Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
Ch 1: Overview of Community Health Nursing - correct
answer ✅broad field that allows nurses to practice in a
wide variety of settings.
-promote the health and welfare of clients across the
lifespan and from diverse populations
-nurses in the community should understand the
foundations of community health, principles, health
promotion and disease prevention
Foundations of Community Health Nursing - correct
answer ✅provide the basis for care of the community
and family. principles guide nurses in providing high
quality care.
Nightingales theory of environment - correct answer
✅highlights relationship between individuals
environment and health
-depicts health as a continuum
-emphasizes preventive care
Health Belief Model - correct answer ✅predict or
explain health behaviors
-assumes that preventive health behaviors are taken
primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease
,Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
-emphasizes change at individual level
-describes likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease
based on: susceptibility, seriousness, threat of disease
-modifying factors, cues to actions, perceived benefits
minus perceived barriers to taking action
Milio's Framework for Prevention - correct answer
✅complements health belief model. emphasizes change
at the community level. identifies relationship between
health deficits and availability of health promoting
resources
-theorizes that behavior changes within a large number of
people can ultimately lead to social change
Essentials of Community Nursing - correct answer
✅community: group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic or social parameters
-communities vary in their characteristics and health
needs
-health is determined by the degree to which the
community's collective health needs are identified and
met
-health indicators often used to describe the helath status
of community and serve as targets for improvement
,Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
-community health nurses practice in the community.
have a facility from which they work but their practice is
not limited to institutional settings
-community is the client
-community partnership occurs when community
members, agencies and businesses actively participate in
the process of health promotion and disease prevention
-development of community partnerships is critical to the
accomplishment of health promotion and disease
prevention strategies
-assess to determine needs and intervene to protect &
promote health, preventing disease within a specific
population
Community Based Nursing - correct answer ✅focus:
individuals and families.
-nursing is illness care: manage acute and chronic
conditions in setting where individuals, families and
groups live work and attend (schools, camps, prisons)
Community Oriented Nursing - correct answer ✅focus
on at risk individuals, families, groups and community
nursing: health care to determine health needs of a
community and intervene at the individual, family and
, Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
group level to improve the collective health of the
community
Community Health Nursing Practice - correct answer
✅focus: synthesis of nursing and public health theory
-nursing to promote, preserve and maintain the health of
populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families and groups in order to impact
community health
Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✅focus
same as community health nursing
-nursing to promote preserve and maintain the health of
population through disease and disability prevention and
health protection of community as a whole
-core functions: systematic assessment of the health of
population, develop policies to support the health of
populations, ensure that essential health services are
avialbale to all
Principles of Community Health Nursing - correct
answer ✅ethical considerations, advocacy,
epidemiology, calculations, edimiological triangle,
epidemiologcal process, community based health
education
question and answer 2024-2025
Ch 1: Overview of Community Health Nursing - correct
answer ✅broad field that allows nurses to practice in a
wide variety of settings.
-promote the health and welfare of clients across the
lifespan and from diverse populations
-nurses in the community should understand the
foundations of community health, principles, health
promotion and disease prevention
Foundations of Community Health Nursing - correct
answer ✅provide the basis for care of the community
and family. principles guide nurses in providing high
quality care.
Nightingales theory of environment - correct answer
✅highlights relationship between individuals
environment and health
-depicts health as a continuum
-emphasizes preventive care
Health Belief Model - correct answer ✅predict or
explain health behaviors
-assumes that preventive health behaviors are taken
primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease
,Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
-emphasizes change at individual level
-describes likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease
based on: susceptibility, seriousness, threat of disease
-modifying factors, cues to actions, perceived benefits
minus perceived barriers to taking action
Milio's Framework for Prevention - correct answer
✅complements health belief model. emphasizes change
at the community level. identifies relationship between
health deficits and availability of health promoting
resources
-theorizes that behavior changes within a large number of
people can ultimately lead to social change
Essentials of Community Nursing - correct answer
✅community: group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic or social parameters
-communities vary in their characteristics and health
needs
-health is determined by the degree to which the
community's collective health needs are identified and
met
-health indicators often used to describe the helath status
of community and serve as targets for improvement
,Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
-community health nurses practice in the community.
have a facility from which they work but their practice is
not limited to institutional settings
-community is the client
-community partnership occurs when community
members, agencies and businesses actively participate in
the process of health promotion and disease prevention
-development of community partnerships is critical to the
accomplishment of health promotion and disease
prevention strategies
-assess to determine needs and intervene to protect &
promote health, preventing disease within a specific
population
Community Based Nursing - correct answer ✅focus:
individuals and families.
-nursing is illness care: manage acute and chronic
conditions in setting where individuals, families and
groups live work and attend (schools, camps, prisons)
Community Oriented Nursing - correct answer ✅focus
on at risk individuals, families, groups and community
nursing: health care to determine health needs of a
community and intervene at the individual, family and
, Community Health ATI (ch 1-7) exam
question and answer 2024-2025
group level to improve the collective health of the
community
Community Health Nursing Practice - correct answer
✅focus: synthesis of nursing and public health theory
-nursing to promote, preserve and maintain the health of
populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families and groups in order to impact
community health
Public Health Nursing Practice - correct answer ✅focus
same as community health nursing
-nursing to promote preserve and maintain the health of
population through disease and disability prevention and
health protection of community as a whole
-core functions: systematic assessment of the health of
population, develop policies to support the health of
populations, ensure that essential health services are
avialbale to all
Principles of Community Health Nursing - correct
answer ✅ethical considerations, advocacy,
epidemiology, calculations, edimiological triangle,
epidemiologcal process, community based health
education
