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Test Bank - Public-Community Health and Nursing
Practice-Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding
of the related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate
these risk factors from two perspectives: 1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
ANS: 4
Objective: 5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of public health nurses (PHNs).
Page:
Heading: Introduction to Public Health
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Need: Physiological Integrity
Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Concept: Critical Thinking, Promoting Health
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The approach cannot be disease based because diseases can affect populations in
multiple locations, but the risk factors can be different.
2 Interventions occur after the public health event, and governments can only follow the
evidence of public health studies.
3 An epidemic is an occurrence of a disease and has the same limitations as a disease-
based approach.
4 PHNs assess risk for disease and other public health issues at both the individual level,
so that they can intervene on a one-to-one situational basis, as well as at the population
level to identify risk factors beyond the individual level and implement population-level
interventions.
PTS: 1 REF: 2 CON: Promoting Health | Critical Thinking
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
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
Test Bank - Public-Community Health and Nursing
Practice-Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition
, lOMoARcPSD|517 625 48
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding
of the related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate
these risk factors from two perspectives: 1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
ANS: 4
Objective: 5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of public health nurses (PHNs).
Page:
Heading: Introduction to Public Health
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Need: Physiological Integrity
Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Concept: Critical Thinking, Promoting Health
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The approach cannot be disease based because diseases can affect populations in
multiple locations, but the risk factors can be different.
2 Interventions occur after the public health event, and governments can only follow the
evidence of public health studies.
3 An epidemic is an occurrence of a disease and has the same limitations as a disease-
based approach.
4 PHNs assess risk for disease and other public health issues at both the individual level,
so that they can intervene on a one-to-one situational basis, as well as at the population
level to identify risk factors beyond the individual level and implement population-level
interventions.
PTS: 1 REF: 2 CON: Promoting Health | Critical Thinking
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
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
