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Community Health
Nursing
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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1. Community health nursing focuses on:
A. Only individual hospital patients
B. The health of populations and communities, including prevention and health promotion
C. Only acute care procedures
D. Isolating communities from health services
Answer: B
2. Primary prevention aims to:
A. Treat existing disease only
B. Prevent disease before it occurs (e.g., immunization, health education)
C. Only rehabilitate after disability
D. Only screen for early disease
Answer: B
3. Secondary prevention aims to:
A. Prevent disease from ever occurring
B. Detect disease early and intervene promptly (e.g., screening)
C. Only provide long-term rehabilitation
D. Only palliative care
Answer: B
4. Tertiary prevention aims to:
A. Prevent initial occurrence of disease
B. Reduce complications and disability from established disease; support rehabilitation
C. Only primary immunization
D. Only health education without treatment
Answer: B
5. The epidemiological triad includes:
A. Only host and agent
B. Agent, host, and environment
C. Only time and place
D. Only pathogen and treatment
Answer: B
6. Incidence refers to:
A. Total existing cases at a point in time
B. Number of new cases in a population over a period of time
C. Only deaths from a disease
D. Only recovered cases
Answer: B
7. Prevalence refers to:
A. Only new cases
B. Total existing cases (new and old) in a population at a given time
C. Only incidence rate
D. Only mortality
Answer: B
8. Mortality rate measures:
A. Only new cases of disease
B. Deaths in a population over a period of time
C. Only recovery rates
D. Only disability
Answer: B
9. Morbidity refers to:
A. Only death
B. Disease, illness, or disability in a population
C. Only birth rates
D. Only recovery
Answer: B
10. An endemic disease is:
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TESTBANK
Community Health
Nursing
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Answers shown after each question
© MOh T
Original Educational Practice Questions
For Nursing Students
© MOh T | @moht | Educational Use Only
, Testbank | Community Health Nursing | © MOh T @moht
1. Community health nursing focuses on:
A. Only individual hospital patients
B. The health of populations and communities, including prevention and health promotion
C. Only acute care procedures
D. Isolating communities from health services
Answer: B
2. Primary prevention aims to:
A. Treat existing disease only
B. Prevent disease before it occurs (e.g., immunization, health education)
C. Only rehabilitate after disability
D. Only screen for early disease
Answer: B
3. Secondary prevention aims to:
A. Prevent disease from ever occurring
B. Detect disease early and intervene promptly (e.g., screening)
C. Only provide long-term rehabilitation
D. Only palliative care
Answer: B
4. Tertiary prevention aims to:
A. Prevent initial occurrence of disease
B. Reduce complications and disability from established disease; support rehabilitation
C. Only primary immunization
D. Only health education without treatment
Answer: B
5. The epidemiological triad includes:
A. Only host and agent
B. Agent, host, and environment
C. Only time and place
D. Only pathogen and treatment
Answer: B
6. Incidence refers to:
A. Total existing cases at a point in time
B. Number of new cases in a population over a period of time
C. Only deaths from a disease
D. Only recovered cases
Answer: B
7. Prevalence refers to:
A. Only new cases
B. Total existing cases (new and old) in a population at a given time
C. Only incidence rate
D. Only mortality
Answer: B
8. Mortality rate measures:
A. Only new cases of disease
B. Deaths in a population over a period of time
C. Only recovery rates
D. Only disability
Answer: B
9. Morbidity refers to:
A. Only death
B. Disease, illness, or disability in a population
C. Only birth rates
D. Only recovery
Answer: B
10. An endemic disease is:
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