NURS 416 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+ 2025
The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a public health
problem with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors in order to
develop effective nursing interventions. He must also consider that these risk
factors can be either ______ based or ______ based.
a) Epidemic; population
b) Disease; individual
c) Individual; population
d) Intervention; government
a) Individual; population
If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide
pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is:
a) Working to improve health and well being for the global population
b) The public health arm of the united nations
c) Working with nurses to promote public health interventions
d) All of the above
,d) All of the above
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in their report, The Future of the Public's
Health, that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
support the optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is
not one of these functions?
a) Assessment
b) Assurance
c) Prevention
d) Policy development
c) Prevention
With aging, there is an increase in noncommunicable (chronic) illness. The PHN
recognizes that an example of a noncommunicable illness is:
a) Heart disease
b) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
c) HIV
d) Hepatitis
a) Heart disease
,The obesity rate in a local neighborhood is partially the product of a limited access
to full service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for exercise. This
is an example of issues related to the "upstream" determinants of public health that
contribute to the ecology of a community's health "downstream." The PHN
understands that upstream determinants include social relations, neighborhoods
and communities, institutions, and ____.
a) Tertiary nursing interventions
b) Availability of medicine to treat disease
c) Increasing the number of primary care provider
d) Social and economic policies
d) Social and economic policies
A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on community participation in an ecological
public health system. She teaches that the benefits of this collaboration for
participants in the community's public health are that their efforts increase
effectiveness and productivity, empower the participants, strengthen social
engagement, and ____.
a) Increase the number of medical facilities
b) Decrease disease rates
c) Monitor childhood illnesses
d) Ensure accountability
d) Ensure accountability
Which layer of government is responsible for issuing quarantines during a
communicable disease outbreak?
, a)State
b) Local
c) Federal
d) All of the above
b) Local
The nursing student is taught correctly that local health departments do not oversee
which of the following?
a) The surveillance of disease
b) Public sanitation and water supply
c) Licensing of local hospitals
d) Investigation of disease outbreaks
c) Licensing of local hospitals
The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology, biostatistics,
biomedical sciences, and ______ form the foundational subjects of public health.
a) Social and behavioral sciences
b) The humanities
c) Anthropology
d) economics
a) Social and behavioral sciences
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+ 2025
The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a public health
problem with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors in order to
develop effective nursing interventions. He must also consider that these risk
factors can be either ______ based or ______ based.
a) Epidemic; population
b) Disease; individual
c) Individual; population
d) Intervention; government
a) Individual; population
If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide
pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is:
a) Working to improve health and well being for the global population
b) The public health arm of the united nations
c) Working with nurses to promote public health interventions
d) All of the above
,d) All of the above
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in their report, The Future of the Public's
Health, that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
support the optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is
not one of these functions?
a) Assessment
b) Assurance
c) Prevention
d) Policy development
c) Prevention
With aging, there is an increase in noncommunicable (chronic) illness. The PHN
recognizes that an example of a noncommunicable illness is:
a) Heart disease
b) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
c) HIV
d) Hepatitis
a) Heart disease
,The obesity rate in a local neighborhood is partially the product of a limited access
to full service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for exercise. This
is an example of issues related to the "upstream" determinants of public health that
contribute to the ecology of a community's health "downstream." The PHN
understands that upstream determinants include social relations, neighborhoods
and communities, institutions, and ____.
a) Tertiary nursing interventions
b) Availability of medicine to treat disease
c) Increasing the number of primary care provider
d) Social and economic policies
d) Social and economic policies
A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on community participation in an ecological
public health system. She teaches that the benefits of this collaboration for
participants in the community's public health are that their efforts increase
effectiveness and productivity, empower the participants, strengthen social
engagement, and ____.
a) Increase the number of medical facilities
b) Decrease disease rates
c) Monitor childhood illnesses
d) Ensure accountability
d) Ensure accountability
Which layer of government is responsible for issuing quarantines during a
communicable disease outbreak?
, a)State
b) Local
c) Federal
d) All of the above
b) Local
The nursing student is taught correctly that local health departments do not oversee
which of the following?
a) The surveillance of disease
b) Public sanitation and water supply
c) Licensing of local hospitals
d) Investigation of disease outbreaks
c) Licensing of local hospitals
The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology, biostatistics,
biomedical sciences, and ______ form the foundational subjects of public health.
a) Social and behavioral sciences
b) The humanities
c) Anthropology
d) economics
a) Social and behavioral sciences
