Test Bank: Public / Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition, Christine L. Savage

TABLE OF CONTENTS Unit I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills 1 Public Health and Nursing Practice 2 Optimizing Population Health 3 Epidemiology and Nursing Practice 4 Introduction to Community Assessment 5 Health Program Planning 6 Environmental Health Unit II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues 7 Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations 8 Communicable Diseases 9 Non- communicable Diseases 10 Mental Health 11 Substance Use and the Health of Communities 12 Injury and Violence 13 Nursing and Global Health Unit III. Public Health Planning 14 Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments 15 Health Planning for Acute Care Settings 16 Health Planning for Primary Care Settings 17 Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities 18 Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings 19 Health Planning for School Settings 20 Health Planning for Older Adults 21 Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health22 Public Health Policy and Finance 23 culture and public health nursing 24 Vulneralable populations 25 Disaster Management and Public Health Emergency Preparedness Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two perspectives: 1. Disease; individual 2. Intervention; government 3. Epidemic; population 4. Individual; population ____ 2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections, and __________________. 1. Risk assessment for disease 2. Promotion of primary care 3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease 4. Governmental safety regulations ____ 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is: 1. The public health arm of the United Nations. 2. Working to improve health and well-being for the global population. 3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions. 4. All of the above. Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice Answer Section MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. ANS: 4 Objective: 5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of public health nurses (PHNs). Page: Heading: Introduction to Public Health Integrated Processes: Nursing Process Client Need: Physiological Integrity Cognitive Level: Comprehension Concept: Critical Thinking, Promoting Health Difficulty: Easy Feedback 1 The approach cannot be disease based because diseases can affect populations in multiple locations, but the risk factors can be different. 2 Interventions occur after the public health event, and governments can only follow the evidence of public health studies. 3 An epidemic is an occurrence of a disease and has the same limitations as a disease-based approach. 4 PHNs assess risk for disease and other public health issues at both the individual level, so that they can intervene on a one-to-one situational basis, as well as at the population level to identify risk factors beyond the individual level and implement population-level interventions. PTS: 1 REF: 2 CON: Promoting Health | Critical Thinking 2. ANS: 3 Objective: 2. Describe public health in terms of current frameworks, community partnerships, and the concept of population health. Page: Heading: Public Health Science and Practice Integrated Processes: Nursing Process Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance Cognitive Level: Knowledge Concept: Infection; Nursing Roles; Promoting Health Difficulty: Easy Feedback 1 Risk assessment is considered a part of disease prevention. 2 Promotion of primary care occurred through the Alma Ata World Health Organization conference not Winslow’s definition. 3 Health-care providers are an essential component of public health. 4 The goal of public health is to guide governmental policy but not to create regulations. PTS: 1 REF: 3 CON: Infection | Nursing Roles | Promoting Health 3. ANS: 4 Objective: 2. Describe public health in terms of current frameworks, community partnerships, and the concept of population health. Page:Copyright © 2020 F. A. Davis Company Heading: Introduction to Public Health Integrated Processes: Nursing Process Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control Cognitive Level: Application [Applying] Difficulty: Easy Concept: Promoting Health; Health-Care System; Management; Safety Difficulty: Easy Feedback 1 The World Health Organization (WHO) is the “directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system”. 2 The WHO has the capability to monitor global epidemiological situations. 3 The WHO brings resources and knowledge to nurses who are working directly with patients for them to make informed decisions. 4 The WHO is the public health arm of the United Nations and works toward both of the previously mentioned goals. PTS: 1 REF: 15-17 CON: Promoting Health | Health-Care System | Management | Safety