TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS FOR POPULATION
HEALTH IN COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 6TH
EDITION BY MARCIA STANHOPE AND JEANETTE
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TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS FOR POPULATION
HEALTH IN COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 6TH
EDITION BY MARCIA STANHOPE AND JEANETTE
LANCASTER FULL TESTBANK WITH ALL CHAPTERS
LATEST AND COMPLETE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which statement best describes community-based nursing?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
b. Providing care with a focus on the group‘s needs.
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate‘s needs.
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care.
ANSWER: A
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is provided
for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The emphasis is on
acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care.
These nurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric
mental health nursing. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to
individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems.
2. Which statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
a. Providing care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease.
ANSWER: D
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By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining
health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All nurses may focus on individuals
and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting, and help manage acute or
chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to community-oriented nursing.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
ANSWER: D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and populations
rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease
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and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population within
it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals and families
across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community,
and the focus of practice is on individual or family-centered illness care.
HEALTH IN COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 6TH
EDITION BY MARCIA STANHOPE AND JEANETTE
LANCASTER FULL TESTBANK WITH ALL CHAPTERS
LATEST AND COMPLETE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
,1|Page
,2|Page
TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS FOR POPULATION
HEALTH IN COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 6TH
EDITION BY MARCIA STANHOPE AND JEANETTE
LANCASTER FULL TESTBANK WITH ALL CHAPTERS
LATEST AND COMPLETE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which statement best describes community-based nursing?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
b. Providing care with a focus on the group‘s needs.
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate‘s needs.
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care.
ANSWER: A
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is provided
for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The emphasis is on
acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care.
These nurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric
mental health nursing. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to
individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems.
2. Which statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
a. Providing care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease.
ANSWER: D
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By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining
health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All nurses may focus on individuals
and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting, and help manage acute or
chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to community-oriented nursing.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
ANSWER: D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and populations
rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease
Want to earn $1.236 Distribution of this document is illegal extra per year?
and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population within
it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals and families
across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community,
and the focus of practice is on individual or family-centered illness care.
