COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING MCQS
1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?
a) To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of
health and prevention of
b) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their
health needs
c) To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health
d) To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing
particularly on mothers and children
Answer: (B) Rational: To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and
communities to cope with their health needs.
To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing
particularly on mothers and children.
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
a) The service is provided in the natural environment of people
b) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and problems
c) The service are based on the available resources within the community
d) Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified
Answer: (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs
and problems.
Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own natural
environments: the home, school and workplace,
3. Population- focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
a) Community organizing
b) Nursing, process
c) Community diagnosis
d) Epidemiologic process
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis
Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the greater need of the
majority of the population. The greater need is identified through community diagnosis.
4. RA 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from the number a of
employees, what other factor must be considered in determining the occupational health
privileges to which the workers will be entitled?
a) Type of occupation,: agriculture, commercial, industrial
b) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
c) Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
d) Sex and age composition of employees
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there are 30 to 100
employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the nearest health center.
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,5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at least how
many employees.
a) 21
b) 101
c) 201
d) 301
6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is performing
which of her roles?
a) Health care provider
b) Health educator
c) Health care coordinator
d) Environment manager
Answer: (D) Environmental manager
Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker’s environment
through appropriately designed furniture
7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall provide the
occupational health needs of the factory workers?
a) Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
b) Physician employed by the factory
c) Public Health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
d) Rural Sanitary inspector of the RHU in their municipality
8. “Public health services are given free of charge”. Is this statement true or false?
a) The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide haste services
b) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services
c) The statement may be true or false; depending on the Specific service required
d) The statement may be true or false; depending on policies of the government concerned.
Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
Community health services, including public health services, are prepaid paid services,
through taxation
9. According to C.E. Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention and diseases
C. For people to have access to basic health services
D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
Answer: (A) For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize their birthrights of
health and longevity.
10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach the average
life span of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to determine attainment of
longevity?
A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop’s index
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,D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (C) Swaroop’s index
Swaroop’s index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or older. Its inverse represents
the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died younger than 50 years).
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health nursing
service
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative services
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of whom are well
individuals who have greater need for preventive rather than curative services.
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health nursing is based on
which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birthrights
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birthrights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man
This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland’s statements on Public Health Nursing.
13. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health?
A. Health for all Filipinos
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health
C. Improve the general health status of the population
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020
14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (D) Tertiary
Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training hospitals for the
region.
15. What is true of primary facilities?
A. They are usually government-run
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis
C. They are training facilities for health professionals
D. A community hospital is an example of this level of health facilities
Answer: (B) Their services are provided on an out-patient basis.
Primary facilities government and non-government facilities that provide basic out-patient
services.
16. Which is an example of the school nurse’s health care provider function?
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, A. Requesting for BCG from the RHU for school entrance immunization
B. Conducting random classroom inspection during measles epidemic
C. Taking remedial action on an accident hazard in the school playground
D. Observing places in the school where pupils spend their free times
Answer: (B) Conducting random classroom inspection during a measles epidemic
Random classroom inspection is assessment of pupils/students and teachers for signs of a
health problem prevalent in the community.
17. When the nurse determines whether resources were maximized in implementing
LigtasTigdas, she is evaluating:
A. Effectiveness
B. Efficiency
C. Adequacy
D. Appropriateness
Answer: (B) Efficiency
Efficiency is determining whether the goals were attained at the least possible cost.
18. You are a new B.S.N. graduate. You want to become a Public Health Nurse. Where
will you apply?
A. Department of Health
B. Provincial Health Office
C. Regional Health Office
D. Rural Health Unit
Answer: (D) Rural Health Unit
R.A. 7160 devolved basic health services to local government units (LGU’s). The public
health nurse is an employee of the LGU.
19. RA 7160 mandates devolution of basic services from the national government to
local government units. Which of the following is the major goal of devolution?
A. To strengthen local government units
B. To allow greater autonomy to local government units.
C. To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
D. To make basic services more accessible to the people
Answer: (C) To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
People empowerment is the basic motivation behind devolution of basic services to LGU’s.
20. Who is the Chairman of the Municipal Health Board?
A. Mayor
B. Municipal Health Officer
C. Public Health Nurse
D. Any qualified physician
Answer: (A) Mayor
The local executive serves as the chairman of the Municipal Health Board.
21. Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into the health
care delivery system?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
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1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?
a) To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of
health and prevention of
b) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their
health needs
c) To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health
d) To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing
particularly on mothers and children
Answer: (B) Rational: To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and
communities to cope with their health needs.
To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing
particularly on mothers and children.
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
a) The service is provided in the natural environment of people
b) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and problems
c) The service are based on the available resources within the community
d) Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified
Answer: (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs
and problems.
Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own natural
environments: the home, school and workplace,
3. Population- focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
a) Community organizing
b) Nursing, process
c) Community diagnosis
d) Epidemiologic process
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis
Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the greater need of the
majority of the population. The greater need is identified through community diagnosis.
4. RA 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from the number a of
employees, what other factor must be considered in determining the occupational health
privileges to which the workers will be entitled?
a) Type of occupation,: agriculture, commercial, industrial
b) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
c) Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
d) Sex and age composition of employees
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there are 30 to 100
employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the nearest health center.
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Sr.Nursing Lecturer SCON, SMC, LHR
,5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at least how
many employees.
a) 21
b) 101
c) 201
d) 301
6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is performing
which of her roles?
a) Health care provider
b) Health educator
c) Health care coordinator
d) Environment manager
Answer: (D) Environmental manager
Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker’s environment
through appropriately designed furniture
7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall provide the
occupational health needs of the factory workers?
a) Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
b) Physician employed by the factory
c) Public Health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
d) Rural Sanitary inspector of the RHU in their municipality
8. “Public health services are given free of charge”. Is this statement true or false?
a) The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide haste services
b) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services
c) The statement may be true or false; depending on the Specific service required
d) The statement may be true or false; depending on policies of the government concerned.
Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
Community health services, including public health services, are prepaid paid services,
through taxation
9. According to C.E. Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention and diseases
C. For people to have access to basic health services
D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
Answer: (A) For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize their birthrights of
health and longevity.
10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach the average
life span of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to determine attainment of
longevity?
A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop’s index
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,D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (C) Swaroop’s index
Swaroop’s index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or older. Its inverse represents
the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died younger than 50 years).
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health nursing
service
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative services
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of whom are well
individuals who have greater need for preventive rather than curative services.
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health nursing is based on
which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birthrights
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birthrights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man
This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland’s statements on Public Health Nursing.
13. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health?
A. Health for all Filipinos
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health
C. Improve the general health status of the population
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020
14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (D) Tertiary
Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training hospitals for the
region.
15. What is true of primary facilities?
A. They are usually government-run
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis
C. They are training facilities for health professionals
D. A community hospital is an example of this level of health facilities
Answer: (B) Their services are provided on an out-patient basis.
Primary facilities government and non-government facilities that provide basic out-patient
services.
16. Which is an example of the school nurse’s health care provider function?
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, A. Requesting for BCG from the RHU for school entrance immunization
B. Conducting random classroom inspection during measles epidemic
C. Taking remedial action on an accident hazard in the school playground
D. Observing places in the school where pupils spend their free times
Answer: (B) Conducting random classroom inspection during a measles epidemic
Random classroom inspection is assessment of pupils/students and teachers for signs of a
health problem prevalent in the community.
17. When the nurse determines whether resources were maximized in implementing
LigtasTigdas, she is evaluating:
A. Effectiveness
B. Efficiency
C. Adequacy
D. Appropriateness
Answer: (B) Efficiency
Efficiency is determining whether the goals were attained at the least possible cost.
18. You are a new B.S.N. graduate. You want to become a Public Health Nurse. Where
will you apply?
A. Department of Health
B. Provincial Health Office
C. Regional Health Office
D. Rural Health Unit
Answer: (D) Rural Health Unit
R.A. 7160 devolved basic health services to local government units (LGU’s). The public
health nurse is an employee of the LGU.
19. RA 7160 mandates devolution of basic services from the national government to
local government units. Which of the following is the major goal of devolution?
A. To strengthen local government units
B. To allow greater autonomy to local government units.
C. To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
D. To make basic services more accessible to the people
Answer: (C) To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
People empowerment is the basic motivation behind devolution of basic services to LGU’s.
20. Who is the Chairman of the Municipal Health Board?
A. Mayor
B. Municipal Health Officer
C. Public Health Nurse
D. Any qualified physician
Answer: (A) Mayor
The local executive serves as the chairman of the Municipal Health Board.
21. Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into the health
care delivery system?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
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