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,Table of content
1. Public health nursing and population health
2. The history of public health and public and community health nursing
3. US and global healthcare
4. Government, the law, and policy activism
5. Economics of US healthcare delivery
6. Ethics in public and community health nursing practice
7. Culture of populations in communities
8. Environmental Health
9. Evidence-based practice
10. Epidemiologic applications
11. Infectious disease prevention and control
12. Communicable and infectious disease risks
13. Community assessment and evaluation
14. Health education in the community
15. Case management
16. Disaster management
17. Public health surveillance and outbreak investigation
18. Program management
19. Healthcare improvement in the community
20. Family development and family nursing assessment and genomics
21. Family health risks
22. Health risks across the lifespan
23. Health equity and care of vulnerable populations
24. Rural health and migrant health
25. Poverty, homelessness, teen pregnancy, and mental illness
26. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems in the community
27. Violence and human abuse
28. Nursing practice at the local, state, and national levels in public health
29. The faith community nurse
30. The nurse in public health, home health, palliative care, and hospice
31. The nurse in the schools
32. The nurse in occupational health
,Chapter 01: Community- and Prevention-Oriented Practice to Improve Population
Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing,
6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following best describes community-based NURSING?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families
b. Providing care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care
ANSWER: A
By definition, community-based NURSING is a setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The
emphasis is on acute and chronic care and comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care.
These NURSEs may be generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric, adult, or
psychiatric mental health NURSING. Community-based NURSING emphasizes acute and
chronic care to individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or
systems.
2. Which of the following best describes community-oriented NURSING?
a. Focusing on the provision of care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to all individual within their family ill setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
ANSWER: D
By definition, community-oriented NURSING has the goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All NURSEs may
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting,
and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to
community-oriented NURSING.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health NURSING?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
ANSWER: D
In public health NURSING the primary focus is on the health care of communities and
populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease and
preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population within it.
Community-based NURSEs deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals and
families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the
community, and the focus of practice is on individual or family-centered illness care.
,4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the
20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
ANSWER: C
Improvements in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and other
population-based prevention programs led to an increase in life expectancy from less than 50
years in 1900 to more than 78 years in 2013. Although people are excited when a new drug is
discovered that cures a disease or when a new way to transplant organs is perfected, it is
important to know about the significant gains in the health of populations that have come
largely from public health accomplishments.
5. A NURSE is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the
community. Which of the following interventions would most likely be implemented by
the NURSE?
a. Increase the community’s knowledge about hospice care.
b. Promote healthy lifestyle behavior choices among the community members.
c. Encourage employers to have wellness centers at each industrial site.
d. Ensure timely and effective medical intervention and treatment for community
members.
ANSWER: B
Public health approaches could help prevent premature deaths by influencing the way people
eat, drink, drive, engage in exercise, and treat the environment. Increasing knowledge of
hospice care, encouraging on-site wellness centers, and ensuring timely treatment of medical
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6. Which of the following is a basic assumption of public health efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
ANSWER: C
Public health practice focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the
community’s health status (resources) on the health of individuals, families, and groups. The
goal is to prevent disease and disability and promote and protect the health of the community
as a whole. Public health can be described as what society collectively does to ensure that
conditions exist in which people can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not
judge the morality of health disparities. The focus is on prevention of illness not on spending
more on illness care. Additionally, individual responsibility for making healthy choices is the
directive for lengthening life span not the role of the government.
7. Which of the following actions would most likely be performed by a public health NURSE?
a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen
b. Assessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions
c. Using data from the main health care institutions in the community to determine
, needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the environment
ANSWER: D
Although the public health NURSE might engage in any of the tasks listed, he or she works
primarily with members of the community to carry out core public health functions, including
assessment of the population as a whole and engaging in promoting health and improving the
environment. The interventions of asking community leaders which interventions should be
chosen, asessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions, and using data
from health care institutions do not demonstrate the engagement of the community when
making decisions about what the community actually wants and needs.
8. Which of the following public health NURSEs most clearly fulfills the responsibilities of
this role?
a. The NURSE who met with several groups to discuss community recreation issues
b. The NURSE who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies
c. The NURSE who talked to several people about their particular health concerns
d. The NURSE who watched the city council meeting on local cable television
ANSWER: B
Any of these descriptions might represent a NURSE communicating, cooperating, or
collaborating with community residents or groups about health concerns. However, the
NURSE who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies is the most
representative, because in public health, concerns are addressed from a broader perspective.
