NURS 2000 Midterm Exam prep
Questions and All Correct Answers
2026 Updated.
A community health provider is participating in a coalition that is advocating to de-escalate
police and public crisis situations and promote mental health of the responding police officers.
A citizen works with officers and providers to draft a letter to the Board of the Peterborough
Police Services. According to the social ecological model of health, at which level of influence is
the health care provider functioning? - Answer community
The National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy (2016) points states that focusing
public policy on those most disadvantaged has a major limitation to address health inequalities.
What is a critique of this approach? - Answer targeting policies to the least well-off ignores
groups just above those least well off
Trends in rural health nursing workforce are illustrated by the following:
a. nurses in rural communities are paid less
b. nurses in rural communities often practice with a greater scope of practice
c. nurses in rural communities provide care for less acute health issues
d. the percentage of rural nurses that work in hospital's compared to the community setting is
greater than in cities - Answer b. nurses in rural communities often practice with a greater
scope of practice
Community health nurse notices that individuals living near factories in the suburbs of a large
city have a higher incidence of asthma, and are usually people of colour and lower income.
Which of the following best guides the health care worker's critical thinking? - Answer health
belief model
Epidemiologists in Peterborough have noted an increase in weekly incidence rates of COVID-19.
How can a community health nurse interpret these results? - Answer i increase exposure of
vulnerable host
according to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, where does the responsibility for health
mainly lay?
a. many sectors in society
b. individuals
c. family
d. municipal government - Answer a. many sectors in society
,which health promotion approach is reflected in a vaccination program? - Answer biomedical
which of the following strategies represents the most "upstream" approach in community
health practice?
a. a support group brings together mothers with postpartum depression
b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and walking
c. a cancer-screening clinic organized in the highschool of a rural community
d. a provider educates individuals with diabetes about healthy eating and exercise - Answer
b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and walking
as a result of climate change, what has been a health impact from changes in vector-borne
infections? - Answer increased lyme disease
promoting mammograms in the community to screen for breast cancer is considered what type
of prevention measure?
a. secondary prevention
b. tertiary prevention
c. primary prevention
d. primordial prevention - Answer a. secondary prevention
Community - Answer group of people who live, learn, work, and play in an environment
(group of people in a given place)
community functions: - Answer day-to-day livelihood
Community Dynamics? - Answer Supporting community functions
- leadership
- communication
- decision making
Healthy communities: - Answer - health promotion
- a partnership to create a sustained healthy community
Role of CHN - Answer - able to use the community health promotion process
- demonstrate leadership
- community participatory tools to engage community stakeholders and population groups
, Why do you think CPHA uses the terms Public Health Nurse and Community Health Nurse
synonymously? - Answer they both are community-based health practices
10 social justice attributes - Answer 1. equity
2. human rights
3. democracy and civil rights
4. capacity building
5. just institutions
6. enabling environments
7. poverty reduction
8. ethical practice
9. advocacy
10. partnerships
Social justice assumes - Answer - that all societies experience systematic oppression and
inequities
- Every individual contributes to oppression and inequity
Why is social justice important? - Answer when situating the ethical dimensions of healthcare
policy within a broad political understanding of the role of health care services on society
3 important features of social justice approaches: - Answer 1. concerned with the ethical use
of power in health care
2. view persons relationally as unique, connected to others, and interdependent; that is,
vulnerable and unequal in power
3. concern for issues of everyday life and not primarily with crisis issues
The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) - Answer Theory of level of influence
Population health promotion - Answer Health promotion
- individual/family level
- populations
GOAL
- change behaviours (biological/behavioural)
- promotes healthy lifestyles
Questions and All Correct Answers
2026 Updated.
A community health provider is participating in a coalition that is advocating to de-escalate
police and public crisis situations and promote mental health of the responding police officers.
A citizen works with officers and providers to draft a letter to the Board of the Peterborough
Police Services. According to the social ecological model of health, at which level of influence is
the health care provider functioning? - Answer community
The National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy (2016) points states that focusing
public policy on those most disadvantaged has a major limitation to address health inequalities.
What is a critique of this approach? - Answer targeting policies to the least well-off ignores
groups just above those least well off
Trends in rural health nursing workforce are illustrated by the following:
a. nurses in rural communities are paid less
b. nurses in rural communities often practice with a greater scope of practice
c. nurses in rural communities provide care for less acute health issues
d. the percentage of rural nurses that work in hospital's compared to the community setting is
greater than in cities - Answer b. nurses in rural communities often practice with a greater
scope of practice
Community health nurse notices that individuals living near factories in the suburbs of a large
city have a higher incidence of asthma, and are usually people of colour and lower income.
Which of the following best guides the health care worker's critical thinking? - Answer health
belief model
Epidemiologists in Peterborough have noted an increase in weekly incidence rates of COVID-19.
How can a community health nurse interpret these results? - Answer i increase exposure of
vulnerable host
according to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, where does the responsibility for health
mainly lay?
a. many sectors in society
b. individuals
c. family
d. municipal government - Answer a. many sectors in society
,which health promotion approach is reflected in a vaccination program? - Answer biomedical
which of the following strategies represents the most "upstream" approach in community
health practice?
a. a support group brings together mothers with postpartum depression
b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and walking
c. a cancer-screening clinic organized in the highschool of a rural community
d. a provider educates individuals with diabetes about healthy eating and exercise - Answer
b. a provider works within a coalition to develop traits for biking and walking
as a result of climate change, what has been a health impact from changes in vector-borne
infections? - Answer increased lyme disease
promoting mammograms in the community to screen for breast cancer is considered what type
of prevention measure?
a. secondary prevention
b. tertiary prevention
c. primary prevention
d. primordial prevention - Answer a. secondary prevention
Community - Answer group of people who live, learn, work, and play in an environment
(group of people in a given place)
community functions: - Answer day-to-day livelihood
Community Dynamics? - Answer Supporting community functions
- leadership
- communication
- decision making
Healthy communities: - Answer - health promotion
- a partnership to create a sustained healthy community
Role of CHN - Answer - able to use the community health promotion process
- demonstrate leadership
- community participatory tools to engage community stakeholders and population groups
, Why do you think CPHA uses the terms Public Health Nurse and Community Health Nurse
synonymously? - Answer they both are community-based health practices
10 social justice attributes - Answer 1. equity
2. human rights
3. democracy and civil rights
4. capacity building
5. just institutions
6. enabling environments
7. poverty reduction
8. ethical practice
9. advocacy
10. partnerships
Social justice assumes - Answer - that all societies experience systematic oppression and
inequities
- Every individual contributes to oppression and inequity
Why is social justice important? - Answer when situating the ethical dimensions of healthcare
policy within a broad political understanding of the role of health care services on society
3 important features of social justice approaches: - Answer 1. concerned with the ethical use
of power in health care
2. view persons relationally as unique, connected to others, and interdependent; that is,
vulnerable and unequal in power
3. concern for issues of everyday life and not primarily with crisis issues
The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) - Answer Theory of level of influence
Population health promotion - Answer Health promotion
- individual/family level
- populations
GOAL
- change behaviours (biological/behavioural)
- promotes healthy lifestyles
