Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine 4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete 6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice Multiple
TABLE OF CONTENTS Choice
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issue with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two
Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
perspectives:
Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that there
1. Disease; individual
are three core functions that society carries out to collectively support the
2. Intervention; government
optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not
3. Epidemic; population
one of these functions?
4. Individual; population
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
3. Policy development
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include 4. Assurance
disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections,
and _.
5. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both noncommunicable
1. Risk assessment for disease
(chronic) and communicable disease (NCD). The most pressing issue from
2. Promotion of primary care
a public health perspective based on this increase is:
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and
1. An increased demand for long-term care
preventive treatment of disease
2. An increased need for further research
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. Further exploration of the developmental stages related to aging
4. Decreased cost of medications.
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organization
6. A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help herself
(WHO), which is:
and other local practitioners understand health in populations. She
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model assumes
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the global population.
that:
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
1. There are multiple determinants of health, and thus multiple strategies 1. Decreases disease rates
are needed. 2. Ensures accountability
2. A population and environmental approach is essential. 3. Increases the availability of treatment for the targeted disease
3. Linkages and relationships are crucial. 4. Improves screening rates
4. All of the above.
9. Which one of the following scenarios is not an example of
7. The PHN completed a community assessment and found that the obesity
community collaboration?
rate in one of the neighborhoods was higher than the other neighborhoods
1. Local service groups working to organize disaster relief for
in the county. She suspects that this is partially due to limited access to
tornado victims
full- service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for exercise.
2. A city council passing an ordinance to stop smoking in
Assuming her conclusion is correct, what category or categories of
restaurants
determinants of health would these issues within the community fall into?
3. An advocacy group working with the local churches to
1. Upstream determinants of health
improve health care for the indigent with mental health
2. Downstream determinants of health
disorders
3. Behavioral determinants of health
4. A school working with the local health department to start
4. Genetic determinants of health
a school clinic
8. Two PHNs working in a large urban community notice that community
members are rarely engaged in the process of planning interventions aimed 10. Which layer of government is primarily responsible for issuing
at addressing a particular increase in a specific disease in the quarantines during a communicable disease outbreak?
community. 1. Federal
For their next project, they include community collaboration as an essential 2. State
component of the development, implementation, and evaluation of the 3. Local
program. When questioned by others, they report that there is evidence that 4. All of the above
community collaboration increases effectiveness and productivity,
empowers the participants, strengthens social engagement, and .
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
11. As a PHN in a small local public health department, you understand
14. From a health promotion perspective, how could an occupational health
that based on federal mandates your public health department routinely
nurse advise a company to encourage its employees to work towards good
performs all but which of the following?
health?
1. Surveillance of disease at the local level
1. Lower insurance premiums for employees who demonstrate good
2. Investigation of disease outbreaks
health habits
3. Licensing of local hospitals
2. Have employee exercise classes or discounted health club
4. Quarantine
memberships
3. Have incentives for healthy eating
12. The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology, 4. All of the above
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and form the foundational subjects
of public health.
15. Diversity refers to all of but which of these concepts?
1. Economics
1. Race
2. The humanities
2. Culture
3. Social and behavioral sciences
3. Ethnicity
4. Anthropology
4. Environment
13. As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), an
Multiple Response
example of a health promotion intervention is whereas a risk
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the
reduction/health protection intervention is .
question.
1. Conducting a health fair; funding a school exercise program
2. Giving a free exercise class; conducting a flu vaccine outreach 16. Many of the emerging threats for public health are tied to increasing
program globalization. Which of the following reflect these globalization threats?
3. Providing flu medication free to older adults; a diet class for
(Select all that apply.)
teenagers 1. Greater disparities between rich and poor
4. Offering a tour of a hospital; a relaxation technique class 2. Greater need for newer technology
3. Greater distribution of tobacco and alcohol
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine 4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete 6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice Multiple
TABLE OF CONTENTS Choice
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issue with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two
Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
perspectives:
Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that there
1. Disease; individual
are three core functions that society carries out to collectively support the
2. Intervention; government
optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not
3. Epidemic; population
one of these functions?
4. Individual; population
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
3. Policy development
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include 4. Assurance
disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections,
and _.
5. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both noncommunicable
1. Risk assessment for disease
(chronic) and communicable disease (NCD). The most pressing issue from
2. Promotion of primary care
a public health perspective based on this increase is:
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and
1. An increased demand for long-term care
preventive treatment of disease
2. An increased need for further research
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. Further exploration of the developmental stages related to aging
4. Decreased cost of medications.
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organization
6. A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help herself
(WHO), which is:
and other local practitioners understand health in populations. She
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model assumes
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the global population.
that:
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
1. There are multiple determinants of health, and thus multiple strategies 1. Decreases disease rates
are needed. 2. Ensures accountability
2. A population and environmental approach is essential. 3. Increases the availability of treatment for the targeted disease
3. Linkages and relationships are crucial. 4. Improves screening rates
4. All of the above.
9. Which one of the following scenarios is not an example of
7. The PHN completed a community assessment and found that the obesity
community collaboration?
rate in one of the neighborhoods was higher than the other neighborhoods
1. Local service groups working to organize disaster relief for
in the county. She suspects that this is partially due to limited access to
tornado victims
full- service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for exercise.
2. A city council passing an ordinance to stop smoking in
Assuming her conclusion is correct, what category or categories of
restaurants
determinants of health would these issues within the community fall into?
3. An advocacy group working with the local churches to
1. Upstream determinants of health
improve health care for the indigent with mental health
2. Downstream determinants of health
disorders
3. Behavioral determinants of health
4. A school working with the local health department to start
4. Genetic determinants of health
a school clinic
8. Two PHNs working in a large urban community notice that community
members are rarely engaged in the process of planning interventions aimed 10. Which layer of government is primarily responsible for issuing
at addressing a particular increase in a specific disease in the quarantines during a communicable disease outbreak?
community. 1. Federal
For their next project, they include community collaboration as an essential 2. State
component of the development, implementation, and evaluation of the 3. Local
program. When questioned by others, they report that there is evidence that 4. All of the above
community collaboration increases effectiveness and productivity,
empowers the participants, strengthens social engagement, and .
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
11. As a PHN in a small local public health department, you understand
14. From a health promotion perspective, how could an occupational health
that based on federal mandates your public health department routinely
nurse advise a company to encourage its employees to work towards good
performs all but which of the following?
health?
1. Surveillance of disease at the local level
1. Lower insurance premiums for employees who demonstrate good
2. Investigation of disease outbreaks
health habits
3. Licensing of local hospitals
2. Have employee exercise classes or discounted health club
4. Quarantine
memberships
3. Have incentives for healthy eating
12. The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology, 4. All of the above
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and form the foundational subjects
of public health.
15. Diversity refers to all of but which of these concepts?
1. Economics
1. Race
2. The humanities
2. Culture
3. Social and behavioral sciences
3. Ethnicity
4. Anthropology
4. Environment
13. As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), an
Multiple Response
example of a health promotion intervention is whereas a risk
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the
reduction/health protection intervention is .
question.
1. Conducting a health fair; funding a school exercise program
2. Giving a free exercise class; conducting a flu vaccine outreach 16. Many of the emerging threats for public health are tied to increasing
program globalization. Which of the following reflect these globalization threats?
3. Providing flu medication free to older adults; a diet class for
(Select all that apply.)
teenagers 1. Greater disparities between rich and poor
4. Offering a tour of a hospital; a relaxation technique class 2. Greater need for newer technology
3. Greater distribution of tobacco and alcohol
