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ATI RN COMMUITY HEALTH NURSING EXAM STUDY
GUIDE | NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+ |
100% PASS | 2025 UPDATE!
Systems thinking - ..(answers)..Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with
other organizations or systems
Upstream thinking - ..(answers)..Is used to focus on interventions that promote
health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models that focus on
care after an individual becomes ill
Nightingale's Environmental Theory - ..(answers)..-Highlights the relationship
between an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care
Health Belief Model - ..(answers)..-Purpose is to predict health behaviors
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Assumes that the preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for the
purpose of avoiding disease
Milio's Framework for Prevention - ..(answers)..-Emphasizes change at the
community level
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-Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-
promoting resources
Pender's Health Promotion Model - ..(answers)..-Does not consider health risk as
a factor that provokes change
-Examines factors that affect individuals actions like: personal factors, feelings,
benefits, barriers, attitudes of others, and abilities
Determinants of Health - ..(answers)..Factors that influence that client's health.
--> nutrition, stress, education, environment, finances, and social status
Health Indicators - ..(answers)..Describe the health status of a community and
serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health
--> mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity, obesity, tobacco,
or other substance use
Community - ..(answers)..-A group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic, and/or social parameters
-The "community is the client" in community health nursing
Goals of Community Health Nursing - ..(answers)..Promote, preserve, and
maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families, and groups in order to influence "community health"
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Public Health Nursing - ..(answers)..-It is population-focused, and involves a
combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health sciences
-GOAL: promote health and preventing disease
PHN: Assessment - ..(answers)..-Using systematic methods to monitor the health
of a population
-->Monitor health status to identify community health problems
-->Diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards in the community
PHN: Policy Development - ..(answers)..Developing laws and practices to promote
the health of a population based on scientific evidence
PHN: Assurance - ..(answers)..Making sure adequate health care personnel and
services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally have them
Population-focused Nursing - ..(answers)..-Includes assessing to determine needs,
intervening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease within a
specific population
Key Principles of PHN: - ..(answers)..-Emphasize primary prevention
-Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals
-Recognize that the client is a partner in health
-Use resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
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Ethics - ..(answers)..Preventing harm, doing no harm, promoting good, respecting
both individual and community rights, respecting autonomy and diversity, and
providing confidentiality, competency, trustworthiness, and advocacy
Advocacy - ..(answers)..The nurse plays the role of informer, supporter, and
mediator for the client
Evidence-Based Practice - ..(answers)..-Involves using the best practices, expert
opinion, and client preferences to change the delivery of client care
-GOAL: improve client outcomes
EBP: Data - ..(answers)..The nurse should appraise data collected from research to
measure whether bias was minimal (quality), the number of studies, participants,
or strength of effect (quantity) and whether the results are repeatable
(consistency)
Quality - ..(answers)..Quality assurance, improvement, and management are part
of improvement of health care
Total quality management (TQM) - ..(answers)..Approach that seeks to improve
quality and performance which meets or exceeds expectations
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) - ..(answers)..Approach to quality
management that emphasizes the organization and its processes and systems and
uses objective data to analyze and improve processes
ATI RN COMMUITY HEALTH NURSING EXAM STUDY
GUIDE | NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+ |
100% PASS | 2025 UPDATE!
Systems thinking - ..(answers)..Studies how an individual, or unit, interacts with
other organizations or systems
Upstream thinking - ..(answers)..Is used to focus on interventions that promote
health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical treatment models that focus on
care after an individual becomes ill
Nightingale's Environmental Theory - ..(answers)..-Highlights the relationship
between an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care
Health Belief Model - ..(answers)..-Purpose is to predict health behaviors
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Assumes that the preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for the
purpose of avoiding disease
Milio's Framework for Prevention - ..(answers)..-Emphasizes change at the
community level
,2
-Identifies relationship between health deficits and availability of health-
promoting resources
Pender's Health Promotion Model - ..(answers)..-Does not consider health risk as
a factor that provokes change
-Examines factors that affect individuals actions like: personal factors, feelings,
benefits, barriers, attitudes of others, and abilities
Determinants of Health - ..(answers)..Factors that influence that client's health.
--> nutrition, stress, education, environment, finances, and social status
Health Indicators - ..(answers)..Describe the health status of a community and
serve as targets for the improvement of a community's health
--> mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity, obesity, tobacco,
or other substance use
Community - ..(answers)..-A group of people and institutions that share
geographic, civic, and/or social parameters
-The "community is the client" in community health nursing
Goals of Community Health Nursing - ..(answers)..Promote, preserve, and
maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health services to
individuals, families, and groups in order to influence "community health"
,3
Public Health Nursing - ..(answers)..-It is population-focused, and involves a
combination of nursing knowledge along with social and public health sciences
-GOAL: promote health and preventing disease
PHN: Assessment - ..(answers)..-Using systematic methods to monitor the health
of a population
-->Monitor health status to identify community health problems
-->Diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards in the community
PHN: Policy Development - ..(answers)..Developing laws and practices to promote
the health of a population based on scientific evidence
PHN: Assurance - ..(answers)..Making sure adequate health care personnel and
services are accessible, especially to those who might not normally have them
Population-focused Nursing - ..(answers)..-Includes assessing to determine needs,
intervening to protect and promote health, and preventing disease within a
specific population
Key Principles of PHN: - ..(answers)..-Emphasize primary prevention
-Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals
-Recognize that the client is a partner in health
-Use resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
, 4
Ethics - ..(answers)..Preventing harm, doing no harm, promoting good, respecting
both individual and community rights, respecting autonomy and diversity, and
providing confidentiality, competency, trustworthiness, and advocacy
Advocacy - ..(answers)..The nurse plays the role of informer, supporter, and
mediator for the client
Evidence-Based Practice - ..(answers)..-Involves using the best practices, expert
opinion, and client preferences to change the delivery of client care
-GOAL: improve client outcomes
EBP: Data - ..(answers)..The nurse should appraise data collected from research to
measure whether bias was minimal (quality), the number of studies, participants,
or strength of effect (quantity) and whether the results are repeatable
(consistency)
Quality - ..(answers)..Quality assurance, improvement, and management are part
of improvement of health care
Total quality management (TQM) - ..(answers)..Approach that seeks to improve
quality and performance which meets or exceeds expectations
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) - ..(answers)..Approach to quality
management that emphasizes the organization and its processes and systems and
uses objective data to analyze and improve processes