In public health, broad concerns of the community should be addressed. Concerns are
broader than recreation, individual concerns are not as important as aggregate priorities, and
watching television (a one-way form of communication) is less effective than interacting
with others.
9. Which of the following best defines aggregate?
a. A large group of persons
b. A collection of individuals and families
c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
d. Another name for demographic group
ANSWER: C
An aggregate is defined a collection of people who share one or more personal or
environmental characteristics. Members of a community can be defined in terms of either
geography (e.g., a county, a group of counties, or a state) or a special interest (e.g., children
attending a particular school). These members make up a population. The term population
may be used interchangeably with the term aggregate. A large group of persons, a collection
of individuals and families, and another name for demograhpic group are not accurate
definitions of the term aggregate.
10. A registered NURSE was just employed as a public health NURSE. Which question would
be the most relevant for the NURSE to ask?
a. “Which groups are at the greatest risk for problems?”
b. “Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?”
c. “With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?”
d. “With which NURSING assistants will I partner the most?”
ANSWER: A
, Asking which groups are at greatest risk reflects a community-oriented perspective. The
incorrect responses reflect a focus on individuals rather than a community-oriented
perspective.
11. Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available defines which of
the core public health functions?
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Assurance
d. Scientific knowledge-based care
ANSWER: C
Assurance includes making sure that essential community-oriented health services are
available in the community. The definition does not fit the terms assessment, policy
development. Scientific knowledge-based care is not a core function of public health.
Assessment is systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population’s health
status, and making information available about the health of the community. Policy
development refers to efforts to develop policies that support the health of the population,
including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions.
12. When talking to a women’s group at the senior citizens’ center, the NURSE reminded them
that the only way the center would be able to afford to provide transportation services for
them would be for them to continue to write letters to their local city council representatives
requesting funding for such a service. What was the NURSE trying to accomplish through
this action?
a. Ensure that the women did not expect the NURSE to solve their problem.
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c. Express empathy, support, U andSconcern.
d. Help the women engage in political action.
ANSWER: D
Public health NURSEs engage themselves and others in policy development and encourage
and assist persons to communicate their needs to those with the power to take action. The
NURSE is demonstrating the role of advocate through this action, it goes beyond merely
understanidng the women’s concern, and instead mobilizes them to take action. This action
does not demonstrate the NURSE showing empathy rather the NURSE is empowering these
women.
13. The public health NURSE has a clear vision of what needs to be done and where to begin
to improve the health of the community. Why would the NURSE spend time meeting
with community groups to discuss the most important task to be addressed first?
a. To increase the group’s self-esteem
b. To maintain communication links with the groups
c. To make the groups feel good about their contribution
d. To work with the groups, not for the groups
ANSWER: D
, Historically, health care providers have been accused of providing care for or to people
without actually involving the recipients in the decisions. Public health NURSING is a “with the
people”—not a “to the people” or “for the people”—approach to planning. The purpose of
meeting with community groups is not to increase their self-esteem or make them feel good
about their contribution, rather it is to allow them to act for themselves to solve the problems
they are facing. The first task of working with the group should occur before addressing
maintaining communication links.
14. The NURSE often has to make resource allocation decisions. Which of the following
best describes the criterion the NURSE should use in such cases?
a. The specific moral or ethical principle related to the situation
b. The cheapest, most economical approach
c. The most rational probable outcome
d. The needs of the aggregate rather than a few individuals
ANSWER: D
The dominant needs of the population outweigh the expressed needs of one or a few people.
All of the choices represent components of a decision that the NURSE might consider in
determining the needs of the aggregate.
15. Which of the following actions best represents public health NURSING?
a. Assessing the effectiveness of the high school health clinic
b. Caring for clients in their home following their outpatient surgeries
c. Providing care to children and their families at the school clinic
d. Administering follow-up care for pediatric clients at an outpatient clinic
ANSWER: A
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improving the health of the school population. Caring for clients and their families focuses on
individuals and families and not on the entire population. Public health focuses on care of
populations.
