Community Health Nursing Exam Review & Practice Questions
2026/2027 | Study Guide
a) Individual; population - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d) All of the above - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c) Prevention - Correct answer✅✅ 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
,a) Heart disease - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d) Social and economic policies - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d) Ensure accountability - Correct answer✅✅ 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
b) Local - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c) Licensing of local hospitals - Correct answer✅✅ 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
a) Social and behavioral sciences - Correct answer✅✅ 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
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 - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c) Increasing access to care - Correct answer✅✅ In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a
plan to increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. Which of the following
is not one of the strategic directions included in the strategy?
a) Eliminating health disparities
b) Building healthy and safe community efforts
c) Increasing access to care
d) Empowering people to make healthy choices
b) Assisting low-income families to sign up for health-care insurance - Correct answer✅✅ A nursing
student is studying the seven priorities of the National Prevention Strategy. The student correctly
identifies which one of the following interventions as not reflecting any of the seven priorities in this
plan?
a) Conducting a smoking cessation clinic
b) Assisting low-income families to sign up for health-care insurance
c) Providing nutrition classes which offer weekly fill-in guides for grocery shopping
d) Building a health and exercise center in a hospital near the physical and occupational therapy areas
b) Studying the continuum of the disease with a focus on the disease free state. - Correct answer✅✅ If
a nurse is using the natural history of a disease to help develop a primary prevention program for a
specific disease, he or she would begin with:
a) Making sure that everyone in a certain area receives treatment.
b) Studying the continuum of the disease with a focus on the disease free state.
c) Looking at screening tools for identifying person who may have the disease.
d) Going to the autopsies of the patients who have died.
2026/2027 | Study Guide
a) Individual; population - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d) All of the above - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c) Prevention - Correct answer✅✅ 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
,a) Heart disease - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d) Social and economic policies - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d) Ensure accountability - Correct answer✅✅ 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
b) Local - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c) Licensing of local hospitals - Correct answer✅✅ 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
a) Social and behavioral sciences - Correct answer✅✅ 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
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 - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c) Increasing access to care - Correct answer✅✅ In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a
plan to increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. Which of the following
is not one of the strategic directions included in the strategy?
a) Eliminating health disparities
b) Building healthy and safe community efforts
c) Increasing access to care
d) Empowering people to make healthy choices
b) Assisting low-income families to sign up for health-care insurance - Correct answer✅✅ A nursing
student is studying the seven priorities of the National Prevention Strategy. The student correctly
identifies which one of the following interventions as not reflecting any of the seven priorities in this
plan?
a) Conducting a smoking cessation clinic
b) Assisting low-income families to sign up for health-care insurance
c) Providing nutrition classes which offer weekly fill-in guides for grocery shopping
d) Building a health and exercise center in a hospital near the physical and occupational therapy areas
b) Studying the continuum of the disease with a focus on the disease free state. - Correct answer✅✅ If
a nurse is using the natural history of a disease to help develop a primary prevention program for a
specific disease, he or she would begin with:
a) Making sure that everyone in a certain area receives treatment.
b) Studying the continuum of the disease with a focus on the disease free state.
c) Looking at screening tools for identifying person who may have the disease.
d) Going to the autopsies of the patients who have died.
