Community health nursing a canadian perspective 5th
edition
by stamler covered chapters 1-33
,table of contents
chapter 1: the history of community health nursing in canada ................................................................. 4
chapter 2: financing, policy, and politics of healthcare delivery .............................................................. 12
chapter 3: nursing roles, functions, and practice settings ........................................................................ 22
chapter 4: public health nursing ................................................................................................................ 32
chapter 5: home health nursing in canada ................................................................................................ 34
chapter 6: advocacy, ethical, and legal considerations ............................................................................ 43
chapter 7: theoretical foundations of community health nursing ........................................................... 53
chapter 8: health promotion...................................................................................................................... 65
chapter 9: race, culture, and health .......................................................................................................... 77
chapter 10: evidence-informed decision making in community research ............................................... 89
chapter 11: epidemiology ........................................................................................................................ 101
chapter 12: communicable diseases ........................................................................................................ 114
chapter 13: community nursing process ................................................................................................. 123
chapter 14: community health planning, monitoring and evaluation ................................................... 133
chapter 15: information technology ........................................................................................................ 143
chapter16: maternal, newborn and child health .................................................................................... 153
chapter 17: school health......................................................................................................................... 163
chapter 18: family health ......................................................................................................................... 174
chapter 19: gender and community health ............................................................................................. 187
chapter 20: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,and queer clients ........................................................ 198
chapter 21:older adult health .................................................................................................................. 208
chapter 22: aboriginal health ................................................................................................................... 220
chapter 23: mental health........................................................................................................................ 230
chapter 24: rural and remote health ....................................................................................................... 240
chapter 25: chronic care, long-term care, and palliative care ................................................................ 249
chapter 26: corectional health ................................................................................................................. 259
chapter 27: environmental and occupational health ............................................................................. 268
chapter 28: violence insocieties............................................................................................................... 277
chapter 29: poverty, homelessness and food security ........................................................................... 286
chapter 30: substance use, abuse and addictions................................................................................... 296
chapter 31:sexualy transmited infections and blood-borne pathogens ................................................ 307
chapter 32: emergency preparedness and disaster nursing ................................................................... 317
,chapter 33: global health ......................................................................................................................... 327
,Chapter 1: the history of community health nursing in canada
Community health nursing a canadian perspective 5th edition stamler
Multiple choice questions
1. Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in canada?
A. Families who could afford to pay
B. Poor and destitute families
C. The community
D. School children
Answer: b (page 6)
2. Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century canada to combat
communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity?
A. Visiting nursing
B. District nursing
C. Private duty nursing
D. Public health nursing
Answer: d (page 4)
3. In the early 20th century, health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was over. Which
statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?
A. Public health was the responsibility of doctors
B. Visiting nurses were responsible for community health
C. The state was not responsible for health care
D. Women should not be working outside of the family
,Answer: c (page 3)
4. What was the primary reason for the establishment of school health programs?
A. Prevent ill children from becoming dependent citizens
B. Promote the health of all children
C. Provide food for children who lived in poverty
D. Treat sick children so they could work and contribute to the family income
Answer: b (page 4)
5. The earliest forms for healthcare in canada were:
A. The practices of aboriginal people
B. European settlers who were physicians
C. The wives of surgeons
D. The grey nuns-first community nursing
Answer: a (page 2)
6. Were canada’s first community nursing order who made significant contributions to providing access
to health services, food, shelter, and education for the most vulnerable:
A. The victorian order of nurses
B. The grey nuns
C. Public health nurses
D. School nurses
E. Nursing sisters -first to provide health care in remote and frontier area)
Answer: b (page 3)
,7. The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was held by which
agency?
A. The margaret scott nursing mission
B. The victorian order of nurses-lady aberdeen led the development
C. Indian health services
D. Public health services
Answer: b (page 4)
8. How were public health nurses and home visiting nurses different from nurses employed in other
sectors of the healthcare system?
A. They received less compensation for their services
B. They were dependent on other health care professionals
C. They required post-diploma training at a university
D. They offered services to the elite living in urban districts
Answer: c (page 4)
9. Which of the following were the first two public health nursing specialties?
A. Tb nursing and school nursing
B. Private duty nursing and tb nursing
C. Home-visiting nursing and school nursing
D. Outpost nursing and school nursing
Answer: a (page 4)
10. What was the role of the first public health nurses in canada?
A. To assess hygiene conditions in the home
B. To conduct well baby clinics
,C. To promote breastfeeding of newborn infants
D. To promote health of school children
Answer: d (page 4)
11. Which organization is credited for establishing well-baby clinics?
A. The grey nuns
B. The victorian order of nurses
C. The red cross
D. Provincial health departments
Answer: c (page 5)
12. Why did public health programs have limited success in rural and isolated areas?
A. There was a greater need for home care and midwifery
B. There were many physicians in the rural areas
C. There was higher need for health education and illness prevention
D. Local health departments were situated in rural areas
Answer: a (page 6)
13. Which of the following roles best describes the work of the district and visiting nurse?
A. They provided home visits and well-baby clinic services
B. They provided bed-side nursing and health education
C. They provided maternal child health programs
D. They provided well-baby clinic services and health education
Answer: b (page 6)
,14. How did publicly funded healthcare programs change the work of visiting nursing associations?
