NUR 452 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
This type of nursing care focuses of illness care and individuals and families. You
manage acute and chronic illness in a community. Family centered illness care.
For example: A nurse visits an elderly person at home to help with medication. -
Answers - Community-based nursing
This type of nursing care's main focus is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain
health in populations and communities. It is health care to promote quality of life. More
broad, population health is another term. They focus on health promotion, health
education, disease prevention, and coordination of health care for members of the
community to the benefit of the entire community. An example would be a school nurse
educating high school students about safe sex practices. - Answers - Community-
oriented nursing
Which example best describes the public health core function of policy development?
A. Creating a school based clinic in a school within an impoverished neighborhood.
B. Investigation of motor vehicle accidents among the teenage population in a county.
C. Monitoring the incidence of back injuries at a packaging company.
D. Creation of a coalition to work towards educating the community about seatbelt use. -
Answers - D (Policy development includes informing, educating, empowering,
mobilizing community partnership, and developing policies to support individual and
community health efforts.)
An occupational health nurse noticed that the employees are at risk for hearing loss due
to loud machinery and alarms. The nurse decides to provide hearing screenings to the
employees. What public health intervention does this best describe?
A. Coalition building
B. Care Coordination
C. Health teaching
D. Case-finding - Answers - D
What example best describes the public health core function of assurance?
a. Investigating the incidence of nutritional deficiencies of school-aged children in
Maricopa county.
b. Creating a law that limits the amount of soda available at public schools in a county.
c. Researching to find healthy alternatives for junk food offered by a public school's
cafeteria.
d. Partnering with the Fresh Express Bus to improve access to low-cost fresh
vegetables and fruits for school-aged children in a county. - Answers - C (Assurance
includes enforcing laws, protecting health and assuring safety, linking communities and
individuals to provide care, assure competent workforce, evaluating, and researching for
new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.)
, List some nursing roles a community-oriented nurse would use in caring for a
community/population. - Answers - 1. Counselor
2. Assessor
3. Social engineer
4. Case manager
5. Leader
6. Enforcer of laws
7. Caregiver
8. Community developer
9. Case finder
10. Policy developer
11. Advocator
12. Educator
13. Change agent
14. Community care agent
A community health nurse is working with a local politician to develop a law to limit the
amount of junk food available in vending machines at a public school in Maricopa
county. Which of the following nursing roles does this situation represent?
a. Caregiver
b. Policy developer
c. Social engineer
d. Educator - Answers - B
A school nurse works with the school principal to have an assembly at a high school to
teach the students about safe-sex practices. Which of the following nursing roles does
this situation represent?
a. Case finder
b. Advocator
c. Educator
d. Assessor - Answers - C
A community health nurse sees that there have been a noticeable number of reported
cases of measles in the county they reside in. Which of the following public health
interventions does this situation represent?
a. Case-finding
b. Surveillance
c. Collaboration
d. Outreach - Answers - B (Surveillance: Describes and monitors health events
through ongoing and systematic
collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the
purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health
interventions.
This type of nursing care focuses of illness care and individuals and families. You
manage acute and chronic illness in a community. Family centered illness care.
For example: A nurse visits an elderly person at home to help with medication. -
Answers - Community-based nursing
This type of nursing care's main focus is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain
health in populations and communities. It is health care to promote quality of life. More
broad, population health is another term. They focus on health promotion, health
education, disease prevention, and coordination of health care for members of the
community to the benefit of the entire community. An example would be a school nurse
educating high school students about safe sex practices. - Answers - Community-
oriented nursing
Which example best describes the public health core function of policy development?
A. Creating a school based clinic in a school within an impoverished neighborhood.
B. Investigation of motor vehicle accidents among the teenage population in a county.
C. Monitoring the incidence of back injuries at a packaging company.
D. Creation of a coalition to work towards educating the community about seatbelt use. -
Answers - D (Policy development includes informing, educating, empowering,
mobilizing community partnership, and developing policies to support individual and
community health efforts.)
An occupational health nurse noticed that the employees are at risk for hearing loss due
to loud machinery and alarms. The nurse decides to provide hearing screenings to the
employees. What public health intervention does this best describe?
A. Coalition building
B. Care Coordination
C. Health teaching
D. Case-finding - Answers - D
What example best describes the public health core function of assurance?
a. Investigating the incidence of nutritional deficiencies of school-aged children in
Maricopa county.
b. Creating a law that limits the amount of soda available at public schools in a county.
c. Researching to find healthy alternatives for junk food offered by a public school's
cafeteria.
d. Partnering with the Fresh Express Bus to improve access to low-cost fresh
vegetables and fruits for school-aged children in a county. - Answers - C (Assurance
includes enforcing laws, protecting health and assuring safety, linking communities and
individuals to provide care, assure competent workforce, evaluating, and researching for
new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.)
, List some nursing roles a community-oriented nurse would use in caring for a
community/population. - Answers - 1. Counselor
2. Assessor
3. Social engineer
4. Case manager
5. Leader
6. Enforcer of laws
7. Caregiver
8. Community developer
9. Case finder
10. Policy developer
11. Advocator
12. Educator
13. Change agent
14. Community care agent
A community health nurse is working with a local politician to develop a law to limit the
amount of junk food available in vending machines at a public school in Maricopa
county. Which of the following nursing roles does this situation represent?
a. Caregiver
b. Policy developer
c. Social engineer
d. Educator - Answers - B
A school nurse works with the school principal to have an assembly at a high school to
teach the students about safe-sex practices. Which of the following nursing roles does
this situation represent?
a. Case finder
b. Advocator
c. Educator
d. Assessor - Answers - C
A community health nurse sees that there have been a noticeable number of reported
cases of measles in the county they reside in. Which of the following public health
interventions does this situation represent?
a. Case-finding
b. Surveillance
c. Collaboration
d. Outreach - Answers - B (Surveillance: Describes and monitors health events
through ongoing and systematic
collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the
purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health
interventions.
