NFDN 2006 Review Questions
with Accurate Answers
According to the population health promotion model, which of the following
is false?
a) focus is on individual behaviour change
b) focus is on populations throughout the life span
c) focus is on upstream investment
d) works on multiple levels - -a
- Jim, a community health nurse, senses from his co-worker's non verbal
behaviour that she doesn't like him because of his race. His best response is:
a) Report her. Racism is against the constitution in Canada. .
b) Approach her with his observation and check out if his perception matches
her intention. .
c) Avoid her. Less contact will result in less conflict. .
d) To look for a new job. Racists never change. - -b
- In what order did the following views of health evolve?
a) biomedical, socioenviromental, behavioural .
b) biomedical, bioenviromental, socioeconomic .
c) biomedical, behavioural, socioenvironmental .
d) medical, sociobiological, environmental - -c
- Community health nurses (CHNs) need to be aware of changing patterns in
the cultural composition of the community for which of the following
reasons?
a) To be proactive in their program planning .
b) To promote Western medical traditions .
c) To develop ethnocentrism .
d) To promote equality in community care - -a
- Strategies that reduce negative health consequences of unhealthy
behaviours are called:
a) protective factors .
b) harm reduction .
c) risk avoidance .
d) risk reductions - -b
, - Community health nurses work with clients and empower them to become
part of the identification of their problems and participants in developing
solutions using which health promotion strategy?
a) Mutual aid .
b) Advocacy .
c) Social marketing .
d) Health communication - -b
- Literacy is linked to some of the determinants of health and associated
with which one of the following outcomes?
a) Capacity building .
b) Community development .
c) Community mobilization
d) Health status - -d
- Rules governing smoking in public places is an example of:
a) Stages of change .
b) Public policy .
c) Harm reduction .
d) Risk reduction - -b
- The success of new ideas, according to Diffusion of Innovation Theory, is
most dependent on:
a) Experts as the spokesperson for the new idea .
b) most people thinking like we do .
c) Excellent evidence .
d) similarity to the past way of doing things - -d
- By asking clients how they prefer to be addressed, and who makes health
decisions in their family, the community health nurse is demonstrating
a) Lack of cultural awareness .
b) Cultural competence .
c) Cultural safety .
d) Ethnocentrism - -b
- Which of the following strategies outlined by the Ottawa Charter for Health
Promotion builds individual capacity and empowers clients through health
education?
a) Reorienting health services .
b) Building healthy public policy .
with Accurate Answers
According to the population health promotion model, which of the following
is false?
a) focus is on individual behaviour change
b) focus is on populations throughout the life span
c) focus is on upstream investment
d) works on multiple levels - -a
- Jim, a community health nurse, senses from his co-worker's non verbal
behaviour that she doesn't like him because of his race. His best response is:
a) Report her. Racism is against the constitution in Canada. .
b) Approach her with his observation and check out if his perception matches
her intention. .
c) Avoid her. Less contact will result in less conflict. .
d) To look for a new job. Racists never change. - -b
- In what order did the following views of health evolve?
a) biomedical, socioenviromental, behavioural .
b) biomedical, bioenviromental, socioeconomic .
c) biomedical, behavioural, socioenvironmental .
d) medical, sociobiological, environmental - -c
- Community health nurses (CHNs) need to be aware of changing patterns in
the cultural composition of the community for which of the following
reasons?
a) To be proactive in their program planning .
b) To promote Western medical traditions .
c) To develop ethnocentrism .
d) To promote equality in community care - -a
- Strategies that reduce negative health consequences of unhealthy
behaviours are called:
a) protective factors .
b) harm reduction .
c) risk avoidance .
d) risk reductions - -b
, - Community health nurses work with clients and empower them to become
part of the identification of their problems and participants in developing
solutions using which health promotion strategy?
a) Mutual aid .
b) Advocacy .
c) Social marketing .
d) Health communication - -b
- Literacy is linked to some of the determinants of health and associated
with which one of the following outcomes?
a) Capacity building .
b) Community development .
c) Community mobilization
d) Health status - -d
- Rules governing smoking in public places is an example of:
a) Stages of change .
b) Public policy .
c) Harm reduction .
d) Risk reduction - -b
- The success of new ideas, according to Diffusion of Innovation Theory, is
most dependent on:
a) Experts as the spokesperson for the new idea .
b) most people thinking like we do .
c) Excellent evidence .
d) similarity to the past way of doing things - -d
- By asking clients how they prefer to be addressed, and who makes health
decisions in their family, the community health nurse is demonstrating
a) Lack of cultural awareness .
b) Cultural competence .
c) Cultural safety .
d) Ethnocentrism - -b
- Which of the following strategies outlined by the Ottawa Charter for Health
Promotion builds individual capacity and empowers clients through health
education?
a) Reorienting health services .
b) Building healthy public policy .
