2026 ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH PAPER LATEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Healthy People 2020 - ✔✔Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages.
✔✔Primary Prevention - ✔✔Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
(Education [8th or lower], immunizations, etc.)
✔✔Secondary Prevention - ✔✔Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you
cannot completely prevent. Limit severity. (Screening)
✔✔Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Actions taken to contain damage once a disease or
disability has progressed beyond its early stages
✔✔Aculturation - ✔✔Adopting new cultural traits while maintaining some of the former
ones
✔✔Ethnocentrism - ✔✔Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
✔✔Culture assessment - ✔✔Ask about faith and belief systems to understand culture
and spirituality relationships.
Don't use family member as interpreter
✔✔Environmental risks - ✔✔toxins, air pollution, water pollution, contamination
(What is their occupation, living situation etc.)
✔✔Toxins - ✔✔Lead, pesticides, asbestos, radon
, ✔✔Air pollution - ✔✔CO, tobacco smoke, airborne
✔✔Water pollution - ✔✔Waste products, chemical runoff, water quality, etc.
(Water heater should be <120 F)
✔✔Lead exposure - ✔✔Old homes before 1978 = risk for lead-based paint.
Screen kids 6mo-5yr blood/lead.
Wet mop floors instead of vacuum. Cold water is safer
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔A program for over 65, receving disability for 2+yrs, ALS, or ES renal
dz
✔✔Medicare Part A - ✔✔The part of the Medicare program that pays for hospitalization,
care in a skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice care.
✔✔Medicare Part B - ✔✔Outpatient care: Diagnostic services, PT/OT
✔✔Medicare Part C - ✔✔[Typically through private insurance] Managed care health
plans offered to medicare beneficiaries under the medicare advantage program
✔✔Medicare Part D - ✔✔Prescription drug coverage
✔✔Medicaid - ✔✔Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income
persons.
✔✔State Department of Health - ✔✔WIC program, oversee CHIP, and Medicaid
program, also report/notify communicable dz to the CDC
✔✔State Board of Nursing - ✔✔A state board of nursing holds the legal authority for
nursing practice and regulates nursing practice through:
Establishing the requirements to obtain a
nursing license
Issuing nursing licenses
Determining the scope of practice
Setting minimum education standards
Managing disciplinary procedures
✔✔Local Health Departments - ✔✔Meet health needs of local community and notify
state Dep. of health of communicable dz
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Healthy People 2020 - ✔✔Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages.
✔✔Primary Prevention - ✔✔Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
(Education [8th or lower], immunizations, etc.)
✔✔Secondary Prevention - ✔✔Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you
cannot completely prevent. Limit severity. (Screening)
✔✔Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Actions taken to contain damage once a disease or
disability has progressed beyond its early stages
✔✔Aculturation - ✔✔Adopting new cultural traits while maintaining some of the former
ones
✔✔Ethnocentrism - ✔✔Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
✔✔Culture assessment - ✔✔Ask about faith and belief systems to understand culture
and spirituality relationships.
Don't use family member as interpreter
✔✔Environmental risks - ✔✔toxins, air pollution, water pollution, contamination
(What is their occupation, living situation etc.)
✔✔Toxins - ✔✔Lead, pesticides, asbestos, radon
, ✔✔Air pollution - ✔✔CO, tobacco smoke, airborne
✔✔Water pollution - ✔✔Waste products, chemical runoff, water quality, etc.
(Water heater should be <120 F)
✔✔Lead exposure - ✔✔Old homes before 1978 = risk for lead-based paint.
Screen kids 6mo-5yr blood/lead.
Wet mop floors instead of vacuum. Cold water is safer
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔A program for over 65, receving disability for 2+yrs, ALS, or ES renal
dz
✔✔Medicare Part A - ✔✔The part of the Medicare program that pays for hospitalization,
care in a skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice care.
✔✔Medicare Part B - ✔✔Outpatient care: Diagnostic services, PT/OT
✔✔Medicare Part C - ✔✔[Typically through private insurance] Managed care health
plans offered to medicare beneficiaries under the medicare advantage program
✔✔Medicare Part D - ✔✔Prescription drug coverage
✔✔Medicaid - ✔✔Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income
persons.
✔✔State Department of Health - ✔✔WIC program, oversee CHIP, and Medicaid
program, also report/notify communicable dz to the CDC
✔✔State Board of Nursing - ✔✔A state board of nursing holds the legal authority for
nursing practice and regulates nursing practice through:
Establishing the requirements to obtain a
nursing license
Issuing nursing licenses
Determining the scope of practice
Setting minimum education standards
Managing disciplinary procedures
✔✔Local Health Departments - ✔✔Meet health needs of local community and notify
state Dep. of health of communicable dz
