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COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Tertiary prevention - ANS ✓attempts to reduce the extent and severity of
health problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function:
rehab after CVA.
Tertiary prevention - ANS ✓someone that has an eating disorder, following up
with counseling
Treatment of disorders - ANS ✓focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect
service, development of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
Evaluation - ANS ✓process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and
improved according to established goals and standards
Research - ANS ✓investigation to discover facts affecting community health and
community health practice, solve problems, and explore improved methods of
health science
Determinant of health - ANS ✓biology, behavior, economy, housing,
environment, policies and interventions
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Community health status - ANS ✓health of total population; measured by
morbidity and mortality statistics, especially infant mortality
Core public health functions - ANS ✓assessment, policy development,
assurance
Role of community health nurse - ANS ✓clinician, educator, advocate,
collaborator, leader, researcher, case manager
Clinician - ANS ✓most familiar role, ensures health services are provided
Educator / teacher - ANS ✓client is not acutely ill, so can absorb information
better, wide audience can be reached
Advocate - ANS ✓2 goals: help clients gain greater independence or self
determination; make the system more responsible and relevant to the needs of
clients. Every client has the right to receive just, equal and humane treatment
Collaborator - ANS ✓work jointly with others, need communication skills
Leader - ANS ✓focuses on change, nurse becomes an agent of change, influence
people to think and behave differently about their health
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