NR442 Final Exam/NR 442
Community Health Nursing
NR442 Final Exam/NR 442 Community
Health Nursing Final 2025/2026
Actual Exam Complete 200 Questions
And Correct Detailed Answers
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The patient is admitted to the emergency department of the local hospital from home with
reports of chest discomfort and shortness of breath. She is placed on oxygen, has labs and
blood gases drawn, and is given an electrocardiogram and breathing treatments. What level
of preventive care is this patient receiving?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - Answer ✓✓ANS: B
Secondary prevention focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or
illnesses and who are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions. Activities
are directed at diagnosis and prompt intervention. Primary prevention precedes disease or
dysfunction and is applied to people considered physically and emotionally healthy. Health
promotion includes health education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional
fitness activities. Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and
irreversible. It involves minimizing the effects of long-term disease or disability through
interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration.
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Just as health and health behavior are affected by internal and external variables, so are
illness and illness behavior. Which external variables can affect illness and behavior? (Select
all that apply.)
a. Perception of the seriousness of the illness
b. Patient's coping skills
c. Cultural background
d. Social support
e. Socioeconomic status - Answer ✓✓ANS: C, D, E
External variables influencing a patient's illness behavior include the visibility of symptoms,
social group, cultural background, economic variables, accessibility of the health care system,
and social support. Internal variables include the patient's perceptions of symptoms and the
nature of the illness, as well as the patient's coping skills and locus of control.
A patient is admitted to a rehabilitation facility following a stroke. The patient has right-sided
paralysis and is unable to speak. The patient will be receiving physical therapy and speech
therapy. What are these examples of?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - Answer ✓✓ANS: C
Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible. It
involves minimizing the effects of long-term disease or disability through interventions
directed at preventing complications and deterioration. Secondary prevention focuses on
individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses, and who are at risk for
developing complications or worsening conditions. Activities are directed at diagnosis and
prompt intervention. Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction and is applied to
people considered physically and emotionally healthy. Health promotion includes health
education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional fitness activities.
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Risk factors can be placed in the following interrelated categories: genetic and physiological
factors, age, physical environment, and lifestyle. The presence of any of these risk factors
means that
a. A person with the risk factor will get the disease.
b. The chances of getting the disease are increased.
c. The disease is guaranteed not to develop if the risk factor is controlled.
d. Risk modification will have no effect on disease prevention. - Answer ✓✓ANS: B
The presence of risk factors does not mean that a disease will develop, but risk factors
increase the chances that the individual will experience a particular disease or dysfunction.
Control of risk factors does not guarantee that a disease will not develop. However, risk factor
identification assists patients in visualizing those areas in life that can be modified or even
eliminated to promote wellness and prevent illness.
Models of health offer a perspective by which to understand the relationships between the
concepts of health, wellness, and illness. Nurses are in a unique position to assist patients in
achieving and maintaining optimal levels of health because nurses (Select all that apply.)
a. Understand the challenges of today's health care system.
b. Identify actual and potential risk factors.
c. Have coined the term "illness behavior."
d. Can minimize the effects of illness and assist to the return of optimal health - Answer
✓✓ANS: A, B, D
Nurses are in a unique position to assist patients in achieving and maintaining optimal levels
of health. Nurses understand the challenges of today's health care system and embrace the
opportunity to use wellness activities to promote health and wellness and to prevent illness.
Nurses can identify actual and potential risk factors that predispose a person or group to
illness. Nurses who understand how patients react to illness can minimize the effects of illness
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and assist patients and their families in maintaining or returning to the highest level of
functioning. Medical sociologists call the reaction to illness "illness behavior."
The nurse is caring for a patient who has been trying to quit smoking. She has been smoke
free for 2 weeks but had two cigarettes last night and at least two this morning. What should
the nurse anticipate?
a. The patient does not want to and never will quit smoking.
b. The patient will return to the contemplation or precontemplation phase.
c. The patient will need to adopt a new lifestyle for change to be effective.
d. The patient must pick up her attempt right where she left off. - Answer ✓✓ANS: B
When relapse occurs, the person will return to the contemplation or precontemplation stage
before attempting the change again. The patient cannot pick up her attempt where she left
off.
It is believed that change involves movement through a series of stages. These stages range
from no intention to change (precontemplation), to making small changes (preparation), to
actively engaging in strategies to change behavior (action), to maintenance. The action phase
indicates a desire to change and a potential to do so. Changes will be maintained over time
only if they are integrated into an individual's overall lifestyle.
