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Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine L.
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Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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,1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
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2. Optimizing Population Health
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3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
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4. Introduction to Community Assessment
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5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health
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II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
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8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
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9. Communicable Diseases
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10. Noncommunicable Diseases
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11. Mental Health
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12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
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13. Injury and Violence
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III. Public Health Planning
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14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
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15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
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18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
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19. Health Planning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
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22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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,Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice b b
Answers are at the end of Each chapter b b b b b b b
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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b 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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b issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop
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b effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two
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b perspectives:
1. Disease; individual b
2. Intervention; government b
3. Epidemic; population b
4. Individual; population b
b 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 include
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b disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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infections,and
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1. Risk assessment for disease b b b
2. Promotion of primary care b b b
, 3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the b b b b b b b
b earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations b b
b 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
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b worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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b Organization(WHO), which is: b b b
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
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2. Working to improve health and well-being for the b b b b b b b
b globalpopulation. b
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above.b b b
b 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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b Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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b Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that there
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b are three core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe
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optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is notone of
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b these functions? b
1. Prevention
2. Assessment