NURS 441: COMMUNITY TEST 1
EXAM Q’S AND A’S
Public Health in America - answer- VISION: healthy people in healthy communities
MISSION: promote physical and mental health and prevent disease, injury, and
disability
CORE FUNCTION
What is the core function of public health? - answer- Assessment, Policy
Development, Assurance
Public Health Nursing Specialty - answer- Population focused
Greatest good for greatest number
*Collaborate with clients as an equal partner
Primary prevention= focus
Select strategies that create health conditions in which populations may thrive
Actively reach out
Optimal use of available resources
Interprofessional collaboration
Distinguishing features of public health nursing? - answer- Nursing for social
betterment
Support targeted care provisions
Families, groups, and populations are the clients
*Seek to empower
Provide culturally competent care
Don't look at assumptions
Goal of public health nursing - answer- Care in the here and now
Personal and intimate
Recognize uniqueness
Primary prevention - answer- Actions that change overall background conditions to
prevent some unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Education
secondary prevention programs - answer- programs that provide treatment, such as
psychological counseling, to youths and adults after they have violated the law
tertiary prevention examples - answer- - enhance rehabilitation from disease, injury,
or disability
- Provide cardiac rehabilitation, medication, and surgery.
- medical treatment
- physical and occupational therapy, and rehabilitation
, - Monitor the use of prescription medications and adherence to treatment to reduce
risk for illness complications
- Provide health promotion activities to persons with serious and persistent mental
illness.
- Promote support group participation for those with mental health disabilities.
- The public health nurse provides a diabetes clinic for a defined population of adults
in a low-income housing unit of the community.
- If blood pressure cannot be controlled by diet, refer the client to a physician or
nurse practitioner for medication; advise the client to engage in a cardiac program
that will oversee diet and exercise.
Principles of Public Health Nursing - answer- Emphasize primary prevention
Greatest good for greatest number
Recognize that client as partner
Uses resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
What is social justice - answer- all persons are entitled to have their basic human
needs met
Nursing Celebrities - answer- o Florence Nightingale
o Lillian Wald
o Mary Brewster
o C.E.A Winslow
o Mary Breckinridge
o Clara Barton
o Dorethea Dix
Triad of Community Health - answer- Awareness
Advocacy
Action
Health People 2020 Goals - answer- 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of
preventable diseases.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, health development, and health behaviors across all life
stages.
Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2020 - answer- § Access to Health
Services
§ Clinical Preventative Services
§ Environmental Quality
§ Injury and Violence
§ Maternal, Infant, Child Health
§ Mental Health
§ Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
§ Oral Health
§ Reproductive and Sexual Health
§ Social Determinants--
§ Substance Abuse
EXAM Q’S AND A’S
Public Health in America - answer- VISION: healthy people in healthy communities
MISSION: promote physical and mental health and prevent disease, injury, and
disability
CORE FUNCTION
What is the core function of public health? - answer- Assessment, Policy
Development, Assurance
Public Health Nursing Specialty - answer- Population focused
Greatest good for greatest number
*Collaborate with clients as an equal partner
Primary prevention= focus
Select strategies that create health conditions in which populations may thrive
Actively reach out
Optimal use of available resources
Interprofessional collaboration
Distinguishing features of public health nursing? - answer- Nursing for social
betterment
Support targeted care provisions
Families, groups, and populations are the clients
*Seek to empower
Provide culturally competent care
Don't look at assumptions
Goal of public health nursing - answer- Care in the here and now
Personal and intimate
Recognize uniqueness
Primary prevention - answer- Actions that change overall background conditions to
prevent some unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Education
secondary prevention programs - answer- programs that provide treatment, such as
psychological counseling, to youths and adults after they have violated the law
tertiary prevention examples - answer- - enhance rehabilitation from disease, injury,
or disability
- Provide cardiac rehabilitation, medication, and surgery.
- medical treatment
- physical and occupational therapy, and rehabilitation
, - Monitor the use of prescription medications and adherence to treatment to reduce
risk for illness complications
- Provide health promotion activities to persons with serious and persistent mental
illness.
- Promote support group participation for those with mental health disabilities.
- The public health nurse provides a diabetes clinic for a defined population of adults
in a low-income housing unit of the community.
- If blood pressure cannot be controlled by diet, refer the client to a physician or
nurse practitioner for medication; advise the client to engage in a cardiac program
that will oversee diet and exercise.
Principles of Public Health Nursing - answer- Emphasize primary prevention
Greatest good for greatest number
Recognize that client as partner
Uses resources wisely to promote the best outcomes
What is social justice - answer- all persons are entitled to have their basic human
needs met
Nursing Celebrities - answer- o Florence Nightingale
o Lillian Wald
o Mary Brewster
o C.E.A Winslow
o Mary Breckinridge
o Clara Barton
o Dorethea Dix
Triad of Community Health - answer- Awareness
Advocacy
Action
Health People 2020 Goals - answer- 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of
preventable diseases.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, health development, and health behaviors across all life
stages.
Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2020 - answer- § Access to Health
Services
§ Clinical Preventative Services
§ Environmental Quality
§ Injury and Violence
§ Maternal, Infant, Child Health
§ Mental Health
§ Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
§ Oral Health
§ Reproductive and Sexual Health
§ Social Determinants--
§ Substance Abuse
