NUR 471 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE | COMPLETE NURSING FINAL EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Community health - ANS ✔✔identification of needs and the protection and improvement of collective
health within a geographically defined area
Public health - ANS ✔✔activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which people can be
healthy
health promotion - ANS ✔✔All efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well-being or higher
levels of wellness
1. Increase the span of healthy life for all citizens
2. Reduce health disparities among population groups
3. Achieve access to preventive services for everyone
disease prevention - ANS ✔✔Anticipating and averting problems or discovering them as early as possible
to minimize potential disability and impairment
Primary prevention - ANS ✔✔•Primary: Keep illness or injury from occurring
An educational program that teaches safe sex practices is an example of primary prevention
secondary prevention - ANS ✔✔•Secondary: Efforts to detect and treat existing disease; high-risk
populations
Performing hypertension screening and encouraging breast self-exam are examples of secondary
prevention level activities
tertiary prevention - ANS ✔✔•Tertiary: Reduce the extent and severity of a health problem to its lowest
possible level to minimize disability and restore or preserve function; prevent recurrence
A postmastectomy exercise program would be an example of a tertiary prevention level activity.
8 characteristics of community health nursing - ANS ✔✔1. Population is client or unit of care.
2. Primary obligation to achieve greatest good for greatest number of people or population as a whole.
3. Processes used include working with the client as an equal partner.
4. Primary prevention is the priority.
5. Strategies are selected to create healthy environmental, social, and economic conditions in which
populations may thrive.
6. There is an obligation to actively reach out to all who might benefit from a specific activity.
7. Optimal use of available resources to assure best overall improvement in health of population is a key
element.
8. Collaboration with a variety of other professions, populations, organizations, and entities is the most
effective way to promote and protect the health of people.
, Identify the three core public health functions basic to community health nursing - ANS ✔✔Assessment;
Regular collection, analysis, and sharing of information about health conditions, risks, and resources in a
community
Policy development; Use of assessment data to develop policy and direct resources toward those policies
Assurance; Availability of necessary services throughout the community
Identify principles of effective nursing practice in the community - ANS ✔✔
Describe and differentiate among seven different roles of the community health nurse - ANS
✔✔Clinician
-Care provider
-Focus on holism, health promotion, and prevention while using expanded skills
Educator
-Health teacher
-Plan for community-wide impact
Advocate
-leader of the client's cause or actor on behalf of the client
-Support the client's self-determination and independence
-Make the system responsive and relevant to the client's needs
Advocates must:
Be assertive
Take risks
Communicate and negotiate well
Identify and obtain resources for the client
Manager
-Assessing clients' needs
-Planning and organizing to meet those needs
-Directing and leading clients to achieve results
-Controlling and evaluating the progress to ensure that the goals and clients' needs are met
-Participatory approach with community
Collaborator
-Joint working with others
-Multidisciplinary collegiality and leadership
Leadership role (action as a change agent)
Researcher
-Systematic investigation, collection, and analysis of data for solving problems
-Evidence-based findings to community settings
Discuss the seven roles within the framework of public health nursing functions - ANS ✔✔Assessment:
•Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Community health - ANS ✔✔identification of needs and the protection and improvement of collective
health within a geographically defined area
Public health - ANS ✔✔activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which people can be
healthy
health promotion - ANS ✔✔All efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well-being or higher
levels of wellness
1. Increase the span of healthy life for all citizens
2. Reduce health disparities among population groups
3. Achieve access to preventive services for everyone
disease prevention - ANS ✔✔Anticipating and averting problems or discovering them as early as possible
to minimize potential disability and impairment
Primary prevention - ANS ✔✔•Primary: Keep illness or injury from occurring
An educational program that teaches safe sex practices is an example of primary prevention
secondary prevention - ANS ✔✔•Secondary: Efforts to detect and treat existing disease; high-risk
populations
Performing hypertension screening and encouraging breast self-exam are examples of secondary
prevention level activities
tertiary prevention - ANS ✔✔•Tertiary: Reduce the extent and severity of a health problem to its lowest
possible level to minimize disability and restore or preserve function; prevent recurrence
A postmastectomy exercise program would be an example of a tertiary prevention level activity.
8 characteristics of community health nursing - ANS ✔✔1. Population is client or unit of care.
2. Primary obligation to achieve greatest good for greatest number of people or population as a whole.
3. Processes used include working with the client as an equal partner.
4. Primary prevention is the priority.
5. Strategies are selected to create healthy environmental, social, and economic conditions in which
populations may thrive.
6. There is an obligation to actively reach out to all who might benefit from a specific activity.
7. Optimal use of available resources to assure best overall improvement in health of population is a key
element.
8. Collaboration with a variety of other professions, populations, organizations, and entities is the most
effective way to promote and protect the health of people.
, Identify the three core public health functions basic to community health nursing - ANS ✔✔Assessment;
Regular collection, analysis, and sharing of information about health conditions, risks, and resources in a
community
Policy development; Use of assessment data to develop policy and direct resources toward those policies
Assurance; Availability of necessary services throughout the community
Identify principles of effective nursing practice in the community - ANS ✔✔
Describe and differentiate among seven different roles of the community health nurse - ANS
✔✔Clinician
-Care provider
-Focus on holism, health promotion, and prevention while using expanded skills
Educator
-Health teacher
-Plan for community-wide impact
Advocate
-leader of the client's cause or actor on behalf of the client
-Support the client's self-determination and independence
-Make the system responsive and relevant to the client's needs
Advocates must:
Be assertive
Take risks
Communicate and negotiate well
Identify and obtain resources for the client
Manager
-Assessing clients' needs
-Planning and organizing to meet those needs
-Directing and leading clients to achieve results
-Controlling and evaluating the progress to ensure that the goals and clients' needs are met
-Participatory approach with community
Collaborator
-Joint working with others
-Multidisciplinary collegiality and leadership
Leadership role (action as a change agent)
Researcher
-Systematic investigation, collection, and analysis of data for solving problems
-Evidence-based findings to community settings
Discuss the seven roles within the framework of public health nursing functions - ANS ✔✔Assessment:
•Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
