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Q1. What is the primary focus to be addressed for the healthcare system of the future as it
applies to community-based settings?
A) Health promotion and disease prevention
B) Increased access to care
C) Focus on health in local communities
D) Encourage compliance with vaccinations
Answer: Health promotion and disease prevention
Q2. Which statement is accurate related to life expectancy statistics for the United States?
A) Americans have a longer life expectancy than other world countries.
B) The United States has increased mortality due to increased avoidable deaths as compared to other
countries.
C) The life expectancy of the United States is decreased compared to other world countries.
D) As the United States has more economic resources, this leads to an increased life expectancy rate
compared with other countries.
Answer: The life expectancy of the United States is decreased compared to other world countries.
Q3. Which statement describes the consequence of the successful implementation of the
Affordable Care Act?
A) Americans will pay closer attention to their health status.
B) Most of the population will be covered by health insurance.
C) Public health departments will need to increase the number of nursing positions.
D) The prevalence of obesity will decrease.
Answer: Most of the population will be covered by health insurance.
Q4. The public health nurse (PHN) must participate in the essential services of public health.
What is one of the essential services of public health nursing?
A) Monitoring health status by completing a community assessment
B) Diagnosing and investigating health problems in the world
C) Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
D) Working in law enforcement to regulate health and ensure safety
Answer: Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
Q5. A public health department is using the mission of public health as described by the
Institute of Medicine when planning its health programming. Which of the following activities
will most likely be implemented?
A) Tracking COVID outbreaks and doing surveillance in the United States
B) Providing a flu shot for an elderly person at the health department
,C) Keeping track of alternative therapies in use in the United States
D) Keeping snake antivenom at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta
Answer: Tracking COVID outbreaks and doing surveillance in the United States
Q6. A public health department makes sure that the essential community-oriented health
services are available in the community. Which of the following core public health functions is
being implemented?
A) Policy development
B) Assessment
C) Assurance
D) Scientific knowledge-based care
Answer: Assurance
Q7. What is the purpose of public health core functions?
A) Clarifying the role of the government in fulfilling the mission of public health
B) Ensuring the safety of populations in receiving quality health care
C) Providing community-based individualized care to every person in the United States
D) Uniting public and private providers of care in a comprehensive approach to providing health care
Answer: Clarifying the role of the government in fulfilling the mission of public health
Q8. Which of the following statements about public health is accurate?
A) Prevention of early deaths can be more effectively accomplished by medical treatment than by
public health approaches.
B) Expenditures and resources for public health have increased in recent years.
C) Historically, gains in the health of populations have been related largely to changes in safety,
sanitation, and food safety.
D) Reform of the medical insurance system is the single change needed to improve the health of
Americans.
Answer: Historically, gains in the health of populations have been related largely to changes in safety,
sanitation, and food safety.
Q9. A public health nurse (PHN) collects data and monitors the health status of the population.
Which of the following core public health functions is the nurse addressing?
A) Assessment
B) Prevention
C) Assurance
D) Policy development
Answer: Assessment
Q10. The public health nurse (PHN) compares the rate of teenage pregnancy in various areas of
the city. Which of the core functions of public health is the nurse addressing?
,A) Assurance
B) Assessment
C) Prevention
D) Policy development
Answer: Assessment
Q11. A public health nurse (PHN) develops and implements local public health policies through
partnerships with agencies, organizations, and consumers within the community. Which of the
following core public health functions is the nurse addressing?
A) Assessment
B) Prevention
C) Assurance
D) Policy development
Answer: Policy development
Q12. A nurse provides for the availability of essential personal health services for people who
would otherwise not receive health care. Which of the public health core functions is the nurse
addressing?
A) Assessment
B) Prevention
C) Assurance
D) Policy development
Answer: Assurance
Q13. The nurse manager makes sure that the staff members who work in a local clinic are
competent in their job responsibilities. Which of the public health core functions is being
demonstrated?
A) Assurance
B) Assessment
C) Prevention
D) Policy development
Answer: Assurance
Q14. Which intervention is the nurse most likely to implement when addressing one of the
primary goals of public health?
A) Ensuring that a newly diagnosed 40-year-old hypertensive man takes his medication
B) Finding home care for a 70-year-old client recuperating from a hip replacement
C) Conducting an infant car seat safety check
D) Contacting a local hospice to admit a terminally ill 60-year-old woman
Answer: Conducting an infant car seat safety check
,Q15. A community health nurse collects data about the number and proportion of persons aged
25 or older with less than a high school education. Which term best describes this type of data?