A. The victorian order of nurses took over public health programs
B. Visiting nurses provided care to those who could not afford it
C. Hospital admission became the norm for those requiring obstetrical care
D. Chronically ill individuals no longer remained in community settings
Answer: c (page 7)
15. Military nursing requires the nurse to demonstrate which of the following competencies of
community health nursing:
A. A narrow vision
B. Acute care health approaches
C. The ability to adapt practice in diverse settings
D. The ethical comportment to address simple conflicts that involve violence
Answer: c (page 7)
16. Which of the following types of community health nursing refers to nurses providing services in the
most remote geographic locations?
A. Visiting nursing
B. Public health nursing
C. Outpost nursing
D. District nursing
Answer: c (page 7)
17. Which group played an important role in developing the social and healthcare services in smaller
communities?
A. The victorian order of nurses
B. The politicians
,C. District and visiting nurses
D. Women volunteers
Answer: d (page 5)
18. What was the focus of the first group of public health officials in the early 20th century?
A. Waste disposal and a safe water supply
B. Health education and disease prevention
C. Infant and child welfare
D. Social welfare programs
Answer: c (page 5)
19.which of the following programs were taken over by the health department as part of the process of
consolidating all public health programs?
A. School health programs
B. Social welfare programs
C. Well-baby programs
D. Home visiting programs
Answer: a (page 5)
20. Which of the following organizations is viewed as canada’s oldest and most experienced visiting
nursing organization?
A. The red cross
B. The victorian order of nurses
C. The grey nuns
D. Provincial health departments
, Answer: b (page 9)
21. Early school-based initiatives involved which of the following activities?
A. Immunizations at various ages
B. Medical inspections of children followed by home visits
C. Breakfast and lunch programs
D. Sanitation and access to potable water
Answer: b (page 5)
22. How did the reduction in government spending in the 1980s and 1990s affect community health
nurses?
A. Increased funding for physical infrastructure
B. Re-institutionalization of mental health patients
C. Improved capacity to follow-up with patients with communicable diseases
D. Reduced nursing positions
Answer: d (page 10)
23. In which year was the community health nurses association of canada established?
A. 1995
B. 2000
C. 1987
D. 1976
Answer: c (page 11)
24. Which document continues to be recognized as a visionary document with recommendations for
shifting resources and policy in the direction of primary health care, home healthcare, and health
promotion, which nurses as key players in the system?
edition
by stamler covered chapters 1-33
,table of contents
chapter 1: the history of community health nursing in canada ................................................................. 4
chapter 2: financing, policy, and politics of healthcare delivery .............................................................. 12
chapter 3: nursing roles, functions, and practice settings ........................................................................ 22
chapter 4: public health nursing ................................................................................................................ 32
chapter 5: home health nursing in canada ................................................................................................ 34
chapter 6: advocacy, ethical, and legal considerations ............................................................................ 43
chapter 7: theoretical foundations of community health nursing ........................................................... 53
chapter 8: health promotion...................................................................................................................... 65
chapter 9: race, culture, and health .......................................................................................................... 77
chapter 10: evidence-informed decision making in community research ............................................... 89
chapter 11: epidemiology ........................................................................................................................ 101
chapter 12: communicable diseases ........................................................................................................ 114
chapter 13: community nursing process ................................................................................................. 123
chapter 14: community health planning, monitoring and evaluation ................................................... 133
chapter 15: information technology ........................................................................................................ 143
chapter16: maternal, newborn and child health .................................................................................... 153
chapter 17: school health......................................................................................................................... 163
chapter 18: family health ......................................................................................................................... 174
chapter 19: gender and community health ............................................................................................. 187
chapter 20: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,and queer clients ........................................................ 198
chapter 21:older adult health .................................................................................................................. 208
chapter 22: aboriginal health ................................................................................................................... 220
chapter 23: mental health........................................................................................................................ 230
chapter 24: rural and remote health ....................................................................................................... 240
chapter 25: chronic care, long-term care, and palliative care ................................................................ 249
chapter 26: corectional health ................................................................................................................. 259
chapter 27: environmental and occupational health ............................................................................. 268
chapter 28: violence insocieties............................................................................................................... 277
chapter 29: poverty, homelessness and food security ........................................................................... 286
chapter 30: substance use, abuse and addictions................................................................................... 296
chapter 31:sexualy transmited infections and blood-borne pathogens ................................................ 307
chapter 32: emergency preparedness and disaster nursing ................................................................... 317
,chapter 33: global health ......................................................................................................................... 327
,Chapter 1: the history of community health nursing in canada
Community health nursing a canadian perspective 5th edition stamler
Multiple choice questions
1. Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in canada?
A. Families who could afford to pay
B. Poor and destitute families
C. The community
D. School children
Answer: b (page 6)
2. Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century canada to combat
communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity?
A. Visiting nursing
B. District nursing
C. Private duty nursing
D. Public health nursing
Answer: d (page 4)
3. In the early 20th century, health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was over. Which
statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?
