,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Unit I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1 Public Health and Nursing Practice
2 Optimizing Population Health
3 Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4 Introduction to Community Assessment
5 Health Program Planning
6 Environmental Health
Unit II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7 Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations
8 Communicable Diseases
9 Non- communicable Diseases
10 Mental Health
11 Substance Use and the Health of Communities
12 Injury and Violence
13 Nursing and Global Health
Unit III. Public Health Planning
14 Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15 Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16 Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17 Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18 Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19 Health Planning for School Settings
20 Health Planning for Older Adults
21 Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
,22 Public Health Policy and Finance
23 culture and public health nursing
24 Vulneralable populations
25 Disaster Management and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
, Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing
Practice
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the
related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting
health, control of communicable infections, and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
Unit I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1 Public Health and Nursing Practice
2 Optimizing Population Health
3 Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4 Introduction to Community Assessment
5 Health Program Planning
6 Environmental Health
Unit II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7 Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations
8 Communicable Diseases
9 Non- communicable Diseases
10 Mental Health
11 Substance Use and the Health of Communities
12 Injury and Violence
13 Nursing and Global Health
Unit III. Public Health Planning
14 Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15 Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16 Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17 Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18 Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19 Health Planning for School Settings
20 Health Planning for Older Adults
21 Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
,22 Public Health Policy and Finance
23 culture and public health nursing
24 Vulneralable populations
25 Disaster Management and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
, Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing
Practice
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the
related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting
health, control of communicable infections, and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
