NURS 441 Community Test 1 Actual with
Questions and correct/verified Answers
Public Health in America - ANSWER-VISION: healthy people in healthy communities
MISSION: promote physical and mental health and prevent disease, injury, and disability
CORE FUNCTION
What is the core function of public health? - ANSWER-Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance
Public Health Nursing Specialty - ANSWER-Population focused
Greatest good for greatest number
*Collaborate with clients as an equal partner
Primary prevention= focus
Select strategies that create health conditions in which populations may thrive
Actively reach out
Optimal use of available resources
Interprofessional collaboration
Distinguishing features of public health nursing? - ANSWER-Nursing for social betterment
Support targeted care provisions
Families, groups, and populations are the clients
*Seek to empower
Provide culturally competent care
Don't look at assumptions
Goal of public health nursing - ANSWER-Care in the here and now
Personal and intimate
Recognize uniqueness
Primary prevention - ANSWER-Actions that change overall background conditions to prevent some
unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Education
secondary prevention programs - ANSWER-programs that provide treatment, such as psychological
counseling, to youths and adults after they have violated the law
tertiary prevention examples - ANSWER-- enhance rehabilitation from disease, injury, or disability
- Provide cardiac rehabilitation, medication, and surgery.
- medical treatment
- physical and occupational therapy, and rehabilitation
- Monitor the use of prescription medications and adherence to treatment to reduce risk for illness
complications
- Provide health promotion activities to persons with serious and persistent mental illness.
- Promote support group participation for those with mental health disabilities.
- The public health nurse provides a diabetes clinic for a defined population of adults in a low-income
housing unit of the community.
- If blood pressure cannot be controlled by diet, refer the client to a physician or nurse practitioner for
medication; advise the client to engage in a cardiac program that will oversee diet and exercise.
Principles of Public Health Nursing - ANSWER-Emphasize primary prevention
Greatest good for greatest number
Recognize that client as partner
Uses resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
, What is social justice - ANSWER-all persons are entitled to have their basic human needs met
Nursing Celebrities - ANSWER-o Florence Nightingale
o Lillian Wald
o Mary Brewster
o C.E.A Winslow
o Mary Breckinridge
o Clara Barton
o Dorethea Dix
Triad of Community Health - ANSWER-Awareness
Advocacy
Action
Health People 2020 Goals - ANSWER-1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable diseases.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, health development, and health behaviors across all life stages.
Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2020 - ANSWER-§ Access to Health Services
§ Clinical Preventative Services
§ Environmental Quality
§ Injury and Violence
§ Maternal, Infant, Child Health
§ Mental Health
§ Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
§ Oral Health
§ Reproductive and Sexual Health
§ Social Determinants--
§ Substance Abuse
§ Tobacco
Trends stimulating change in the demand for health care - ANSWER-Demographic trends
Social/ Economic trends
Health workforce trends
Technological trends
What causes disparities in the US health care system - ANSWER-Cost
Access
Quality
3 features of health care system - ANSWER-Decentralization: shared responsibility for regulation and
provision of services
Laissez-faire philosophy: free market
Economic resources: payment is expected for services
US Department of Health and Human Services - ANSWER-a national agency that deals with the health
problems in the United States
Most health-related responsibilities
5 component of the US health Care system - ANSWER-Organization
Management
Finance
Resources
Delivery
Distinguishing factors of US v. other countries health care - ANSWER-US
-National health objectives (not enforced)
Questions and correct/verified Answers
Public Health in America - ANSWER-VISION: healthy people in healthy communities
MISSION: promote physical and mental health and prevent disease, injury, and disability
CORE FUNCTION
What is the core function of public health? - ANSWER-Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance
Public Health Nursing Specialty - ANSWER-Population focused
Greatest good for greatest number
*Collaborate with clients as an equal partner
Primary prevention= focus
Select strategies that create health conditions in which populations may thrive
Actively reach out
Optimal use of available resources
Interprofessional collaboration
Distinguishing features of public health nursing? - ANSWER-Nursing for social betterment
Support targeted care provisions
Families, groups, and populations are the clients
*Seek to empower
Provide culturally competent care
Don't look at assumptions
Goal of public health nursing - ANSWER-Care in the here and now
Personal and intimate
Recognize uniqueness
Primary prevention - ANSWER-Actions that change overall background conditions to prevent some
unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Education
secondary prevention programs - ANSWER-programs that provide treatment, such as psychological
counseling, to youths and adults after they have violated the law
tertiary prevention examples - ANSWER-- enhance rehabilitation from disease, injury, or disability
- Provide cardiac rehabilitation, medication, and surgery.
- medical treatment
- physical and occupational therapy, and rehabilitation
- Monitor the use of prescription medications and adherence to treatment to reduce risk for illness
complications
- Provide health promotion activities to persons with serious and persistent mental illness.
- Promote support group participation for those with mental health disabilities.
- The public health nurse provides a diabetes clinic for a defined population of adults in a low-income
housing unit of the community.
- If blood pressure cannot be controlled by diet, refer the client to a physician or nurse practitioner for
medication; advise the client to engage in a cardiac program that will oversee diet and exercise.
Principles of Public Health Nursing - ANSWER-Emphasize primary prevention
Greatest good for greatest number
Recognize that client as partner
Uses resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
, What is social justice - ANSWER-all persons are entitled to have their basic human needs met
Nursing Celebrities - ANSWER-o Florence Nightingale
o Lillian Wald
o Mary Brewster
o C.E.A Winslow
o Mary Breckinridge
o Clara Barton
o Dorethea Dix
Triad of Community Health - ANSWER-Awareness
Advocacy
Action
Health People 2020 Goals - ANSWER-1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable diseases.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, health development, and health behaviors across all life stages.
Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2020 - ANSWER-§ Access to Health Services
§ Clinical Preventative Services
§ Environmental Quality
§ Injury and Violence
§ Maternal, Infant, Child Health
§ Mental Health
§ Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
§ Oral Health
§ Reproductive and Sexual Health
§ Social Determinants--
§ Substance Abuse
§ Tobacco
Trends stimulating change in the demand for health care - ANSWER-Demographic trends
Social/ Economic trends
Health workforce trends
Technological trends
What causes disparities in the US health care system - ANSWER-Cost
Access
Quality
3 features of health care system - ANSWER-Decentralization: shared responsibility for regulation and
provision of services
Laissez-faire philosophy: free market
Economic resources: payment is expected for services
US Department of Health and Human Services - ANSWER-a national agency that deals with the health
problems in the United States
Most health-related responsibilities
5 component of the US health Care system - ANSWER-Organization
Management
Finance
Resources
Delivery
Distinguishing factors of US v. other countries health care - ANSWER-US
-National health objectives (not enforced)
