Population and Community Nursing Exam 1 | Practice Questions &
Answers 2026/2027
Public Health care - Ans✅✅✅ what society does collectively to ensure that conditions exist in which
people can be healthy
community based nursing - Ans✅✅✅ minor acute and chronic care that is comprehensive and
coordinated where people work live and attend school (disease care outside of the acute
setting/primary care in the community)
Community oriented care - Ans✅✅✅ use of systematic processes to deliver care to individuals
families and community groups with a foucs on protmoting preseving and protecting health
Population aggregate - Ans✅✅✅ a population group with common characteristics
Intervention Wheel Nurse Services - Ans✅✅✅ Direct: care giver, case manger, advocate, educator,
counselor, collaborator, information broker, coalition builder, change agent, policy advocate, culture
broker, resercher for epidemiology
Coalition builder - Ans✅✅✅ catalyst to try and promote a community based organization that is
already working
A group of consumers, health professionals, policy makers, and others working together to improve
community health status or to solve a specific community health problem.
8 domains of public health nursing - Ans✅✅✅ *A*-analytically assessment
*B*-basic public health science skills
*C*- communication skills
*C*- cultural competency
*C*- community dimensions of practice skills
, *L*- leadership and system thinking
*M*money management/financial planning skills
*P*- policy development and planning
10 assumptions- core fucntions of public health nursing practice - Ans✅✅✅ *N*nurse versed in both
RN and public health
*D*disparities- determinatnts of health and inequalitys (race, gender, socioeconomics)
*L*levels- of practice (community, system, individual)
*I*intervention-
*P*prevention level-of prevention (primary seconday tertiary)
*P*priorities- idenitifed thorugh an assessment of the community
*P*Process- nursing process
Levels of Nursing Practice
community
system
individual - Ans✅✅✅ 1. *Community Level*: Goal to Increase knowledge and attitude of entire
community about the importance of health behavior in (community norms, attitudes, awareness,
practices and behaviors)
Ex: education about importance of immunization and consequence of note being immunized to increase
the percent of people that get them.
2. *Systems*: Goal to change laws, policies and practices that influce public-- Ex: promoting population
based immunization registries and improving clinic and provider practices changes organizations,
policies, laws and power sturctures within communities
3. *Individuals*: Goal is to increase indiviudual knowledge attitdes, beliefs and behaviors
Ex: idenifity individuals who are not immunized and idenity the barrier to immunizaiton to ensure that
the individuals immuizaiton are brought up to date
Public Health prioires and Achievements of 19th 20th 21st cent - Ans✅✅✅ *19th*: John
Snow=tracking disease, Florence Nightengale identified betwn sick and healthy, Lillian Wald is
founder*founder of public nursing*
Answers 2026/2027
Public Health care - Ans✅✅✅ what society does collectively to ensure that conditions exist in which
people can be healthy
community based nursing - Ans✅✅✅ minor acute and chronic care that is comprehensive and
coordinated where people work live and attend school (disease care outside of the acute
setting/primary care in the community)
Community oriented care - Ans✅✅✅ use of systematic processes to deliver care to individuals
families and community groups with a foucs on protmoting preseving and protecting health
Population aggregate - Ans✅✅✅ a population group with common characteristics
Intervention Wheel Nurse Services - Ans✅✅✅ Direct: care giver, case manger, advocate, educator,
counselor, collaborator, information broker, coalition builder, change agent, policy advocate, culture
broker, resercher for epidemiology
Coalition builder - Ans✅✅✅ catalyst to try and promote a community based organization that is
already working
A group of consumers, health professionals, policy makers, and others working together to improve
community health status or to solve a specific community health problem.
8 domains of public health nursing - Ans✅✅✅ *A*-analytically assessment
*B*-basic public health science skills
*C*- communication skills
*C*- cultural competency
*C*- community dimensions of practice skills
, *L*- leadership and system thinking
*M*money management/financial planning skills
*P*- policy development and planning
10 assumptions- core fucntions of public health nursing practice - Ans✅✅✅ *N*nurse versed in both
RN and public health
*D*disparities- determinatnts of health and inequalitys (race, gender, socioeconomics)
*L*levels- of practice (community, system, individual)
*I*intervention-
*P*prevention level-of prevention (primary seconday tertiary)
*P*priorities- idenitifed thorugh an assessment of the community
*P*Process- nursing process
Levels of Nursing Practice
community
system
individual - Ans✅✅✅ 1. *Community Level*: Goal to Increase knowledge and attitude of entire
community about the importance of health behavior in (community norms, attitudes, awareness,
practices and behaviors)
Ex: education about importance of immunization and consequence of note being immunized to increase
the percent of people that get them.
2. *Systems*: Goal to change laws, policies and practices that influce public-- Ex: promoting population
based immunization registries and improving clinic and provider practices changes organizations,
policies, laws and power sturctures within communities
3. *Individuals*: Goal is to increase indiviudual knowledge attitdes, beliefs and behaviors
Ex: idenifity individuals who are not immunized and idenity the barrier to immunizaiton to ensure that
the individuals immuizaiton are brought up to date
Public Health prioires and Achievements of 19th 20th 21st cent - Ans✅✅✅ *19th*: John
Snow=tracking disease, Florence Nightengale identified betwn sick and healthy, Lillian Wald is
founder*founder of public nursing*
