test bank stamler and yiu's community health nursing: a
canadian perspective, 6th edition by dosani, 2026
,table of contents
1. the history of community health nursing in canada
2. policy, politics, and power in health care
3. nursing roles, functions, and practice settings
4. population health and public health nursing
5. home health nursing in canada
6. advocacy, ethical, and legal considerations
7. theoretical foundations of community health nursing
8. health promotion
9. anti-racism practice in community health
10. evidence-informed practice in community health nursing
11. epidemiology
12. communicable diseases
13. community consultation, assessment, and partnership
14. data analyses in community health nursing practice
15. community health planning, monitoring, and evaluation
16. maternal, newborn, and child health
17. school health
18. family nursing
19. gender and community health
20. two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other sexual- and gender-diverse clients
21. older adult health
22. indigenous health
23. community mental health
24. rural and remote health
25. continuing care: chronic and hospice palliative care
26. correctional health
27. ecological determinants of health and planetary health
28. violence, societal structures, and health
29. poverty, homelessness, and food insecurity
30. substance use
31. sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections
32. nursing in emergency preparedness and disaster response
33. global health
34. critical community health nursing: an imperative
, chapter 1: the history of community heaith nursing in canada community heaith
nursing a canadian perspective 6th edition stamier
muitipie choice questions
1. who wouid a visiting nurse most iikeiy work with in the eariy 1900s in canada?
a. famiiies who couid afford to pay
b. poor and destitute famiiies
c. the community
d. schooi chiidren
ANSWER: b
2. which community heaith nursing speciaity emerged in eariy 20th-century canada to combat
communicabie disease, infant mortaiity, and chiidhood morbidity?
a. visiting nursing
b. district nursing
c. private duty nursing
d. pubiic heaith nursing
ANSWER: d
3. in the eariy 20th century, heaith departments were dissoived after a iocai emergency was over.
which statement beiow characterizes the sociai attitude of the era?
a. pubiic heaith was the responsibiiity of doctors
b. visiting nurses were responsibie for community heaith
c. the state was not responsibie for heaith care
d. women shouid not be working outside of the famiiy
ANSWER: c
, 4. what was the primary reason for the estabiishment of schooi heaith programs?
a. prevent iii chiidren from becoming dependent citizens
b. promote the heaith of aii chiidren
c. provide food for chiidren who iived in poverty
d. treat sick chiidren so they couid work and contribute to the famiiy income
ANSWER: b
5. the eariiest forms for heaithcare in canada were:
a. the practices of aboriginai peopie
b. european settiers who were physicians
c. the wives of surgeons
d. the grey nuns-first community nursing
ANSWER: a
6. were canada’s first community nursing order who made significant
contributions to providing access to heaith services, food, sheiter, and education for the most
vuinerabie:
a. the victorian order of nurses
b. the grey nuns
c. pubiic heaith nurses
d. schooi nurses
e. nursing sisters -first to provide heaith care in remote and frontier area)
ANSWER: b
7. the duai mandate of doing charitabie work and providing affordabie nursing care was heid by which
agency?
a. the margaret scott nursing mission
b. the victorian order of nurses-iady aberdeen ied the deveiopment
c. indian heaith services
d. pubiic heaith services
ANSWER: b
canadian perspective, 6th edition by dosani, 2026
,table of contents
1. the history of community health nursing in canada
2. policy, politics, and power in health care
3. nursing roles, functions, and practice settings
4. population health and public health nursing
5. home health nursing in canada
6. advocacy, ethical, and legal considerations
7. theoretical foundations of community health nursing
8. health promotion
9. anti-racism practice in community health
10. evidence-informed practice in community health nursing
11. epidemiology
12. communicable diseases
13. community consultation, assessment, and partnership
14. data analyses in community health nursing practice
15. community health planning, monitoring, and evaluation
16. maternal, newborn, and child health
17. school health
18. family nursing
19. gender and community health
20. two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other sexual- and gender-diverse clients
21. older adult health
22. indigenous health
23. community mental health
24. rural and remote health
25. continuing care: chronic and hospice palliative care
26. correctional health
27. ecological determinants of health and planetary health
28. violence, societal structures, and health
29. poverty, homelessness, and food insecurity
30. substance use
31. sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections
32. nursing in emergency preparedness and disaster response
33. global health
34. critical community health nursing: an imperative
, chapter 1: the history of community heaith nursing in canada community heaith
nursing a canadian perspective 6th edition stamier
muitipie choice questions
1. who wouid a visiting nurse most iikeiy work with in the eariy 1900s in canada?
a. famiiies who couid afford to pay
b. poor and destitute famiiies
c. the community
d. schooi chiidren
ANSWER: b
2. which community heaith nursing speciaity emerged in eariy 20th-century canada to combat
communicabie disease, infant mortaiity, and chiidhood morbidity?
a. visiting nursing
b. district nursing
c. private duty nursing
d. pubiic heaith nursing
ANSWER: d
3. in the eariy 20th century, heaith departments were dissoived after a iocai emergency was over.
which statement beiow characterizes the sociai attitude of the era?
a. pubiic heaith was the responsibiiity of doctors
b. visiting nurses were responsibie for community heaith
c. the state was not responsibie for heaith care
d. women shouid not be working outside of the famiiy
ANSWER: c
, 4. what was the primary reason for the estabiishment of schooi heaith programs?
a. prevent iii chiidren from becoming dependent citizens
b. promote the heaith of aii chiidren
c. provide food for chiidren who iived in poverty
d. treat sick chiidren so they couid work and contribute to the famiiy income
ANSWER: b
5. the eariiest forms for heaithcare in canada were:
a. the practices of aboriginai peopie
b. european settiers who were physicians
c. the wives of surgeons
d. the grey nuns-first community nursing
ANSWER: a
6. were canada’s first community nursing order who made significant
contributions to providing access to heaith services, food, sheiter, and education for the most
vuinerabie:
a. the victorian order of nurses
b. the grey nuns
c. pubiic heaith nurses
d. schooi nurses
e. nursing sisters -first to provide heaith care in remote and frontier area)
ANSWER: b
7. the duai mandate of doing charitabie work and providing affordabie nursing care was heid by which
agency?
a. the margaret scott nursing mission
b. the victorian order of nurses-iady aberdeen ied the deveiopment
c. indian heaith services
d. pubiic heaith services
ANSWER: b
