TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. bfBasis bffor bfPublic bfHealth bfNursing bfKnowledge bfand bfSkills
, Public/Community bfHealth bfand bfNursing bfPractice: bfCaring bffor bfPopulations
1. bfPublic bfHealth bfand bfNursing bfPractice
2. bfOptimizing bfPopulation bfHealth
3. bfEpidemiology bfand bfNursing bfPractice
4. bfIntroduction bfto bfCommunity bfAssessment
5. bfHealth bfProgram bfPlanning
6. bfEnvironmental bfHealth
II. bfCommunity bfHealth bfAcross bfPopulations: bfPublic bfHealth bfIssues
7. bfHealth bfDisparities bfand bfthe bfSocial bfDeterminants bfof bfHealth
8. bfHealth bfand bfVulnerable bfPopulations
9. bfCommunicable bfDiseases
10. bfNoncommunicable bfDiseases
11. bfMental bfHealth
12. bfSubstance bfUse bfand bfthe bfHealth bfof bfCommunities
13. bfInjury bfand bfViolence
III. bfPublic bfHealth bfPlanning
14. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfLocal bfPublic bfHealth bfDepartments
15. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfAcute bfCare bfSettings
16. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfPrimary bfCare bfSettings
17. bfHealth bfPlanning bfwith bfRural bfand bfUrban bfCommunities
18. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfMaternal-Infant bfand bfChild bfHealth bfSettings
19. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfSchool bfSettings
20. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfOccupational bfand bfEnvironmental bfHealth
21. bfHealth bfPlanning, bfPublic bfHealth bfPolicy, bfand bfFinance
22. bfHealth bfPlanning bffor bfEmergency bfPreparedness bfand bfDisaster bfManagement
, Public/Community bfHealth bfand bfNursing bfPractice: bfCaring bffor bfPopulations
Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice bf bf
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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bf 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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bf develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
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bf 2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
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C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health
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communicable infections,and
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2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
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globalpopulation.
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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above.
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bf 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and
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bf Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences,
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bf Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the
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bf Public’s Health, that there are three core functions that society
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health. Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment