A nurse is assessing a community's openness to change. Which of the
following variables indicate that the community is ready? Correct
Answer-High socioeconomic status in the community as a whole
Which of the following best describes community-based nursing?
Correct Answer-A practice in which care is provided for individuals and
families
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life
expectancy during the 20th century? Correct Answer-Sanitation and
other population-based prevention programs
Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes rather than
hospitals? Correct Answer-Home care is less expensive
Which of the following actions best represents public health nursing?
Correct Answer-Assessing the effectiveness of the high school health
clinic
During which of the following activities is the nurse in community
health acting as a partner in change ? Correct Answer-Teaching anger
management skills to a group of teenagers in a halfway house
A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse. Which
question would be the most relevant for the nurse to ask? Correct
Answer-Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?
,Which of the following best defines aggregate? Correct Answer-A
collection of people who share one or more characteristics
Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are
available defines which of the core public health functions? Correct
Answer-Assurance
A community health nurse drives through her assigned community
before visiting the community groups scheduled for the day. She then
drives through the community again that evening before going home.
Which of the following best describes the nurse's reason for driving
through the community twice in the same day? Correct Answer-Driving
through twice allows the nurse to see the community when many
residents are at work or school and then again when most are at home
Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their cigarettes,
alcoholics life the glass to their mouth and drug addicts inject or ingest
their drugs. Which of the following statements best describes why nurses
don't simply focus on helping persons who engage in poor health
behaviors to behave appropriately? Correct Answer-Society must offer
healthy choices, offer support and practice helpful policies.
A nurse is working toward an objective to 'increase to at least 90% the
proportion of all pregnant women who receive first trimester prenatal
care.' During which of the following phases of the nursing process
would determination of the objective occur? Correct Answer-Planning
Phase
, A community health nurse is beginning to work with a newly assigned
community. Which of the following would be appropriate actions for the
nurse to take to help ensure acceptance? Select all that apply. Correct
Answer-- Asking those with whom the nurse interacts in the course of
daily living their perception of the community (e.g clerks in grocery
stores or pharmacies)
- Attending community events such as festivals or fairs and interacting
with participants
The nurse often has to make resource allocation decisions. Which of the
following best describes the criterion the nurse should use in such cases?
Correct Answer-The needs of the aggregate rather than a few individuals
Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health
nursing practice in the community? Correct Answer-Epidemiologic
investigations to examine the environment for health hazards
New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
Partnerships are established with community coalitions
Two nurses plan to walk under a huge downtown bridge where various
homeless persons live. Why would the nurses go to such an unsafe area?
Correct Answer-To assess the needs of the homeless who live there