16. Two NURSEs plan to walk under a huge downtown bridge where various homeless persons
live. Why would the NURSEs go to such an unsafe area?
a. To assess the needs of the homeless who live there
b. To demonstrate their courage and commitment
c. To distribute some of their own surplus clothes to those who can use them
d. To share with various churches and other charities what is needed
ANSWER: A
In most NURSING practices, the client seeks out and requests assistance. In public health
NURSING, the NURSE often reaches out to those who might benefit from a service or
intervention, beginning with assessment of needs. The other answers reflect responses where
the NURSE is trying to give assistance to this population that may or may not be helpful or
welcomed.
MULTIPLE RESPONSE
1. Which of the following variables have led to a stronger commitment to population-focused
services? (Select all that apply.)
, a. Economic turmoil and demand for high-technology care
b. Emergence of new or drug-resistant infectious diseases
c. Emphasis on overall health care needs rather than only on acute care treatment
d. Threat of bioterrorism
ANSWER: B, C, D
As overall health needs become the focus of care in the United States, a stronger commitment
to population-focused services is emerging. Threats of bioterrorism, anthrax scares, and the
emergence of modern-day epidemics have drawn attention to population-focused safety and
services. Economic turmoil and demand for high-technology care have not contributed to a
stronger commitment to population-focused services, rather it has occurred as overall health
needs have become the focus of care.
2. Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health NURSING practice in
the community? (Select all that apply.)
a. Epidemiologic investigations examine the environment for health hazards.
b. New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live.
c. Partnerships are established with community coalitions.
d. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in number.
ANSWER: A, B, C
Evidence that public health NURSEs are practicing effectively in the community would
include organizing services where people live, work, play, and learn; working in partnerships
and with coalitions; and participating in epidemiologic studies. Increasing number of staff
does not have a relationship to the effectiveness of public health NURSING practice.
3. Why are NURSEs increasingly providing care in clients’ homes rather than in hospitals? (Select
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a. Home care is less expensive.
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home.
c. NURSEs prefer to give home care with individual attention.
d. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in hospitals.
ANSWER: A, D
An increasing number of clients are receiving care in the home because it is less expensive
and clients prefer to receive care in familiar and comfortable settings. It is not more efficient
nor more convenient, since travel time has to be considered. NURSEs differ as to their
preferred employment setting.
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NURSING Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health
NURSING, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A NURSE is considering applying for a position as a public health NURSE. Which of the
following would be a reason this position would be appealing?
a. Its autonomy and independence
b. Its focus on acute care and immediately visible outcomes
c. Its collaboration with other health care professionals
d. Its flexibility and higher wages
ANSWER: A
Public health NURSING is known for its autonomy and independence. In many instances,
there are limited other health care professionals and staff with whom to interact. In-patient
acute care NURSEs focus on acute care with outcomes known fairly quickly. Acute care
NURSEs collaborate frequently with other health care professionals. Depending on the
position there may be more flexibility, but typically public health NURSEs do not receive
higher wages.
2. The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which current law?
a. Welfare
b. Food stamps
c. Medicaid
d. Medicare
ANSWE NURSINGTB.COM
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The Elizabethan Poor Law guaranteed medical care for poor, blind, and “lame” individuals,
similar to Medicaid. Welfare and food stamps do not provide for medical care. Medicare
provides medical care to primarily the elderly population.
3. How did the Industrial Revolution result in previous caregiving approaches, such as care by
families, friends, and neighbors, becoming inadequate?
a. Economic and political wars resulted in frequent death and injuries.
b. Incredible plagues consistently and constantly swept the European continent.
c. Migration and urbanization resulted in increased demand for care.
d. Caregivers could easily find other employment, so they demanded to be paid.
ANSWER: C
Care became inadequate because of the social changes in Europe, with great advances in
transportation, communication, and other technologies. The increased mobility led to
migration and urbanization, which in turn led to increased need for care. The Industrial
Revolution was a time of great advances in technology, transportation, and communication,
not a time of economic and political unrest or a time where incredible plagues occurred in
Europe. Caregivers during this time period were typically poorly educated and untrained, so
there was not an issue related to wages or employment.