A) Sociodemographic characteristics
B) Health status data
C) Health risk factors
D) Health care resource consumption information
Answer: Sociodemographic characteristics
Q16. The public health nurse (PHN) analyzes data related to the number and type of United
States Environmental Protection Agency air quality standards that a community failed to meet.
This data is an example of using which community health profile indicator?
A) Sociodemographic characteristics
B) Health status
C) Health risk factor
D) Functional status
Answer: Health risk factor
Q17. A nurse is implementing quality performance standards in a public health department.
Which statement best describes the importance of this action?
A) Quality performance standards are used to guide improvement in the public health system.
B) Quality performance standards rigidly control public health.
C) Quality performance standards guide administrators to monitor public health at the national level.
D) Quality performance standards can be used as hiring guidelines for nurses.
Answer: Quality performance standards are used to guide improvement in the public health system.
Q18. To better address emerging public health issues, a public health nurse (PHN) should be
aware of the Eight Principles of Public Health Nursing. Which option is one of the principles?
A) Selection of tertiary prevention is optimal
B) The unit level of care focuses on the population
C) Resources should be limited to commonly occurring health concerns
D) Referrals are not an effective tool to increase access to healthcare
Answer: The unit level of care focuses on the population
Q19. The public health workforce should demonstrate competency in which of the following
competency categories?
A) Financial planning and management
B) Workforce needs assessment
C) Acute care services
D) Curriculum development
Answer: Financial planning and management
,Q20. Why is public health nursing considered to be a nursing specialty?
A) It has a distinct focus and scope of practice.
B) It requires a master’s degree in nursing.
C) It is focused on disadvantaged citizens.
D) It performs interventions at the acute care level.
Answer: It has a distinct focus and scope of practice.
Q21. The necessary basic preparation for public health nursing is what level of nursing
education?
A) Associate degree
B) Baccalaureate degree
C) Master’s degree
D) Doctor of Nursing Practice
Answer: Baccalaureate degree
Q22. A public health nurse (PHN) has been prepared at the graduate level. Which activity should
the practitioner be able to complete?
A) Teaching public and community health nursing
B) Assessing and intervening successfully at the aggregate level
C) Diagnosing and treating disease while having earned prescriptive authority
D) Running for political office as experts in public health policy
Answer: Assessing and intervening successfully at the aggregate level
Q23. A public health nurse (PHN) provides clinic-based services for HIV-positive citizens in the
community. Which term best describe this activity?
A) Primary prevention
B) Health education
C) Tertiary prevention
D) Policy making
Answer: Tertiary prevention
Q24. A nurse is working in the community with an aggregate/population. Who is the nurse most
likely to interact with?
A) Students in a county school system
B) Christians around the world
C) A patient in the intensive care unit at the local hospital
D) People who drink coffee
Answer: Students in a county school system
Q25. How is a population best defined?
,A) High-risk group
B) Those interacting within a school or institutional setting
C) Collection of individuals who share at least one common characteristic
D) Geographical location within a community
Answer: Collection of individuals who share at least one common characteristic
Q26. Population-focused practice concentrates on defining the problems or needs of and
implementing solutions for whom?
A) Individuals
B) Aggregates
C) Communities
D) Geographical regions
Answer: Aggregates
Q27. A nurse is using a population focus when providing public health nursing care. Which
statement best describes the care that is being provided?
A) Priority is given to the highest risk population.
B) Direct caregiving is limited to preventive measures, such as administration of immunizations.
C) Attention is given to the population or community, regardless of whether they do or do not access
the health care system.
D) Only populations outside institutional settings are considered.
Answer: Attention is given to the population or community, regardless of whether they do or do not
access the health care system.
Q28. A nurse is working in a community health nursing practice setting. Which intervention is
the nurse most likely to implement?
A) Administering a flu shot to a client in a physician’s office
B) Conducting a flu shot clinic at a community center
C) Performing a client assessment in a hospital
D) Providing supervision of staff in a rehabilitation center
Answer: Administering a flu shot to a client in a physician’s office
Q29. Which statement about community health nursing practice is correct?
A) It focuses on the delivery of personal health services to individuals and families.
B) It provides care to protect the health of the whole community.
C) It emphasizes the setting where care is provided for clients and families.
D) It requires a baccalaureate preparation for practice.
Answer: It focuses on the delivery of personal health services to individuals and families.
