TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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EN
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
EN
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
C
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
PASS
,Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
E
TR
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
EN
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
C
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
infections,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
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, 3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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Organization(WHO), which is:
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1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
globalpopulation.
EN
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
C
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
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, 3. Policy development
4. Assurance
5. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both noncommunicable
(chronic) and communicable disease (NCD). The most pressing issue
froma public health perspective based on this increase is:
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1. An increased demand for long-term care
TR
2. An increased need for further research
3. Further exploration of the developmental stages
related toaging
EN
4. Decreased cost of medications.
C
6. A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help herself
and other local practitioners understand health in populations. She
understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model assumes
that:
1. There are multiple determinants of health, and thus
multiplestrategies are needed.
2. A population and environmental approach is essential.
3. Linkages and relationships are crucial.
4. All of the above.
PASS
,7. The PHN completed a community assessment and found that the obesity
rate in one of the neighborhoods was higher than the other
neighborhoods in the county. She suspects that this is partially due to
limited access to full-service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe
venues for exercise.
Assuming her conclusion is correct, what category or categories of
E
determinants of health would these issues within the community fall into?
TR
1. Upstream determinants of health
2. Downstream determinants of health
3. Behavioral determinants of health
EN
4. Genetic determinants of health
C
8. Two PHNs working in a large urban community notice that community
members are rarely engaged in the process of planning interventions
aimedat addressing a particular increase in a specific disease in the
community.
For their next project, they include community collaboration as an
essentialcomponent of the development, implementation, and
evaluation of the program. When questioned by others, they report that
there is evidence thatcommunity collaboration increases effectiveness
and productivity, empowers the participants, strengthens social
engagement, and .
1. Decreases disease rates
2. Ensures accountability
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, 3. Increases the availability of treatment for the targeted disease
4. Improves screening rates
9. Which one of the following scenarios is not an example of
communitycollaboration?
1. Local service groups working to organize disaster relief
E
fortornado victims
TR
2. A city council passing an ordinance to stop smoking
inrestaurants
3. An advocacy group working with the local churches
EN
to improve health care for the indigent with mental
healthdisorders
4. A school working with the local health department to
C
start aschool clinic
10. Which layer of government is primarily responsible for issuing
quarantinesduring a communicable disease outbreak?
1. Federal
2. State
3. Local
4. All of the above
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, 11. As a PHN in a small local public health department, you understand that
based on federal mandates your public health department routinely
performs all but which of the following?
1. Surveillance of disease at the local level
2. Investigation of disease outbreaks
E
3. Licensing of local hospitals
TR
4. Quarantine
EN
12. The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology,
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and form the foundational
subjectsof public health.
C
1. Economics
2. The humanities
3. Social and behavioral sciences
4. Anthropology
13. As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), an example of a
health promotion intervention is whereas a risk
reduction/health protection intervention is .
PASS
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
E
TR
EN
C
PASS
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
E
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
TR
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
EN
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
C
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
PASS
,Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
E
TR
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
EN
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
C
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
infections,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
PASS
, 3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
E
Organization(WHO), which is:
TR
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
globalpopulation.
EN
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
C
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
PASS
, 3. Policy development
4. Assurance
5. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both noncommunicable
(chronic) and communicable disease (NCD). The most pressing issue
froma public health perspective based on this increase is:
E
1. An increased demand for long-term care
TR
2. An increased need for further research
3. Further exploration of the developmental stages
related toaging
EN
4. Decreased cost of medications.
C
6. A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help herself
and other local practitioners understand health in populations. She
understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model assumes
that:
1. There are multiple determinants of health, and thus
multiplestrategies are needed.
2. A population and environmental approach is essential.
3. Linkages and relationships are crucial.
4. All of the above.
PASS
,7. The PHN completed a community assessment and found that the obesity
rate in one of the neighborhoods was higher than the other
neighborhoods in the county. She suspects that this is partially due to
limited access to full-service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe
venues for exercise.
Assuming her conclusion is correct, what category or categories of
E
determinants of health would these issues within the community fall into?
TR
1. Upstream determinants of health
2. Downstream determinants of health
3. Behavioral determinants of health
EN
4. Genetic determinants of health
C
8. Two PHNs working in a large urban community notice that community
members are rarely engaged in the process of planning interventions
aimedat addressing a particular increase in a specific disease in the
community.
For their next project, they include community collaboration as an
essentialcomponent of the development, implementation, and
evaluation of the program. When questioned by others, they report that
there is evidence thatcommunity collaboration increases effectiveness
and productivity, empowers the participants, strengthens social
engagement, and .
1. Decreases disease rates
2. Ensures accountability
PASS
, 3. Increases the availability of treatment for the targeted disease
4. Improves screening rates
9. Which one of the following scenarios is not an example of
communitycollaboration?
1. Local service groups working to organize disaster relief
E
fortornado victims
TR
2. A city council passing an ordinance to stop smoking
inrestaurants
3. An advocacy group working with the local churches
EN
to improve health care for the indigent with mental
healthdisorders
4. A school working with the local health department to
C
start aschool clinic
10. Which layer of government is primarily responsible for issuing
quarantinesduring a communicable disease outbreak?
1. Federal
2. State
3. Local
4. All of the above
PASS
, 11. As a PHN in a small local public health department, you understand that
based on federal mandates your public health department routinely
performs all but which of the following?
1. Surveillance of disease at the local level
2. Investigation of disease outbreaks
E
3. Licensing of local hospitals
TR
4. Quarantine
EN
12. The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology,
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and form the foundational
subjectsof public health.
C
1. Economics
2. The humanities
3. Social and behavioral sciences
4. Anthropology
13. As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), an example of a
health promotion intervention is whereas a risk
reduction/health protection intervention is .
PASS
