COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a
public health problem with an understanding of the related underlying
risk factors in order to develop effective nursing interventions. He
must also consider that these risk factors can be either ______ based
or ______ based.
a) Epidemic; population
b) Disease; individual
c) Individual; population
d) Intervention; government. Answer: a) Individual; population
◉ If the international medical community was working to contain
several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization (WHO), which is:
a) Working to improve health and well being for the global population
b) The public health arm of the united nations
c) Working with nurses to promote public health interventions
d) All of the above. Answer: d) All of the above
◉ The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in their report, The Future
of the Public's Health, that there are three core functions that society
,carries out to collectively support the optimum conditions for public
health. Which one of the following is not one of these functions?
a) Assessment
b) Assurance
c) Prevention
d) Policy development. Answer: c) Prevention
◉ With aging, there is an increase in noncommunicable (chronic)
illness. The PHN recognizes that an example of a noncommunicable
illness is:
a) Heart disease
b) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
c) HIV
d) Hepatitis. Answer: a) Heart disease
◉ The obesity rate in a local neighborhood is partially the product of
a limited access to full service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated
safe venues for exercise. This is an example of issues related to the
"upstream" determinants of public health that contribute to the
ecology of a community's health "downstream." The PHN
understands that upstream determinants include social relations,
neighborhoods and communities, institutions, and ____.
a) Tertiary nursing interventions
b) Availability of medicine to treat disease
c) Increasing the number of primary care provider
,d) Social and economic policies. Answer: d) Social and economic
policies
◉ A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on community participation
in an ecological public health system. She teaches that the benefits of
this collaboration for participants in the community's public health are
that their efforts increase effectiveness and productivity, empower the
participants, strengthen social engagement, and ____.
a) Increase the number of medical facilities
b) Decrease disease rates
c) Monitor childhood illnesses
d) Ensure accountability. Answer: d) Ensure accountability
◉ Which layer of government is responsible for issuing quarantines
during a communicable disease outbreak?
a)State
b) Local
c) Federal
d) All of the above. Answer: b) Local
◉ The nursing student is taught correctly that local health
departments do not oversee which of the following?
a) The surveillance of disease
b) Public sanitation and water supply
c) Licensing of local hospitals
, d) Investigation of disease outbreaks. Answer: c) Licensing of local
hospitals
◉ The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology,
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and ______ form the foundational
subjects of public health.
a) Social and behavioral sciences
b) The humanities
c) Anthropology
d) economics. Answer: a) Social and behavioral sciences
◉ If a PHN meets the PHN Core Competencies, he or she should be
able to do which of the following? Select all that apply
a) Work with corporations to create an emergency response program
to bioterrorism
b) Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget
c) Function as a medical doctor at a clinic if there is none
d) Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants
e) Develop policy for handling a local quarantine. Answer: a) Work
with corporations to create an emergency response program to
bioterrorism
d) Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants
e) Develop policy for handling a local quarantine
◉ In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a plan to
increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a
public health problem with an understanding of the related underlying
risk factors in order to develop effective nursing interventions. He
must also consider that these risk factors can be either ______ based
or ______ based.
a) Epidemic; population
b) Disease; individual
c) Individual; population
d) Intervention; government. Answer: a) Individual; population
◉ If the international medical community was working to contain
several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization (WHO), which is:
a) Working to improve health and well being for the global population
b) The public health arm of the united nations
c) Working with nurses to promote public health interventions
d) All of the above. Answer: d) All of the above
◉ The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in their report, The Future
of the Public's Health, that there are three core functions that society
,carries out to collectively support the optimum conditions for public
health. Which one of the following is not one of these functions?
a) Assessment
b) Assurance
c) Prevention
d) Policy development. Answer: c) Prevention
◉ With aging, there is an increase in noncommunicable (chronic)
illness. The PHN recognizes that an example of a noncommunicable
illness is:
a) Heart disease
b) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
c) HIV
d) Hepatitis. Answer: a) Heart disease
◉ The obesity rate in a local neighborhood is partially the product of
a limited access to full service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated
safe venues for exercise. This is an example of issues related to the
"upstream" determinants of public health that contribute to the
ecology of a community's health "downstream." The PHN
understands that upstream determinants include social relations,
neighborhoods and communities, institutions, and ____.
a) Tertiary nursing interventions
b) Availability of medicine to treat disease
c) Increasing the number of primary care provider
,d) Social and economic policies. Answer: d) Social and economic
policies
◉ A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on community participation
in an ecological public health system. She teaches that the benefits of
this collaboration for participants in the community's public health are
that their efforts increase effectiveness and productivity, empower the
participants, strengthen social engagement, and ____.
a) Increase the number of medical facilities
b) Decrease disease rates
c) Monitor childhood illnesses
d) Ensure accountability. Answer: d) Ensure accountability
◉ Which layer of government is responsible for issuing quarantines
during a communicable disease outbreak?
a)State
b) Local
c) Federal
d) All of the above. Answer: b) Local
◉ The nursing student is taught correctly that local health
departments do not oversee which of the following?
a) The surveillance of disease
b) Public sanitation and water supply
c) Licensing of local hospitals
, d) Investigation of disease outbreaks. Answer: c) Licensing of local
hospitals
◉ The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology,
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and ______ form the foundational
subjects of public health.
a) Social and behavioral sciences
b) The humanities
c) Anthropology
d) economics. Answer: a) Social and behavioral sciences
◉ If a PHN meets the PHN Core Competencies, he or she should be
able to do which of the following? Select all that apply
a) Work with corporations to create an emergency response program
to bioterrorism
b) Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget
c) Function as a medical doctor at a clinic if there is none
d) Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants
e) Develop policy for handling a local quarantine. Answer: a) Work
with corporations to create an emergency response program to
bioterrorism
d) Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants
e) Develop policy for handling a local quarantine
◉ In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a plan to
increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of
