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NUR 412 MIDTERM EXAM A & B NEWEST 300
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR
NUR 412 MIDTERM EXAM A
QUESTION: A school nurse teaches three middle school students with asthma conditions
techniques to minimize their incidence of bronchial spasms. This is an application of:
Community based nursing
Community oriented nursing
Institutional nursing
Public health nursing - ANSWER-Community based nursing
The goal of community-based nursing (CBN) is to manage acute or chronic conditions while
promoting self-care among individuals and families. In CBN the nursing care is family centered,
which means that the nurse works to improve the competencies of families to enable them to
take better care of themselves. The nurse pays particular attention to the uniqueness of each
family and works to plan the most useful interventions. Nurses practicing in the community and
many staff public health nurses focus on providing direct care services, including health
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education, to persons or families outside of institutional settings, either in the home or in a
clinic.
QUESTION: The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to
determine the community's health status. Which of the following activities should be
considered in the assessment phase? SATA
Assisting communities to implement and evaluate plans and projects
Building constituencies to work with the community
Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
Questioning the availability of health services to the community - ANSWER-Evaluating the
social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
Questioning the availability of health services to the community
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QUESTION: In a federally funded preschool program such as Head Start, nursing services that
include conducting developmental-level screening for cognitive and psychomotor development
of individual children would most likely be considered community-oriented nursing care when:
individual results are compared with established standards for children of the same age group
program characteristics are assessed for their effectiveness in making the school population
healthier
referral is provided for a child identified with delayed psychomotor development.
treatment is initiated for a child with an identified learning disability. - ANSWER-individual
results are compared with established standards for children of the same age group
Within federally funded programs for preschool children, from a community-oriented nursing
care perspective, nursing services could be provided to individual children by conducting
developmental-level screening tests to evaluate each child's level of cognitive and psychomotor
development in comparison with established standards for children of the same age. This is
population-focused service. A community-based nurse may deliver illness care or direct services
to individual children. A public health nurse may assess the program's ability to achieve the
overall goal of making its
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population of children healthier by evaluating the characteristics of the facility, program, and
environment for their
effectiveness in achieving the goal.
A nurse in a clinic that provides direct care services to clients with tuberculosis would be
classified as practicing:
Community-based nursing
community -oriented nursing
institutional nursing
Public health nursing - ANSWER-Community-based nursing
The nurse practicing as a community-based nurse is more likely to give direct care to people
than are nurses who practice from a community-oriented framework. A community-oriented
framework includes community-oriented nursing and public health nursing. Institutional
nursing care is generally delivered in a hospital or nursing home setting.
QUESTION: Jennifer is a nurse in a family medicine clinic. Today she is assessing Jose, a 4 -year-
old who is being seen for an earache. The type of nursing Jennifer practices is:
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NUR 412 MIDTERM EXAM A & B NEWEST 300
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR
NUR 412 MIDTERM EXAM A
QUESTION: A school nurse teaches three middle school students with asthma conditions
techniques to minimize their incidence of bronchial spasms. This is an application of:
Community based nursing
Community oriented nursing
Institutional nursing
Public health nursing - ANSWER-Community based nursing
The goal of community-based nursing (CBN) is to manage acute or chronic conditions while
promoting self-care among individuals and families. In CBN the nursing care is family centered,
which means that the nurse works to improve the competencies of families to enable them to
take better care of themselves. The nurse pays particular attention to the uniqueness of each
family and works to plan the most useful interventions. Nurses practicing in the community and
many staff public health nurses focus on providing direct care services, including health
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education, to persons or families outside of institutional settings, either in the home or in a
clinic.
QUESTION: The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to
determine the community's health status. Which of the following activities should be
considered in the assessment phase? SATA
Assisting communities to implement and evaluate plans and projects
Building constituencies to work with the community
Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
Questioning the availability of health services to the community - ANSWER-Evaluating the
social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
Questioning the availability of health services to the community
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QUESTION: In a federally funded preschool program such as Head Start, nursing services that
include conducting developmental-level screening for cognitive and psychomotor development
of individual children would most likely be considered community-oriented nursing care when:
individual results are compared with established standards for children of the same age group
program characteristics are assessed for their effectiveness in making the school population
healthier
referral is provided for a child identified with delayed psychomotor development.
treatment is initiated for a child with an identified learning disability. - ANSWER-individual
results are compared with established standards for children of the same age group
Within federally funded programs for preschool children, from a community-oriented nursing
care perspective, nursing services could be provided to individual children by conducting
developmental-level screening tests to evaluate each child's level of cognitive and psychomotor
development in comparison with established standards for children of the same age. This is
population-focused service. A community-based nurse may deliver illness care or direct services
to individual children. A public health nurse may assess the program's ability to achieve the
overall goal of making its
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population of children healthier by evaluating the characteristics of the facility, program, and
environment for their
effectiveness in achieving the goal.
A nurse in a clinic that provides direct care services to clients with tuberculosis would be
classified as practicing:
Community-based nursing
community -oriented nursing
institutional nursing
Public health nursing - ANSWER-Community-based nursing
The nurse practicing as a community-based nurse is more likely to give direct care to people
than are nurses who practice from a community-oriented framework. A community-oriented
framework includes community-oriented nursing and public health nursing. Institutional
nursing care is generally delivered in a hospital or nursing home setting.
QUESTION: Jennifer is a nurse in a family medicine clinic. Today she is assessing Jose, a 4 -year-
old who is being seen for an earache. The type of nursing Jennifer practices is:
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