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NSG 3480 / NSG3480 E XAM 1: (NEW 2025/
2026 UPDATE) NURSING PRACTICE - COMMUNITY
HEALTH REVIEW| QUESTIONS & ANSWERS| GRADE
A| 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED SOLUTIONS)- GALEN
Thinking upstream actions focus on modifying: - ANS ✓Economic, political, and
environmental
Health belief model - ANS ✓Needs are not met by the health care system
Nancy Milo - ANS ✓Societal changes (ex. tobacco) by promoting health through public
policy; lack of knowledge is main determinant for unhealthy behavior
Critical theoretical perspective (Nancy Milio) - ANS ✓Uses societal awareness to expose
social inequalities (poverty) in the healthcare system
Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) - ANS ✓Behavior is determined by one's behavioral
intentions
(ex. I will exercise because I believe there will be positive results)
Theory of Planned Behavior - ANS ✓Factors can facilitate or impede performance of
behavior (work hard to achieve goals)
Health Promotion - ANS ✓The WHO says health is a state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
Groups of people likely to help each other= - ANS ✓Live the closest to the person needing
assistance
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Community competence - ANS ✓the ability community members have in collaborating
efficiently to identify problems and needs (have all the factors)
The goal of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is to - ANS
✓identify emerging health problems
Vital Statitstics - ANS ✓Helps determine population growth or reduction, morbidity and
mortality rates, and occurrence of congenital malformations
The American Community Survey (census data) reports data on - ANS ✓Income,
poverty, and occupational factors
The social system's essential functions are - ANS ✓socialization, role fulfillment, goal
achievement, and member support
Traveling through the area enables the nurse to - ANS ✓absorb an overall impression of
the community
Services found at the local/county health department - ANS ✓Mental health and
ambulatory care, preventative health services, and nursing and welfare services
Principles of beneficence - ANS ✓Gives moral privilege to the needs of the most vulnerable
Microscopic vs macro - ANS ✓Old vs new
First step in needs assessment process - ANS ✓Identify aggregate for assessment to create
plan
Define the community (ex. with zip code) then - ANS ✓learn about the people in the
community
Windshield survery - ANS ✓Go through an area and make organized observations
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