NUR 404 Exam 1 Questions with Verified Solutions Graded A+
Community Based Nursing Practice - Answers -Illness oriented care
-manages acute and chronic conditions
-a result of increased hospital cost
Community-oriented nursing practice - Answers -promotes quality of life
-primary focus is on health care of communities and populations
-preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
Public Health Core Functions - Answers assessment, policy development, assurance
Assessment - Answers systematically collecting data, monitoring health status, and making info
available
Policy Development - Answers using scientific knowledge to develop comprehensive public
health policies
Assurance - Answers refers to the role of public health in making sure that essential community
health services are available
Population focused (nursing) practice - Answers how health outcomes and disparities impact
the population
focuses on sanitation and control of infectious disease through immunization
Public Health - Answers scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics,
and assessment
what society does to ensure that conditions exist in which people can be healthy
Levels of prevention - Answers primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary prevention - Answers Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring
Secondary prevention - Answers focuses on early identification of individuals or communities
experiencing illness, providing treatment, and conducting activities that are geared to prevent
worsening health status
, screening
Tertiary prevention - Answers aims to prevent the long-term consequences of a chronic illness
or disability and to support optimal functioning
treatment
Benefits from public health - Answers 70% of early deaths from stroke, CAD, and cancer by
health promotion
Includes longer life span, prevents spread, protects against environmental hazards, prevents
injury, encourages health behaviors, responds to disasters, ensures accessibility of health
services
Primary focus of public health - Answers prevention
How did public health shift focus over the years? - Answers civilian hospitals and visiting nurse
agencies shifted care to families and non nursing personnel
Lillian Wald - Answers -first advocate of public health
-assisted with improvement of patient care during the civil war
-promoted nursing education
-established henry street settlement with Mary Brewster
How did the economic depression impact public health? - Answers decreased funding for
nursing services
implemented more public health policies to help and enforce policies to make sure people had
better access to healthcare
Pearl Mclver - Answers 1st nurse employed by US public health service
Bolton Act of 1943 - Answers established Cadet Nursing Corps
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company - Answers Life insurance company that paid for or directly
provided home nursing services for its beneficiaries and their families from 1909 to 1952.
decline of 7% in the mortality rate
Community Based Nursing Practice - Answers -Illness oriented care
-manages acute and chronic conditions
-a result of increased hospital cost
Community-oriented nursing practice - Answers -promotes quality of life
-primary focus is on health care of communities and populations
-preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
Public Health Core Functions - Answers assessment, policy development, assurance
Assessment - Answers systematically collecting data, monitoring health status, and making info
available
Policy Development - Answers using scientific knowledge to develop comprehensive public
health policies
Assurance - Answers refers to the role of public health in making sure that essential community
health services are available
Population focused (nursing) practice - Answers how health outcomes and disparities impact
the population
focuses on sanitation and control of infectious disease through immunization
Public Health - Answers scientific discipline that includes the study of epidemiology, statistics,
and assessment
what society does to ensure that conditions exist in which people can be healthy
Levels of prevention - Answers primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary prevention - Answers Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring
Secondary prevention - Answers focuses on early identification of individuals or communities
experiencing illness, providing treatment, and conducting activities that are geared to prevent
worsening health status
, screening
Tertiary prevention - Answers aims to prevent the long-term consequences of a chronic illness
or disability and to support optimal functioning
treatment
Benefits from public health - Answers 70% of early deaths from stroke, CAD, and cancer by
health promotion
Includes longer life span, prevents spread, protects against environmental hazards, prevents
injury, encourages health behaviors, responds to disasters, ensures accessibility of health
services
Primary focus of public health - Answers prevention
How did public health shift focus over the years? - Answers civilian hospitals and visiting nurse
agencies shifted care to families and non nursing personnel
Lillian Wald - Answers -first advocate of public health
-assisted with improvement of patient care during the civil war
-promoted nursing education
-established henry street settlement with Mary Brewster
How did the economic depression impact public health? - Answers decreased funding for
nursing services
implemented more public health policies to help and enforce policies to make sure people had
better access to healthcare
Pearl Mclver - Answers 1st nurse employed by US public health service
Bolton Act of 1943 - Answers established Cadet Nursing Corps
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company - Answers Life insurance company that paid for or directly
provided home nursing services for its beneficiaries and their families from 1909 to 1952.
decline of 7% in the mortality rate