4. A colonist is working in the public health sector in early colonial America. Which of the
following activities would have likely been completed?
a. Establishing schools of NURSING
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b. Developing vaccines to administer to large numbers of people
c. Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation
d. Developing public housing and almshouses
ANSWER: C
Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation are examples of activities from the early
colonial America. Establishing schools of NURSING, developing vaccines to administer to
large numbers of people, and developing public housing and almshouses all happened after the
colonial period.
5. Why did American citizens become interested in establishing government-sponsored boards
of health?
a. They were afraid of infectious diseases such as yellow fever.
b. The government could force the poverty-stricken to accept care.
c. Such boards could tax and thereby ensure adequate funds to pay for care.
d. Such a system would allow for accurate records of births and deaths.
ANSWER: A
Threat of disease, especially yellow fever, led to public interest in establishing
government-sponsored, or official, boards of health. The threat of disease was the impotus for
creation of the boards of establishing boards of health. The primary interest of the boards of
health was to provide public health services for the entire population and not only those who
were poverty-stricken. The primary purpose of the boards of health was not to collect accurate
vital statistics or receive tax dollars rather its purpose was to ensure the health of the
population.
6. A NURSE was employed by the Marine Hospital Service in 1800. Which of the
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a. Setting policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants
b. Establishing hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home
c. Identifying and improving environmental conditions
d. Providing health care for merchant seamen
ANSWER: D
Providing health care to seamen was an early effort by the federal government to improve
public health. The purpose of the Marine Hospital Service was to secure its maritime trade
and seacoast cities. Quarantine legislation was enacted by legislation during this time period,
but the NURSE would not have been responsible for setting these policies. NURSING care
for clients in the home began in the first half of the 1800s through a variety of agencies
including the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Charleston South Carolina. Identifying and
improving environmental conditions was a focus of the public boards of health, not
necessarily specifically a role of the NURSE.
7. What was the outcome of the Shattuck Report?
a. Efforts to control alcohol and drug abuse, as well as tobacco use, were initiated.
b. Environmental sanitation efforts became an immediate priority.
c. Guidelines for modern public health organizations were eventually developed.
d. Local and state governments established boards of health after its publication.
ANSWER: C
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,Table of content
1. Public health nursing and population health
2. The history of public health and public and community health nursing
3. US and global healthcare
4. Government, the law, and policy activism
5. Economics of US healthcare delivery
6. Ethics in public and community health nursing practice
7. Culture of populations in communities
8. Environmental Health
9. Evidence-based practice
10. Epidemiologic applications
11. Infectious disease prevention and control
12. Communicable and infectious disease risks
13. Community assessment and evaluation
14. Health education in the community
15. Case management
16. Disaster management
17. Public health surveillance and outbreak investigation
18. Program management
19. Healthcare improvement in the community
20. Family development and family nursing assessment and genomics
21. Family health risks
22. Health risks across the lifespan
23. Health equity and care of vulnerable populations
24. Rural health and migrant health
25. Poverty, homelessness, teen pregnancy, and mental illness
26. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems in the community
27. Violence and human abuse
28. Nursing practice at the local, state, and national levels in public health
29. The faith community nurse
30. The nurse in public health, home health, palliative care, and hospice
31. The nurse in the schools
32. The nurse in occupational health
,Chapter 01: Community- and Prevention-Oriented Practice to Improve Population
Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing,
6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following best describes community-based NURSING?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families
b. Providing care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care
ANSWER: A
By definition, community-based NURSING is a setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The
emphasis is on acute and chronic care and comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care.
These NURSEs may be generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric, adult, or
psychiatric mental health NURSING. Community-based NURSING emphasizes acute and
chronic care to individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or
systems.
2. Which of the following best describes community-oriented NURSING?
a. Focusing on the provision of care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to all individual within their family ill setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
ANSWER: D
By definition, community-oriented NURSING has the goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All NURSEs may
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting,
and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to
community-oriented NURSING.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health NURSING?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
ANSWER: D
In public health NURSING the primary focus is on the health care of communities and
populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease and
preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population within it.
Community-based NURSEs deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals and
families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the
community, and the focus of practice is on individual or family-centered illness care.
