Fundamentals of Nursing Chapter 3: Community-Based Nursing Practice
NCLEX Questions 2026/2027
4 - Correct answer✅✅ A community nurse in a diverse community is working with health care
professionals to provide prenatal care for under employed and underinsured South African women.
Which overall goal of Healthy People 2020 does this represent?
1. Assess the health care needs of individuals, families, or communities.
2. Develop and implement public health policies and improve access to care.
3. Gather information on incident rates of certain diseases and social problems.
4. Increase life expectancy and quality of life and to eliminate health disparities.
1, 3 - Correct answer✅✅ A nurse in a community health clinic noticed an increase in the number of
positive tuberculosis (TB) skin tests from students in a local high school during the most recent academic
year. After comparing these numbers to the previous years, 10% increase in positive tests was found.
The nurse contacts the school nurse and the director of the health department. Together they begin to
expand their assessment to all students and employees of the school district. The community nurse was
acting in which nursing role(s)? (Select all that apply.)1. Epidemiologist2. Counselor3. Collaborator4.
Case manager5. Caregiver
1, 2, 4 - Correct answer✅✅ A nursing student in the last semester of a baccalaureate nursing program
is beginning the community health practicum and will be working in a clinic with a focus on asthma and
allergies. What is the primary focus of the community health nurse in this clinic setting? (Select all that
apply.)
1. Decrease the incidence of asthma attacks in the community
2. Increase patients' ability to self-manage their asthma
3. Treat acute asthma attack in the hospital
4. Provide asthma education programs for the teachers in the
local schools
5. Provide scheduled immunizations to people who come to the
clinic
NCLEX Questions 2026/2027
4 - Correct answer✅✅ A community nurse in a diverse community is working with health care
professionals to provide prenatal care for under employed and underinsured South African women.
Which overall goal of Healthy People 2020 does this represent?
1. Assess the health care needs of individuals, families, or communities.
2. Develop and implement public health policies and improve access to care.
3. Gather information on incident rates of certain diseases and social problems.
4. Increase life expectancy and quality of life and to eliminate health disparities.
1, 3 - Correct answer✅✅ A nurse in a community health clinic noticed an increase in the number of
positive tuberculosis (TB) skin tests from students in a local high school during the most recent academic
year. After comparing these numbers to the previous years, 10% increase in positive tests was found.
The nurse contacts the school nurse and the director of the health department. Together they begin to
expand their assessment to all students and employees of the school district. The community nurse was
acting in which nursing role(s)? (Select all that apply.)1. Epidemiologist2. Counselor3. Collaborator4.
Case manager5. Caregiver
1, 2, 4 - Correct answer✅✅ A nursing student in the last semester of a baccalaureate nursing program
is beginning the community health practicum and will be working in a clinic with a focus on asthma and
allergies. What is the primary focus of the community health nurse in this clinic setting? (Select all that
apply.)
1. Decrease the incidence of asthma attacks in the community
2. Increase patients' ability to self-manage their asthma
3. Treat acute asthma attack in the hospital
4. Provide asthma education programs for the teachers in the
local schools
5. Provide scheduled immunizations to people who come to the
clinic
