NUR 207 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 | PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Community-based nursing - What is it? - Ans✅✅✅ When the practice location is in the community,
but the focus of practice is individual or family, the nursing client remains individual or family, not the
whole community, sick patients.
· Focus on "illness care" of individuals and families across life span.
· Goal: manage acute and chronic conditions
· Provide acute and chronic illness care and provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous
care.
· A setting-specific practice, care is provided where people live, work, and attend school.
· More nurses are engaging in community-based nursing (CBN). In CBN, the focus is on "illness care" of
individuals and families across the life span.
· Growing costs of hospital care is leading to more care being provided in community-based settings.
Community-oriented nursing- What is it? - Ans✅✅✅ The location of practice is in the community,
focusing on wellness and health promotion of populations and community.
· Health promotion and disease prevention* and efforts are directed towards groups and the
community.
· e.g. public health nurse (mom at health department)
· Its primary focus looks at both the health care of entire communities or populations as well as the
health care of individuals, families, and groups. It includes the specialty of public health nursing.
· Goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for community and
population within it.
The goal of public health nursing - Ans✅✅✅ · Goal is to organize community efforts that will use
scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health.
· Focus is on wellness and prevention with a reduced need of secondary and tertiary healthcare services.
· Three core functions of public health:
- Assessment
- Policy creation
, - Assurance
Lillian Wald - Ans✅✅✅ · Famous for creating public health nursing in the United States. Henry street
settlements, visiting nurses, and school nurse programs.
· First public health nurse in the US.
Florence Nightingale - Ans✅✅✅ · Florence Nightingale (1894-1946) organized hospital nursing
practice and nursing education in hospitals to replace lay nurses with trained nurses. 1870 first nursing
schools based on the Nightingale model opened in the United States.
· Best known as the founder of modern nursing but was also a trailblazer in the field of epidemiology,
using statistics and visual graphs to push for better conditions, saving countless lives (Theorist,
epidemiologist, statistician, mathematician, etc.)
· Developed ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY which states that poor environment leads to poor
health/disease, and that it can be altered to allow healing.
· Known for time in Crimean war to help reduce the mortality rate in wounded soldiers, figured out they
were dying from preventable disease.
Implemented evidence-based nursing in her care and advocated for a safer environment to decrease
mortality rate.
What is Healthy People 2030? - Ans✅✅✅ · The Healthy People initiative began in 1979 when
Surgeon General Julius Richmond issued a landmark report titled "Healthy People: The Surgeon
General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention."
· Healthy People 2030 is the fifth iteration of the initiative.
· It builds on knowledge gained and lessons learned to address the latest public health priorities.
· Healthy People 2030 includes a wide range of objectives developed by workgroups made up of subject
matter experts in specific topics.
· Most Healthy People 2030 objectives are core, or measurable, objectives that are associated with
targets for the decade.
· Core objectives reflect high-priority public health issues and are associated with evidence-based
interventions.
What is disparity? - Ans✅✅✅ • Health disparities: the wide variations in health services and health
status among certain population groups.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Community-based nursing - What is it? - Ans✅✅✅ When the practice location is in the community,
but the focus of practice is individual or family, the nursing client remains individual or family, not the
whole community, sick patients.
· Focus on "illness care" of individuals and families across life span.
· Goal: manage acute and chronic conditions
· Provide acute and chronic illness care and provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous
care.
· A setting-specific practice, care is provided where people live, work, and attend school.
· More nurses are engaging in community-based nursing (CBN). In CBN, the focus is on "illness care" of
individuals and families across the life span.
· Growing costs of hospital care is leading to more care being provided in community-based settings.
Community-oriented nursing- What is it? - Ans✅✅✅ The location of practice is in the community,
focusing on wellness and health promotion of populations and community.
· Health promotion and disease prevention* and efforts are directed towards groups and the
community.
· e.g. public health nurse (mom at health department)
· Its primary focus looks at both the health care of entire communities or populations as well as the
health care of individuals, families, and groups. It includes the specialty of public health nursing.
· Goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for community and
population within it.
The goal of public health nursing - Ans✅✅✅ · Goal is to organize community efforts that will use
scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health.
· Focus is on wellness and prevention with a reduced need of secondary and tertiary healthcare services.
· Three core functions of public health:
- Assessment
- Policy creation
, - Assurance
Lillian Wald - Ans✅✅✅ · Famous for creating public health nursing in the United States. Henry street
settlements, visiting nurses, and school nurse programs.
· First public health nurse in the US.
Florence Nightingale - Ans✅✅✅ · Florence Nightingale (1894-1946) organized hospital nursing
practice and nursing education in hospitals to replace lay nurses with trained nurses. 1870 first nursing
schools based on the Nightingale model opened in the United States.
· Best known as the founder of modern nursing but was also a trailblazer in the field of epidemiology,
using statistics and visual graphs to push for better conditions, saving countless lives (Theorist,
epidemiologist, statistician, mathematician, etc.)
· Developed ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY which states that poor environment leads to poor
health/disease, and that it can be altered to allow healing.
· Known for time in Crimean war to help reduce the mortality rate in wounded soldiers, figured out they
were dying from preventable disease.
Implemented evidence-based nursing in her care and advocated for a safer environment to decrease
mortality rate.
What is Healthy People 2030? - Ans✅✅✅ · The Healthy People initiative began in 1979 when
Surgeon General Julius Richmond issued a landmark report titled "Healthy People: The Surgeon
General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention."
· Healthy People 2030 is the fifth iteration of the initiative.
· It builds on knowledge gained and lessons learned to address the latest public health priorities.
· Healthy People 2030 includes a wide range of objectives developed by workgroups made up of subject
matter experts in specific topics.
· Most Healthy People 2030 objectives are core, or measurable, objectives that are associated with
targets for the decade.
· Core objectives reflect high-priority public health issues and are associated with evidence-based
interventions.
What is disparity? - Ans✅✅✅ • Health disparities: the wide variations in health services and health
status among certain population groups.
