NU 452 Exam 1 questions with verified
answers graded A+
Community-Oriented Nursing - correct answer ✔✔-focus is on the WHOLE population
(homeless, people in refugees, prisoners)
-goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
-focuses on EVERYONE in the community
Community-based Nursing - correct answer ✔✔-taking care of someone with an acute/chronic
illness in a place outside of the hospital
-focus on individuals & families
-usually provider driven
Assessment - correct answer ✔✔-monitor health status to identify community health problems
-diagnose & investigate health problems & health hazards in the community
policy Development - correct answer ✔✔-inform, educate, & empower people about health
issues
-mobilize community partnerships to identify & solve health problems
-develop policies & plans that support individual community health efforts
Assurance - correct answer ✔✔-enforce laws & regulations that protect health & assure safety
-link people to needed personal health services & assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable
-assure a competent public health & personal healthcare workforce
-evaluate effectiveness, accessibility & quality of person & population-based health services
, -research for new insights & innovative solutions to health problems
Roles of a community-oriented nurse - correct answer ✔✔-focuses on individual, families,
groups, populations, communities
-outreaches in the community
-health promotion & disease prevention of populations/communities
example: school health-asthmatic child med admin, family for med refill, educate group of
asthmatic students, buses idling by playground
individual-focused practice - correct answer ✔✔-Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs,
practices, and behaviors of individuals.
-Alone, part of a family, class or group.
-Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population-at-risk.
Community-focused Practice - correct answer ✔✔-Goal is to improve population health.
-Aims to change community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community
practices, and community behavior.
-example: RN educates on importance of HPV & flu vaccines
Systems-Focused practice - correct answer ✔✔-Changes organizations, policies, laws, and
power structures.
-Often a more effective and long-lasting way to impact health than addressing individuals.
surveillance - correct answer ✔✔describes & monitors health events through ongoing &
systematic collection, analysis, & interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning,
implementing & evaluating public health interventions
answers graded A+
Community-Oriented Nursing - correct answer ✔✔-focus is on the WHOLE population
(homeless, people in refugees, prisoners)
-goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
-focuses on EVERYONE in the community
Community-based Nursing - correct answer ✔✔-taking care of someone with an acute/chronic
illness in a place outside of the hospital
-focus on individuals & families
-usually provider driven
Assessment - correct answer ✔✔-monitor health status to identify community health problems
-diagnose & investigate health problems & health hazards in the community
policy Development - correct answer ✔✔-inform, educate, & empower people about health
issues
-mobilize community partnerships to identify & solve health problems
-develop policies & plans that support individual community health efforts
Assurance - correct answer ✔✔-enforce laws & regulations that protect health & assure safety
-link people to needed personal health services & assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable
-assure a competent public health & personal healthcare workforce
-evaluate effectiveness, accessibility & quality of person & population-based health services
, -research for new insights & innovative solutions to health problems
Roles of a community-oriented nurse - correct answer ✔✔-focuses on individual, families,
groups, populations, communities
-outreaches in the community
-health promotion & disease prevention of populations/communities
example: school health-asthmatic child med admin, family for med refill, educate group of
asthmatic students, buses idling by playground
individual-focused practice - correct answer ✔✔-Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs,
practices, and behaviors of individuals.
-Alone, part of a family, class or group.
-Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population-at-risk.
Community-focused Practice - correct answer ✔✔-Goal is to improve population health.
-Aims to change community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community
practices, and community behavior.
-example: RN educates on importance of HPV & flu vaccines
Systems-Focused practice - correct answer ✔✔-Changes organizations, policies, laws, and
power structures.
-Often a more effective and long-lasting way to impact health than addressing individuals.
surveillance - correct answer ✔✔describes & monitors health events through ongoing &
systematic collection, analysis, & interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning,
implementing & evaluating public health interventions
