NUR 471 QUIZ 1 STUDY GUIDE | COMPLETE NURSING QUIZ REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027

NUR 471 QUIZ 1 STUDY GUIDE | COMPLETE NURSING QUIZ REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2026/2027

Community Health (3) - ANS ✔✔-identification of needs
-protection & improvement of collective health within a GEOGRAPHICALLY DEFINED area
-school district, zip code

Public health - ANS ✔✔activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which people can be
healthy

public health nursing - ANS ✔✔community based and most importantly it is population focused

How's community health different from public health? (2) - ANS ✔✔-public = broader, makes sure
EVERYONE has what they need to stay & be healthy
-community = GEOGRAPHICALLY defined

Concept of community - ANS ✔✔Collection of people who interact with one another and whose
common interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity or belonging

Three types of communtiy - ANS ✔✔- Geographic - city, town , neighborhood
- Common interest - church, professional organization
- Community of solution - group of people who come together to solve a problem that affects all of them
(medical trade, water control)

What are the 2 main components of community health practice? - ANS ✔✔-health promotion
-disease prevention

Health Promotion - ANS ✔✔Efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well-being or higher
levels of wellness.
1. increased span of healthy life
2. Reduce health disparities
3. Achieve access preventive services

Disease Prevention/prevention of health problems - ANS ✔✔Anticipating and averting problems or
discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment

Three levels of Prevention - ANS ✔✔primary, secondary, tertiary

Primary Prevention (3) - ANS ✔✔-keep illness or injury FROM HAPPENING
-education
-EX = immunizations (b/c everyone SHOULD be receiving), hand washing.

Secondary Prevention (4) - ANS ✔✔-efforts to detect & treat EXISTING disease
-activities gear toward high risk groups
-how diseases are treated

, -EX = screenings (b/c not done on everyone), education for diabetic pts to prevent complications r/t
disease

Tertiary Prevention (3) - ANS ✔✔-decrease extent & severity of health problems to its lowest possible
level to minimize disability & restore/preserve function
-prevents ADDITIONAL complications of an event that's ALREADY happened
-EX = MI pts do cardiac rehab

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
1) Population - ANS ✔✔pt or unity of care

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
2) Primary Obligation - ANS ✔✔achieve greatest good for greatest number of people/population as
whole

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
3) Processes Used - ANS ✔✔-working w/pt as EQUAL partner
-collaborate w/pts, clients, & community members
-create healthy environments

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
4) Primary Prevention - ANS ✔✔PRIORITY

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
5) Strategies - ANS ✔✔selected to create healthy environmental, social, & economic conditions in which
population may thrive

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
6) Other obligation - ANS ✔✔to actively reach out to ALL who might benefit from a specific activity

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
7) Key Element - ANS ✔✔optimal use of available resources to assure best overall improvement in health
of population

Community Health Nursing Characteristics -
8) Collaboration - ANS ✔✔With a variety of other professions, populations, organizations, and entities is
the MOST effective way to promote and protect the health of people

Early home care nursing - ANS ✔✔focus of care to reduce suffering and promote healing
- religious/charitable groups
St. Vincent poor law - sisters of charity
- Florence nightingale + mary seacole

District Nurisng - ANS ✔✔focus to provide 1st rate nursing to sick @ home.
- Visiting nurses
- care of individuals

Public health nursing - ANS ✔✔Focus expanded to heal and welfare of general public