Q30. A nurse is implementing community-based nursing care. Which intervention is the nurse
most likely to complete?
,A) Assessing the health needs of a defined community
B) Providing care to families in a community
C) Promoting the health of an entire community
D) Investigating environmental health problems in a community
Answer: Providing care to families in a community
Q31. A nurse is conducting vision screenings on children in the school setting. Which type of
nursing practice is the nurse performing?
A) Community-oriented
B) Public health
C) Community health
D) Community-based
Answer: Community-based
Q32. The nurse is investigating environmental health problems caused by contaminated ground
water. Which type of nursing practice is being implemented?
A) Community-oriented
B) Community-based
C) Policy development
D) Tertiary care
Answer: Community-oriented
Q33. A public health staff nurse (PHN) who has a clear understanding of population-focused
practice, would most likely engage in what activity?
A) Volunteering for a local community action coalition
B) Performing interventions with individuals in the community
C) Improving the effectiveness of care provided
D) Considering earning a PHN certification
Answer: Improving the effectiveness of care provided
Q34. Public health nurses (PHNs) are looking to improve population-focused care in the
community. Which activity best describes a key opportunity for the nurses to accomplish this
goal?
A) Assuming traditional nursing roles
B) Influencing public health policy
C) Conducting community assessments
D) Specializing in community-based nursing practice
Answer: Influencing public health policy
Q35. A local senator has proposed changes to the health care delivery system in the United
States. Based on current trends, what is most likely to occur?
, A) There will be new opportunities provided for public health specialists.
B) It will result in isolated care being provided to individuals.
C) There will be an increased emphasis in specialty care.
D) It will increase the utilization of acute care services.
Answer: There will be new opportunities provided for public health specialists.
Q36. What are considered barriers to public health nursing? (Select all that apply.)
A) The mindset that the only role for the nurse is at the bedside.
B) The structures within which nurses work and the process of role socialization within those structures.
C) Few nurses receive graduate-level preparation in the concepts and strategies of the disciplines
basic to public health.
D) The steady decline in the number of job opportunities in the area.
E) The inability to equally distribute the increasing funds.
Public Health Nursing, 11th Edition Stanhope
Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
Purchase Guarantee
If you believe you have purchased the wrong file, don’t worry. Contact us anytime and we
will gladly replace it with the correct version.
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, Chapter 01 – Test Bank
Q1. What is the primary focus to be addressed for the healthcare system of the future as it
applies to community-based settings?
A) Health promotion and disease prevention
B) Increased access to care
C) Focus on health in local communities
D) Encourage compliance with vaccinations
Answer: Health promotion and disease prevention
Q2. Which statement is accurate related to life expectancy statistics for the United States?
A) Americans have a longer life expectancy than other world countries.
B) The United States has increased mortality due to increased avoidable deaths as compared to other
countries.
C) The life expectancy of the United States is decreased compared to other world countries.
D) As the United States has more economic resources, this leads to an increased life expectancy rate
compared with other countries.
Answer: The life expectancy of the United States is decreased compared to other world countries.
Q3. Which statement describes the consequence of the successful implementation of the
Affordable Care Act?
A) Americans will pay closer attention to their health status.
B) Most of the population will be covered by health insurance.
C) Public health departments will need to increase the number of nursing positions.
D) The prevalence of obesity will decrease.
Answer: Most of the population will be covered by health insurance.
Q4. The public health nurse (PHN) must participate in the essential services of public health.
What is one of the essential services of public health nursing?
A) Monitoring health status by completing a community assessment
B) Diagnosing and investigating health problems in the world
C) Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
D) Working in law enforcement to regulate health and ensure safety
Answer: Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
Q5. A public health department is using the mission of public health as described by the
Institute of Medicine when planning its health programming. Which of the following activities
will most likely be implemented?
A) Tracking COVID outbreaks and doing surveillance in the United States
B) Providing a flu shot for an elderly person at the health department
,C) Keeping track of alternative therapies in use in the United States
D) Keeping snake antivenom at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta
Answer: Tracking COVID outbreaks and doing surveillance in the United States
Q6. A public health department makes sure that the essential community-oriented health
services are available in the community. Which of the following core public health functions is
being implemented?
A) Policy development
B) Assessment
C) Assurance
D) Scientific knowledge-based care
Answer: Assurance
Q7. What is the purpose of public health core functions?
