limitation of the Health Belief Model is that the burden of action related to
health behaviors is exclusively on the aggregate.
False
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NSG 3480 Final Exam Community Health
Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area. According to the
American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics (2015), community health nurses must
align themselves with public health programs that promote and preserve the health of
populations by influencing
sociocultural issues
Mary is a nursing student doing her senior project in community health. Part of her
assignment is to conduct an activity that illustrates "social health" within a group in her
community. The most appropriate activity for Mary to organize would be a
food bank in a local church
It has been estimated that individual behaviors and environmental factors are
responsible for what percentage of all premature deaths in the United States?
50%
Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in addressing
health and disease in the immigrant community by
supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant
families.
Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the effects of disease. An
example of primary disease prevention is
administering vaccines to children before kindergarten.
Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes a
national prevention initiative titled Healthy People. One of the new objectives for
Healthy People 2020 is to
improve the nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a
major health incident.
Which is an example of "community health nursing" rather than "community-based
nursing"?
1|Page
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An RN reviewing school clinic records to determine which children are not up to date on
their immunizations
Which entity strives to improve the health of all the public by promoting healthy
lifestyles, preventing disease and injury, and protecting the health of communities?
Public health system
A variety of health indicators are used by health providers, policy makers, and
community health nurses to measure the health of the community. Indicators that
illustrate the health status of a community and may be useful in analyzing health
patterns over time include
Morbidity, Mortality, Life Expectancy, and Cancer Incidence rates
Public health efforts focus on prevention and promotion of population health. The local
level of the health care system provides direct services to community members through
community and personal health services. An example of a health service that targets the
larger community, rather than individuals, is
a mobile immunization clinic.
condemning or repairing unsafe housing.
airing a weekly public service announcement to remind women to do breast self-
examination.
Which statement is not true about the "thinking upstream" model of community health
nursing practice?
It focuses the nurse on short-term, individual-based nursing interventions.
A microscopic approach to the community health problem of childhood obesity would
focus on
asking an obese child and his or her parent(s) to complete a 24-hour food diary
Which theory is based on the assumption that individual needs and related activities are
the focus of nursing care?
Orem's self-care deficit theory
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A community health nurse explores a group of teenagers' beliefs about the seriousness
of eating disorders and their related susceptibility. The nurse is applying principles
from which theory?
The Health Belief Model
The belief that health deficits result from an imbalance between the population's health
needs and its health-sustaining resources is the premise of which theory?
Milio's framework
The community health nurse is teaching a prenatal class and includes the societal cost of
fetal alcohol syndrome in one of the educational sessions. The nurse is demonstrating an
understanding of
critical theoretical perspective.
Which nurse leader formulated the first theory-based conceptual model for nursing
care?
Florence Nightingale
Using theory to guide community health nursing practice serves to
guide data collection and interpretation in a clear and organized manner.
improve community health nursing practice.
focus the student on factors that are critical to understanding the situation.
The use of theory in population-focused community health nursing encourages
a proactive approach to care.
development of population-focused programs.
A major limitation of the Health Belief Model is that the burden of action related to
health behaviors is exclusively on the aggregate.
False
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