The nurse is working in a drug rehabilitation clinic and is in the process of admitting a patient
who says that she wants to be "detoxified." It is important for the nurse to
a. Identify the patient's stage of change.
b. Realize that the patient is ready to change.
c. Instruct the patient that she will have to change her lifestyle.
d. Instruct the patient that relapses are not tolerated. - Answer ✓✓ANS: A
Processes of change, or nursing interventions, should be appropriately chosen to match the
stage of change. Most behavior change programs are designed for those people who are
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Community Health Nursing
NR442 Final Exam/NR 442 Community
Health Nursing Final 2025/2026
Actual Exam Complete 200 Questions
And Correct Detailed Answers
(Verified Answers) |Already Graded
A+
The patient is admitted to the emergency department of the local hospital from home with
reports of chest discomfort and shortness of breath. She is placed on oxygen, has labs and
blood gases drawn, and is given an electrocardiogram and breathing treatments. What level
of preventive care is this patient receiving?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - Answer ✓✓ANS: B
Secondary prevention focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or
illnesses and who are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions. Activities
are directed at diagnosis and prompt intervention. Primary prevention precedes disease or
dysfunction and is applied to people considered physically and emotionally healthy. Health
promotion includes health education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional
fitness activities. Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and
irreversible. It involves minimizing the effects of long-term disease or disability through
interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration.
ADMIN 1
, NR442 Final Exam/NR 442
Community Health Nursing
Just as health and health behavior are affected by internal and external variables, so are
illness and illness behavior. Which external variables can affect illness and behavior? (Select
all that apply.)
a. Perception of the seriousness of the illness
b. Patient's coping skills
c. Cultural background
d. Social support
e. Socioeconomic status - Answer ✓✓ANS: C, D, E
External variables influencing a patient's illness behavior include the visibility of symptoms,
social group, cultural background, economic variables, accessibility of the health care system,
and social support. Internal variables include the patient's perceptions of symptoms and the
nature of the illness, as well as the patient's coping skills and locus of control.
A patient is admitted to a rehabilitation facility following a stroke. The patient has right-sided
paralysis and is unable to speak. The patient will be receiving physical therapy and speech
therapy. What are these examples of?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - Answer ✓✓ANS: C
Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible. It
involves minimizing the effects of long-term disease or disability through interventions
directed at preventing complications and deterioration. Secondary prevention focuses on
individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses, and who are at risk for
developing complications or worsening conditions. Activities are directed at diagnosis and
prompt intervention. Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction and is applied to
people considered physically and emotionally healthy. Health promotion includes health
education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional fitness activities.
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, NR442 Final Exam/NR 442
Community Health Nursing
Risk factors can be placed in the following interrelated categories: genetic and physiological
factors, age, physical environment, and lifestyle. The presence of any of these risk factors
means that
a. A person with the risk factor will get the disease.
b. The chances of getting the disease are increased.
c. The disease is guaranteed not to develop if the risk factor is controlled.
d. Risk modification will have no effect on disease prevention. - Answer ✓✓ANS: B
The presence of risk factors does not mean that a disease will develop, but risk factors
increase the chances that the individual will experience a particular disease or dysfunction.
Control of risk factors does not guarantee that a disease will not develop. However, risk factor
identification assists patients in visualizing those areas in life that can be modified or even
eliminated to promote wellness and prevent illness.
Models of health offer a perspective by which to understand the relationships between the
concepts of health, wellness, and illness. Nurses are in a unique position to assist patients in
achieving and maintaining optimal levels of health because nurses (Select all that apply.)
a. Understand the challenges of today's health care system.
b. Identify actual and potential risk factors.
c. Have coined the term "illness behavior."
d. Can minimize the effects of illness and assist to the return of optimal health - Answer
✓✓ANS: A, B, D
Nurses are in a unique position to assist patients in achieving and maintaining optimal levels
of health. Nurses understand the challenges of today's health care system and embrace the
opportunity to use wellness activities to promote health and wellness and to prevent illness.
Nurses can identify actual and potential risk factors that predispose a person or group to
illness. Nurses who understand how patients react to illness can minimize the effects of illness
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Community Health Nursing
and assist patients and their families in maintaining or returning to the highest level of
functioning. Medical sociologists call the reaction to illness "illness behavior."
The nurse is caring for a patient who has been trying to quit smoking. She has been smoke
free for 2 weeks but had two cigarettes last night and at least two this morning. What should
the nurse anticipate?
a. The patient does not want to and never will quit smoking.
b. The patient will return to the contemplation or precontemplation phase.
c. The patient will need to adopt a new lifestyle for change to be effective.
d. The patient must pick up her attempt right where she left off. - Answer ✓✓ANS: B
When relapse occurs, the person will return to the contemplation or precontemplation stage
before attempting the change again. The patient cannot pick up her attempt where she left
off.
It is believed that change involves movement through a series of stages. These stages range
from no intention to change (precontemplation), to making small changes (preparation), to
actively engaging in strategies to change behavior (action), to maintenance. The action phase
indicates a desire to change and a potential to do so. Changes will be maintained over time
only if they are integrated into an individual's overall lifestyle.
The nurse is working in a drug rehabilitation clinic and is in the process of admitting a patient
who says that she wants to be "detoxified." It is important for the nurse to
a. Identify the patient's stage of change.
b. Realize that the patient is ready to change.
c. Instruct the patient that she will have to change her lifestyle.
d. Instruct the patient that relapses are not tolerated. - Answer ✓✓ANS: A
Processes of change, or nursing interventions, should be appropriately chosen to match the
stage of change. Most behavior change programs are designed for those people who are
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