RN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING FINAL
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ Nightingale's role in public health. Answer: public health
principles, statistics, gathered large amounts of data
◉ Endemic. Answer: Always present
◉ Epidemic. Answer: Periodic flare-ups
◉ Pandemic. Answer: Disease involves large proportion of the
population
◉ Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area.
According to the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics
(2015), community health nurses must align themselves with public
health programs that promote and preserve the health of
populations by influencing
a. socioeconomic issues.
b. psychosocial issues.
c. sociocultural issues.
d. developmental issues.. Answer: c. sociocultural issues
,Rationale: The Code of Ethics of the American Nurses Association
(2015) promotes social reform by focusing on health policy and
legislation to positively affect accessibility, quality, and cost of health
care. Community health nurses must align themselves with public
health programs that promote and preserve the health of
populations by influencing sociocultural issues, such as human
rights, homelessness, violence, and stigma of illness. Directing care
toward socioeconomic issues, psychosocial issues, or developmental
issues focuses on individuals, families, or groups, which in turn
contributes to the health of the total population.
◉ It has been estimated that individual behaviors and
environmental factors are responsible for what percentage of all
premature deaths in the United States?
a. 20%
b. 40%
c. 50%
d. 70%. Answer: c. 50%
Rationale: According to Cassidy, Trujillo, and Orleans (2015), 50% of
all premature deaths in the United States are a result of individual
behaviors and environmental factors. According to Mokdad, Marks,
Stroup, and Gerberding (2004), tobacco use leads the list of "actual
causes of death" at almost 20% of annual deaths in the United States.
,◉ Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were
successful in addressing health and disease in the immigrant
community by
a. Supporting political activities to improve social and environmental
conditions of immigrant families.
b. administering bedside nursing care to immigrants and their
families.
c. teaching the immigrant family members to provide health care in
the home.
d. obtaining and administering medications to the immigrants and
their family members.. Answer: A. Supporting political activities to
improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant families.
Rationale: These early public health nurses saw that neither
administering bedside clinical nursing, including obtaining and
administering medication, nor teaching family members to deliver
care in the home adequately addressed the true determinants of
health and disease. They resolved that collective political activity
should focus on advancing the health of aggregates and improving
social and environmental conditions by addressing the social and
environmental determinants of health. Wald and colleagues (1971)
impacted the health of the community by organizing the community,
establishing school nursing, and taking impoverished mothers to
testify in Washington, DC.
◉ Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the
effects of disease. An example of primary disease prevention is
, a. teaching people with diabetes how to prevent complications.
b. administering vaccines to children before kindergarten.
c. checking the skin of farm workers for signs of skin cancer.
d. identifying and testing individuals exposed to someone with
tuberculosis.. Answer: b. administering vaccines to children before
kindergarten.
Rationale: Primary prevention activities prevent a problem before it
occurs; an immunization is given to prevent a disease before it
occurs. Secondary prevention refers to early detection and prompt
intervention during the period of early disease pathogenesis, such as
checking the skin for signs of skin cancer or identifying and treating
individuals who have been exposed to contagious diseases. Aims of
tertiary prevention are to keep health problems from getting worse,
reduce the effects of disease and injury, and restore individuals to
their optimal level of functioning. Examples of tertiary prevention
include teaching prevention of complications from disease or
referring a patient with a stroke for rehabilitation.
◉ Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services publishes a national prevention initiative titled Healthy
People. One of the new objectives for Healthy People 2020 was to
a. achieve access to preventive services of all Americans.
b. improve the nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to,
and recover from a major health incident.
c. reduce health disparities among Americans.
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ Nightingale's role in public health. Answer: public health
principles, statistics, gathered large amounts of data
◉ Endemic. Answer: Always present
◉ Epidemic. Answer: Periodic flare-ups
◉ Pandemic. Answer: Disease involves large proportion of the
population
◉ Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area.
According to the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics
(2015), community health nurses must align themselves with public
health programs that promote and preserve the health of
populations by influencing
a. socioeconomic issues.
b. psychosocial issues.
c. sociocultural issues.
d. developmental issues.. Answer: c. sociocultural issues
,Rationale: The Code of Ethics of the American Nurses Association
(2015) promotes social reform by focusing on health policy and
legislation to positively affect accessibility, quality, and cost of health
care. Community health nurses must align themselves with public
health programs that promote and preserve the health of
populations by influencing sociocultural issues, such as human
rights, homelessness, violence, and stigma of illness. Directing care
toward socioeconomic issues, psychosocial issues, or developmental
issues focuses on individuals, families, or groups, which in turn
contributes to the health of the total population.
◉ It has been estimated that individual behaviors and
environmental factors are responsible for what percentage of all
premature deaths in the United States?
a. 20%
b. 40%
c. 50%
d. 70%. Answer: c. 50%
Rationale: According to Cassidy, Trujillo, and Orleans (2015), 50% of
all premature deaths in the United States are a result of individual
behaviors and environmental factors. According to Mokdad, Marks,
Stroup, and Gerberding (2004), tobacco use leads the list of "actual
causes of death" at almost 20% of annual deaths in the United States.
,◉ Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were
successful in addressing health and disease in the immigrant
community by
a. Supporting political activities to improve social and environmental
conditions of immigrant families.
b. administering bedside nursing care to immigrants and their
families.
c. teaching the immigrant family members to provide health care in
the home.
d. obtaining and administering medications to the immigrants and
their family members.. Answer: A. Supporting political activities to
improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant families.
Rationale: These early public health nurses saw that neither
administering bedside clinical nursing, including obtaining and
administering medication, nor teaching family members to deliver
care in the home adequately addressed the true determinants of
health and disease. They resolved that collective political activity
should focus on advancing the health of aggregates and improving
social and environmental conditions by addressing the social and
environmental determinants of health. Wald and colleagues (1971)
impacted the health of the community by organizing the community,
establishing school nursing, and taking impoverished mothers to
testify in Washington, DC.
◉ Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the
effects of disease. An example of primary disease prevention is
, a. teaching people with diabetes how to prevent complications.
b. administering vaccines to children before kindergarten.
c. checking the skin of farm workers for signs of skin cancer.
d. identifying and testing individuals exposed to someone with
tuberculosis.. Answer: b. administering vaccines to children before
kindergarten.
Rationale: Primary prevention activities prevent a problem before it
occurs; an immunization is given to prevent a disease before it
occurs. Secondary prevention refers to early detection and prompt
intervention during the period of early disease pathogenesis, such as
checking the skin for signs of skin cancer or identifying and treating
individuals who have been exposed to contagious diseases. Aims of
tertiary prevention are to keep health problems from getting worse,
reduce the effects of disease and injury, and restore individuals to
their optimal level of functioning. Examples of tertiary prevention
include teaching prevention of complications from disease or
referring a patient with a stroke for rehabilitation.
◉ Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services publishes a national prevention initiative titled Healthy
People. One of the new objectives for Healthy People 2020 was to
a. achieve access to preventive services of all Americans.
b. improve the nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to,
and recover from a major health incident.
c. reduce health disparities among Americans.
