Community Nursing Exam 3 | Practice Questions and Answers
2026/2027
Health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury,
violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged
population.
At risk population for health disparities: - Correct answer✅✅ people of color (POC), incarcerated
individuals, LGTG individuals, and adults with physical and mental disabilities, frail elderly, impoverished.
Vulnerable group for health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ HIV patients (immunocompromised),
substance abusers (stressors), homeless, children.
Describe interventions to decrease health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ Access to health care,
chronic health problems, injury and violence prevention, environmental health, food safety, education
and community-based programs, health communication and health information technologies,
immunization and infectious diseases, and public health infrastructure, among others.
What does it mean to be vulnerable? - Correct answer✅✅ Those individuals with higher risk for illness
or injury and a subgroup of the larger population.
Case finding - Correct answer✅✅ Occurs when nurses design methods for finding populations and
individuals especially in need of services. Nurse or medical worker goes out to track/find the cases in the
community.
Wrap-around services - Correct answer✅✅ In which comprehensive health services are available and
social economic services are wrapped around these services.
Case management - Correct answer✅✅ Involves linking clients with services and providing direct
nursing services to clients, such as teaching, counseling, screening, and immunizing. Lillian Wald (the
first) linked vulnerable families with a variety of services to help them stay healthy.
,Comprehensive services - Correct answer✅✅ Health services that focus on more than one health
problem or concern.
Advocacy - Correct answer✅✅ Refers to a set of actions one undertakes on behalf of another.
Social determinants of health - Correct answer✅✅ Factors such as economic status, education,
environmental factors, nutrition, stress, and prejudice that lead to resource constraints, poor health,
and health risk. Lack of adequate social, educational, and economic resources predisposes people to
vulnerability and disparities in health outcomes.
Various levels of prevention for vulnerable populations: Primary Prevention - Correct answer✅✅
Provide health teaching about balanced diet and exercise. Help clients identify how to maintain a
healthy diet and exercise plan in low-cost ways. Give influenza shots to people who are
immunocompromised or who live in high-risk environments, such as in shelters or in the streets. Follow
annual CDC guidelines for the populations that should receive the vaccination.
Various levels of prevention for vulnerable populations: Secondary Prevention - Correct answer✅✅
Conduct screening clinics to assess for such problems as HTN. Develop a portable immunization chart,
such as a wallet card, that mobile population groups such as the homeless and migrant workers can
carry with them. Develop healthy nutrition and exercise programs for those who are overweight.
Various levels of prevention for vulnerable populations: Tertiary Prevention - Correct answer✅✅ Work
with a local coalition to reduce levels of drug abuse in the community. Participate with an
interprofessional team providing health care in a geographic area affected by a disaster, such as
weather-related disaster.
Social Justice: - Correct answer✅✅ Act in a way the benefits the most vulnerable & underprivileged
populations.
Outreach: - Correct answer✅✅ Going out into the community, services are brought into the
community.
Health literacy: - Correct answer✅✅ The ability to understand the info you are given & the ability to
act on it. ex: being able to make follow up appointments. Best tool to determine a patient's
understanding - demo's
, Food insecurity: - Correct answer✅✅ Inability to get adequate nutritious food
Poverty considered: - Correct answer✅✅ $22,350 for a family of 4
Poverty is more likely to affect what populations? - Correct answer✅✅ Women and children.
What are the sub-populations affected by poverty? - Correct answer✅✅ Child-bearing age women:
have ↓ academia, late prenatal care. Children: < 5 experience the worst effects of poverty. Elderly:
supplemental security income.
Describe how your beliefs and values impact your perception of poverty and homelessness. - Correct
answer✅✅ Personal beliefs are ideas about the world that a person believes to be true;
Homeless life expectancy: - Correct answer✅✅ 44 years old
Describe the levels of prevention related to homelessness and poverty: Primary Prevention - Correct
answer✅✅ Provide health education in the local area for prevention of diseases related to multi-use
of needles.
Describe the levels of prevention related to homelessness and poverty: Secondary Prevention - Correct
answer✅✅ Screen clients for early detection of drug use and the possibility of multiple users of
needles; screen for diseases that may result from injection drug use: HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-
borne diseases.
Describe the levels of prevention related to homelessness and poverty: Tertiary Prevention - Correct
answer✅✅ Implement more systematic programs for needles exchange; begin treatment for any
diseases that are detected.
Define psychoactive drugs. - Correct answer✅✅ Drugs that affect mood, perception, and thought.
