Community and Public Health Nursing PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+recent version

Community and Public Health Nursing PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+recent version 1) Community/Public Health Nursing - ANSWER ___ is the synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice 2) populations - ANSWER Community/Public Health Nursing has the major goal to preserve the health of the community and surrounding ___ 3) maintence - ANSWER Community/Public Health Nursing focuses on health promotion, prevention, and health ___ 4) risk - ANSWER Community/Public Health Nursing is associated with health and identification of populations at ___ rather than an episodic response to patient demand 5) -preventing disease -prolonging life -promoting health through organized community efforts to benefit each citizen - ANSWER public health is described as the art and science of what 3 things 6) Health Care Reform - ANSWER ___ is defined as the costs of caring for the sick which account for the majority of escalating health care dollars, which increased from 5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015 7) health-oriented - ANSWER Community/public health nurses are in a position to assist the U.S. health care system to transition from being disease-oriented to a ___ system 8) public health - ANSWER the mission of ___ is social justice, which entitles all people to basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and accepts collective burdens to make this possible. 9) Health Expenditures - ANSWER ___ is the total amount spent on healthcare by a country. 10) below - ANSWER despite high hospital and physician expenditures, U.S. health indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality rate remain considerably ___ the health indicators of many other countries 11) poorer - ANSWER the health status of the population within the US varies markedly across the areas of the country and among groups. For example, the economically disadvantaged and many cultural and ethnic groups have ___ overall health status compared with middle-class caucasians 12) -health promotion -preventive - ANSWER the decline in the percentage of nurses employed in hospitals and the subsequent increase in nurses employed community setting suggest a shift in focus from illness and institutional based care to ____ and ____ care 13) Individual, families, and groups - ANSWER the major goal of community/public health nursing is to preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations by focusing on health promotion and health maintenance of ___, ___, and ___ within a community 14) social justice - ANSWER the mission of public health is ___, which entitles all people the basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and accepts collective burdens to make it possible 15) Societies - ANSWER public health assumes that it is ___ responsibility to meet the basic need of the people. thus there is a greater need for public funding of prevention efforts to enhance the health of our population 16) health - ANSWER ___ is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity 17) Social Health - ANSWER ___ is positive interaction among groups within the community, with an emphasis on health promotion and illness prevention 18) social health - ANSWER -food banks violence prevention programs these are examples of ___ 19) community - ANSWER ___ is a collection of people who interact with one another and whose common interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity and belonging. more local 20) public health - ANSWER ___ is a community-wide effort to monitor and promote the welfare of the population. much broader 21) Healthy People 2020 - ANSWER ___ is a set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium. 22) -physical environment -social environment -individual behaviour -health services -biology and genetics - ANSWER what are 5 determinants for the health outcomes of Healthy People 2020 23) -interest -characteristics - ANSWER community is seen as a group or collection of individuals interacting in social units and sharing common ___, ___, values, and goals 24) geopolitical community - ANSWER ___ is defined or formed by natural and/or man-made boundaries and include cities, counties, states and nations. 25) phenomenological community - ANSWER ___ is a type of community that is formed because its members have a common interest, experience or a feeling of belonging 26) community of solution - ANSWER ___ is when individuals coming together because of a common problem 27) phenomenological community - ANSWER -schools, colleges, and universities -churches, synagogues, and mosques -social networks 28) these are examples of a ___community of soultion - ANSWER the Sierra Club whose members lobby for the preservation of natural resource lands is an examples of ___ 29) population - ANSWER ___ is a group of people with common personal or environmental characteristics 30) aggregates - ANSWER ___ are subgroups or subpopulations that have some common characteristics or concerns 31) -community -population -aggregates - ANSWER -residents of a small town represent a ___ all elders in a rural region represent a ___ -pregnant teens within a school district represent a ___ 32) -assessment -policy development -assurance - ANSWER what are the 3 core public health functions 33) assessment - ANSWER the ___ core public health function is the regular collection, analysis, and information sharing about health conditions, risks, and resources in a community 34) policy development - ANSWER the ___ core public health function is the use of information gathered during assessment to develop local and state health policies and to direct resources toward those policies