TEST BANK Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada
Community Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition Stamler
COMMUNITY HEALTH Multiple Choice Questions
NURSING:
1. Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in Canada?
a. Families who could afford to pay
A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
b. Poor and destitute families
c. The community
5th Edition, By Stamler, Yiu d. School children
Correct Answer: b (page 6)
2. Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century Canada to
combat communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity?
a. Visiting nursing
b. District nursing
c. Private duty nursing
d. Public health nursing
Correct Answer: d (page 4)
3. In the early 20th century, health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was
over. Which statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?
a. Public health was the responsibility of doctors
b. Visiting nurses were responsible for community health
c. The state was not responsible for health care
d. Women should not be working outside of the family
Correct Answer: c (page 3)
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, 4. What was the primary reason for the establishment of school health programs? 8. How were public health nurses and home visiting nurses different from nurses
a. Prevent ill children from becoming dependent citizens employed in other sectors of the healthcare system?
b. Promote the health of all children a. They received less compensation for their services
c. Provide food for children who lived in poverty b. They were dependent on other health care professionals
d. Treat sick children so they could work and contribute to the family income c. They required post-diploma training at a university
d. They offered services to the elite living in urban districts
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
Correct Answer: c (page 4)
5. The earliest forms for healthcare in Canada were:
a. The practices of Aboriginal people 9. Which of the following were the first two public health nursing specialties?
b. European settlers who were physicians a. TB nursing and school nursing
c. The wives of surgeons b. Private duty nursing and TB nursing
d. The Grey Nuns-first community nursing c. Home-visiting nursing and school nursing
d. Outpost nursing and school nursing
Correct Answer: a (page 2)
Correct Answer: a (page 4)
6. were Canada’s first community nursing order who made
significant contributions to providing access to health services, food, shelter, and 10. What was the role of the first public health nurses in Canada?
education for the most vulnerable: a. To assess hygiene conditions in the home
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses b. To conduct well baby clinics
b. The Grey Nuns c. To promote breastfeeding of newborn infants
c. Public Health Nurses d. To promote health of school children
d. School Nurses
Correct Answer: d (page 4)
e. nursing sisters -first to provide health care in remote and frontier area)
11. Which organization is credited for establishing well-baby clinics?
Correct Answer: b (page 3)
a. The Grey Nuns
7. The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was b. The Victorian Order of Nurses
held by which agency? c. The Red Cross
a. The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission d. Provincial Health Departments
b. The Victorian Order of Nurses-lady aberdeen led the development
Correct Answer: c (page 5)
c. Indian Health Services
d. Public Health Services
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
, 16. Which of the following types of community health nursing refers to nurses providing
services in the most remote geographic locations?
12. Why did public health programs have limited success in rural and isolated areas?
a. Visiting nursing
a. There was a greater need for home care and midwifery
b. Public health nursing
b. There were many physicians in the rural areas
c. Outpost nursing
c. There was higher need for health education and illness prevention
d. District nursing
d. Local health departments were situated in rural areas
Correct Answer: c (page 7)
Correct Answer: a (page 6)
17. Which group played an important role in developing the social and healthcare
13. Which of the following roles best describes the work of the district and visiting nurse?
services in smaller communities?
a. They provided home visits and well-baby clinic services
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses
b. They provided bed-side nursing and health education
b. The politicians
c. They provided maternal child health programs
c. District and visiting nurses
d. They provided well-baby clinic services and health education
d. Women volunteers
Correct Answer: b (page 6)
Correct Answer: d (page 5)
14. How did publicly funded healthcare programs change the work of visiting
18. What was the focus of the first group of public health officials in the early 20th century?
nursing associations?
a. Waste disposal and a safe water supply
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses took over public health programs
b. Health education and disease prevention
b. Visiting nurses provided care to those who could not afford it
c. Infant and child welfare
c. Hospital admission became the norm for those requiring obstetrical care
d. Social welfare programs
d. Chronically ill individuals no longer remained in community settings
Correct Answer: c (page 5)
Correct Answer: c (page 7)
19. Which of the following programs were taken over by the health department as part
15. Military nursing requires the nurse to demonstrate which of the following
of the process of consolidating all public health programs?
