Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
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Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice:
Caring for Populations
Christine L. Savage, Gordon L. Gillespie, Erin Whitehouse
3rd Edition
,Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
Table of Contents
Unit I: Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
Chapter 2: Optimizing Population Health
Chapter 3: Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
Chapter 4: Introduction to Community Assessment
Chapter 5: Health Program Planning
Chapter 6: Environmental Health
Unit II: Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
Chapter 7: Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 8: Health and Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 9: Communicable Diseases
Chapter 10: Noncommunicable Diseases
Chapter 11: Mental Health
Chapter 12: Substance Use and the Health of Communities
Chapter 13: Injury and Violence
Unit III: Public Health Planning
Chapter 14: Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
Chapter 15: Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
Chapter 16: Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
Chapter 17: Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
Chapter 18: Health Planning for Maternal–Infant and Child Health Settings
Chapter 19: Health Planning for School Settings
Chapter 20: Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
Chapter 21: Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
Chapter 22: Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issue with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
infections, and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
global population.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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
Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
support the optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
following is not one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
Test bank
Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice:
Caring for Populations
Christine L. Savage, Gordon L. Gillespie, Erin Whitehouse
3rd Edition
,Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
Table of Contents
Unit I: Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
Chapter 2: Optimizing Population Health
Chapter 3: Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
Chapter 4: Introduction to Community Assessment
Chapter 5: Health Program Planning
Chapter 6: Environmental Health
Unit II: Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
Chapter 7: Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 8: Health and Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 9: Communicable Diseases
Chapter 10: Noncommunicable Diseases
Chapter 11: Mental Health
Chapter 12: Substance Use and the Health of Communities
Chapter 13: Injury and Violence
Unit III: Public Health Planning
Chapter 14: Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
Chapter 15: Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
Chapter 16: Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
Chapter 17: Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
Chapter 18: Health Planning for Maternal–Infant and Child Health Settings
Chapter 19: Health Planning for School Settings
Chapter 20: Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
Chapter 21: Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
Chapter 22: Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issue with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
infections, and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, 3rd Edition (Savage, 2024) - Test Bank
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
global population.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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
Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
support the optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
following is not one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
