BSN425 Final Exam Study Questions
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a. - correct answer ✔✔A school nurse carries out many activities to find new cases of health problems
within the school. Case Finding is the individual level for which of the public health interventions?
a. Consultation, counseling, and health teaching
b. Advocacy, social marketing, policy development,
and enforcement
c. Community organizing, coalition building, and collaboration
d. Surveillance, disease and health investigation, outreach, and screening
c. - correct answer ✔✔A public health nursing student needs to demonstrate the competency "utilizes
collaboration to achieve public health goals." Which would be the most appropriate activity to meet this
competency:
a. Take blood pressures at a health fair
b. Make a home visit to a new mother and baby
c. Meet with pastors and lay leaders in a church to help develop a pandemic flu response plan for their
congregation
d. Write an ar cle for a healthy communi es newsle er on stress preven on
c. - correct answer ✔✔The school nurse is carrying out the public health core function of assessment
when completing which of the following activities?
a. Development of comprehensive school health policies
b. Implementa on of legisla ve immuniza on mandates
c. Surveillance of a kindergarten classroom for lice
d. Assist families who do not have adequate insurance coverage to low cost health resources.
c. - correct answer ✔✔As you think about your role as a public health nurse you are reminded of the
nurse who coined the term "public health nurse" when working in a New York settlement. She was:
,a. Madeline Leininger
b. Clara Barton
c. Lillian Wald
d. Florence Nigh ngale
d. - correct answer ✔✔A PHN is working with the park board to develop procedures for screening of
child care assistants for a summer program. This action is consistent with which of the following
interventions?
a. Social Marke ng
b. Advocacy
c. Surveillance
d. Policy development
b. - correct answer ✔✔A high school Healthy Foods Task Force is recommending that vending machines
in the high school be limited to 100% fruit juice, water, and fresh fruits. The PHN's participation on the
task force is which intervention?
a. Social marke ng at the community level
b. Collaboration at the community level
c. Community organizing at the systems level
d. Advocacy at the systems level
a. - correct answer ✔✔The school nurse is performing population-based care with which of the following
activities?
a. Advertising a teen violence prevention program on posters in school restrooms
b. Performing a blood pressure at on a teacher who has high pressure
c. Administering an epi-pen in a public school se ng to a child
d. Teaching a child how to wash their hands prior to eating.
b. - correct answer ✔✔A school nurse reviews student immunization records. The nurse knows that up
to date immunizations are an important means of:
a. Secondary prevent on
,b. Primary prevention
c. Secondary preven on
d. Disease treatment
b. - correct answer ✔✔A public health nurse meets with a group of community health officials to
develop a law which defines a public health nuisance. This is an example of the core function of:
a. Assessment
b. Policy development
c. Assurance
d. Research
b. - correct answer ✔✔A public health nurse working to reduce teen violence meets with a coalition of
people from local schools, churches, and businesses to increase after school programming. This is an
example of:
a. Individual/family level intervention
b. Community level intervention
c. Systems level intervention
a. - correct answer ✔✔All immunizations given in a county are required to be entered into a vaccine
registry. This is an example of:
a. Systems level intervention
b. Community level interven on
c. Individual/family interven on
b. - correct answer ✔✔Newborn screening for metabolic disorders is an example of:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. - correct answer ✔✔The cornerstones of public health nursing are:
, a. Interventions public health nurses perform.
b. Described in the nurse practice act.
c. Assessment, policy development, and assurance.
d. Concepts from public health and nursing practice.
d. - correct answer ✔✔Teaching infant care and development to an immigrant family is:
a. Risk reduction
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Primary prevention
a. - correct answer ✔✔Primary prevention focuses on:
a. Promoting and protecting health
b. Stopping disease progression
c. Detecting disease in early stages
d. Restoring function
a. - correct answer ✔✔How is the public health process similar or different from the nursing process?
a. The public health nursing process includes three levels of practice.
b. They are exactly the same.
c. Both include all three levels of practice.
d. One is based only on populations, the other is based only on individuals.
a. - correct answer ✔✔A school nurse conducts a blood pressure screening for the school staff. Blood
pressure screening is considered:
a. Secondary level prevention
b. Primary level prevention
c. Health promotion
d. Tertiary level prevention
with verified answers 2024-2025
a. - correct answer ✔✔A school nurse carries out many activities to find new cases of health problems
within the school. Case Finding is the individual level for which of the public health interventions?
