NR 442 EXAM 1. QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Community - ANSWER-collection of people who interact with one another and
whose common interests
or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity and belonging (this definition
is on TB)
○ Open social system that is characterized by people in a place who have common
goals over time
○ People and the relationships that they form with others as they develop and use
common agencies and institutions and share a physical environment
○ Example: City, neighborhood, classmates, college.
○ a group or collection of locality-based individuals
■ Interacting in social units
■ Sharing common interests
■ Characteristics
■ Values
■ Goals
Population - ANSWER-typically used to denote a group of people having common
personal or
environmental characteristics.
○ It can also refer to all of the people in a defined community
Public Assumptions - ANSWER-Public health assumes that it is society's
responsibility to meet the basic needs of the people.
Thus there is a greater need for public funding of prevention efforts to enhance the
health of our population.
Public Health Functions - ANSWER-Assessment:
Regular collection, analysis, and information sharing about health conditions, risks,
and resources in a community
Policy development:
Use of information gathered during assessment to develop local and state health
policies and to direct resources toward those policies
Assurance:
Focuses on the availability of necessary health services throughout the community. It
includes maintaining the ability of both public health agencies and private providers
to manage day-to-day operations and the capacity to respond to critical situations
and emergencies
Primary Prevention - ANSWER--prevent problems before they occur. Health
promotion & protection
•Activities designed to prevent a problem or disease before it occurs
, •Strengthen the lines of defense
•Gen health promotion: nutrition, hygiene, exercise
•Specific health promotion -- IMMUNIZATIONS
•Health education program to teach children about the effects of smoking
•Meet the basic needs of the community in cost effective manner
secondary prevention - ANSWER-Early detection & intervention. Early diagnosis &
treatment.
•Early detection and TX
•Pap smear, Hearing and vision screenings
•TB test PKU, Breast cancer screening
•Influenza vaccination program in a nursing home
tertiary detection - ANSWER-Maximum level of wellness. Limitation of disability and
rehab
•Disease has already caused damage
•Limit disability & rehab to max poss.
•Meals on wheels, rehab for stroke victims, Halfway houses, mental health
counseling
•School fire then counseling, Diabetic clinic for low-income Hispanic adults
*teach how to use insulin for diabetic patients
John Snow - ANSWER-Transmission of cholera via the public water source
Removed the contaminated water
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER-Discovered nursing process
set up diet kitchens and a laundry and provided food, clothing, dressings, and
laboratory equipment
District Nursing - ANSWER-developed a plan that trained selected poor women to
provide nursing care to the community's sick poor.
The society theorized that nurses belonging to their patients' social class would be
more effective caregivers and that more nurses would be available to improve the
health of community residents
Lilian Wald - ANSWER-Coined the term Public Health Nursing
Wald's vision of public health nursing:
Practice family-focused nursing, nurse the whole person
Proper bed making, cleaning of fruits and vegetables
Improve social conditions, provide health education classes
School health nursing
Larger social and economic forces that family cannot control
Linda Rogers - ANSWER-First school nurse 1902
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Community - ANSWER-collection of people who interact with one another and
whose common interests
or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity and belonging (this definition
is on TB)
○ Open social system that is characterized by people in a place who have common
goals over time
○ People and the relationships that they form with others as they develop and use
common agencies and institutions and share a physical environment
○ Example: City, neighborhood, classmates, college.
○ a group or collection of locality-based individuals
■ Interacting in social units
■ Sharing common interests
■ Characteristics
■ Values
■ Goals
Population - ANSWER-typically used to denote a group of people having common
personal or
environmental characteristics.
○ It can also refer to all of the people in a defined community
Public Assumptions - ANSWER-Public health assumes that it is society's
responsibility to meet the basic needs of the people.
Thus there is a greater need for public funding of prevention efforts to enhance the
health of our population.
Public Health Functions - ANSWER-Assessment:
Regular collection, analysis, and information sharing about health conditions, risks,
and resources in a community
Policy development:
Use of information gathered during assessment to develop local and state health
policies and to direct resources toward those policies
Assurance:
Focuses on the availability of necessary health services throughout the community. It
includes maintaining the ability of both public health agencies and private providers
to manage day-to-day operations and the capacity to respond to critical situations
and emergencies
Primary Prevention - ANSWER--prevent problems before they occur. Health
promotion & protection
•Activities designed to prevent a problem or disease before it occurs
, •Strengthen the lines of defense
•Gen health promotion: nutrition, hygiene, exercise
•Specific health promotion -- IMMUNIZATIONS
•Health education program to teach children about the effects of smoking
•Meet the basic needs of the community in cost effective manner
secondary prevention - ANSWER-Early detection & intervention. Early diagnosis &
treatment.
•Early detection and TX
•Pap smear, Hearing and vision screenings
•TB test PKU, Breast cancer screening
•Influenza vaccination program in a nursing home
tertiary detection - ANSWER-Maximum level of wellness. Limitation of disability and
rehab
•Disease has already caused damage
•Limit disability & rehab to max poss.
•Meals on wheels, rehab for stroke victims, Halfway houses, mental health
counseling
•School fire then counseling, Diabetic clinic for low-income Hispanic adults
*teach how to use insulin for diabetic patients
John Snow - ANSWER-Transmission of cholera via the public water source
Removed the contaminated water
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER-Discovered nursing process
set up diet kitchens and a laundry and provided food, clothing, dressings, and
laboratory equipment
District Nursing - ANSWER-developed a plan that trained selected poor women to
provide nursing care to the community's sick poor.
The society theorized that nurses belonging to their patients' social class would be
more effective caregivers and that more nurses would be available to improve the
health of community residents
Lilian Wald - ANSWER-Coined the term Public Health Nursing
Wald's vision of public health nursing:
Practice family-focused nursing, nurse the whole person
Proper bed making, cleaning of fruits and vegetables
Improve social conditions, provide health education classes
School health nursing
Larger social and economic forces that family cannot control
Linda Rogers - ANSWER-First school nurse 1902
