ATI RN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING study guide EXAM
2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 220 QUESTIONS WITH
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1.Systems thinking: Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with
other orga- nizations or systems
2.Upstream thinking: Is used to focus on interventions that promote
health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models
that focus on care after an individual becomes ill
3.Nightingale's Environmental Theory: -Highlights the relationship
between an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care
4.Health Belief Model: -Purpose is to predict health behaviors
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Assumes that the preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for
the purpose of avoiding disease
5.Milio's Framework for Prevention: -Emphasizes change at the communit
level
-Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-
promoting resources
6.Pender's Health Promotion Model: -Does not consider health risk as a
factor that provokes change
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, -Examines factors that affect individuals actions like: personal factors,
feelings, benefits, barriers, attitudes of others, and abilities
7.Determinants of Health: Factors that influence that client's health.
--> nutrition, stress, education, environment, finances, and social status
8.Health Indicators: Describe the health status of a community and
serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health
--> mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity,
obesity, tobacco, or other substance use
9.Community: -A group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic, and/or social parameters
-The "community is the client" in community health nursing
10.Goals of Community Health Nursing: Promote, preserve, and maintain
the health of populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families, and groups in order to influence "community
health"
11.Public Health Nursing: -It is population-focused, and involves a
combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health
sciences
-GOAL: promote health and preventing disease
12.PHN: Assessment: -Using systematic methods to monitor the health
of a pop- ulation
-->Monitor health status to identify community health problems
-->Diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards in the community
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, 13.PHN: Policy Development: Developing laws and practices to
promote the health of a population based on scientific evidence
14.PHN: Assurance: Making sure adequate health care personnel and
services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally
have them
15.Population-focused Nursing: -Includes assessing to determine needs,
inter- vening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease
within a specific population
16.Key Principles of PHN:: -Emphasize primary prevention
-Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals
-Recognize that the client is a partner in health
-Use resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
17.Ethics: Preventing harm, doing no harm, promoting good,
respecting both in- dividual and community rights, respecting
autonomy and diversity, and providing confidentiality, competency,
trustworthiness, and advocacy
18.Advocacy: The nurse plays the role of informer, supporter, and
mediator for the client
19.Evidence-Based Practice: -Involves using the best practices, expert
opinion, and client preferences to change the delivery of client care
-GOAL: improve client outcomes
20.EBP: Data: The nurse should appraise data collected from research to
measure whether bias was minimal (quality), the number of studies,
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, participants, or strength of effect (quantity) and whether the results are
repeatable (consistency)
21. Quality: Quality assurance, improvement, and management are
part of improve- ment of health care
22.Total quality management (TQM): Approach that seeks to improve
quality and performance which meets or exceeds expectations
23.Continuous quality improvement (CQI): Approach to quality
management that emphasizes the organization and its processes and
systems and uses objective data to analyze and improve processes
24.Community Health Education: -Nurses regularly provide health
education in order to promote, maintain, and restore the health of
populations
-Nurses must take in account the barriers that make learning difficult like
age, cultural beliefs, poor reading skills, and language barriers
-Effective community health education requires planning
25.Learning Theories: Behavioral Theory: Use of reinforcement
methods to change learners' behavior
26.Learning Theories: Cognitive Theory: Use of sensory input and
repetition to change learners' patterns of thought, thereby changing
behaviors
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2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 220 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS
/ALREADY GRADED A+
1.Systems thinking: Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with
other orga- nizations or systems
2.Upstream thinking: Is used to focus on interventions that promote
health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models
that focus on care after an individual becomes ill
3.Nightingale's Environmental Theory: -Highlights the relationship
between an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care
4.Health Belief Model: -Purpose is to predict health behaviors
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Assumes that the preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for
the purpose of avoiding disease
5.Milio's Framework for Prevention: -Emphasizes change at the communit
level
-Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-
promoting resources
6.Pender's Health Promotion Model: -Does not consider health risk as a
factor that provokes change
To get this or any other Exam contact ()
, -Examines factors that affect individuals actions like: personal factors,
feelings, benefits, barriers, attitudes of others, and abilities
7.Determinants of Health: Factors that influence that client's health.
--> nutrition, stress, education, environment, finances, and social status
8.Health Indicators: Describe the health status of a community and
serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health
--> mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity,
obesity, tobacco, or other substance use
9.Community: -A group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic, and/or social parameters
-The "community is the client" in community health nursing
10.Goals of Community Health Nursing: Promote, preserve, and maintain
the health of populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families, and groups in order to influence "community
health"
11.Public Health Nursing: -It is population-focused, and involves a
combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health
sciences
-GOAL: promote health and preventing disease
12.PHN: Assessment: -Using systematic methods to monitor the health
of a pop- ulation
-->Monitor health status to identify community health problems
-->Diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards in the community
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, 13.PHN: Policy Development: Developing laws and practices to
promote the health of a population based on scientific evidence
14.PHN: Assurance: Making sure adequate health care personnel and
services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally
have them
15.Population-focused Nursing: -Includes assessing to determine needs,
inter- vening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease
within a specific population
16.Key Principles of PHN:: -Emphasize primary prevention
-Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals
-Recognize that the client is a partner in health
-Use resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
17.Ethics: Preventing harm, doing no harm, promoting good,
respecting both in- dividual and community rights, respecting
autonomy and diversity, and providing confidentiality, competency,
trustworthiness, and advocacy
18.Advocacy: The nurse plays the role of informer, supporter, and
mediator for the client
19.Evidence-Based Practice: -Involves using the best practices, expert
opinion, and client preferences to change the delivery of client care
-GOAL: improve client outcomes
20.EBP: Data: The nurse should appraise data collected from research to
measure whether bias was minimal (quality), the number of studies,
To get this or any other Exam contact ()
, participants, or strength of effect (quantity) and whether the results are
repeatable (consistency)
21. Quality: Quality assurance, improvement, and management are
part of improve- ment of health care
22.Total quality management (TQM): Approach that seeks to improve
quality and performance which meets or exceeds expectations
23.Continuous quality improvement (CQI): Approach to quality
management that emphasizes the organization and its processes and
systems and uses objective data to analyze and improve processes
24.Community Health Education: -Nurses regularly provide health
education in order to promote, maintain, and restore the health of
populations
-Nurses must take in account the barriers that make learning difficult like
age, cultural beliefs, poor reading skills, and language barriers
-Effective community health education requires planning
25.Learning Theories: Behavioral Theory: Use of reinforcement
methods to change learners' behavior
26.Learning Theories: Cognitive Theory: Use of sensory input and
repetition to change learners' patterns of thought, thereby changing
behaviors
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