A) Clarifying the role of the government in fulfilling the mission of public health
B) Ensuring the safety of populations in receiving quality health care
C) Providing community-based individualized care to every person in the United States
D) Uniting public and private providers of care in a comprehensive approach to providing health care
Answer: Clarifying the role of the government in fulfilling the mission of public health
Q8. Which of the following statements about public health is accurate?
A) Prevention of early deaths can be more effectively accomplished by medical treatment than by
public health approaches.
B) Expenditures and resources for public health have increased in recent years.
C) Historically, gains in the health of populations have been related largely to changes in safety,
sanitation, and food safety.
D) Reform of the medical insurance system is the single change needed to improve the health of
Americans.
Answer: Historically, gains in the health of populations have been related largely to changes in safety,
sanitation, and food safety.
Q9. A public health nurse (PHN) collects data and monitors the health status of the population.
Which of the following core public health functions is the nurse addressing?
A) Assessment
B) Prevention
C) Assurance
D) Policy development
Answer: Assessment
Q10. The public health nurse (PHN) compares the rate of teenage pregnancy in various areas of
the city. Which of the core functions of public health is the nurse addressing?
,A) Assurance
B) Assessment
C) Prevention
D) Policy development
Answer: Assessment
Q11. A public health nurse (PHN) develops and implements local public health policies through
partnerships with agencies, organizations, and consumers within the community. Which of the
following core public health functions is the nurse addressing?
A) Assessment
B) Prevention
C) Assurance
D) Policy development
Answer: Policy development
Q12. A nurse provides for the availability of essential personal health services for people who
would otherwise not receive health care. Which of the public health core functions is the nurse
addressing?
A) Assessment
B) Prevention
C) Assurance
D) Policy development
Answer: Assurance
Q13. The nurse manager makes sure that the staff members who work in a local clinic are
competent in their job responsibilities. Which of the public health core functions is being
demonstrated?
A) Assurance
B) Assessment
C) Prevention
D) Policy development
Answer: Assurance
Q14. Which intervention is the nurse most likely to implement when addressing one of the
primary goals of public health?
A) Ensuring that a newly diagnosed 40-year-old hypertensive man takes his medication
B) Finding home care for a 70-year-old client recuperating from a hip replacement
C) Conducting an infant car seat safety check
D) Contacting a local hospice to admit a terminally ill 60-year-old woman
Answer: Conducting an infant car seat safety check
,Q15. A community health nurse collects data about the number and proportion of persons aged
25 or older with less than a high school education. Which term best describes this type of data?
A) Sociodemographic characteristics
B) Health status data
C) Health risk factors
D) Health care resource consumption information
Answer: Sociodemographic characteristics
Q16. The public health nurse (PHN) analyzes data related to the number and type of United
States Environmental Protection Agency air quality standards that a community failed to meet.
This data is an example of using which community health profile indicator?
A) Sociodemographic characteristics
B) Health status
C) Health risk factor
D) Functional status
Answer: Health risk factor
Q17. A nurse is implementing quality performance standards in a public health department.
Which statement best describes the importance of this action?
A) Quality performance standards are used to guide improvement in the public health system.
B) Quality performance standards rigidly control public health.
C) Quality performance standards guide administrators to monitor public health at the national level.
D) Quality performance standards can be used as hiring guidelines for nurses.
Answer: Quality performance standards are used to guide improvement in the public health system.
Q18. To better address emerging public health issues, a public health nurse (PHN) should be
aware of the Eight Principles of Public Health Nursing. Which option is one of the principles?
A) Selection of tertiary prevention is optimal
B) The unit level of care focuses on the population
C) Resources should be limited to commonly occurring health concerns
D) Referrals are not an effective tool to increase access to healthcare
Answer: The unit level of care focuses on the population
Q19. The public health workforce should demonstrate competency in which of the following
competency categories?
A) Financial planning and management
B) Workforce needs assessment
C) Acute care services
D) Curriculum development
Answer: Financial planning and management
,Q20. Why is public health nursing considered to be a nursing specialty?
A) It has a distinct focus and scope of practice.
B) It requires a master’s degree in nursing.
C) It is focused on disadvantaged citizens.
D) It performs interventions at the acute care level.
Answer: It has a distinct focus and scope of practice.
Q21. The necessary basic preparation for public health nursing is what level of nursing
education?
A) Associate degree
B) Baccalaureate degree
C) Master’s degree
D) Doctor of Nursing Practice
Answer: Baccalaureate degree
Q22. A public health nurse (PHN) has been prepared at the graduate level. Which activity should
the practitioner be able to complete?
