Questions and Answers correct
A, B, C, D - answer ✯ What does a community health nurse do?
A. Assesses the Community
B. Assesses families within the community
C. Provides health education to community members
D. Provides health services to individuals
True - answer ✯ True or False?
▪︎Public Health Nurses focus on population health - more so than community health
nurses do.
Public Health Nurse - answer ✯ ______ _______ _______
▪︎Remember the community is both where the services are provided and the client. It
includes public health nursing. Every ______ ______ ______ is a community health
nurse, but NOT every community health nurse is a _______ _______ _______!
B - answer ✯ Why are there so many definitions of health?
A. Things get lost in translation
B. People think about and approach health differently
C. So that patients can justify bad behaviors
D. There aren't. Fit is t and sick is sick.
Culturally Competent - answer ✯ To provide ______ ______ care, it is important to
understand that people have different definitions of health.
Be a partner with your patients to help guide them towards making healthy decisions.
It's not about the disease; it's about the patient and their social context.
D - answer ✯ All of the following are dimensions of a community assessment except
which?
A. Aggregates
B. Space or Time Location
C. Social System
D. Genetic Makeup of Population
Genetic Makeup - answer ✯ All of the following are dimensions of a community
assessment except which?
A. Aggregates
B. Space or Time Location
C. Social System
D. _____ _____ of Population
⇢ WRONG
, ▪︎Dimensions of Community Assessment
⇢ So for those of you that are ever tempted to pick anything like genetic makeup at any
point in this course remember that when it comes to what we're dealing with here in this
class genetic makeup is essentially irrelevant we're talking about a social construct think
back to biology in high school right when you first learned about what a community is. A
community is a collection of organisms so we're talking about how everything interacts.
So race is the
social construct, ethnicity is the social construct because it is a cultural representation
it's social. So that's your aggregate assessment and then we're looking at where are our
organisms, when are they, and how do they interact. All social assessments.
A - answer ✯ Speaking of "social," which of the following is an example of a poor
social determinant of health?
A. 90 minute drive to the nearest healthcare provider
B. Lack of money for cheerleading shoes
C. Using social media to communicate with church members
D. Inability to afford private school
Social Determinant of Health - answer ✯ Speaking of "social," which of the following
is an example of a poor _____ ______ of _______?
A. 90 minute drive to the nearest healthcare provider
B. Lack of money for cheerleading shoes
C. Using social media to communicate with church members
D. Inability to afford private school
⇢ WRONG; The inability to afford the private school is not the disparity. The lack of
access to a quality public education (if that is the case) is the disparity.
B - answer ✯ Which of the following best describes a leading health indicator?
A. Morbidity and mortality rates
B. List of health trends that are concerning to the community
C. Measurements of a hospital's effectiveness
D. Indicates/predicts future health problems of the community
Getting Worse - answer ✯ Which leading health indicators are getting worse or aren't
changing?
▪︎Oral Health Services Utilization
▪︎Adolescents with a Major Depressive Disorder within the past 12 Months
▪︎Suicide
Not Changing - answer ✯ Which leading health indicators are getting worse or aren't
changing?
▪︎New Cases of Diabetes
▪︎Sexually Active Females Receiving Reproductive Health Services
▪︎Obesity Among Children and Adolescents
▪︎Binge Drinking in Adults