competencies of community health nursing:
a. School health programs
a. A narrow vision
b. Social welfare programs
b. Acute care health approaches
c. Well-baby programs
c. The ability to adapt practice in diverse settings
d. Home visiting programs
d. The ethical comportment to address simple conflicts that involve violence
Correct Answer: a (page 5)
Correct Answer: c (page 7)
, 20. Which of the following organizations is viewed as Canada’s oldest and most 24. Which document continues to be recognized as a visionary document with
experienced visiting nursing organization? recommendations for shifting resources and policy in the direction of primary health
a. The Red Cross care, home healthcare, and health promotion, which nurses as key players in the
b. The Victorian Order of Nurses system?
c. The Grey Nuns a. The Alma-Ata Declaration
d. Provincial health departments b. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
c. The Medical Care Act
Correct Answer: b (page 9)
d. The Romanow Commission’s report
21. Early school-based initiatives involved which of the following activities?
Correct Answer: d (page 11)
a. Immunizations at various ages
b. Medical inspections of children followed by home visits 25. General public health nursing practice emerged from which type of nursing
c. Breakfast and lunch programs a. School nursing
d. Sanitation and access to potable water b. Visiting nursing
c. Outpost nursing
Correct Answer: b (page 5)
d. Home-visiting
22. How did the reduction in government spending in the 1980s and 1990s affect
nursing Correct Answer: a (page
community health nurses?
a. Increased funding for physical infrastructure 12) Short Answer Questions
b. Re-institutionalization of mental health patients
26. Contrast the three sectors of nursing that existed in Canada in the 20th century.
c. Improved capacity to follow-up with patients with communicable diseases
d. Reduced nursing positions Correct Answer: Hospital nurses, private-duty nurses, and public health nurses (including
visiting nurses). Differences in practice settings/locations, pay/funding, educational
Correct Answer: d (page 10)
preparation, focus of care, types of clientele (page 4).
23. In which year was the Community Health Nurses Association of Canada
27. Discuss the role that women’s volunteerism and leadership in communities played
established? a. 1995
in the development of community health nursing.
b. 2000
c. 1987 Correct Answer: They worked on community development, the made the development of
d. 1976 healthcare services a priority; they lobbied local officials, served tea at child welfare clinics,
sewed layettes for destitute families, provided transportation, made referrals, raised funds, and
Correct Answer: c (page 11)
enabled CHNs to fulfill their professional obligations to the fullest extent possible (page 4).
28. Discuss why local physicians sometimes did not support local public health programs
Community Health Nursing A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition Stamler
COMMUNITY HEALTH Multiple Choice Questions
NURSING:
1. Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in Canada?
a. Families who could afford to pay
A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
b. Poor and destitute families
c. The community
5th Edition, By Stamler, Yiu d. School children
Correct Answer: b (page 6)
2. Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century Canada to
combat communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity?
a. Visiting nursing
b. District nursing
c. Private duty nursing
d. Public health nursing
Correct Answer: d (page 4)
3. In the early 20th century, health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was
over. Which statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?
a. Public health was the responsibility of doctors
b. Visiting nurses were responsible for community health
c. The state was not responsible for health care
d. Women should not be working outside of the family
Correct Answer: c (page 3)
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, 4. What was the primary reason for the establishment of school health programs? 8. How were public health nurses and home visiting nurses different from nurses
a. Prevent ill children from becoming dependent citizens employed in other sectors of the healthcare system?
b. Promote the health of all children a. They received less compensation for their services
c. Provide food for children who lived in poverty b. They were dependent on other health care professionals
d. Treat sick children so they could work and contribute to the family income c. They required post-diploma training at a university
d. They offered services to the elite living in urban districts
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
Correct Answer: c (page 4)
5. The earliest forms for healthcare in Canada were:
a. The practices of Aboriginal people 9. Which of the following were the first two public health nursing specialties?
b. European settlers who were physicians a. TB nursing and school nursing
c. The wives of surgeons b. Private duty nursing and TB nursing
d. The Grey Nuns-first community nursing c. Home-visiting nursing and school nursing
d. Outpost nursing and school nursing
Correct Answer: a (page 2)
Correct Answer: a (page 4)
6. were Canada’s first community nursing order who made
significant contributions to providing access to health services, food, shelter, and 10. What was the role of the first public health nurses in Canada?
education for the most vulnerable: a. To assess hygiene conditions in the home
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses b. To conduct well baby clinics
b. The Grey Nuns c. To promote breastfeeding of newborn infants
c. Public Health Nurses d. To promote health of school children
d. School Nurses
Correct Answer: d (page 4)
e. nursing sisters -first to provide health care in remote and frontier area)
11. Which organization is credited for establishing well-baby clinics?
Correct Answer: b (page 3)
a. The Grey Nuns
7. The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was b. The Victorian Order of Nurses
held by which agency? c. The Red Cross
a. The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission d. Provincial Health Departments
b. The Victorian Order of Nurses-lady aberdeen led the development
Correct Answer: c (page 5)
c. Indian Health Services
d. Public Health Services
Correct Answer: b (page 4)
, 16. Which of the following types of community health nursing refers to nurses providing
services in the most remote geographic locations?
