NUR 443 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 100%
VERIFIED - LATEST 2026 - GUARANTEED PASS
1. What does public health nursing focus on?
ANSWER : It focuses on all levels of prevention, with an emphasis on
primary prevention.
2. What is the core public health function of assessment?
ANSWER : Systematic data collection on the population, monitoring
health status, and making information available about the community.
3. What is the core public health function of policy development?
ANSWER : Efforts to develop policies that support population health,
using scientific knowledge to guide decisions.
4. What is assurance in public health?
ANSWER : Ensuring essential community health services are available
and that a competent workforce is present.
5. Who was Lillian Wald and what did she contribute?
ANSWER : She started the NYC Henry Street Settlement in 1885,
believed nurses should teach prevention and address social conditions,
and introduced school nursing in the US.
6. Who was Mary Breckenridge and what did she contribute?
ANSWER : She established the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925,
introduced nurse midwives in the US, and reduced pregnancy
complications and maternal mortality.
7. What were Florence Nightingale’s contributions to public health?
ANSWER : She focused on preventing illness and death, emphasized
environmental health, improved hygiene and nutrition during the Crimean
War, and demonstrated the need for reform.
8. Who was Seacole and what did she do?
ANSWER : She was denied joining Nightingale, opened the British
Hotel to help soldiers, and experienced racism.
, 9. Who was Mahoney?
ANSWER : ( ANSWER not provided in the source text.)
10.What are aspects of a comprehensive community assessment?
ANSWER : Learning community needs or strengths, locating data to
address problems, setting priorities, and meeting regulatory requirements.
11.What are the levels of the ecological model?
ANSWER : Individual, interpersonal, institutional, community, and
public policy.
12.What is Healthy People 2030?
ANSWER : An initiative that identifies evidence-based interventions to
address health objectives.
13.What is the biomedical model of health?
ANSWER : It views health as the absence of disease or disorders.
14.What is the behavioral model of health?
ANSWER : It views health as the product of making healthy lifestyle
choices.
15.What is the socio-environmental model of health?
ANSWER : It views health as the product of social, economic, and
environmental determinants.
16.What is primordial prevention?
ANSWER : Preventing the development of risk factors.
17.What is primary prevention?
ANSWER : Taking action to eliminate causes of disease and injury
before they occur.
18.What is secondary prevention?
ANSWER : Detecting asymptomatic disease before it becomes
symptomatic or causes harm.
19.What is tertiary prevention?
ANSWER : Minimizing clinical deterioration once a disease is
established.
20.What does a pap smear screen for?
ANSWER : Cervical cancer.
21.What does a fasting blood sugar test screen for?
ANSWER : Diabetes.
VERIFIED - LATEST 2026 - GUARANTEED PASS
1. What does public health nursing focus on?
ANSWER : It focuses on all levels of prevention, with an emphasis on
primary prevention.
2. What is the core public health function of assessment?
ANSWER : Systematic data collection on the population, monitoring
health status, and making information available about the community.
3. What is the core public health function of policy development?
ANSWER : Efforts to develop policies that support population health,
using scientific knowledge to guide decisions.
4. What is assurance in public health?
ANSWER : Ensuring essential community health services are available
and that a competent workforce is present.
5. Who was Lillian Wald and what did she contribute?
ANSWER : She started the NYC Henry Street Settlement in 1885,
believed nurses should teach prevention and address social conditions,
and introduced school nursing in the US.
6. Who was Mary Breckenridge and what did she contribute?
ANSWER : She established the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925,
introduced nurse midwives in the US, and reduced pregnancy
complications and maternal mortality.
7. What were Florence Nightingale’s contributions to public health?
ANSWER : She focused on preventing illness and death, emphasized
environmental health, improved hygiene and nutrition during the Crimean
War, and demonstrated the need for reform.
8. Who was Seacole and what did she do?
ANSWER : She was denied joining Nightingale, opened the British
Hotel to help soldiers, and experienced racism.
, 9. Who was Mahoney?
ANSWER : ( ANSWER not provided in the source text.)
10.What are aspects of a comprehensive community assessment?
ANSWER : Learning community needs or strengths, locating data to
address problems, setting priorities, and meeting regulatory requirements.
11.What are the levels of the ecological model?
ANSWER : Individual, interpersonal, institutional, community, and
public policy.
12.What is Healthy People 2030?
ANSWER : An initiative that identifies evidence-based interventions to
address health objectives.
13.What is the biomedical model of health?
ANSWER : It views health as the absence of disease or disorders.
14.What is the behavioral model of health?
ANSWER : It views health as the product of making healthy lifestyle
choices.
15.What is the socio-environmental model of health?
ANSWER : It views health as the product of social, economic, and
environmental determinants.
16.What is primordial prevention?
ANSWER : Preventing the development of risk factors.
17.What is primary prevention?
ANSWER : Taking action to eliminate causes of disease and injury
before they occur.
18.What is secondary prevention?
ANSWER : Detecting asymptomatic disease before it becomes
symptomatic or causes harm.
19.What is tertiary prevention?
ANSWER : Minimizing clinical deterioration once a disease is
established.
20.What does a pap smear screen for?
ANSWER : Cervical cancer.
21.What does a fasting blood sugar test screen for?
ANSWER : Diabetes.