,4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the
20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
ANSWER: C
Improvements in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and other
population-based prevention programs led to an increase in life expectancy from less than 50
years in 1900 to more than 78 years in 2013. Although people are excited when a new drug is
discovered that cures a disease or when a new way to transplant organs is perfected, it is
important to know about the significant gains in the health of populations that have come
largely from public health accomplishments.
5. A NURSE is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the
community. Which of the following interventions would most likely be implemented by
the NURSE?
a. Increase the community’s knowledge about hospice care.
b. Promote healthy lifestyle behavior choices among the community members.
c. Encourage employers to have wellness centers at each industrial site.
d. Ensure timely and effective medical intervention and treatment for community
members.
ANSWER: B
Public health approaches could help prevent premature deaths by influencing the way people
eat, drink, drive, engage in exercise, and treat the environment. Increasing knowledge of
hospice care, encouraging on-site wellness centers, and ensuring timely treatment of medical
conditions do not address theNfU
ocR
usSoIf N
imGpT
roBv.
inC
gOo vMe r a l l health through health promotion
strategies. This is the major method that is suggested to decrease the incidence of premature
death.
6. Which of the following is a basic assumption of public health efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
ANSWER: C
Public health practice focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the
community’s health status (resources) on the health of individuals, families, and groups. The
goal is to prevent disease and disability and promote and protect the health of the community
as a whole. Public health can be described as what society collectively does to ensure that
conditions exist in which people can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not
judge the morality of health disparities. The focus is on prevention of illness not on spending
more on illness care. Additionally, individual responsibility for making healthy choices is the
directive for lengthening life span not the role of the government.
7. Which of the following actions would most likely be performed by a public health NURSE?
a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen
b. Assessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions
c. Using data from the main health care institutions in the community to determine
, needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the environment
ANSWER: D
Although the public health NURSE might engage in any of the tasks listed, he or she works
primarily with members of the community to carry out core public health functions, including
assessment of the population as a whole and engaging in promoting health and improving the
environment. The interventions of asking community leaders which interventions should be
chosen, asessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions, and using data
from health care institutions do not demonstrate the engagement of the community when
making decisions about what the community actually wants and needs.
8. Which of the following public health NURSEs most clearly fulfills the responsibilities of
this role?
a. The NURSE who met with several groups to discuss community recreation issues
b. The NURSE who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies
c. The NURSE who talked to several people about their particular health concerns
d. The NURSE who watched the city council meeting on local cable television
ANSWER: B
Any of these descriptions might represent a NURSE communicating, cooperating, or
collaborating with community residents or groups about health concerns. However, the
NURSE who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies is the most
representative, because in public health, concerns are addressed from a broader perspective.
In public health, broad concerns of the community should be addressed. Concerns are
broader than recreation, individual concerns are not as important as aggregate priorities, and
watching television (a one-way form of communication) is less effective than interacting
with others.
9. Which of the following best defines aggregate?
a. A large group of persons
b. A collection of individuals and families
c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
d. Another name for demographic group
ANSWER: C
An aggregate is defined a collection of people who share one or more personal or
environmental characteristics. Members of a community can be defined in terms of either
geography (e.g., a county, a group of counties, or a state) or a special interest (e.g., children
attending a particular school). These members make up a population. The term population
may be used interchangeably with the term aggregate. A large group of persons, a collection
of individuals and families, and another name for demograhpic group are not accurate
definitions of the term aggregate.
10. A registered NURSE was just employed as a public health NURSE. Which question would
be the most relevant for the NURSE to ask?
a. “Which groups are at the greatest risk for problems?”
b. “Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?”
c. “With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?”
d. “With which NURSING assistants will I partner the most?”
ANSWER: A
, Asking which groups are at greatest risk reflects a community-oriented perspective. The
incorrect responses reflect a focus on individuals rather than a community-oriented
perspective.
11. Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available defines which of
the core public health functions?
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Assurance
d. Scientific knowledge-based care
ANSWER: C
Assurance includes making sure that essential community-oriented health services are
available in the community. The definition does not fit the terms assessment, policy
development. Scientific knowledge-based care is not a core function of public health.
Assessment is systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population’s health
status, and making information available about the health of the community. Policy
development refers to efforts to develop policies that support the health of the population,
including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions.
