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ANS: C
Breathing air of poor quality is a risk to health. - answer ✔✔-The public health nurse analyzes data
related to the number and type of United States Environmental Protection agency air quality standards
that a community failed to meet. This data is an example of using which community health profile
indicator?
a. Sociodemographic characteristics
b. Health status
c. Health risk factor
d. Functional status
ANS: C
The correct answer is concerned with the health of many people, while the other answers address
individual interventions. - answer ✔✔-Which is an example of the primary goal of public health?
a. Ensuring that a newly diagnosed 40-year-old hypertensive man takes his medication
b. Finding home care for a 70-year-old client recuperating from a hip replacement
c. Conducting an infant car seat safety check
d. Contacting a local hospice to admit a terminally ill 60-year-old woman
ANS: A
Public health nursing has a distinct focus and requires a special knowledge base. The other answers are
not characteristics of a specialty. - answer ✔✔-Public health nursing is a specialty because:
a. It has a distinct focus and scope of practice.
b. It must be done by a registered nurse with a master's degree.
, c. It is focused on disadvantaged citizens.
d. It performs interventions at the acute care level.
ANS: B
A BSN is the necessary basic preparation to function as a beginning staff public health nurse. - answer
✔✔-The necessary basic preparation for public health nursing is a(n) _____ in nursing.
a. Associate's degree
b. Baccalaureate degree
c. Master's degree
d. PhD
ANS: C
This clinic is for clients who already have a disease process; therefore, it is tertiary prevention. - answer
✔✔-A public health nurse provides a clinic for HIV-positive citizens in the community. This is an example
of:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Policy making
ANS: A
Community health nursing practice focuses on providing individual interventions in the community.
Administrating a flu shot to an individual is the only example that meets this criterion. - answer ✔✔-An
example of a community health nursing practice is:
a. Administrating a flu shot to a client in a physician's office
b. Conducting a flu shot clinic at a community center
c. Performing a client assessment in a hospital
d. Providing supervision of staff in a rehabilitation center
ANS: A