NRS 316 EXAM 1 REVIEW: POPULATION HEALTH,
VULNERABILITY, AND EMPOWERMENT
QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. What is the primary focus of population health nursing?
Answer: To improve population health with an emphasis on prevention
and the determinants of health.
2. What are the three basic nursing activities?
Answer: Restorative, supportive, and promotive.
3. Which level of prevention do restorative practices align with?
Answer: Tertiary prevention.
4. What is the goal of promotive practices?
Answer: To mobilize healthy patterns of living, foster personal and
familial development, and support self-defined goals.
5. In the nursing process, how should assessment include community
members?
Answer: Through interviews, surveys, focus groups, and windshield
surveys.
6. Who should be involved in the planning phase of the nursing
process?
Answer: Community leaders.
, 7. True or False: According to the intervention wheel, nurses focus
only on the community level.
Answer: False (they must target all three levels: individual, community,
and systems).
8. What is the goal of the intervention wheel?
Answer: To improve population health outcomes by changing
knowledge, attitudes, practices, community norms, policies, laws, and
organizational structures.
9. True or False: System-focused interventions impact more people.
Answer: True.
10. True or False: The intervention wheel is evidence-based.
Answer: True.
11. Who are the "stakeholders" in a community?
Answer: Community members, leaders, and policymakers.
12. What are the three components of the "how" of public health
nursing practice (the wheel)?
Answer: Population-based, three levels of public health practice, and 17
public health interventions.
13. What is community organizing?
Answer: The process of building power by connecting people with
common concerns and mobilizing them to seek solutions.
14. Where does community organizing start?
Answer: Within the community.
VULNERABILITY, AND EMPOWERMENT
QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. What is the primary focus of population health nursing?
Answer: To improve population health with an emphasis on prevention
and the determinants of health.
2. What are the three basic nursing activities?
Answer: Restorative, supportive, and promotive.
3. Which level of prevention do restorative practices align with?
Answer: Tertiary prevention.
4. What is the goal of promotive practices?
Answer: To mobilize healthy patterns of living, foster personal and
familial development, and support self-defined goals.
5. In the nursing process, how should assessment include community
members?
Answer: Through interviews, surveys, focus groups, and windshield
surveys.
6. Who should be involved in the planning phase of the nursing
process?
Answer: Community leaders.
, 7. True or False: According to the intervention wheel, nurses focus
only on the community level.
Answer: False (they must target all three levels: individual, community,
and systems).
8. What is the goal of the intervention wheel?
Answer: To improve population health outcomes by changing
knowledge, attitudes, practices, community norms, policies, laws, and
organizational structures.
9. True or False: System-focused interventions impact more people.
Answer: True.
10. True or False: The intervention wheel is evidence-based.
Answer: True.
11. Who are the "stakeholders" in a community?
Answer: Community members, leaders, and policymakers.
12. What are the three components of the "how" of public health
nursing practice (the wheel)?
Answer: Population-based, three levels of public health practice, and 17
public health interventions.
13. What is community organizing?
Answer: The process of building power by connecting people with
common concerns and mobilizing them to seek solutions.
14. Where does community organizing start?
Answer: Within the community.
