Community/Public Health Exam With
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Updated 2025.
Q1: Which type of disaster happens as the result of circumstantial factors?
A1: Accidental ✔✔
Q2: A multiple-casualty incident is defined as what?
A2: more than two but fewer than 100 injured or killed. ✔✔
Q3: Public health nurses have a responsibility in disaster management. Identify one role
that is not a responsibility of public health nurses in a disaster.
A3: Start intravenous lines, administer medications, and stabilize the victims. ✔✔
Q4: What best describes primary prevention of a disaster?
A4: Team-based disaster planning ✔✔
Q5: What are the benefits of the National Incident Management System (NIMS)? (Select
all that apply.)
A5: To facilitate disaster preparation, To integrate personnel, facilities, and equipment, To
allow for a common organizational structure ✔✔
Q6: What is the term for the range of a disaster's effect, either geographically or in terms
of the number of people impacted?
A6: scope ✔✔