Premium Test Bank – Stanhope & Lancaster’s Community Health Nursing in Canada (4th Ed)
By MacDonald and Jakubec
Exam-Ready Questions, Rationales & Community Care Mastery | ISBN-13: 978-0323693950
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Community Health Nursing 1
Chapter 02 The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada 8
Chapter 03 Community Health Nursing in Canada-Settings, Functions, and Roles 13
Chapter 04 Health Promotion 24
Chapter 05 Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing 30
Chapter 06 Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice 35
Chapter 07 Diversity and Relational Practice in Community Health Nursing 43
Chapter 08 Epidemiological Applications 49
Chapter 09 Working With the Community 54
Chapter 10 Health Program Planning and Evaluation 58
Chapter 11 Working with the Individual as Client-Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan 63
Chapter 12 Working with Families 69
Chapter 13 Working with Groups, Teams, and Partners 74
Chapter 14 Indigenous Health-Working with First Nations People, Inuit, and Métis 82
Chapter 15 Working With People Who Experience Structural Vulnerabilities 86
Chapter 16 Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control 98
Chapter 17 Environmental Health 104
Chapter 18 Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness 109
,Chapter 01: Community Health Nursing
1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care
Answer: C
By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the community.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember
REF: Introduction OBJ: 1.6 TOP: Safe and Effective Care Environment
2. Which of the following best describes primary health care?
a. A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
b. Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
Answer: A
By definition, primary health care is comprehensive and addresses issues of social justice and equity. Social
justice in the context of health refers to ensuring fairness and equality in health services so that vulnerable
individuals in society have easy access to health care.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Primary Health Care OBJ: 1.4
, TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
3. The health of which of the following is the primary focus of public health nurses (PHNs)?
a. Families
b. Groups
c. Individuals
d. Populations
Answer: D
PHNs use knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health sciences for the promotion and protection of
health and for the prevention of disease among populations.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Public Health Practice OBJ: 1.5
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
4. Which change is the primary explanation for life expectancy increasing so notably since the early
1900s?
a. An increase in findings from medical laboratory research
b. Incredible advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Improved sanitation and other public health activities
d. Increased use of antibiotics to fight infections
Answer: C
Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and other public health
activities led to the increase in life expectancy since the early 1900s.
By MacDonald and Jakubec
Exam-Ready Questions, Rationales & Community Care Mastery | ISBN-13: 978-0323693950
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Community Health Nursing 1
Chapter 02 The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada 8
Chapter 03 Community Health Nursing in Canada-Settings, Functions, and Roles 13
Chapter 04 Health Promotion 24
Chapter 05 Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing 30
Chapter 06 Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice 35
Chapter 07 Diversity and Relational Practice in Community Health Nursing 43
Chapter 08 Epidemiological Applications 49
Chapter 09 Working With the Community 54
Chapter 10 Health Program Planning and Evaluation 58
Chapter 11 Working with the Individual as Client-Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan 63
Chapter 12 Working with Families 69
Chapter 13 Working with Groups, Teams, and Partners 74
Chapter 14 Indigenous Health-Working with First Nations People, Inuit, and Métis 82
Chapter 15 Working With People Who Experience Structural Vulnerabilities 86
Chapter 16 Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control 98
Chapter 17 Environmental Health 104
Chapter 18 Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness 109
,Chapter 01: Community Health Nursing
1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care
Answer: C
By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the community.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember
REF: Introduction OBJ: 1.6 TOP: Safe and Effective Care Environment
2. Which of the following best describes primary health care?
a. A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
b. Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
Answer: A
By definition, primary health care is comprehensive and addresses issues of social justice and equity. Social
justice in the context of health refers to ensuring fairness and equality in health services so that vulnerable
individuals in society have easy access to health care.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Primary Health Care OBJ: 1.4
, TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
3. The health of which of the following is the primary focus of public health nurses (PHNs)?
a. Families
b. Groups
c. Individuals
d. Populations
Answer: D
PHNs use knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health sciences for the promotion and protection of
health and for the prevention of disease among populations.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Public Health Practice OBJ: 1.5
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
4. Which change is the primary explanation for life expectancy increasing so notably since the early
1900s?
a. An increase in findings from medical laboratory research
b. Incredible advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Improved sanitation and other public health activities
d. Increased use of antibiotics to fight infections
Answer: C
Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and other public health
activities led to the increase in life expectancy since the early 1900s.
