Community Health (NURS 3000) Final
Exam Review Questions & Answers
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Health care organizations CORRECT ANSWERS A purposefully designed, structured
social system developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized
workforces to defined communities, populations or markets
Health policy CORRECT ANSWERS A goal directed decision making about health that
is the result of an authorized, public decision-making process
Culture CORRECT ANSWERS A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions,
norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language
or live in a defined geographical area
Medical model CORRECT ANSWERS A model where the emphasis is placed on the
cure
Community health nursing CORRECT ANSWERS The broader term that encompasses
"subspecialties" such as public health nursing, home care nursing, and occupational
health nursing
District nursing CORRECT ANSWERS Nurses were assigned a particular geographic
section of the city and were responsible for the health of the people living in that section
Lilian Wald CORRECT ANSWERS American Social Reformer who invented public
health nursing; established an American system of insurance payment for home based
care
Maisie Parsons CORRECT ANSWERS The first Newfoundland educated nurse to join
the war effort during World War 1
Maya Bennett CORRECT ANSWERS A district nurse under the Outport Nursing
Scheme
LaLonde report CORRECT ANSWERS The health promotion movement in Canada,
which focused on healthy individual lifestyles
Community health nurses of Canada (CHNC) CORRECT ANSWERS The national
voice of community health nurses
,Public health CORRECT ANSWERS Focus on promoting, protecting and preserving the
health of populations; links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families,
and communities to population health promotion practice
Home health CORRECT ANSWERS Focus on prevention, health restoration,
maintenance, and palliation
RN in primary care/family nursing CORRECT ANSWERS Focus on preventative health
screening, health education, comprehensive assessment, treatment of minor acute
illness, chronic disease management, case management, system navigation,
therapeutic intervention (wound care, immunizations), and medication review with
individuals and families
Health promotion CORRECT ANSWERS The process of enabling people to increase
control over, and to improve their health
Socioecological model CORRECT ANSWERS Focuses on sustainable solutions
Professional relationships CORRECT ANSWERS These relationships include
optimizing participation and self-determination of the client
Capacity building CORRECT ANSWERS The focus is to recognize barriers to health
and to mobilize and build on existing strengths
Cultural safety CORRECT ANSWERS Means the practitioner can communicate
competently with a client in that client's social, political, linguistic, economic, and
spiritual realm
Cultural humility CORRECT ANSWERS An approach to health care based on humble
acknowledgement of oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding a person's
experience. It is a life-long process of learning and being self-reflective
Indigenous ways of knowing CORRECT ANSWERS Comprises the complex set of
technologies developed and sustained by Indigenous civilizations. Often oral and
symbolic, it is transmitted through the structure of Indigenous language and passed on
to the next generation through modeling, practice, and animation, rather than written
word
Critical appraisal CORRECT ANSWERS Assess internal validity, the results and the
relevance to practice
Knowledge translation CORRECT ANSWERS Refers to a dynamic and iterative
process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound use of
knowledge to improve the health of Canadians
, Interprofessional competencies CORRECT ANSWERS Reflect what CHNs are working
to improve health care delivery including effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-
centeredness, and equity
Professional identity CORRECT ANSWERS A sense of oneself that is influenced by
characteristics, norms and values of the nursing discipline resulting in an individual
thinking, acting and feeling like a nurse
Leadership CORRECT ANSWERS An interactive process that provides needed
guidance and direction
Ethics CORRECT ANSWERS The study or examination of morality through a variety of
different approaches
Community CORRECT ANSWERS A locally based entity composed of systems of
formal organizations
Interdependent CORRECT ANSWERS An area that is feasible for resources
People CORRECT ANSWERS Community population
Place CORRECT ANSWERS Geographic area where the community is
Function CORRECT ANSWERS The aims of the community
Role of the nurse CORRECT ANSWERS Regularly examine how the people, place, and
function meet the needs of the residents
Geographic communities CORRECT ANSWERS Face to face/neighbourhood
community
Community of identifiable need CORRECT ANSWERS Can cross a number of
geographical boundaries; they have a service in a specific community that is needed
Community of problem ecology CORRECT ANSWERS When environmental problems
can affect widespread areas; typically people that do not generally share interests;
brought together for a purpose
Community of concern CORRECT ANSWERS When a group comes together to decide
what they can do about a concern for potential issues
Community of special interest CORRECT ANSWERS A community that is focused on
the same issues
Community of viability CORRECT ANSWERS How the community lives and develops
under unfavourable conditions
Exam Review Questions & Answers
Rated 100% Correct!!!
