NR 442- EXAM 1 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED 2025-
2026.SCORE A+
Community/ Public health Goal - answer ✔✔-Preserve health of the community and surrounding
populations by focusing on the health promotion and health maintenance of individuals, families, and
groups within the community
Public health goals - answer ✔✔--Prevent disease
-Prolong life
-Promote heath
Public health - answer ✔✔--Population based
-Grounded in social justice
-Relies on science of epidemiology
-Focus on health promotion and prevention
-Long-term commitment to the community
Nursing - answer ✔✔--Relationship-based
-Grounded in an ethic of caring
-Holistic
-Sensitivity to diversity
-Independent practice
Community-based nursing - answer ✔✔-All nursing care provided outside of acute care in the
"community".
Provision of personal care to individuals and families in the community.
,Community-based nursing emphasis - answer ✔✔-Acute and chronic care and includes such practice
areas as home health
nursing and nursing in outpatient or ambulatory settings
Community-oriented care - answer ✔✔-All nursing care is provided with the overall focus of the well
being of the community.
Geopolitical/ geographical - answer ✔✔--Spatial
-Defined area with boundaries, resides on map = community
-Ex: United States Census, Maricopa county
Phenomenological - answer ✔✔--Belonging
-Demographic: shared characteristic
-Functional: shared interest
-Bound together by having something in common.
-Ex: Students at chamberlain, member of certain church, banner hospital employees, people in military,
cancer survivor
Social determinants of health - answer ✔✔-The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work,
and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels.
Social determinants affect us positively and negatively - answer ✔✔--Immigrants = culture
-Low income = poverty #1
-Socioeconomic status
-Housing
-Education
-Access to healthy food and public services
-Language
-Geography
-Gender
, -Religion
Health disparities - answer ✔✔--Unhealthy diet
-Physical inactivity
-Tobacco use
-Abuse of alcohol
#1 cause of death - answer ✔✔-Tobacco = 20 % of annual US deaths
Benefits of public health practice - answer ✔✔--Improved life expectancy
-Population based prevention programs
-Potential
-Funding
Public Health in America Vision: - answer ✔✔-Healthy people in healthy communities
Public Health in America Mission: - answer ✔✔--Promote physical and mental health
-Prevent disease, injury, and disability
Essential Public Health Services - answer ✔✔--3 core functions:
-Assessment
-Policy development
-Assurance
Assessment - answer ✔✔-Monitor health, diagnose health problems
Policy development - answer ✔✔-Educate, inform, empower, develop policies and plans to support
health
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED 2025-
2026.SCORE A+
Community/ Public health Goal - answer ✔✔-Preserve health of the community and surrounding
populations by focusing on the health promotion and health maintenance of individuals, families, and
groups within the community
Public health goals - answer ✔✔--Prevent disease
-Prolong life
-Promote heath
Public health - answer ✔✔--Population based
-Grounded in social justice
-Relies on science of epidemiology
-Focus on health promotion and prevention
-Long-term commitment to the community
Nursing - answer ✔✔--Relationship-based
-Grounded in an ethic of caring
-Holistic
-Sensitivity to diversity
-Independent practice
Community-based nursing - answer ✔✔-All nursing care provided outside of acute care in the
"community".
Provision of personal care to individuals and families in the community.
,Community-based nursing emphasis - answer ✔✔-Acute and chronic care and includes such practice
areas as home health
nursing and nursing in outpatient or ambulatory settings
Community-oriented care - answer ✔✔-All nursing care is provided with the overall focus of the well
being of the community.
Geopolitical/ geographical - answer ✔✔--Spatial
-Defined area with boundaries, resides on map = community
-Ex: United States Census, Maricopa county
Phenomenological - answer ✔✔--Belonging
-Demographic: shared characteristic
-Functional: shared interest
-Bound together by having something in common.
-Ex: Students at chamberlain, member of certain church, banner hospital employees, people in military,
cancer survivor
Social determinants of health - answer ✔✔-The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work,
and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels.
Social determinants affect us positively and negatively - answer ✔✔--Immigrants = culture
-Low income = poverty #1
-Socioeconomic status
-Housing
-Education
-Access to healthy food and public services
-Language
-Geography
-Gender
, -Religion
Health disparities - answer ✔✔--Unhealthy diet
-Physical inactivity
-Tobacco use
-Abuse of alcohol
#1 cause of death - answer ✔✔-Tobacco = 20 % of annual US deaths
Benefits of public health practice - answer ✔✔--Improved life expectancy
-Population based prevention programs
-Potential
-Funding
Public Health in America Vision: - answer ✔✔-Healthy people in healthy communities
Public Health in America Mission: - answer ✔✔--Promote physical and mental health
-Prevent disease, injury, and disability
Essential Public Health Services - answer ✔✔--3 core functions:
-Assessment
-Policy development
-Assurance
Assessment - answer ✔✔-Monitor health, diagnose health problems
Policy development - answer ✔✔-Educate, inform, empower, develop policies and plans to support
health