A) Teaching public and community health nursing
B) Assessing and intervening successfully at the aggregate level
C) Diagnosing and treating disease while having earned prescriptive authority
D) Running for political office as experts in public health policy
Answer: Assessing and intervening successfully at the aggregate level
Q23. A public health nurse (PHN) provides clinic-based services for HIV-positive citizens in the
community. Which term best describe this activity?
A) Primary prevention
B) Health education
C) Tertiary prevention
D) Policy making
Answer: Tertiary prevention
Q24. A nurse is working in the community with an aggregate/population. Who is the nurse most
likely to interact with?
A) Students in a county school system
B) Christians around the world
C) A patient in the intensive care unit at the local hospital
D) People who drink coffee
Answer: Students in a county school system
Q25. How is a population best defined?
,A) High-risk group
B) Those interacting within a school or institutional setting
C) Collection of individuals who share at least one common characteristic
D) Geographical location within a community
Answer: Collection of individuals who share at least one common characteristic
Q26. Population-focused practice concentrates on defining the problems or needs of and
implementing solutions for whom?
A) Individuals
B) Aggregates
C) Communities
D) Geographical regions
Answer: Aggregates
Q27. A nurse is using a population focus when providing public health nursing care. Which
statement best describes the care that is being provided?
A) Priority is given to the highest risk population.
B) Direct caregiving is limited to preventive measures, such as administration of immunizations.
C) Attention is given to the population or community, regardless of whether they do or do not access
the health care system.
D) Only populations outside institutional settings are considered.
Answer: Attention is given to the population or community, regardless of whether they do or do not
access the health care system.
Q28. A nurse is working in a community health nursing practice setting. Which intervention is
the nurse most likely to implement?
A) Administering a flu shot to a client in a physician’s office
B) Conducting a flu shot clinic at a community center
C) Performing a client assessment in a hospital
D) Providing supervision of staff in a rehabilitation center
Answer: Administering a flu shot to a client in a physician’s office
Q29. Which statement about community health nursing practice is correct?
A) It focuses on the delivery of personal health services to individuals and families.
B) It provides care to protect the health of the whole community.
C) It emphasizes the setting where care is provided for clients and families.
D) It requires a baccalaureate preparation for practice.
Answer: It focuses on the delivery of personal health services to individuals and families.
Q30. A nurse is implementing community-based nursing care. Which intervention is the nurse
most likely to complete?
,A) Assessing the health needs of a defined community
B) Providing care to families in a community
C) Promoting the health of an entire community
D) Investigating environmental health problems in a community
Answer: Providing care to families in a community
Q31. A nurse is conducting vision screenings on children in the school setting. Which type of
nursing practice is the nurse performing?
A) Community-oriented
B) Public health
C) Community health
D) Community-based
Answer: Community-based
Q32. The nurse is investigating environmental health problems caused by contaminated ground
water. Which type of nursing practice is being implemented?
A) Community-oriented
B) Community-based
C) Policy development
D) Tertiary care
Answer: Community-oriented
Q33. A public health staff nurse (PHN) who has a clear understanding of population-focused
practice, would most likely engage in what activity?
A) Volunteering for a local community action coalition
B) Performing interventions with individuals in the community
C) Improving the effectiveness of care provided
D) Considering earning a PHN certification
Answer: Improving the effectiveness of care provided
Q34. Public health nurses (PHNs) are looking to improve population-focused care in the
community. Which activity best describes a key opportunity for the nurses to accomplish this
goal?
A) Assuming traditional nursing roles
B) Influencing public health policy
C) Conducting community assessments
D) Specializing in community-based nursing practice
Answer: Influencing public health policy
Q35. A local senator has proposed changes to the health care delivery system in the United
States. Based on current trends, what is most likely to occur?
, A) There will be new opportunities provided for public health specialists.
B) It will result in isolated care being provided to individuals.
C) There will be an increased emphasis in specialty care.
D) It will increase the utilization of acute care services.
Answer: There will be new opportunities provided for public health specialists.
Q36. What are considered barriers to public health nursing? (Select all that apply.)
A) The mindset that the only role for the nurse is at the bedside.
B) The structures within which nurses work and the process of role socialization within those structures.
C) Few nurses receive graduate-level preparation in the concepts and strategies of the disciplines
basic to public health.
D) The steady decline in the number of job opportunities in the area.
E) The inability to equally distribute the increasing funds.
