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,TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
2nd Edition by Christine L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
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 NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public
health issuewith 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
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 earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
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 globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
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 supportthe optimum
conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not
one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
,TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
2nd Edition by Christine L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
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 NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public
health issuewith 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
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 earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
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 globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
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 supportthe optimum
conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not
one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