12. Why did public health programs have limited success in rural and isolated areas?
a. Visiting nursing
a. There was a greater need for home care and midwifery
b. Public health nursing
b. There were many physicians in the rural areas
c. Outpost nursing
c. There was higher need for health education and illness prevention
d. District nursing
d. Local health departments were situated in rural areas
Correct Answer: c (page 7)
Correct Answer: a (page 6)
17. Which group played an important role in developing the social and healthcare
13. Which of the following roles best describes the work of the district and visiting nurse?
services in smaller communities?
a. They provided home visits and well-baby clinic services
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses
b. They provided bed-side nursing and health education
b. The politicians
c. They provided maternal child health programs
c. District and visiting nurses
d. They provided well-baby clinic services and health education
d. Women volunteers
Correct Answer: b (page 6)
Correct Answer: d (page 5)
14. How did publicly funded healthcare programs change the work of visiting
18. What was the focus of the first group of public health officials in the early 20th century?
nursing associations?
a. Waste disposal and a safe water supply
a. The Victorian Order of Nurses took over public health programs
b. Health education and disease prevention
b. Visiting nurses provided care to those who could not afford it
c. Infant and child welfare
c. Hospital admission became the norm for those requiring obstetrical care
d. Social welfare programs
d. Chronically ill individuals no longer remained in community settings
Correct Answer: c (page 5)
Correct Answer: c (page 7)
19. Which of the following programs were taken over by the health department as part
15. Military nursing requires the nurse to demonstrate which of the following
of the process of consolidating all public health programs?
competencies of community health nursing:
a. School health programs
a. A narrow vision
b. Social welfare programs
b. Acute care health approaches
c. Well-baby programs
c. The ability to adapt practice in diverse settings
d. Home visiting programs
d. The ethical comportment to address simple conflicts that involve violence
Correct Answer: a (page 5)
Correct Answer: c (page 7)
, 20. Which of the following organizations is viewed as Canada’s oldest and most 24. Which document continues to be recognized as a visionary document with
experienced visiting nursing organization? recommendations for shifting resources and policy in the direction of primary health
a. The Red Cross care, home healthcare, and health promotion, which nurses as key players in the
b. The Victorian Order of Nurses system?
c. The Grey Nuns a. The Alma-Ata Declaration
d. Provincial health departments b. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
c. The Medical Care Act
Correct Answer: b (page 9)
d. The Romanow Commission’s report
21. Early school-based initiatives involved which of the following activities?
Correct Answer: d (page 11)
a. Immunizations at various ages
b. Medical inspections of children followed by home visits 25. General public health nursing practice emerged from which type of nursing
c. Breakfast and lunch programs a. School nursing
d. Sanitation and access to potable water b. Visiting nursing
c. Outpost nursing
Correct Answer: b (page 5)
d. Home-visiting
22. How did the reduction in government spending in the 1980s and 1990s affect
nursing Correct Answer: a (page
community health nurses?
a. Increased funding for physical infrastructure 12) Short Answer Questions
b. Re-institutionalization of mental health patients
26. Contrast the three sectors of nursing that existed in Canada in the 20th century.
c. Improved capacity to follow-up with patients with communicable diseases
d. Reduced nursing positions Correct Answer: Hospital nurses, private-duty nurses, and public health nurses (including
visiting nurses). Differences in practice settings/locations, pay/funding, educational
Correct Answer: d (page 10)
preparation, focus of care, types of clientele (page 4).
23. In which year was the Community Health Nurses Association of Canada
27. Discuss the role that women’s volunteerism and leadership in communities played
established? a. 1995
in the development of community health nursing.
b. 2000
c. 1987 Correct Answer: They worked on community development, the made the development of
d. 1976 healthcare services a priority; they lobbied local officials, served tea at child welfare clinics,
sewed layettes for destitute families, provided transportation, made referrals, raised funds, and
Correct Answer: c (page 11)
enabled CHNs to fulfill their professional obligations to the fullest extent possible (page 4).
28. Discuss why local physicians sometimes did not support local public health programs
