N440 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Know the goal of public health nursing according to the IOM - CORRECT ANSWER - To
organize community efforts that will use scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health.
Three public health core functions: assessment, policy development, and assurance.
Public health is a scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics, and
assessment—including attention to behavioral, cultural, economic factors—as well as program
planning and policy development.
Public health is what members of a society do collectively to ensure that conditions exist in
which people can be healthy.
Public health: Goal is to organize community efforts that will use scientific and technical
knowledge to the same disease and promote health... SCIENTIFIC and TECHNICAL (Info from
community-oriented nursing practice Ppt)
IOM identifies priorities for public health
Understand and emphasize the broad determinants of health
Develop a policy focus on population health
Strengthen the public health infrastructure
Build partnerships
Develop systems of accountability
Emphasize evidence-based practice
Enhance communication
Community based nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - The nurse focuses on "illness care" of
individuals and families across the lifespan.
The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community, and the practice is
family-centered illness care.
,Occurs outside an institution; services are provided to individuals and families in a community
Community health nursing (AKA Community-oriented nursing) - CORRECT ANSWER -
Primary focuses is the health care of either the community or populations, as in public health
nursing or of individuals, families, and groups in a community.
The goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health.
Broader scope than community based nursing.
Form of care in which the nurse provides health care after doing a community diagnosis to
determine what conditions need to be altered in order for individuals, families and groups in the
community to stay healthy
Main difference between community-based nursing and community-oriented nursing -
CORRECT ANSWER - The main difference between these two is that community-based
nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care, whereas community-oriented nurses provide
health care to promote quality of life
Public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - A specialty area whose primary focus is on
the health care of communities and populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families.
The goals is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the
community and the population within it.
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - Credited of being the mother of
epidemiology.
Established professional nursing training and education.
It was first done in hospitals followed by schools.
Helped to founded district nursing.
, Lina Rodgers - CORRECT ANSWER - The first school nurse
Ada Mayo Stewart - CORRECT ANSWER - The first occupational nurse
Provided nursing care in the workplace
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER - Brought the Red Cross to the US. Also credited
with implementing home nursing outside the larger cities
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER - Established the frontier nursing services
(FNS)
Horseback was the only way to get to many towns so she would ride horses to provide care for
individuals. She provided home nursing, midwifery, public health nursing and education
Describe how health has improved over the centuries and the role of public health interventions.
- CORRECT ANSWER - Food preparation improved with education on hygiene
TB screening was implemented by public health nurses
More funding for Maternal and Newborn care
Americans living longer and a rise of chronic illness
More agencies to provide care (i.e. hospice, birthing centers, day care for the elderly, drug-abuse
treatment programs and long-term rehab services)
Know different levels of prevention and examples of each. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Primary prevention: seeks to reduce the incidence of disease by preventing it before it happens.
Example: Immunizations
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Know the goal of public health nursing according to the IOM - CORRECT ANSWER - To
organize community efforts that will use scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health.
Three public health core functions: assessment, policy development, and assurance.
Public health is a scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics, and
assessment—including attention to behavioral, cultural, economic factors—as well as program
planning and policy development.
Public health is what members of a society do collectively to ensure that conditions exist in
which people can be healthy.
Public health: Goal is to organize community efforts that will use scientific and technical
knowledge to the same disease and promote health... SCIENTIFIC and TECHNICAL (Info from
community-oriented nursing practice Ppt)
IOM identifies priorities for public health
Understand and emphasize the broad determinants of health
Develop a policy focus on population health
Strengthen the public health infrastructure
Build partnerships
Develop systems of accountability
Emphasize evidence-based practice
Enhance communication
Community based nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - The nurse focuses on "illness care" of
individuals and families across the lifespan.
The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community, and the practice is
family-centered illness care.
,Occurs outside an institution; services are provided to individuals and families in a community
Community health nursing (AKA Community-oriented nursing) - CORRECT ANSWER -
Primary focuses is the health care of either the community or populations, as in public health
nursing or of individuals, families, and groups in a community.
The goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health.
Broader scope than community based nursing.
Form of care in which the nurse provides health care after doing a community diagnosis to
determine what conditions need to be altered in order for individuals, families and groups in the
community to stay healthy
Main difference between community-based nursing and community-oriented nursing -
CORRECT ANSWER - The main difference between these two is that community-based
nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care, whereas community-oriented nurses provide
health care to promote quality of life
Public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - A specialty area whose primary focus is on
the health care of communities and populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families.
The goals is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the
community and the population within it.
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - Credited of being the mother of
epidemiology.
Established professional nursing training and education.
It was first done in hospitals followed by schools.
Helped to founded district nursing.
, Lina Rodgers - CORRECT ANSWER - The first school nurse
Ada Mayo Stewart - CORRECT ANSWER - The first occupational nurse
Provided nursing care in the workplace
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER - Brought the Red Cross to the US. Also credited
with implementing home nursing outside the larger cities
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER - Established the frontier nursing services
(FNS)
Horseback was the only way to get to many towns so she would ride horses to provide care for
individuals. She provided home nursing, midwifery, public health nursing and education
Describe how health has improved over the centuries and the role of public health interventions.
- CORRECT ANSWER - Food preparation improved with education on hygiene
TB screening was implemented by public health nurses
More funding for Maternal and Newborn care
Americans living longer and a rise of chronic illness
More agencies to provide care (i.e. hospice, birthing centers, day care for the elderly, drug-abuse
treatment programs and long-term rehab services)
Know different levels of prevention and examples of each. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Primary prevention: seeks to reduce the incidence of disease by preventing it before it happens.
Example: Immunizations