12. When talking to a women’s group at the senior citizens’ center, the NURSE reminded them
that the only way the center would be able to afford to provide transportation services for
them would be for them to continue to write letters to their local city council representatives
requesting funding for such a service. What was the NURSE trying to accomplish through
this action?
a. Ensure that the women did not expect the NURSE to solve their problem.
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d. Help the women engage in political action.
ANSWER: D
Public health NURSEs engage themselves and others in policy development and encourage
and assist persons to communicate their needs to those with the power to take action. The
NURSE is demonstrating the role of advocate through this action, it goes beyond merely
understanidng the women’s concern, and instead mobilizes them to take action. This action
does not demonstrate the NURSE showing empathy rather the NURSE is empowering these
women.
13. The public health NURSE has a clear vision of what needs to be done and where to begin
to improve the health of the community. Why would the NURSE spend time meeting
with community groups to discuss the most important task to be addressed first?
a. To increase the group’s self-esteem
b. To maintain communication links with the groups
c. To make the groups feel good about their contribution
d. To work with the groups, not for the groups
ANSWER: D
, Historically, health care providers have been accused of providing care for or to people
without actually involving the recipients in the decisions. Public health NURSING is a “with the
people”—not a “to the people” or “for the people”—approach to planning. The purpose of
meeting with community groups is not to increase their self-esteem or make them feel good
about their contribution, rather it is to allow them to act for themselves to solve the problems
they are facing. The first task of working with the group should occur before addressing
maintaining communication links.
14. The NURSE often has to make resource allocation decisions. Which of the following
best describes the criterion the NURSE should use in such cases?
a. The specific moral or ethical principle related to the situation
b. The cheapest, most economical approach
c. The most rational probable outcome
d. The needs of the aggregate rather than a few individuals
ANSWER: D
The dominant needs of the population outweigh the expressed needs of one or a few people.
All of the choices represent components of a decision that the NURSE might consider in
determining the needs of the aggregate.
15. Which of the following actions best represents public health NURSING?
a. Assessing the effectiveness of the high school health clinic
b. Caring for clients in their home following their outpatient surgeries
c. Providing care to children and their families at the school clinic
d. Administering follow-up care for pediatric clients at an outpatient clinic
ANSWER: A
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improving the health of the school population. Caring for clients and their families focuses on
individuals and families and not on the entire population. Public health focuses on care of
populations.
16. Two NURSEs plan to walk under a huge downtown bridge where various homeless persons
live. Why would the NURSEs go to such an unsafe area?
a. To assess the needs of the homeless who live there
b. To demonstrate their courage and commitment
c. To distribute some of their own surplus clothes to those who can use them
d. To share with various churches and other charities what is needed
ANSWER: A
In most NURSING practices, the client seeks out and requests assistance. In public health
NURSING, the NURSE often reaches out to those who might benefit from a service or
intervention, beginning with assessment of needs. The other answers reflect responses where
the NURSE is trying to give assistance to this population that may or may not be helpful or
welcomed.
MULTIPLE RESPONSE
1. Which of the following variables have led to a stronger commitment to population-focused
services? (Select all that apply.)
, a. Economic turmoil and demand for high-technology care
b. Emergence of new or drug-resistant infectious diseases
c. Emphasis on overall health care needs rather than only on acute care treatment
d. Threat of bioterrorism
ANSWER: B, C, D
As overall health needs become the focus of care in the United States, a stronger commitment
to population-focused services is emerging. Threats of bioterrorism, anthrax scares, and the
emergence of modern-day epidemics have drawn attention to population-focused safety and
services. Economic turmoil and demand for high-technology care have not contributed to a
stronger commitment to population-focused services, rather it has occurred as overall health
needs have become the focus of care.
2. Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health NURSING practice in
the community? (Select all that apply.)
a. Epidemiologic investigations examine the environment for health hazards.
b. New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live.
c. Partnerships are established with community coalitions.
d. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in number.
ANSWER: A, B, C
Evidence that public health NURSEs are practicing effectively in the community would
include organizing services where people live, work, play, and learn; working in partnerships
and with coalitions; and participating in epidemiologic studies. Increasing number of staff
does not have a relationship to the effectiveness of public health NURSING practice.
3. Why are NURSEs increasingly providing care in clients’ homes rather than in hospitals? (Select
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a. Home care is less expensive.
