NR442-Community Health (Weeks One, Two, & Three) First Test
Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: What influenced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
Answer: Strongly influenced by the rising numbers of uninsured & underinsured
Question 2: What is the goal of Community and Public Health Nursing?
Answer: To preserve the health of the community and surrounding population including healing
maintenance of individuals, families, and groups within the community.
Question 3: What is Public Health?
Answer: A long term commitment to the community to focus on health promotion and prevention.
*Population based *Grounded in social justice *Relies on science of epidemiology
Question 4: Describe Nursing
Answer: Relationship based care in an independent practice that is: *Grounded in an ethic of caring
*Holistic *Sensitivity to diversity
Question 5: What are the goal of Public Health?
Answer: *Preventing Disease *Prolonging life *Promoting Individual and Community Health
Question 6: Describe Community-based nursing
Answer: All nursing care provided outside of an acute care into the community.
- Provision of personal care to individuals and families in the community.
Question 7: What are the roles of a Community Nurse?
Answer: -Immunizations
-Communicable disease surveillance & control
-Teach & monitor blood borne pathogen control
-Advise on prevention of vector borne diseases
-Teach methods for responsible sexual behavior & screen for STDs
-Screen for TB, identify TB contacts, & deliver directly observed TB treatment.
Question 8: What is Community-oriented nursing?
Answer: All nursing care that is provided within in the overall focus of the well beings of the
community.
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, Question 9: Describe a community
Answer: People, place, social interactions/common characteristics *Two types
-Geopolitical
-Phenomenological
Question 10: Describe geopolitical
Answer: A spatial designation; a geographic or geopolitical area or place.
Question 11: Describe phenomenological
Answer: Relationally-bound by similar characteristics, goals, and/or interests but do not live in the same
area (Military)
Question 12: What are social determinants of health?
Answer: The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution
of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
-Childhood experiences
-Housing
-Education
-Social Support
-Family income
-Employment
-Communities
-Health Service access
Question 13: Name some Health Disparities
Answer: *Culture *Literacy *Language *Geography *Socio-economic *Access *Gender *Religion
Question 14: What are the two major causes of death amoungst all ethics?
Answer: *Heart diseases and Cancer
Question 15: What are some benefits of public health practices?
Answer: *Improved life expectancy *Population-based prevention programs *Potential issues identified
*Fundings
Question 16: What is the vision of public health in America?
Answer: Healthy people in healthy communities
Question 17: What is the mission of public health in America?
Answer: To promote physical and mental health and prevent diseases, injuries, and disabilities.
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Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: What influenced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
Answer: Strongly influenced by the rising numbers of uninsured & underinsured
Question 2: What is the goal of Community and Public Health Nursing?
Answer: To preserve the health of the community and surrounding population including healing
maintenance of individuals, families, and groups within the community.
Question 3: What is Public Health?
Answer: A long term commitment to the community to focus on health promotion and prevention.
*Population based *Grounded in social justice *Relies on science of epidemiology
Question 4: Describe Nursing
Answer: Relationship based care in an independent practice that is: *Grounded in an ethic of caring
*Holistic *Sensitivity to diversity
Question 5: What are the goal of Public Health?
Answer: *Preventing Disease *Prolonging life *Promoting Individual and Community Health
Question 6: Describe Community-based nursing
Answer: All nursing care provided outside of an acute care into the community.
- Provision of personal care to individuals and families in the community.
Question 7: What are the roles of a Community Nurse?
Answer: -Immunizations
-Communicable disease surveillance & control
-Teach & monitor blood borne pathogen control
-Advise on prevention of vector borne diseases
-Teach methods for responsible sexual behavior & screen for STDs
-Screen for TB, identify TB contacts, & deliver directly observed TB treatment.
Question 8: What is Community-oriented nursing?
Answer: All nursing care that is provided within in the overall focus of the well beings of the
community.
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, Question 9: Describe a community
Answer: People, place, social interactions/common characteristics *Two types
-Geopolitical
-Phenomenological
Question 10: Describe geopolitical
Answer: A spatial designation; a geographic or geopolitical area or place.
Question 11: Describe phenomenological
Answer: Relationally-bound by similar characteristics, goals, and/or interests but do not live in the same
area (Military)
Question 12: What are social determinants of health?
Answer: The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution
of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
-Childhood experiences
-Housing
-Education
-Social Support
-Family income
-Employment
-Communities
-Health Service access
Question 13: Name some Health Disparities
Answer: *Culture *Literacy *Language *Geography *Socio-economic *Access *Gender *Religion
Question 14: What are the two major causes of death amoungst all ethics?
Answer: *Heart diseases and Cancer
Question 15: What are some benefits of public health practices?
Answer: *Improved life expectancy *Population-based prevention programs *Potential issues identified
*Fundings
Question 16: What is the vision of public health in America?
Answer: Healthy people in healthy communities
Question 17: What is the mission of public health in America?
Answer: To promote physical and mental health and prevent diseases, injuries, and disabilities.
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