Community Nursing External Resources Prep - Midterm 1
Questions With Complete Solutions
A CHN is invited to work with a coalition of churches to address
safety concerns regarding children in the local community. The
nurse provides training in problem-solving skills, manages
conflict, and facilitates which implementation role?
Change agent
Group leader
Change partner
Data collector
Change partner
The CHN defines goals and measurable objectives during the
planning phase of a community health intervention. This activity
also marks the beginning of which other phase?
Needs assessment
Problem analysis
Evaluation phase
Implementation phase
Evaluation phase
For CHNs who are either just beginning their careers or who are
just starting a new position, the best source of information about
the community comes from which of the following groups?
Health care providers
Social workers
,Other CHNs
Community members
Community members
A small rural community has experienced a rise in suicide
among youth in the past year. A CHN brings together key
stakeholders to ask for their experiences and opinions about
factors contributing to this crisis. What is the correct term to
describe this process?
A focus group
A community forum
Secondary analysis
Leadership
A focus group
Participation, leadership, asking why, and a sense of community
are features of which community concept?
Community development
Community partnership
Community competence
Community capacity
Community capacity
Community members who join together to bring about change in
reference to a specific health issue are engaged in which
activity?
Community competence
Community mobilization
,Community development
Community capacity
Community mobilization
Community competence has been linked to which one of the
following?
Sustainability
Sense of community
Empowerment
Resilience
Empowerment
A community health nurse (CHN) has determined a need for a
program for adolescent fathers who want to learn about child
care. What is the next step in the program management process?
Meet with community members to form a planning body.
Conduct a survey to determine how many children the fathers
have.
Provide the fathers with community resources.
Determine if the fathers have benefited from this type of
program before.
Meet with community members to form a planning body.
The CHN is meeting with staff to systematically plan for a new
outreach program. Program planning will assist them to do
which of the following?
Identify how the problems of similar programs will not be
repeated.
Identify the resources that will help them meet their program
, objectives.
Recognize the special needs of vulnerable people in the area.
Assess the needs of potential outreach clients.
Identify the resources that will help them meet their program
objectives.
A 3-year smoking cessation program for teens has just
concluded. What type of evaluation will the staff conduct?
Formative evaluation
Informal evaluation
Summative evaluation
Ongoing evaluation
Summative evaluation
What will a CHN be most likely to do as part of a formative
program evaluation?
Make a home visit before a client is discharged from the
program.
Write policy for risk management.
Conduct clinical-record audits for quality assurance.
Participate in new client evaluation.
Conduct clinical-record audits for quality assurance.
The major evaluation source to determine the effectiveness of a
teen driver safety program is which one of the following?
Voter registration records
Recent census data
Client satisfaction surveys
Community health index
Questions With Complete Solutions
A CHN is invited to work with a coalition of churches to address
safety concerns regarding children in the local community. The
nurse provides training in problem-solving skills, manages
conflict, and facilitates which implementation role?
Change agent
Group leader
Change partner
Data collector
Change partner
The CHN defines goals and measurable objectives during the
planning phase of a community health intervention. This activity
also marks the beginning of which other phase?
Needs assessment
Problem analysis
Evaluation phase
Implementation phase
Evaluation phase
For CHNs who are either just beginning their careers or who are
just starting a new position, the best source of information about
the community comes from which of the following groups?
Health care providers
Social workers
,Other CHNs
Community members
Community members
A small rural community has experienced a rise in suicide
among youth in the past year. A CHN brings together key
stakeholders to ask for their experiences and opinions about
factors contributing to this crisis. What is the correct term to
describe this process?
A focus group
A community forum
Secondary analysis
Leadership
A focus group
Participation, leadership, asking why, and a sense of community
are features of which community concept?
Community development
Community partnership
Community competence
Community capacity
Community capacity
Community members who join together to bring about change in
reference to a specific health issue are engaged in which
activity?
Community competence
Community mobilization
,Community development
Community capacity
Community mobilization
Community competence has been linked to which one of the
following?
Sustainability
Sense of community
Empowerment
Resilience
Empowerment
A community health nurse (CHN) has determined a need for a
program for adolescent fathers who want to learn about child
care. What is the next step in the program management process?
Meet with community members to form a planning body.
Conduct a survey to determine how many children the fathers
have.
Provide the fathers with community resources.
Determine if the fathers have benefited from this type of
program before.
Meet with community members to form a planning body.
The CHN is meeting with staff to systematically plan for a new
outreach program. Program planning will assist them to do
which of the following?
Identify how the problems of similar programs will not be
repeated.
Identify the resources that will help them meet their program
, objectives.
Recognize the special needs of vulnerable people in the area.
Assess the needs of potential outreach clients.
Identify the resources that will help them meet their program
objectives.
A 3-year smoking cessation program for teens has just
concluded. What type of evaluation will the staff conduct?
Formative evaluation
Informal evaluation
Summative evaluation
Ongoing evaluation
Summative evaluation
What will a CHN be most likely to do as part of a formative
program evaluation?
Make a home visit before a client is discharged from the
program.
Write policy for risk management.
Conduct clinical-record audits for quality assurance.
Participate in new client evaluation.
Conduct clinical-record audits for quality assurance.
The major evaluation source to determine the effectiveness of a
teen driver safety program is which one of the following?
Voter registration records
Recent census data
Client satisfaction surveys
Community health index