A. Public health was the responsibility of doctors
B. Visiting nurses were responsible for community health
C. The state was not responsible for health care
D. Women should not be working outside of the family
,Answer: c (page 3)
4. What was the primary reason for the establishment of school health programs?
A. Prevent ill children from becoming dependent citizens
B. Promote the health of all children
C. Provide food for children who lived in poverty
D. Treat sick children so they could work and contribute to the family income
Answer: b (page 4)
5. The earliest forms for healthcare in canada were:
A. The practices of aboriginal people
B. European settlers who were physicians
C. The wives of surgeons
D. The grey nuns-first community nursing
Answer: a (page 2)
6. Were canada’s first community nursing order who made significant contributions to providing access
to health services, food, shelter, and education for the most vulnerable:
A. The victorian order of nurses
B. The grey nuns
C. Public health nurses
D. School nurses
E. Nursing sisters -first to provide health care in remote and frontier area)
Answer: b (page 3)
,7. The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was held by which
agency?
A. The margaret scott nursing mission
B. The victorian order of nurses-lady aberdeen led the development
C. Indian health services
D. Public health services
Answer: b (page 4)
8. How were public health nurses and home visiting nurses different from nurses employed in other
sectors of the healthcare system?
A. They received less compensation for their services
B. They were dependent on other health care professionals
C. They required post-diploma training at a university
D. They offered services to the elite living in urban districts
Answer: c (page 4)
9. Which of the following were the first two public health nursing specialties?
A. Tb nursing and school nursing
B. Private duty nursing and tb nursing
C. Home-visiting nursing and school nursing
D. Outpost nursing and school nursing
Answer: a (page 4)
10. What was the role of the first public health nurses in canada?
A. To assess hygiene conditions in the home
B. To conduct well baby clinics
,C. To promote breastfeeding of newborn infants
D. To promote health of school children
Answer: d (page 4)
11. Which organization is credited for establishing well-baby clinics?
A. The grey nuns
B. The victorian order of nurses
C. The red cross
D. Provincial health departments
Answer: c (page 5)
12. Why did public health programs have limited success in rural and isolated areas?
A. There was a greater need for home care and midwifery
B. There were many physicians in the rural areas
C. There was higher need for health education and illness prevention
D. Local health departments were situated in rural areas
Answer: a (page 6)
13. Which of the following roles best describes the work of the district and visiting nurse?
A. They provided home visits and well-baby clinic services
B. They provided bed-side nursing and health education
C. They provided maternal child health programs
D. They provided well-baby clinic services and health education
Answer: b (page 6)
,14. How did publicly funded healthcare programs change the work of visiting nursing associations?
A. The victorian order of nurses took over public health programs
B. Visiting nurses provided care to those who could not afford it
C. Hospital admission became the norm for those requiring obstetrical care
D. Chronically ill individuals no longer remained in community settings
Answer: c (page 7)
15. Military nursing requires the nurse to demonstrate which of the following competencies of
community health nursing:
A. A narrow vision
B. Acute care health approaches
C. The ability to adapt practice in diverse settings
D. The ethical comportment to address simple conflicts that involve violence
Answer: c (page 7)
16. Which of the following types of community health nursing refers to nurses providing services in the
most remote geographic locations?
A. Visiting nursing
B. Public health nursing
C. Outpost nursing
D. District nursing
Answer: c (page 7)
17. Which group played an important role in developing the social and healthcare services in smaller
communities?
A. The victorian order of nurses
B. The politicians
,C. District and visiting nurses
D. Women volunteers
Answer: d (page 5)
18. What was the focus of the first group of public health officials in the early 20th century?
A. Waste disposal and a safe water supply
B. Health education and disease prevention
C. Infant and child welfare
D. Social welfare programs
Answer: c (page 5)
19.which of the following programs were taken over by the health department as part of the process of
consolidating all public health programs?
A. School health programs
B. Social welfare programs
C. Well-baby programs
D. Home visiting programs
Answer: a (page 5)
20. Which of the following organizations is viewed as canada’s oldest and most experienced visiting
nursing organization?
A. The red cross
B. The victorian order of nurses
C. The grey nuns
D. Provincial health departments
, Answer: b (page 9)
21. Early school-based initiatives involved which of the following activities?
A. Immunizations at various ages
B. Medical inspections of children followed by home visits
C. Breakfast and lunch programs
D. Sanitation and access to potable water
Answer: b (page 5)
22. How did the reduction in government spending in the 1980s and 1990s affect community health
nurses?
A. Increased funding for physical infrastructure
B. Re-institutionalization of mental health patients
C. Improved capacity to follow-up with patients with communicable diseases
D. Reduced nursing positions
Answer: d (page 10)
23. In which year was the community health nurses association of canada established?
A. 1995
B. 2000
C. 1987
D. 1976
Answer: c (page 11)
24. Which document continues to be recognized as a visionary document with recommendations for
shifting resources and policy in the direction of primary health care, home healthcare, and health
promotion, which nurses as key players in the system?
