Exit Exam/N215 Community And
Management Hesi Preparation Newest
2026
A community nurse discusses H1N1 with a group of college professors. Which statement best describes
incubation period?
A. The students do not have the disease and have not been exposed.
B. Exposure has occurred and the organism is multiplying.
C. Students may have a cough and low-grade fever at this time.
D. Hospitalization may be necessary at this point. -ANSWERB. Exposure has occurred and the organism is
multiplying.
A community nurse leads a discussion about primary prevention. The example to best reflect this level is
what?
A. Teaching parenting classes to pregnant women in their second trimester.
B. Instructing older women with osteoporosis about the benefits of walking.
C. Counseling clients with emphysema about pollution indexes.
D. Helping cardiac surgery clients access exercise equipment. -ANSWERA. Teaching parenting classes to
pregnant women in their second trimester; planning for the future to avoid physical and/or
psychological problems
A nurse designs a product to investigate the use of smokeless tobacco by male graduates from a local
high school and incidence of oral cancer 10 years later. This represents what type of study?
A. Experimental
B. Prospective
C. Cross-sectional
D. Retrospective -ANSWERB. Prospective; looks forward to find a causal relationship
A nurse is applying for a staff position to provide hospice care. The primary objective of this type of
nursing is focused on what?
A. Offer reassurance to client's family.
B. Keep client clean, dry, and nourished.
C. Help maintain client integrity and comfort.
D. Make referrals for spiritual distress. -ANSWERC. Help maintain client integrity and comfort; dying
peacefully while maintaining integrity
, A nurse receives a large grant for the purpose of educating a state about the leading cause of death due
to infectious disease in the U.S. The nurse develops a television-based public service announcement
focused on which of the following?
A. HIV
B. Tuberculosis
C. Hepatitis
D. Pneumonia -ANSWERD. Pneumonia; major type is community-acquired
A predominantly rural town of 25,000 residents has an annual influx of 5000 migrant workers between
May and September. The nurse identifies which population perspective aspect as represented by this
incidence?
A. Mobility
B. Composition
C. Growth rate
D. Density -ANSWERA. Mobility; people moving in and out of the community on a seasonal basis
A public health nurse visits an undergraduate nursing program. Which student statement indicates
further education is needed on epidemiology?
A. It tracks the incidence of communicable disease.
B. It involves health care reform to lower medical costs.
C. It searches for causal relationships in health and illness.
D. It reduces debilitating workplace injuries. -ANSWERB. It [does not involve] health care reform to
lower medical costs. All other options are correct.
Health promotion programs in the workplace focus on which of the following?
A. Safe work habits
B. Healthy lifestyle choices
C. Treatment of injury
D. Providing protective equipment -ANSWERB. Healthy lifestyle choices; program topics such as smoking
cessation, weight reduction, stress management, etc.
In effort to develop an education program to lower incidence of Lyme disease in a New England town,
the nurse begins by studying the prevalence. Which of the following refers to this concept?
A. Percentage of persons who died from Lyme disease
B. How the disease spread from person to person
C. Number of reported cases over the past 3 years
D. Factors contributing to contracting Lyme disease -ANSWERC. Number of reported cases over the past
3 years; prevalence is the number of cases of a given disease at a given point in time in a specific
population
In the host-agent-environment model of epidemiology, the nurse identifies which of the following as
environment?
A. Herd of infected cattle
B. Waste products dumped in nearby lake
C. Individuals living in a "crack house"
D. Water contaminated with E. coli -ANSWERD. Water contaminated with E. coli; "environment" in the
epidemiological triangle refers to all external factors surrounding the host that might influence
vulnerability and resistance