a. Consultation, counseling, and health teaching
b. Advocacy, social marketing, policy development,
and enforcement
c. Community organizing, coalition building, and collaboration
d. Surveillance, disease and health investigation, outreach, and screening
c. - correct answer ✔✔A public health nursing student needs to demonstrate the competency "utilizes
collaboration to achieve public health goals." Which would be the most appropriate activity to meet this
competency:
a. Take blood pressures at a health fair
b. Make a home visit to a new mother and baby
c. Meet with pastors and lay leaders in a church to help develop a pandemic flu response plan for their
congregation
d. Write an ar cle for a healthy communi es newsle er on stress preven on
c. - correct answer ✔✔The school nurse is carrying out the public health core function of assessment
when completing which of the following activities?
a. Development of comprehensive school health policies
b. Implementa on of legisla ve immuniza on mandates
c. Surveillance of a kindergarten classroom for lice
d. Assist families who do not have adequate insurance coverage to low cost health resources.
c. - correct answer ✔✔As you think about your role as a public health nurse you are reminded of the
nurse who coined the term "public health nurse" when working in a New York settlement. She was:
,a. Madeline Leininger
b. Clara Barton
c. Lillian Wald
d. Florence Nigh ngale
d. - correct answer ✔✔A PHN is working with the park board to develop procedures for screening of
child care assistants for a summer program. This action is consistent with which of the following
interventions?
a. Social Marke ng
b. Advocacy
c. Surveillance
d. Policy development
b. - correct answer ✔✔A high school Healthy Foods Task Force is recommending that vending machines
in the high school be limited to 100% fruit juice, water, and fresh fruits. The PHN's participation on the
task force is which intervention?
a. Social marke ng at the community level
b. Collaboration at the community level
c. Community organizing at the systems level
d. Advocacy at the systems level
a. - correct answer ✔✔The school nurse is performing population-based care with which of the following
activities?
a. Advertising a teen violence prevention program on posters in school restrooms
b. Performing a blood pressure at on a teacher who has high pressure
c. Administering an epi-pen in a public school se ng to a child
d. Teaching a child how to wash their hands prior to eating.
b. - correct answer ✔✔A school nurse reviews student immunization records. The nurse knows that up
to date immunizations are an important means of:
a. Secondary prevent on
,b. Primary prevention
c. Secondary preven on
d. Disease treatment
b. - correct answer ✔✔A public health nurse meets with a group of community health officials to
develop a law which defines a public health nuisance. This is an example of the core function of:
a. Assessment
b. Policy development
c. Assurance
d. Research
b. - correct answer ✔✔A public health nurse working to reduce teen violence meets with a coalition of
people from local schools, churches, and businesses to increase after school programming. This is an
example of:
a. Individual/family level intervention
b. Community level intervention
c. Systems level intervention
a. - correct answer ✔✔All immunizations given in a county are required to be entered into a vaccine
registry. This is an example of:
a. Systems level intervention
b. Community level interven on
c. Individual/family interven on
b. - correct answer ✔✔Newborn screening for metabolic disorders is an example of:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. - correct answer ✔✔The cornerstones of public health nursing are:
, a. Interventions public health nurses perform.
b. Described in the nurse practice act.
c. Assessment, policy development, and assurance.
d. Concepts from public health and nursing practice.
d. - correct answer ✔✔Teaching infant care and development to an immigrant family is:
a. Risk reduction
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Primary prevention
a. - correct answer ✔✔Primary prevention focuses on:
a. Promoting and protecting health
b. Stopping disease progression
c. Detecting disease in early stages
d. Restoring function
a. - correct answer ✔✔How is the public health process similar or different from the nursing process?
a. The public health nursing process includes three levels of practice.
b. They are exactly the same.
c. Both include all three levels of practice.
d. One is based only on populations, the other is based only on individuals.
a. - correct answer ✔✔A school nurse conducts a blood pressure screening for the school staff. Blood
pressure screening is considered:
a. Secondary level prevention
b. Primary level prevention
c. Health promotion
d. Tertiary level prevention
