NU 400- Community Midterm Exam
Questions & Answers 100% Correct!!
Public Health Nursing - ANSWERWhat does medicine do? Saves lives one at a time
What does public health do? Saving millions of lives at a time
3 Core Functions of Public Health - ANSWERassessment, policy development, assurance
assessment - ANSWERsystematic data collection on the population
Monitoring population's health status
Making information available on the health of the community
policy development - ANSWERneed to provide leadership in developing policies that support the
health of the population
Includes using scientific knowledge in making decisions about policy
assurance - ANSWERrole of public health in making sure that essential community-oriented health
services are available
Includes providing essential health services for those who would otherwise not receive them
Ensures a competent public health and personal health care workforce is available
10 essential public health services - ANSWERMonitor health status to identify community health
problems (Assessment)
Diagnose/Investigate health problems and hazards in the community (Assessment)
Educate/inform people about health issues (Policy Develop)
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems (Policy Develop)
Develop policies that support individuals and community health efforts (Policy Develop)
Enforce a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce (Assurance)
Link people to needed personal health services, and assure the provision of healthcare (Assurance)
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of health care services (Assurance)
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems (Assurance)
How can each essential service be used in tobacco use prevention?
, Principles of Public Health Nursing - ANSWERClient or unit of care is the population and community
oriented
The community is the client
Primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest # of people or people as a whole
PHNs collaborate with the client as an equal partner
Primary prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities
Health and prevention focus
Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing - ANSWERThe community is the client
PHNs focus on strategies that create health, environmental, social and economic conditions that
populations can thrive
Optimal use of available resources and create evidence-based strategies to assure overall
improvement of health
Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, stakeholder groups are the most
effective way to promote the health of the people
PHN is an agent of ________ - ANSWERchange
Florence Nightingale - ANSWEREstablished sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing.
began professional education of nursing.
Disruptive innovator - founder of modern nursing, sanitation, and statistics
Cared for soldiers in the Crimean War and found 10x more soldiers died of typhus, typhoid, cholera,
dysentery than of battle wounds
Addresses unsanitary conditions leading to infectious diseases
Acknowledged the new science of statistics and applied them to military and civilian hospitals
PNH interventions - ANSWERsurveillance, community assessments, disease and health
investigations, screening, outreach, referral and follow up, delegate functions, advocacy, social
marketing
Community - ANSWERa group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and
environment; an interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests
community diagnosis - ANSWERidentification and quantification of health problems in a community
as a whole in terms of mortality and morbidity rates and ratios and identification of their problem
correlates/contributing causes for the purpose of defining those at risk or those in need of health
care
health planning - ANSWERorganized and systematic process in which problems are identified,
selected and objectives are set for the development of community health problems based on
findings of community health assessments and health surveillance data
community assessment - ANSWERsystematic examination of the health status indicators for a given
population that is used to identify key problems and assists in a community
Questions & Answers 100% Correct!!
Public Health Nursing - ANSWERWhat does medicine do? Saves lives one at a time
What does public health do? Saving millions of lives at a time
3 Core Functions of Public Health - ANSWERassessment, policy development, assurance
assessment - ANSWERsystematic data collection on the population
Monitoring population's health status
Making information available on the health of the community
policy development - ANSWERneed to provide leadership in developing policies that support the
health of the population
Includes using scientific knowledge in making decisions about policy
assurance - ANSWERrole of public health in making sure that essential community-oriented health
services are available
Includes providing essential health services for those who would otherwise not receive them
Ensures a competent public health and personal health care workforce is available
10 essential public health services - ANSWERMonitor health status to identify community health
problems (Assessment)
Diagnose/Investigate health problems and hazards in the community (Assessment)
Educate/inform people about health issues (Policy Develop)
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems (Policy Develop)
Develop policies that support individuals and community health efforts (Policy Develop)
Enforce a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce (Assurance)
Link people to needed personal health services, and assure the provision of healthcare (Assurance)
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of health care services (Assurance)
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems (Assurance)
How can each essential service be used in tobacco use prevention?
, Principles of Public Health Nursing - ANSWERClient or unit of care is the population and community
oriented
The community is the client
Primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest # of people or people as a whole
PHNs collaborate with the client as an equal partner
Primary prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities
Health and prevention focus
Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing - ANSWERThe community is the client
PHNs focus on strategies that create health, environmental, social and economic conditions that
populations can thrive
Optimal use of available resources and create evidence-based strategies to assure overall
improvement of health
Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, stakeholder groups are the most
effective way to promote the health of the people
PHN is an agent of ________ - ANSWERchange
Florence Nightingale - ANSWEREstablished sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing.
began professional education of nursing.
Disruptive innovator - founder of modern nursing, sanitation, and statistics
Cared for soldiers in the Crimean War and found 10x more soldiers died of typhus, typhoid, cholera,
dysentery than of battle wounds
Addresses unsanitary conditions leading to infectious diseases
Acknowledged the new science of statistics and applied them to military and civilian hospitals
PNH interventions - ANSWERsurveillance, community assessments, disease and health
investigations, screening, outreach, referral and follow up, delegate functions, advocacy, social
marketing
Community - ANSWERa group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and
environment; an interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests
community diagnosis - ANSWERidentification and quantification of health problems in a community
as a whole in terms of mortality and morbidity rates and ratios and identification of their problem
correlates/contributing causes for the purpose of defining those at risk or those in need of health
care
health planning - ANSWERorganized and systematic process in which problems are identified,
selected and objectives are set for the development of community health problems based on
findings of community health assessments and health surveillance data
community assessment - ANSWERsystematic examination of the health status indicators for a given
population that is used to identify key problems and assists in a community