Depressants: - Correct answer✅✅ Alcohol (ETOH)
2026/2027
Health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury,
violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged
population.
At risk population for health disparities: - Correct answer✅✅ people of color (POC), incarcerated
individuals, LGTG individuals, and adults with physical and mental disabilities, frail elderly, impoverished.
Vulnerable group for health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ HIV patients (immunocompromised),
substance abusers (stressors), homeless, children.
Describe interventions to decrease health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ Access to health care,
chronic health problems, injury and violence prevention, environmental health, food safety, education
and community-based programs, health communication and health information technologies,
immunization and infectious diseases, and public health infrastructure, among others.
What does it mean to be vulnerable? - Correct answer✅✅ Those individuals with higher risk for illness
or injury and a subgroup of the larger population.
Case finding - Correct answer✅✅ Occurs when nurses design methods for finding populations and
individuals especially in need of services. Nurse or medical worker goes out to track/find the cases in the
community.
Wrap-around services - Correct answer✅✅ In which comprehensive health services are available and
social economic services are wrapped around these services.
Case management - Correct answer✅✅ Involves linking clients with services and providing direct
nursing services to clients, such as teaching, counseling, screening, and immunizing. Lillian Wald (the
first) linked vulnerable families with a variety of services to help them stay healthy.
,Comprehensive services - Correct answer✅✅ Health services that focus on more than one health
problem or concern.
Advocacy - Correct answer✅✅ Refers to a set of actions one undertakes on behalf of another.
Social determinants of health - Correct answer✅✅ Factors such as economic status, education,
environmental factors, nutrition, stress, and prejudice that lead to resource constraints, poor health,
and health risk. Lack of adequate social, educational, and economic resources predisposes people to
vulnerability and disparities in health outcomes.
Various levels of prevention for vulnerable populations: Primary Prevention - Correct answer✅✅
Provide health teaching about balanced diet and exercise. Help clients identify how to maintain a
healthy diet and exercise plan in low-cost ways. Give influenza shots to people who are
immunocompromised or who live in high-risk environments, such as in shelters or in the streets. Follow
annual CDC guidelines for the populations that should receive the vaccination.
Various levels of prevention for vulnerable populations: Secondary Prevention - Correct answer✅✅
Conduct screening clinics to assess for such problems as HTN. Develop a portable immunization chart,
such as a wallet card, that mobile population groups such as the homeless and migrant workers can
carry with them. Develop healthy nutrition and exercise programs for those who are overweight.
Various levels of prevention for vulnerable populations: Tertiary Prevention - Correct answer✅✅ Work
with a local coalition to reduce levels of drug abuse in the community. Participate with an
interprofessional team providing health care in a geographic area affected by a disaster, such as
weather-related disaster.
Social Justice: - Correct answer✅✅ Act in a way the benefits the most vulnerable & underprivileged
populations.
Outreach: - Correct answer✅✅ Going out into the community, services are brought into the
community.
Health literacy: - Correct answer✅✅ The ability to understand the info you are given & the ability to
act on it. ex: being able to make follow up appointments. Best tool to determine a patient's
understanding - demo's
, Food insecurity: - Correct answer✅✅ Inability to get adequate nutritious food
Poverty considered: - Correct answer✅✅ $22,350 for a family of 4
Poverty is more likely to affect what populations? - Correct answer✅✅ Women and children.
What are the sub-populations affected by poverty? - Correct answer✅✅ Child-bearing age women:
have ↓ academia, late prenatal care. Children: < 5 experience the worst effects of poverty. Elderly:
supplemental security income.
Describe how your beliefs and values impact your perception of poverty and homelessness. - Correct
answer✅✅ Personal beliefs are ideas about the world that a person believes to be true;
Homeless life expectancy: - Correct answer✅✅ 44 years old
Describe the levels of prevention related to homelessness and poverty: Primary Prevention - Correct
answer✅✅ Provide health education in the local area for prevention of diseases related to multi-use
of needles.
Describe the levels of prevention related to homelessness and poverty: Secondary Prevention - Correct
answer✅✅ Screen clients for early detection of drug use and the possibility of multiple users of
needles; screen for diseases that may result from injection drug use: HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-
borne diseases.
Describe the levels of prevention related to homelessness and poverty: Tertiary Prevention - Correct
answer✅✅ Implement more systematic programs for needles exchange; begin treatment for any
diseases that are detected.
Define psychoactive drugs. - Correct answer✅✅ Drugs that affect mood, perception, and thought.
Depressants: - Correct answer✅✅ Alcohol (ETOH)
