Chapter 1 – Community & Prevention-
Oriented Practice to Improve Population
Health 2025
A nurse in a clinic that provides direct care services to clients with tuberculosis would be classified as
practicing:
a. community-based nursing.
b. community-oriented nursing.
c. institutional nursing.
d. public health nursing. - ANSWER ✔✨---a. community-based nursing.
The nurse practicing as a community-based nurse is more likely to give direct care to people than are
nurses who practice from a community-oriented framework. A community-oriented framework includes
community-oriented nursing and public health nursing. Institutional nursing care is generally delivered
in a hospital or nursing home setting.
Jennifer is a nurse in a family medicine clinic. Today she is assessing Jose, a 4-year-old who is being seen
for an earache. The type of nursing Jennifer practices is:
a. community-oriented nursing.
b. community-based nursing.
c. public health nursing.
d. tertiary health nursing. - ANSWER ✔✨---b. community-based nursing.
, In community-based nursing, the nurse focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families across the
life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community, and the practice
is family-centered illness care. Community-based nursing is not a specialty in nursing but, rather, a
philosophy that guides care in all nursing specialties. Community-oriented nursing has as its primary
focus the health care either of the community or populations as in public health nursing (PHN) or of
individuals, families, and groups in a community.
A school nurse teaches three middle school students with asthma conditions techniques to minimize
their incidence of bronchial spasms. This is an application of:
a. community-based nursing.
b. community-oriented nursing.
c. institutional nursing.
d. public health nursing. - ANSWER ✔✨---a. community-based nursing.
The goal of community-based nursing (CBN) is to manage acute or chronic conditions while promoting
self-care among individuals and families. In CBN the nursing care is family centered, which meanswer
that the nurse works to improve the competencies of families to enable them to take better care of
themselves. The nurse pays particular attention to the uniqueness of each family and works to plan the
most useful interventions. Nurses practicing in the community and many staff public health nurses focus
on providing direct care services, including health education, to persons or families outside of
institutional settings, either in the home or in a clinic.
The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to determine the
community's health status. Which of the following activities should be considered in the assessment
phase? (SATA)
a. Assisting communities to implement and evaluate planswer and projects
b. Building constituencies to work with the community
c. Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community - ANSWER ✔✨---c. Collecting,
analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community
Oriented Practice to Improve Population
Health 2025
A nurse in a clinic that provides direct care services to clients with tuberculosis would be classified as
practicing:
a. community-based nursing.
b. community-oriented nursing.
c. institutional nursing.
d. public health nursing. - ANSWER ✔✨---a. community-based nursing.
The nurse practicing as a community-based nurse is more likely to give direct care to people than are
nurses who practice from a community-oriented framework. A community-oriented framework includes
community-oriented nursing and public health nursing. Institutional nursing care is generally delivered
in a hospital or nursing home setting.
Jennifer is a nurse in a family medicine clinic. Today she is assessing Jose, a 4-year-old who is being seen
for an earache. The type of nursing Jennifer practices is:
a. community-oriented nursing.
b. community-based nursing.
c. public health nursing.
d. tertiary health nursing. - ANSWER ✔✨---b. community-based nursing.
, In community-based nursing, the nurse focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families across the
life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community, and the practice
is family-centered illness care. Community-based nursing is not a specialty in nursing but, rather, a
philosophy that guides care in all nursing specialties. Community-oriented nursing has as its primary
focus the health care either of the community or populations as in public health nursing (PHN) or of
individuals, families, and groups in a community.
A school nurse teaches three middle school students with asthma conditions techniques to minimize
their incidence of bronchial spasms. This is an application of:
a. community-based nursing.
b. community-oriented nursing.
c. institutional nursing.
d. public health nursing. - ANSWER ✔✨---a. community-based nursing.
The goal of community-based nursing (CBN) is to manage acute or chronic conditions while promoting
self-care among individuals and families. In CBN the nursing care is family centered, which meanswer
that the nurse works to improve the competencies of families to enable them to take better care of
themselves. The nurse pays particular attention to the uniqueness of each family and works to plan the
most useful interventions. Nurses practicing in the community and many staff public health nurses focus
on providing direct care services, including health education, to persons or families outside of
institutional settings, either in the home or in a clinic.
The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to determine the
community's health status. Which of the following activities should be considered in the assessment
phase? (SATA)
a. Assisting communities to implement and evaluate planswer and projects
b. Building constituencies to work with the community
c. Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community - ANSWER ✔✨---c. Collecting,
analyzing, and disseminating information
d. Evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the population
e. Questioning the availability of health services to the community
