Public and Community Health and Nursing
Practice, 2nd Edition - Chapters 1-22, Questions
and Answers with Rationales
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Several nurses who work in the emergency room of an urban hospital notice that a sizable number of
children in a certain ethnic population have come in with an illness, all presenting with similar
symptoms. The nurses, who are not public health specialists, can intervene in the health of a
community through their work with individuals by doing which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Increasing antibiotic therapy availability
B. Identifying characteristics of the disease
C. Grouping patients by diagnosis
D. Giving classes on how to avoid infections
E. Assessing the environment of the patients
B. Identifying characteristics of the disease
C. Grouping patients by diagnosis
D. Giving classes on how to avoid infections
E. Assessing the environment of the patients
The regulatory activities of public health nursing include which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Interpreting public health laws, regulations, and policies
B. Monitoring regulated entities such as nursing homes
C. Writing new regulations for health care and legislating them
D. Taking part in health policy debates
E. Educating the public
Interpreting public health laws, regulations, and policies
B. Monitoring regulated entities such as nursing homes
D. Taking part in health policy debates
E. Educating the public
If a PHN had the capabilities required in the domains of the PHN Core Competencies, he or she would
be able to do which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Develop policy for handling a local quarantine.
B. Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants.
C. Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget.
D. Function as a medical doctor at a clinic if there is none.
E. Work with corporations to create an emergency response program to bioterrorism.
, Develop policy for handling a local quarantine.
B. Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants.
C. Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget.
E. Work with corporations to create an emergency response program to bioterrorism.
In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a plan to increase the number of Americans who
are healthy at every stage of life. The National Prevention Strategy was authorized by the:
Affordable care act
A nursing student is studying the National Prevention Council Action Plan. The student correctly
identifies which one of the following interventions as not reflecting the strategic directions in this
plan?
Paying for insurance for low-income families
Based on the ecological model of health, a nurse would evaluate which of the following to understand
why a community is having a large incidence of recurring respiratory infections?
Living and employment situations
If a nurse is focusing on prevention and establishing a public health intervention for an illness by
following the natural history of a disease, he or she is:
Looking at some trends of clients who have had the disease
When a health-care provider offers nutritional health teaching on portions, patterns, and choices, he
or she is using which type of approach?
Downstream
A school cafeteria is planning menus for the school year. They must follow the 2012 national law that
calls for school lunch programs to:
Have larger portions of fruits and vegetables, less sodium and no trans fats
A nurse could encourage prevention for a patient with diabetes by
Helping him or her to slow the progression of the disease and prevent secondary illness related
to the disease, such as blindness
In order to assess the predominance of a disease in a population, a public health nurse (PHN) looks at
a prevalence pot, which is
A way of assessing the total number of cases of a disease that takes into account all of the
stages of the disease
The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a public health problem with an
understanding of the related underlying risk factors in order to develop effective nursing
interventions. He must also consider that these risk factors can be either ____ based or ____ based.
Individual; population
Practice, 2nd Edition - Chapters 1-22, Questions
and Answers with Rationales
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Several nurses who work in the emergency room of an urban hospital notice that a sizable number of
children in a certain ethnic population have come in with an illness, all presenting with similar
symptoms. The nurses, who are not public health specialists, can intervene in the health of a
community through their work with individuals by doing which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Increasing antibiotic therapy availability
B. Identifying characteristics of the disease
C. Grouping patients by diagnosis
D. Giving classes on how to avoid infections
E. Assessing the environment of the patients
B. Identifying characteristics of the disease
C. Grouping patients by diagnosis
D. Giving classes on how to avoid infections
E. Assessing the environment of the patients
The regulatory activities of public health nursing include which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Interpreting public health laws, regulations, and policies
B. Monitoring regulated entities such as nursing homes
C. Writing new regulations for health care and legislating them
D. Taking part in health policy debates
E. Educating the public
Interpreting public health laws, regulations, and policies
B. Monitoring regulated entities such as nursing homes
D. Taking part in health policy debates
E. Educating the public
If a PHN had the capabilities required in the domains of the PHN Core Competencies, he or she would
be able to do which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Develop policy for handling a local quarantine.
B. Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants.
C. Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget.
D. Function as a medical doctor at a clinic if there is none.
E. Work with corporations to create an emergency response program to bioterrorism.
, Develop policy for handling a local quarantine.
B. Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants.
C. Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget.
E. Work with corporations to create an emergency response program to bioterrorism.
In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a plan to increase the number of Americans who
are healthy at every stage of life. The National Prevention Strategy was authorized by the:
Affordable care act
A nursing student is studying the National Prevention Council Action Plan. The student correctly
identifies which one of the following interventions as not reflecting the strategic directions in this
plan?
Paying for insurance for low-income families
Based on the ecological model of health, a nurse would evaluate which of the following to understand
why a community is having a large incidence of recurring respiratory infections?
Living and employment situations
If a nurse is focusing on prevention and establishing a public health intervention for an illness by
following the natural history of a disease, he or she is:
Looking at some trends of clients who have had the disease
When a health-care provider offers nutritional health teaching on portions, patterns, and choices, he
or she is using which type of approach?
Downstream
A school cafeteria is planning menus for the school year. They must follow the 2012 national law that
calls for school lunch programs to:
Have larger portions of fruits and vegetables, less sodium and no trans fats
A nurse could encourage prevention for a patient with diabetes by
Helping him or her to slow the progression of the disease and prevent secondary illness related
to the disease, such as blindness
In order to assess the predominance of a disease in a population, a public health nurse (PHN) looks at
a prevalence pot, which is
A way of assessing the total number of cases of a disease that takes into account all of the
stages of the disease
The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a public health problem with an
understanding of the related underlying risk factors in order to develop effective nursing
interventions. He must also consider that these risk factors can be either ____ based or ____ based.
Individual; population
