Health & Healing Community Final Test Questions and Answers Fully Solved
What is a CHN implementing when advising a client with osteoporosis to have three servings of Milk or
diary products daily?
a) Primary Prevention
b) Secondary Prevention
c) Tertiary Prevention
d) Treatment, but not prevention - Answers c) Tertiary Prevention
Which scenario exemplifies the occupational health nurse's practice of primary prevention to improve
health outcomes from environmental health risks?
a) Teaching new employees who will work outdoors about the signs and the symptoms of health-related
illness
b) Using spirometry to rule out obstructive or restrictive lung disease in workers before they start using
mask respirators
c) Irrigating the eyes of an employee who has had a chemical splash to the face
d) Using radiation detectors to detect unsafe levels of radiation exposure - Answers a) Teaching new
employees who will work outdoors about the signs and the symptoms of health-related illness
What definition accurately reflects the meaning go the term inequities?
a) Health inequities are the accumulation of multiple factors that lead to poor health
b) Health inequities are wide variations in health status and services among certain population groups
c) Health inequities are unfair differences in health that could be avoided with reasonable action
d) Health inequalities occur when people are more inclined to become ill and usually do not seek
appropriate care - Answers c) Health inequities are unfair differences in health that could be avoided
with reasonable action
A client with TB wants to know why directly observation therapy (DOT) is required as part of the
treatment. What CHN response would be the most appropriate one?
, a) "TB medications are very expensive, and this method ensures that government health care resources
are not wasted by those who will not take the drugs regularly"
b)"Clients with TB are often non-compliant; DOT will ensure that you take the drugs prescribed to you"
c) "This ensures that you get your medication even at the late stages of TB when your memory may be
affected by inadequate oxygenation of the brain"
d) The therapy is recommended by TB experts as the best way to ensure that you receive the treatment
you need, and that the infection doesn't become resistant to the treatment." - Answers b)"Clients with
TB are often non-compliant; DOT will ensure that you take the drugs prescribed to you"
What is the first step to understanding the potential environmental health risks in a community in order
to conduct an environmental health assessment?
a) Conduct a health risk assessment of randomly selected individuals
b) Review facility permits and consumer confidence reports
c) Survey community members
d) Preform a windshield survey - Answers a) Conduct a health risk assessment of randomly selected
individuals. (Not to sure)
A CHN suspects that an elementary school student is being physically abused. Which action would be
the most appropriate one for the CHN to take?
a) Ask the student about the abuse
b) Document findings in the student's school record
c)Discuss the suspicious of abuse with the student's teachers or the family's spiritual leader
d) Notify legal authorities - Answers d) Notify legal authorities
A client who uses intravenous (IV) drugs admits to the CHN that he has no desire to change behaviour,
so the CHN counsels him on the importance of exchanging his used needles for new ones to prevent
infection and transmission of blood-borne diseases. Which level of prevention does this action
represent?
a)Primary prevention
What is a CHN implementing when advising a client with osteoporosis to have three servings of Milk or
diary products daily?
a) Primary Prevention
b) Secondary Prevention
c) Tertiary Prevention
d) Treatment, but not prevention - Answers c) Tertiary Prevention
Which scenario exemplifies the occupational health nurse's practice of primary prevention to improve
health outcomes from environmental health risks?
a) Teaching new employees who will work outdoors about the signs and the symptoms of health-related
illness
b) Using spirometry to rule out obstructive or restrictive lung disease in workers before they start using
mask respirators
c) Irrigating the eyes of an employee who has had a chemical splash to the face
d) Using radiation detectors to detect unsafe levels of radiation exposure - Answers a) Teaching new
employees who will work outdoors about the signs and the symptoms of health-related illness
What definition accurately reflects the meaning go the term inequities?
a) Health inequities are the accumulation of multiple factors that lead to poor health
b) Health inequities are wide variations in health status and services among certain population groups
c) Health inequities are unfair differences in health that could be avoided with reasonable action
d) Health inequalities occur when people are more inclined to become ill and usually do not seek
appropriate care - Answers c) Health inequities are unfair differences in health that could be avoided
with reasonable action
A client with TB wants to know why directly observation therapy (DOT) is required as part of the
treatment. What CHN response would be the most appropriate one?
, a) "TB medications are very expensive, and this method ensures that government health care resources
are not wasted by those who will not take the drugs regularly"
b)"Clients with TB are often non-compliant; DOT will ensure that you take the drugs prescribed to you"
c) "This ensures that you get your medication even at the late stages of TB when your memory may be
affected by inadequate oxygenation of the brain"
d) The therapy is recommended by TB experts as the best way to ensure that you receive the treatment
you need, and that the infection doesn't become resistant to the treatment." - Answers b)"Clients with
TB are often non-compliant; DOT will ensure that you take the drugs prescribed to you"
What is the first step to understanding the potential environmental health risks in a community in order
to conduct an environmental health assessment?
a) Conduct a health risk assessment of randomly selected individuals
b) Review facility permits and consumer confidence reports
c) Survey community members
d) Preform a windshield survey - Answers a) Conduct a health risk assessment of randomly selected
individuals. (Not to sure)
A CHN suspects that an elementary school student is being physically abused. Which action would be
the most appropriate one for the CHN to take?
a) Ask the student about the abuse
b) Document findings in the student's school record
c)Discuss the suspicious of abuse with the student's teachers or the family's spiritual leader
d) Notify legal authorities - Answers d) Notify legal authorities
A client who uses intravenous (IV) drugs admits to the CHN that he has no desire to change behaviour,
so the CHN counsels him on the importance of exchanging his used needles for new ones to prevent
infection and transmission of blood-borne diseases. Which level of prevention does this action
represent?
a)Primary prevention
