Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
Chapter 1: Public Healthand NursingPractice
MultipleChoice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
t t t t t t t
Identifythechoicethat bestcompletes thestatementor answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public healthiss
uewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop ef
t
fective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two pers
pectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing studentisstudying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disea
seprevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections,and
_.
1. Risk assessment fordisease
2. Promotion of primarycare
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the earlyd
iagnosis and preventivetreatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If theinternational medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would lookto the World Health Organization(
WHO), which is:
1. The public healtharm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-
being for the globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public healthinterventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Med
icine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that there are t
hree core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe optimu
mconditions for public health. Which one of thefollowing isnotone of these f
unctions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
TABLE OF CONTENTS
t t t
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
Chapter 1: Public Healthand NursingPractice
MultipleChoice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
t t t t t t t
Identifythechoicethat bestcompletes thestatementor answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public healthiss
uewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop ef
t
fective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two pers
pectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing studentisstudying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disea
seprevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections,and
_.
1. Risk assessment fordisease
2. Promotion of primarycare
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the earlyd
iagnosis and preventivetreatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If theinternational medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would lookto the World Health Organization(
WHO), which is:
1. The public healtharm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-
being for the globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public healthinterventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Med
icine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that there are t
hree core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe optimu
mconditions for public health. Which one of thefollowing isnotone of these f
unctions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
