for midterm exam Fall N422 2025) Questions With Complete
Solutions
Topic 1 to 4: Public Health Nursing Book: Chapters: 1, 2, 9,
17, 19, 17,18, 30,32,33,34,36,37,38 and Pages 1-60 from
Wound Care Facts Made Incredibly Quick
Concepts of Community and Prevention Oriented
Population-focused practice 8-10 questions
Definitions of public health
Core competencies
Population focused practice
Community oriented/ community based nursing (inner cover
of text
Essentials of Public Health Nursing
Theorist (Health belief and planned change)
Health belief model
History (with focus on key players) 3-5 questions
Levels of Prevention 5-8 Questions
Ethics in the community 3-5 questions (you can focus on the
ppt)
Cultural Diversity 3-5 questions
Cultural competence
Barriers to cultural competence
Healthy People 2020 Question 1-3 Page 209
Changing Health Behavior 3-5 questions
Models for change/Health belief model
Learning process
Family questions 8-5
,Working with families
Stages of family life cycle
Ecomap/genogram
Home Health 3-5 questions
Home health visit
Hospice Palliative care 1-2
Wounds 1-2
School nursing 3-5 questions
Occupational health nursing 1-2 questions
Windshield survey 1-3 questions
Chronic disease 3-5 questions
Violence 1-2 questions
Migrant workers 2-3
Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factor 1-2
10 most common communicable diseases Correct Answer
Common Cold
Gastroenteritis
Strep throat
Pink eye
Fifth Disease
Gonorrhea
Hepatitis
Rotavirus
HIV/AIDES
1960's to 1970's Correct Answer Community based
psychiatric care
Development of Advanced practice roles in primary care. First
NP in rural Colorado in 1965
Sexual revolution increased STI and teen pregnancy
,1965:Medicaid and Medicare established
The introduction of the DRG (diagnosis related groups) made
major impact in health care late 70's -early 80's
CHANGED EVERYTHING
Insurance reimbursement for home care
1990's Correct Answer Dark times in health care
IOM report in 1988: highlighted worries of public health care
system
Threats of health care reform...
Hillary Clinton
HMO
Despite the fact no program there was reform
1993: AZT
Life expectancy rose from 43 yrs. to 73 yrs. in 1990
Increase in Hep B, Hep C and Syphilis due to drug use
Wanted 90% of children immunized by age 2
Ambulatory Care Centers
Same day- 23.9 admissions now
Focus is on chronic diseases like Diabetes and not
communicable disease like Polio
5 most common chronic conditions seen in school age children
Correct Answer Asthma
Diabetes
Seizures
Sever food allergies
Attention deficit/behavioral disorders
Helping to Administer to the Needs of Diabetic Children in
School
https://www.pathlms.com/nasn/courses/915
, 9/11 changed everything - more federal involvement Correct
Answer Bioterrorism
Small pox vaccine
Changes in nursing education
Managed care
New IOM report Assuring the Health of Public in the 21st
Century (2008)
Increasing assurance
Social determinants
Increase nursing role in population care
Ecological model
Public Policy
Medicare and Medicaid - set the gold standard of what
insurance is
It is what drive healthcare
Federal government provides what are called block grants that
are provided to the states and they can disperse the monies by
these block
Access to Health Care Correct Answer Health access
limitations
Lack of knowledge about services
Inability to afford care
Availability of services
Transportation
Hours of service
Mobility and tracking
Discrimination
Documentation
Language