NURS 3320 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
What is a definition of community health nursing? - ✔✔health promotion and disease
prevention among groups of people to improve the collective or aggregate health of the
group.
✔✔What other terms may be used for this nursing specialty? - ✔✔Public Health
Nursing, Population Nursing, Population-Based Nursing.
✔✔What are common community health nursing practice settings? - ✔✔Public health
departments, schools, faith congregations, worksites, prisons.
✔✔Who were key historical figures in community health nursing? - ✔✔Frances Root,
Lillian Wald, Mary Brewster.
✔✔What are modern factors influencing community health nursing? - ✔✔Healthcare
reform, aging population, increased diversity, globalization, poverty and health
disparities.
✔✔What are the five steps of the nursing process? - ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosis,
Planning, Implementation, Evaluation.
, ✔✔What happens during the assessment step? - ✔✔Collect data through observation,
interviews, and examinations.
✔✔What happens during the diagnosis step? - ✔✔Analyze data and identify community
health problems.
✔✔What happens during the planning step? - ✔✔Develop goals and nursing
interventions.
✔✔What happens during the implementation step? - ✔✔Carry out planned
interventions.
✔✔What happens during the evaluation step? - ✔✔Determine if goals and outcomes
were achieved.
✔✔What is an example of assessment applied to a community? - ✔✔Identify the
community and collect health data.
✔✔What is an example of diagnosis applied to a community? - ✔✔Identify actual or
potential community health problems.
✔✔What is an example of planning applied to a community? - ✔✔Collaborate with the
community to set goals and interventions.
✔✔What is an example of implementation applied to a community? - ✔✔Carry out the
planned interventions.
✔✔What is an example of evaluation applied to a community? - ✔✔Determine if goals
improved community health.
✔✔What are components of the Community-As-Partner Model? - ✔✔Community core,
subsystems, stressors, lines of defense, lines of resistance.
✔✔What are the four major concepts of most nursing theories? - ✔✔Person, Health,
Environment, Nursing.
✔✔What does the normal line of defense represent? - ✔✔The community's usual level
of health and stability.
✔✔What does the flexible line of defense represent? - ✔✔A buffer protecting the
community from stressors.
✔✔What do lines of resistance represent? - ✔✔Community strengths used to fight
stressors.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
What is a definition of community health nursing? - ✔✔health promotion and disease
prevention among groups of people to improve the collective or aggregate health of the
group.
✔✔What other terms may be used for this nursing specialty? - ✔✔Public Health
Nursing, Population Nursing, Population-Based Nursing.
✔✔What are common community health nursing practice settings? - ✔✔Public health
departments, schools, faith congregations, worksites, prisons.
✔✔Who were key historical figures in community health nursing? - ✔✔Frances Root,
Lillian Wald, Mary Brewster.
✔✔What are modern factors influencing community health nursing? - ✔✔Healthcare
reform, aging population, increased diversity, globalization, poverty and health
disparities.
✔✔What are the five steps of the nursing process? - ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosis,
Planning, Implementation, Evaluation.
, ✔✔What happens during the assessment step? - ✔✔Collect data through observation,
interviews, and examinations.
✔✔What happens during the diagnosis step? - ✔✔Analyze data and identify community
health problems.
✔✔What happens during the planning step? - ✔✔Develop goals and nursing
interventions.
✔✔What happens during the implementation step? - ✔✔Carry out planned
interventions.
✔✔What happens during the evaluation step? - ✔✔Determine if goals and outcomes
were achieved.
✔✔What is an example of assessment applied to a community? - ✔✔Identify the
community and collect health data.
✔✔What is an example of diagnosis applied to a community? - ✔✔Identify actual or
potential community health problems.
✔✔What is an example of planning applied to a community? - ✔✔Collaborate with the
community to set goals and interventions.
✔✔What is an example of implementation applied to a community? - ✔✔Carry out the
planned interventions.
✔✔What is an example of evaluation applied to a community? - ✔✔Determine if goals
improved community health.
✔✔What are components of the Community-As-Partner Model? - ✔✔Community core,
subsystems, stressors, lines of defense, lines of resistance.
✔✔What are the four major concepts of most nursing theories? - ✔✔Person, Health,
Environment, Nursing.
✔✔What does the normal line of defense represent? - ✔✔The community's usual level
of health and stability.
✔✔What does the flexible line of defense represent? - ✔✔A buffer protecting the
community from stressors.
✔✔What do lines of resistance represent? - ✔✔Community strengths used to fight
stressors.
