NURS 2000 MIDTERM EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A community health provider is participating in a coalition that is advocating to de-
escalate police and public crisis situations and promote mental health of the responding
police officers. A citizen works with officers and providers to draft a letter to the Board of
the Peterborough Police Services. According to the social ecological model of health, at
which level of influence is the health care provider functioning? - Correct Answers -
community
The National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy (2016) points states that
focusing public policy on those most disadvantaged has a major limitation to address
health inequalities. What is a critique of this approach? - Correct Answers -targeting
policies to the least well-off ignores groups just above those least well off
Trends in rural health nursing workforce are illustrated by the following:
a. nurses in rural communities are paid less
b. nurses in rural communities often practice with a greater scope of practice
c. nurses in rural communities provide care for less acute health issues
d. the percentage of rural nurses that work in hospital's compared to the community
setting is greater than in cities - Correct Answers -b. nurses in rural communities often
practice with a greater scope of practice
Community health nurse notices that individuals living near factories in the suburbs of a
large city have a higher incidence of asthma, and are usually people of colour and lower
income. Which of the following best guides the health care worker's critical thinking? -
Correct Answers -health belief model
Epidemiologists in Peterborough have noted an increase in weekly incidence rates of
COVID-19. How can a community health nurse interpret these results? - Correct
Answers -i increase exposure of vulnerable host
according to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, where does the responsibility for
health mainly lay?
a. many sectors in society
b. individuals
c. family
d. municipal government - Correct Answers -a. many sectors in society
, which health promotion approach is reflected in a vaccination program? - Correct
Answers -biomedical
which of the following strategies represents the most "upstream" approach in
community health practice?
a. a support group brings together mothers with postpartum depression
b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and walking
c. a cancer-screening clinic organized in the highschool of a rural community
d. a provider educates individuals with diabetes about healthy eating and exercise -
Correct Answers -b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and
walking
as a result of climate change, what has been a health impact from changes in vector-
borne infections? - Correct Answers -increased lyme disease
promoting mammograms in the community to screen for breast cancer is considered
what type of prevention measure?
a. secondary prevention
b. tertiary prevention
c. primary prevention
d. primordial prevention - Correct Answers -a. secondary prevention
Community - Correct Answers -group of people who live, learn, work, and play in an
environment (group of people in a given place)
community functions: - Correct Answers -day-to-day livelihood
Community Dynamics? - Correct Answers -Supporting community functions
- leadership
- communication
- decision making
Healthy communities: - Correct Answers -- health promotion
- a partnership to create a sustained healthy community
Role of CHN - Correct Answers -- able to use the community health promotion process
- demonstrate leadership
- community participatory tools to engage community stakeholders and population
groups
Why do you think CPHA uses the terms Public Health Nurse and Community Health
Nurse synonymously? - Correct Answers -they both are community-based health
practices
10 social justice attributes - Correct Answers -1. equity
2. human rights
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A community health provider is participating in a coalition that is advocating to de-
escalate police and public crisis situations and promote mental health of the responding
police officers. A citizen works with officers and providers to draft a letter to the Board of
the Peterborough Police Services. According to the social ecological model of health, at
which level of influence is the health care provider functioning? - Correct Answers -
community
The National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy (2016) points states that
focusing public policy on those most disadvantaged has a major limitation to address
health inequalities. What is a critique of this approach? - Correct Answers -targeting
policies to the least well-off ignores groups just above those least well off
Trends in rural health nursing workforce are illustrated by the following:
a. nurses in rural communities are paid less
b. nurses in rural communities often practice with a greater scope of practice
c. nurses in rural communities provide care for less acute health issues
d. the percentage of rural nurses that work in hospital's compared to the community
setting is greater than in cities - Correct Answers -b. nurses in rural communities often
practice with a greater scope of practice
Community health nurse notices that individuals living near factories in the suburbs of a
large city have a higher incidence of asthma, and are usually people of colour and lower
income. Which of the following best guides the health care worker's critical thinking? -
Correct Answers -health belief model
Epidemiologists in Peterborough have noted an increase in weekly incidence rates of
COVID-19. How can a community health nurse interpret these results? - Correct
Answers -i increase exposure of vulnerable host
according to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, where does the responsibility for
health mainly lay?
a. many sectors in society
b. individuals
c. family
d. municipal government - Correct Answers -a. many sectors in society
, which health promotion approach is reflected in a vaccination program? - Correct
Answers -biomedical
which of the following strategies represents the most "upstream" approach in
community health practice?
a. a support group brings together mothers with postpartum depression
b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and walking
c. a cancer-screening clinic organized in the highschool of a rural community
d. a provider educates individuals with diabetes about healthy eating and exercise -
Correct Answers -b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and
walking
as a result of climate change, what has been a health impact from changes in vector-
borne infections? - Correct Answers -increased lyme disease
promoting mammograms in the community to screen for breast cancer is considered
what type of prevention measure?
a. secondary prevention
b. tertiary prevention
c. primary prevention
d. primordial prevention - Correct Answers -a. secondary prevention
Community - Correct Answers -group of people who live, learn, work, and play in an
environment (group of people in a given place)
community functions: - Correct Answers -day-to-day livelihood
Community Dynamics? - Correct Answers -Supporting community functions
- leadership
- communication
- decision making
Healthy communities: - Correct Answers -- health promotion
- a partnership to create a sustained healthy community
Role of CHN - Correct Answers -- able to use the community health promotion process
- demonstrate leadership
- community participatory tools to engage community stakeholders and population
groups
Why do you think CPHA uses the terms Public Health Nurse and Community Health
Nurse synonymously? - Correct Answers -they both are community-based health
practices
10 social justice attributes - Correct Answers -1. equity
2. human rights