Health care organizations CORRECT ANSWERS A purposefully designed, structured
social system developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized
workforces to defined communities, populations or markets
Health policy CORRECT ANSWERS A goal directed decision making about health that
is the result of an authorized, public decision-making process
Culture CORRECT ANSWERS A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self definitions,
norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language
or live in a defined geographical area
Medical model CORRECT ANSWERS A model where the emphasis is placed on the
cure
Community health nursing CORRECT ANSWERS The broader term that encompasses
"subspecialties" such as public health nursing, home care nursing, and occupational
health nursing
District nursing CORRECT ANSWERS Nurses were assigned a particular geographic
section of the city and were responsible for the health of the people living in that section
Lilian Wald CORRECT ANSWERS American Social Reformer who invented public
health nursing; established an American system of insurance payment for home based
care
Maisie Parsons CORRECT ANSWERS The first Newfoundland educated nurse to join
the war effort during World War 1
Maya Bennett CORRECT ANSWERS A district nurse under the Outport Nursing
Scheme
LaLonde report CORRECT ANSWERS The health promotion movement in Canada,
which focused on healthy individual lifestyles
Community health nurses of Canada (CHNC) CORRECT ANSWERS The national
voice of community health nurses
,Public health CORRECT ANSWERS Focus on promoting, protecting and preserving the
health of populations; links the health and illness experiences of individuals, families,
and communities to population health promotion practice
Home health CORRECT ANSWERS Focus on prevention, health restoration,
maintenance, and palliation
RN in primary care/family nursing CORRECT ANSWERS Focus on preventative health
screening, health education, comprehensive assessment, treatment of minor acute
illness, chronic disease management, case management, system navigation,
therapeutic intervention (wound care, immunizations), and medication review with
individuals and families
Health promotion CORRECT ANSWERS The process of enabling people to increase
control over, and to improve their health
Socioecological model CORRECT ANSWERS Focuses on sustainable solutions
Professional relationships CORRECT ANSWERS These relationships include
optimizing participation and self-determination of the client
Capacity building CORRECT ANSWERS The focus is to recognize barriers to health
and to mobilize and build on existing strengths
Cultural safety CORRECT ANSWERS Means the practitioner can communicate
competently with a client in that client's social, political, linguistic, economic, and
spiritual realm
Cultural humility CORRECT ANSWERS An approach to health care based on humble
acknowledgement of oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding a person's
experience. It is a life-long process of learning and being self-reflective
Indigenous ways of knowing CORRECT ANSWERS Comprises the complex set of
technologies developed and sustained by Indigenous civilizations. Often oral and
symbolic, it is transmitted through the structure of Indigenous language and passed on
to the next generation through modeling, practice, and animation, rather than written
word
Critical appraisal CORRECT ANSWERS Assess internal validity, the results and the
relevance to practice
Knowledge translation CORRECT ANSWERS Refers to a dynamic and iterative
process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound use of
knowledge to improve the health of Canadians
, Interprofessional competencies CORRECT ANSWERS Reflect what CHNs are working
to improve health care delivery including effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-
centeredness, and equity
Professional identity CORRECT ANSWERS A sense of oneself that is influenced by
characteristics, norms and values of the nursing discipline resulting in an individual
thinking, acting and feeling like a nurse
Leadership CORRECT ANSWERS An interactive process that provides needed
guidance and direction
Ethics CORRECT ANSWERS The study or examination of morality through a variety of
different approaches
Community CORRECT ANSWERS A locally based entity composed of systems of
formal organizations
Interdependent CORRECT ANSWERS An area that is feasible for resources
People CORRECT ANSWERS Community population
Place CORRECT ANSWERS Geographic area where the community is
Function CORRECT ANSWERS The aims of the community
Role of the nurse CORRECT ANSWERS Regularly examine how the people, place, and
function meet the needs of the residents
Geographic communities CORRECT ANSWERS Face to face/neighbourhood
community
Community of identifiable need CORRECT ANSWERS Can cross a number of
geographical boundaries; they have a service in a specific community that is needed
Community of problem ecology CORRECT ANSWERS When environmental problems
can affect widespread areas; typically people that do not generally share interests;
brought together for a purpose
Community of concern CORRECT ANSWERS When a group comes together to decide
what they can do about a concern for potential issues
Community of special interest CORRECT ANSWERS A community that is focused on
the same issues
Community of viability CORRECT ANSWERS How the community lives and develops
under unfavourable conditions
