Chapter 9 Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice Questions Answers

The three components of the Intervention Wheel are: a. communities, systems, and individuals/families. b. interventions, color wedges, and levels of practice. c. population base, levels of practice, and public health interventions. d. populations at risk, populations of interest, and levels of practice. - Correct Answer ANS: C The components of the Intervention Wheel include population base, three levels of practice, and 17 public health interventions. The population-based component includes populations at risk and populations of interest. The three levels of practice include community, systems, and individual/family. The Wheel is colored coded at the intervention level, and the colors (red, blue, green, yellow, and orange) are grouped logically into wedges. Public health nursing practice is guided by the community's priorities as identified by community: a. assessment. b. diagnosis. c. interventions. d. planning. - Correct Answer ANS: A Assessing the health status of the populations that make up a community requires ongoing collection and analysis of relevant qualitative and quantitative data. Community assessment includes a comprehensive evaluation of the determinants of health. Data analysis identifies deviations from expected or acceptable rates of disease, injury, death, or disability, as well as risk and protective factors. Community assessment generally results in a lengthy list of community problems and issues. However, communities rarely possess sufficient resources to address the entire list, and priorities must be set after assessing the community's beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, as well as the community's readiness for change. Collaboration is an intervention that would be located where in the Intervention Wheel? a. Red wedge at the individual/family level of practice b. Blue wedge at the community level of practice c. Orange wedge at the community level of practice d. Green wedge at the systems level of practice - Correct Answer ANS: C The public health interventions are grouped with related interventions, and these wedges are color coordinated. The red wedge includes five interventions: surveillance, disease and health investigation, screening, outreach activities, and case finding. They