PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BANK PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND RATIONALES
●● populations
Answer: Community/Public Health Nursing has the major goal to
preserve the health of the community and surrounding ___
●● maintence
Answer: Community/Public Health Nursing focuses on health
promotion, prevention, and health ___
●● risk
Answer: Community/Public Health Nursing is associated with health
and identification of populations at ___ rather than an episodic response
to patient demand
●● -preventing disease
-prolonging life
-promoting health through organized community efforts to benefit each
citizen
Answer: public health is described as the art and science of what 3
things
,●● Health Care Reform
Answer: ___ is defined as the costs of caring for the sick which account
for the majority of escalating health care dollars, which increased from
5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015
●● health-oriented
Answer: Community/public health nurses are in a position to assist the
U.S. health care system to transition from being disease-oriented to a
___ system
●● public health
Answer: the mission of ___ is social justice, which entitles all people to
basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and
accepts collective burdens to make this possible.
●● Health Expenditures
Answer: ___ is the total amount spent on healthcare by a country.
●● below
Answer: despite high hospital and physician expenditures, U.S. health
indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality rate remain
considerably ___ the health indicators of many other countries
, ●● poorer
Answer: the health status of the population within the US varies
markedly across the areas of the country and among groups. For
example, the economically disadvantaged and many cultural and ethnic
groups have ___ overall health status compared with middle-class
caucasians
●● -health promotion
-preventive
Answer: the decline in the percentage of nurses employed in hospitals
and the subsequent increase in nurses employed community setting
suggest a shift in focus from illness and institutional based care to ____
and ____ care
●● Individual, families, and groups
Answer: the major goal of community/public health nursing is to
preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations by
focusing on health promotion and health maintenance of ___, ___, and
___ within a community
●● social justic
Answer: the mission of public health is ___, which entitles all people the
basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and
accepts collective burdens to make it possible
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BANK PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND RATIONALES
●● populations
Answer: Community/Public Health Nursing has the major goal to
preserve the health of the community and surrounding ___
●● maintence
Answer: Community/Public Health Nursing focuses on health
promotion, prevention, and health ___
●● risk
Answer: Community/Public Health Nursing is associated with health
and identification of populations at ___ rather than an episodic response
to patient demand
●● -preventing disease
-prolonging life
-promoting health through organized community efforts to benefit each
citizen
Answer: public health is described as the art and science of what 3
things
,●● Health Care Reform
Answer: ___ is defined as the costs of caring for the sick which account
for the majority of escalating health care dollars, which increased from
5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015
●● health-oriented
Answer: Community/public health nurses are in a position to assist the
U.S. health care system to transition from being disease-oriented to a
___ system
●● public health
Answer: the mission of ___ is social justice, which entitles all people to
basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and
accepts collective burdens to make this possible.
●● Health Expenditures
Answer: ___ is the total amount spent on healthcare by a country.
●● below
Answer: despite high hospital and physician expenditures, U.S. health
indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality rate remain
considerably ___ the health indicators of many other countries
, ●● poorer
Answer: the health status of the population within the US varies
markedly across the areas of the country and among groups. For
example, the economically disadvantaged and many cultural and ethnic
groups have ___ overall health status compared with middle-class
caucasians
●● -health promotion
-preventive
Answer: the decline in the percentage of nurses employed in hospitals
and the subsequent increase in nurses employed community setting
suggest a shift in focus from illness and institutional based care to ____
and ____ care
●● Individual, families, and groups
Answer: the major goal of community/public health nursing is to
preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations by
focusing on health promotion and health maintenance of ___, ___, and
___ within a community
●● social justic
Answer: the mission of public health is ___, which entitles all people the
basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and
accepts collective burdens to make it possible