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home.
c. NURSEs prefer to give home care with individual attention.
d. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in hospitals.
ANSWER: A, D
An increasing number of clients are receiving care in the home because it is less expensive
and clients prefer to receive care in familiar and comfortable settings. It is not more efficient
nor more convenient, since travel time has to be considered. NURSEs differ as to their
preferred employment setting.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A NURSE is considering applying for a position as a public health NURSE. Which of the
following would be a reason this position would be appealing?
a. Its autonomy and independence
b. Its focus on acute care and immediately visible outcomes
c. Its collaboration with other health care professionals
d. Its flexibility and higher wages
ANSWER: A
Public health NURSING is known for its autonomy and independence. In many instances,
there are limited other health care professionals and staff with whom to interact. In-patient
acute care NURSEs focus on acute care with outcomes known fairly quickly. Acute care
NURSEs collaborate frequently with other health care professionals. Depending on the
position there may be more flexibility, but typically public health NURSEs do not receive
higher wages.
2. The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which current law?
a. Welfare
b. Food stamps
c. Medicaid
d. Medicare
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The Elizabethan Poor Law guaranteed medical care for poor, blind, and “lame” individuals,
similar to Medicaid. Welfare and food stamps do not provide for medical care. Medicare
provides medical care to primarily the elderly population.
3. How did the Industrial Revolution result in previous caregiving approaches, such as care by
families, friends, and neighbors, becoming inadequate?
a. Economic and political wars resulted in frequent death and injuries.
b. Incredible plagues consistently and constantly swept the European continent.
c. Migration and urbanization resulted in increased demand for care.
d. Caregivers could easily find other employment, so they demanded to be paid.
ANSWER: C
Care became inadequate because of the social changes in Europe, with great advances in
transportation, communication, and other technologies. The increased mobility led to
migration and urbanization, which in turn led to increased need for care. The Industrial
Revolution was a time of great advances in technology, transportation, and communication,
not a time of economic and political unrest or a time where incredible plagues occurred in
Europe. Caregivers during this time period were typically poorly educated and untrained, so
there was not an issue related to wages or employment.
4. A colonist is working in the public health sector in early colonial America. Which of the
following activities would have likely been completed?
a. Establishing schools of NURSING
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b. Developing vaccines to administer to large numbers of people
c. Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation
d. Developing public housing and almshouses
ANSWER: C
Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation are examples of activities from the early
colonial America. Establishing schools of NURSING, developing vaccines to administer to
large numbers of people, and developing public housing and almshouses all happened after the
colonial period.
5. Why did American citizens become interested in establishing government-sponsored boards
of health?
a. They were afraid of infectious diseases such as yellow fever.
b. The government could force the poverty-stricken to accept care.
c. Such boards could tax and thereby ensure adequate funds to pay for care.
d. Such a system would allow for accurate records of births and deaths.
ANSWER: A
Threat of disease, especially yellow fever, led to public interest in establishing
government-sponsored, or official, boards of health. The threat of disease was the impotus for
creation of the boards of establishing boards of health. The primary interest of the boards of
health was to provide public health services for the entire population and not only those who
were poverty-stricken. The primary purpose of the boards of health was not to collect accurate
vital statistics or receive tax dollars rather its purpose was to ensure the health of the
population.
6. A NURSE was employed by the Marine Hospital Service in 1800. Which of the
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a. Setting policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants
b. Establishing hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home
c. Identifying and improving environmental conditions
d. Providing health care for merchant seamen
ANSWER: D
Providing health care to seamen was an early effort by the federal government to improve
public health. The purpose of the Marine Hospital Service was to secure its maritime trade
and seacoast cities. Quarantine legislation was enacted by legislation during this time period,
but the NURSE would not have been responsible for setting these policies. NURSING care
for clients in the home began in the first half of the 1800s through a variety of agencies
including the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Charleston South Carolina. Identifying and
improving environmental conditions was a focus of the public boards of health, not
necessarily specifically a role of the NURSE.
7. What was the outcome of the Shattuck Report?
a. Efforts to control alcohol and drug abuse, as well as tobacco use, were initiated.
b. Environmental sanitation efforts became an immediate priority.
c. Guidelines for modern public health organizations were eventually developed.
d. Local and state governments established boards of health after its publication.
ANSWER: C
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