TEST BANK
Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for
Populations
Christine L. Savage
2nd Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Public Health and Nursing Practice 1
Chapter 02 Optimizing Population Health 12
Chapter 03 Epidemiology and Nursing Practice 24
Chapter 04 Introduction to Community Assessment 37
Chapter 05 Health Program Planning 49
Chapter 06 Environmental Health 61
Chapter 07 Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations 73
Chapter 08 Communicable Diseases 87
Chapter 09 Noncommunicable Diseases 97
Chapter 10 Mental Health 107
Chapter 11 Substance Use and the Health of Communities 119
Chapter 12 Injury and Violence 129
Chapter 13 Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments 143
Chapter 14 Health Planning for Acute Care Settings 157
Chapter 15 Health Planning for Primary Care Settings 170
Chapter 16 Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities 184
Chapter 17 Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings 198
Chapter 18 Health Planning for School Settings 210
Chapter 19 Health Planning for Older Adults 223
Chapter 20 Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health 236
Chapter 21 Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance 249
Chapter 22 Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management 262
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Test Bank - Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition (Savage, 2020)
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of
the related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
factors from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
ANS: 4
Objective: 5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of public health nurses (PHNs).
Page:
Heading: Introduction to Public Health
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Need: Physiological Integrity
Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Concept: Critical Thinking, Promoting Health
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The approach cannot be disease based because diseases can affect populations in
multiple locations, but the risk factors can be different.
2 Interventions occur after the public health event, and governments can only follow the
evidence of public health studies.
3 An epidemic is an occurrence of a disease and has the same limitations as a
disease-based approach.
4 PHNs assess risk for disease and other public health issues at both the individual level,
so that they can intervene on a one-to-one situational basis, as well as at the population
level to identify risk factors beyond the individual level and implement population-level
interventions.
PTS: 1 REF: 2 CON: Promoting Health | Critical Thinking
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to C.E.A. Winslow’s definition,
some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting health, control of
communicable infections, and __________________.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive
treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
ANS: 3
Objective: 2. Describe public health in terms of current frameworks, community partnerships, and the
concept of population health.
Page:
Heading: Public Health Science and Practice
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
Cognitive Level: Knowledge
Concept: Infection; Nursing Roles; Promoting Health
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Test Bank - Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition (Savage, 2020)
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 Risk assessment is considered a part of disease prevention.
2 Promotion of primary care occurred through the Alma Ata World Health Organization
conference not Winslow’s definition.
3 Health-care providers are an essential component of public health.
4 The goal of public health is to guide governmental policy but not to create regulations.
PTS: 1 REF: 3 CON: Infection | Nursing Roles | Promoting Health
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they
would look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the global population.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
ANS: 4
Objective: 2. Describe public health in terms of current frameworks, community partnerships, and the
concept of population health.
Page:
Heading: Introduction to Public Health
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
Cognitive Level: Application [Applying]
Difficulty: Easy
Concept: Promoting Health; Health-Care System; Management; Safety
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The World Health Organization (WHO) is the “directing and coordinating authority for
health within the United Nations system”.
2 The WHO has the capability to monitor global epidemiological situations.
3 The WHO brings resources and knowledge to nurses who are working directly with
patients for them to make informed decisions.
4 The WHO is the public health arm of the United Nations and works toward both of the
previously mentioned goals.
PTS: 1 REF: 15-17
CON: Promoting Health | Health-Care System | Management | Safety
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the
Public’s Health, that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively support the
optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
3. Policy development
4. Assurance
ANS: 1
Objective: 4. Explore the connection between environment, resource availability, and health.
Page:
Heading: Public Health Science and Practice
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Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for
Populations
Christine L. Savage
2nd Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Public Health and Nursing Practice 1
Chapter 02 Optimizing Population Health 12
Chapter 03 Epidemiology and Nursing Practice 24
Chapter 04 Introduction to Community Assessment 37
Chapter 05 Health Program Planning 49
Chapter 06 Environmental Health 61
Chapter 07 Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations 73
Chapter 08 Communicable Diseases 87
Chapter 09 Noncommunicable Diseases 97
Chapter 10 Mental Health 107
Chapter 11 Substance Use and the Health of Communities 119
Chapter 12 Injury and Violence 129
Chapter 13 Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments 143
Chapter 14 Health Planning for Acute Care Settings 157
Chapter 15 Health Planning for Primary Care Settings 170
Chapter 16 Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities 184
Chapter 17 Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings 198
Chapter 18 Health Planning for School Settings 210
Chapter 19 Health Planning for Older Adults 223
Chapter 20 Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health 236
Chapter 21 Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance 249
Chapter 22 Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management 262
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Test Bank - Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition (Savage, 2020)
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of
the related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
factors from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
ANS: 4
Objective: 5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of public health nurses (PHNs).
Page:
Heading: Introduction to Public Health
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Need: Physiological Integrity
Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Concept: Critical Thinking, Promoting Health
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The approach cannot be disease based because diseases can affect populations in
multiple locations, but the risk factors can be different.
2 Interventions occur after the public health event, and governments can only follow the
evidence of public health studies.
3 An epidemic is an occurrence of a disease and has the same limitations as a
disease-based approach.
4 PHNs assess risk for disease and other public health issues at both the individual level,
so that they can intervene on a one-to-one situational basis, as well as at the population
level to identify risk factors beyond the individual level and implement population-level
interventions.
PTS: 1 REF: 2 CON: Promoting Health | Critical Thinking
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to C.E.A. Winslow’s definition,
some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting health, control of
communicable infections, and __________________.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive
treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
ANS: 3
Objective: 2. Describe public health in terms of current frameworks, community partnerships, and the
concept of population health.
Page:
Heading: Public Health Science and Practice
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
Cognitive Level: Knowledge
Concept: Infection; Nursing Roles; Promoting Health
______________________________________________________________________________________________
1|Page
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Test Bank - Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 2nd Edition (Savage, 2020)
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 Risk assessment is considered a part of disease prevention.
2 Promotion of primary care occurred through the Alma Ata World Health Organization
conference not Winslow’s definition.
3 Health-care providers are an essential component of public health.
4 The goal of public health is to guide governmental policy but not to create regulations.
PTS: 1 REF: 3 CON: Infection | Nursing Roles | Promoting Health
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they
would look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the global population.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
ANS: 4
Objective: 2. Describe public health in terms of current frameworks, community partnerships, and the
concept of population health.
Page:
Heading: Introduction to Public Health
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
Cognitive Level: Application [Applying]
Difficulty: Easy
Concept: Promoting Health; Health-Care System; Management; Safety
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The World Health Organization (WHO) is the “directing and coordinating authority for
health within the United Nations system”.
2 The WHO has the capability to monitor global epidemiological situations.
3 The WHO brings resources and knowledge to nurses who are working directly with
patients for them to make informed decisions.
4 The WHO is the public health arm of the United Nations and works toward both of the
previously mentioned goals.
PTS: 1 REF: 15-17
CON: Promoting Health | Health-Care System | Management | Safety
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the
Public’s Health, that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively support the
optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
3. Policy development
4. Assurance
ANS: 1
Objective: 4. Explore the connection between environment, resource availability, and health.
Page:
Heading: Public Health Science and Practice
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