NUR 444 Practice Questions
With Verified Answers
1. Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
a. A philosophy that guides family-centered illness care
b. Providing care with a focus on the groups needs
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregates needs
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care - ANSWER ANS: A
By definition, community-based nursing is nursing that focuses on
family-centered illness care to individuals and families in the community.
2. Which of the following best describes community-oriented nursing?
a. Focusing on the provision of care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention - ANSWER
ANS: D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving,
protecting, or maintaining health to promote the quality of life. All nurses
may focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within
their family setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
,a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Promotion of quality of life - ANSWER ANS: D
The key difference between community-based and community-oriented
nursing is that community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented
care, whereas community-oriented nursesor public health nursesprovide
health care to promote quality of life.
4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life
expectancy during the twentieth century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other public health activities
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections - ANSWER ANS: C
Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations,
sanitation, and other public health activities led to the increase in life
expectancy from less than 50 years in 1900 to more than 77 years in 2002.
5. A nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths
in the community. Which of the following interventions would most likely be
implemented by the nurse?
a. Increase the communitys knowledge about hospice care.
b. Promote healthy lifestyle behavior choices among the community
,members.
c. Encourage employers to have wellness centers at each industrial site.
d. Ensure timely and effective medical intervention and treatment for
community members. - ANSWER ANS: B
Public health approaches could help prevent about 70% of early deaths by
influencing the way people eat, drink, drive, engage in exercise, and treat the
environment.
6. Which of the following is a basic assumption of public health efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and
funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the
community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
- ANSWER ANS: C
Public health can be described as what society collectively does to ensure
that conditions exist in which people can be healthy.
7. Which of the following actions would most likely be performed by a public
health nurse?
a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen
b. Assessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions
c. Using data from the main health care institutions in the community to
, determine needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the
environment - ANSWER ANS: D
Although the public health nurse might engage in any of the tasks listed, he
or she works primarily with members of the community to carry out core
public health functions, including assessment of the population as a whole
and engaging in promoting health and improving the environment.
8. Which of the following public health nurses most clearly fulfills the
responsibilities of this role?
a. The nurse who met with several groups to discuss community recreation
issues
b. The nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health
agencies
c. The nurse who talked to several people about their particular health
concerns
d. The nurse who watched the city council meeting on local cable television -
ANSWER ANS: B
Any of these descriptions might represent a nurse communicating,
cooperating, or collaborating with community residents or groups about
health concerns. However, the nurse who spent the day attending meetings
of various health agencies is the most representative, because in public
health, concerns are broader than recreation, individual concerns are not as
important as aggregate priorities, and watching television (a one-way form
of communication) is less effective than interacting with others.
With Verified Answers
1. Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
a. A philosophy that guides family-centered illness care
b. Providing care with a focus on the groups needs
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregates needs
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care - ANSWER ANS: A
By definition, community-based nursing is nursing that focuses on
family-centered illness care to individuals and families in the community.
2. Which of the following best describes community-oriented nursing?
a. Focusing on the provision of care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention - ANSWER
ANS: D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving,
protecting, or maintaining health to promote the quality of life. All nurses
may focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within
their family setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
,a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Promotion of quality of life - ANSWER ANS: D
The key difference between community-based and community-oriented
nursing is that community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented
care, whereas community-oriented nursesor public health nursesprovide
health care to promote quality of life.
4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life
expectancy during the twentieth century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other public health activities
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections - ANSWER ANS: C
Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations,
sanitation, and other public health activities led to the increase in life
expectancy from less than 50 years in 1900 to more than 77 years in 2002.
5. A nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths
in the community. Which of the following interventions would most likely be
implemented by the nurse?
a. Increase the communitys knowledge about hospice care.
b. Promote healthy lifestyle behavior choices among the community
,members.
c. Encourage employers to have wellness centers at each industrial site.
d. Ensure timely and effective medical intervention and treatment for
community members. - ANSWER ANS: B
Public health approaches could help prevent about 70% of early deaths by
influencing the way people eat, drink, drive, engage in exercise, and treat the
environment.
6. Which of the following is a basic assumption of public health efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and
funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the
community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
- ANSWER ANS: C
Public health can be described as what society collectively does to ensure
that conditions exist in which people can be healthy.
7. Which of the following actions would most likely be performed by a public
health nurse?
a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen
b. Assessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions
c. Using data from the main health care institutions in the community to
, determine needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the
environment - ANSWER ANS: D
Although the public health nurse might engage in any of the tasks listed, he
or she works primarily with members of the community to carry out core
public health functions, including assessment of the population as a whole
and engaging in promoting health and improving the environment.
8. Which of the following public health nurses most clearly fulfills the
responsibilities of this role?
a. The nurse who met with several groups to discuss community recreation
issues
b. The nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health
agencies
c. The nurse who talked to several people about their particular health
concerns
d. The nurse who watched the city council meeting on local cable television -
ANSWER ANS: B
Any of these descriptions might represent a nurse communicating,
cooperating, or collaborating with community residents or groups about
health concerns. However, the nurse who spent the day attending meetings
of various health agencies is the most representative, because in public
health, concerns are broader than recreation, individual concerns are not as
important as aggregate priorities, and watching television (a one-way form
of communication) is less effective than interacting with others.
