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, Test Bank Community Health Nursing in Canada
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Chapter 01: Community Health Nursing
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Stanhope: Community Health Nursing in Canada, 4th Canadian Edition
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MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care

ANS: C
By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the
community.

DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: p. 3
OBJ: 1.6
TOP: Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment - Management of Care

2. Which of the following best describes primary health care?
a. A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
b. Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
ANS: A
By definition, primary health care is comprehensive and addresses issues of social justice and
equity. Social justice in the context of health refers to ensuring fairness and equality in health
services so that vulnerable individuals in society have easy access to health care.

DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: p. 10
OBJ: 1.4 TOP: Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

3. The health of which of the following is the primary focus of public health nurses (PHNs)?
a. Families
b. Groups
c. Individuals
d. Populations

ANS: D
PHNs use knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health sciences for the promotion
and protection of health and for the prevention of disease among populations.

DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: p. 13, Table 1-4 | p. 20
OBJ: 1.5 TOP: Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

,4. Which change is the primary explanation for life expectancy increasing so notably since
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the early 1900s?
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a. An increase in findings from medical laboratory research
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b. Incredible advances in surgical techniques and procedures
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c. Improved sanitation and other public health activities
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Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and other
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public health activities led to the increase in life expectancy since the early 1900s.
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5. Which community health nursing practice area receives funding from the private sector?
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a. Telenurses
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The nurse entrepreneur receives private funding, whereas all of the other community health
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nurse (CHN) roles are with provincially or federally funded positions.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: p. 22, Table 1-4
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6. A PHN strives to prevent disease and disability, often in partnership with other
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community groups. Which statement is an appropriate summary of the PHN’s role?
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a. The PHN asks the political leaders what interventions should be chosen.
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b. The PHN assesses the community and decides on appropriate interventions.
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c. The PHN uses data from the main health care institutions in the community
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to determine needed health services.
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d. The PHN works with community members to carry out public health functions.
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It is crucial that the PHN work with members of the community to carry out core public health
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functions.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Application/Apply REF: p. 13, How To
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7. Which of the following is used as a measurement of population health?
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a. Health status indicators @s @s



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c. The number of memberships at the local fitness centre
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d. Reported provincial alcohol and tobacco sales in any given month
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Population health refers to the health outcomes of a population as measured by
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determinants of health and health outcomes.
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