Test Bank for Stanhope and Lancasters Community Health Nursing In Canada, 4th Edition By Sandra A Mcdonald |All Chapter (1-18) | Q&As Verified With Rationales | Grade A+ Assured |ISBN 9780323693950

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Test Bank for Stanhope and Lancasters Community Health Nursing In
Canada, 4th Edition

By Sandra A Mcdonald

All Chapter (1-18) | Q&As Verified With Rationales | Grade A+ Assured

ISBN 9780323693950




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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 01: Community Health Nursing ....................................................................... 3
Chapter 02: The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada ......................... 10
Chapter 03: Community Health Nursing in Canada: Settings, Functions, and Roles ... 15
Chapter 04: Health Promotion .................................................................................... 28
Chapter 05: Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing ................... 35
Chapter 06: Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice ........................................ 40
Chapter 07: Diversity and Relational Practice in Community Health Nursing ........... 51
Chapter 08: Epidemiological Applications.................................................................. 58
Chapter 09: Working With the Community................................................................. 64
Chapter 10: Health Program Planning and Evaluation ............................................... 69
Chapter 11: Working with the Individual as Client: Health and Wellness Across the
Lifespan....................................................................................................................... 74
Chapter 12: Working with Families ............................................................................ 82
Chapter 13: Working with Groups, Teams, and Partners............................................ 89
Chapter 14: Indigenous Health: Working with First Nations People, Inuit, and Métis 99
Chapter 15: Working With People Who Experience Structural Vulnerabilities ....... 104
Chapter 16: Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control ........... 117
Chapter 17: Environmental Health ........................................................................... 124
Chapter 18: Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness ........................... 130




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Chapter 01: Community Health Nursing
MacDonald/Jakubec: Stanhope and Lancaster's Community Health Nursing in Canada, 4th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE


1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care
CORRECT ANSWER C
By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the
community.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember
REF: Introduction OBJ: 1.6 TOP: Safe and Effective Care Environment


2. Which of the following best describes primary health care?
a. A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
b. Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
CORRECT ANSWER A
By definition, primary health care is comprehensive and addresses issues of social justice and
equity. Social justice in the context of health refers to ensuring fairness and equality in health
services so that vulnerable individuals in society have easy access to health care.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Primary Health Care
OBJ: 1.4
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance


3. The health of which of the following is the primary focus of public health nurses (PHNs)?
a. Families
b. Groups
c. Individuals

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d. Populations
CORRECT ANSWER D
PHNs use knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health sciences for the promotion
and protection of health and for the prevention of disease among populations.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Public Health Practice
OBJ: 1.5
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
4. Which change is the primary explanation for life expectancy increasing so notably since
the early 1900s?
a. An increase in findings from medical laboratory research
b. Incredible advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Improved sanitation and other public health activities
d. Increased use of antibiotics to fight infections
CORRECT ANSWER C
Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and other
public health activities led to the increase in life expectancy since the early 1900s.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember REF: Public Health Practice
OBJ: 1.5
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance


5. Which community health nursing practice area receives funding from the private sector?
a. Telenurses
b. Corrections nurses
c. Nurse entrepreneurs
d. Street or outreach nurses
CORRECT ANSWER C
The nurse entrepreneur receives private funding, whereas all of the other community health
nurse (CHN) roles are with provincially or federally funded positions.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember
REF: Community Health Nursing Roles and Functions OBJ: 1.1 | 1.6 TOP: Safe and Effective Care
Environment


6. A public health nurse (PHN) strives to prevent disease and disability, often in
partnership with other community groups. Which statement is an appropriate summary of the
PHN’s role?


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