NURS 6541 FINAL EXAM 2026 EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
◉ Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their
cigarettes, alcoholics lift the glass to their mouth, and drug addicts
inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following statements best
describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who
engage in poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be able
to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice
helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and
punish unhealthy behaviors to help individuals recognize the
importance of change. Answer: b. Society must offer healthy choices,
offer support, and practice helpful policies.
◉ Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the
core competencies for health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and
benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
,c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United
States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems.
Answer: a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks
and benefits to the community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
◉ A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse.
Which question would be most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?". Answer: c.
"Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
◉ Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health
nursing practice in the community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable
populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in
number
,d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards. Answer: a. New services are organized where
particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards
◉ Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes
rather than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in
hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive. Answer: d. Home care is less
expensive
◉ A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be
implemented. Which of the following factors must be considered by
the nurse when making this decision? Select all that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
, d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention. Answer: a. The likelihood that the intervention will
resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention
◉ Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in
life expectancy during the 20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
c. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
d. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures. Answer: b.
Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
◉ A community health nurse drives through her assigned
community before visiting the community groups scheduled for the
day. She then drives through the community again that evening
before going home. Which of the following best describes the nurse's
reason for driving through the community twice in the same day?
a. Driving through twice allows the nurse to see the community
when many residents are at work or at school and then again when
most are at home
b. On the second trip, the nurse can carefully confirm the results of
the first assessment
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
◉ Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their
cigarettes, alcoholics lift the glass to their mouth, and drug addicts
inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following statements best
describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who
engage in poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be able
to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice
helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and
punish unhealthy behaviors to help individuals recognize the
importance of change. Answer: b. Society must offer healthy choices,
offer support, and practice helpful policies.
◉ Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the
core competencies for health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and
benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
,c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United
States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems.
Answer: a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks
and benefits to the community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
◉ A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse.
Which question would be most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?". Answer: c.
"Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
◉ Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health
nursing practice in the community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable
populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in
number
,d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards. Answer: a. New services are organized where
particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for
health hazards
◉ Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes
rather than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in
hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive. Answer: d. Home care is less
expensive
◉ A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be
implemented. Which of the following factors must be considered by
the nurse when making this decision? Select all that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
, d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention. Answer: a. The likelihood that the intervention will
resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular
intervention
◉ Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in
life expectancy during the 20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
c. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
d. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures. Answer: b.
Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
◉ A community health nurse drives through her assigned
community before visiting the community groups scheduled for the
day. She then drives through the community again that evening
before going home. Which of the following best describes the nurse's
reason for driving through the community twice in the same day?
a. Driving through twice allows the nurse to see the community
when many residents are at work or at school and then again when
most are at home
b. On the second trip, the nurse can carefully confirm the results of
the first assessment
