West Coast University NURS 340: Public Health
Quizzes 1-3 Complete 100% Questions and
Answers | Updated Fall 2025/26
1. What core function of Public Health is a Windshield Survey?
A. primary care
B. assessment
C. policy development
D. assurance
2. Two nurses in community health scheduled a day to ride through a low income
community to better understand the community and its boundaries, trends, rhythm,
stability, and changes that can affect the health of the community. This direct data
collection method is often referred to as:
A. composite database
B. windshield survey
C. census
D. participant observation
3. The determinants of public health include (select all that apply):
A. environmental
B. biophysical
C. biological
D. social
Answer: A, B, C, D
4. A public health nurse is promoting routine Papanicolaou (pap) tests to young
adult women at a community based preventive care health fair. A pap test is within
which level of prevention care?
A. secondary
B. tertiary
,C. self-care ability level
D. primary level
Answer: A
5. Nightingale’s theory of environment includes which of the following?
A. emphasize change at the individual level
B. highlights the relationship between an individual’s environment and health
C. nursing at night
D. validates the use of the social worker
6. Public health nursing interventions includes all of the following except:
A. screening
B. primary patient care
C. advocacy
D. surveillance
7. What country spends the most money on health care, yet their population has
unhealthy lives?
A. United States
B. France
C. United Kingdom
D. Canada
8. In the United States, the system of healthcare has historically given and
continues to give stronger support to which types of care?
A. individual care with a focus on cure
B. individual care with a focus on prevention
C. community care with a focus on cure
D. community care with a focus on prevention
9. The public health nurse is performing STD screening at a local health fair. This
is an example of:
,A. primary prevention
B. tertiary prevention
C. quaternary prevention
D. secondary prevention
10. A nurse is caring for a client who is prescribed tetracycline 2 grams daily PO in
four divided doses every 6 hr. Available is tetracycline 250 mg capsules. How
many capsules should the nurse administer per dose?
Answer: 2 capsules
11. A nurse at an urban community health agency is developing an education
program for city leaders about homelessness. Which of the following should the
nurse include as a primary level of prevention for Poverty and Homelessness?
A. begin treatment for any disease that are detected
B. screen clients for early detection of drug use and the possibility of multiple
users on needles
C. provide health education in the local area for prevention of disease related
to multiuse of needles
D. implement more systematic programs for needle exchange
12. The historical nursing figure who contributed to establishing the foundation for
current community health and nursing in community health by working in military
field hospitals using a population based approach that improved nursing care and
environmental condition was:
A. Lilian Wald
B. Florence Nightingale
C. John Snow
D. Mary Breckenridge
13. Healthy People 2020 aims to reach four overarching goals (select all that
apply):
A. achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
B. create social and physical environments that promote good health for all who
, can afford it
C. create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
D. attain high quality longer lives free of preventable disease, disability injury and
premature death
E. promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all
life stages
Answer: A, C, D, E
14. A public health nurse is advocating for local leaders to place a newly approved
community health clinic in an area of the city that has fewer resources than other
areas. The PHN is advocating for the leaders to uphold which of the following
ethical principles:
A. distributive justice
B. autonomy
C. veracity
D. fidelity
15. A Public health nurse (PHN) is teaching a class on health promotion and illness
prevention. The nurse should include which of the following as an example of
secondary prevention?
A. Performing monthly breast self examinations
B. referring a client who has had a mastectomy to a support group
C. providing a community program on stress reduction
D. teaching foot care to a client who has diabetes
16. A nurse is preparing to administer potassium chloride 20 mEq suspension PO
daily. The amount available is potassium chloride suspension 10 mEq/mL. How
many mL should the nurse administer?
Answer: 2 mL
17. A nurse is caring for a client who has heart failure and a prescription for
digoxin 125 mcg PO daily. Available is digoxin PO 0.25 mg/tablet. How many
Quizzes 1-3 Complete 100% Questions and
Answers | Updated Fall 2025/26
1. What core function of Public Health is a Windshield Survey?
A. primary care
B. assessment
C. policy development
D. assurance
2. Two nurses in community health scheduled a day to ride through a low income
community to better understand the community and its boundaries, trends, rhythm,
stability, and changes that can affect the health of the community. This direct data
collection method is often referred to as:
A. composite database
B. windshield survey
C. census
D. participant observation
3. The determinants of public health include (select all that apply):
A. environmental
B. biophysical
C. biological
D. social
Answer: A, B, C, D
4. A public health nurse is promoting routine Papanicolaou (pap) tests to young
adult women at a community based preventive care health fair. A pap test is within
which level of prevention care?
A. secondary
B. tertiary
,C. self-care ability level
D. primary level
Answer: A
5. Nightingale’s theory of environment includes which of the following?
A. emphasize change at the individual level
B. highlights the relationship between an individual’s environment and health
C. nursing at night
D. validates the use of the social worker
6. Public health nursing interventions includes all of the following except:
A. screening
B. primary patient care
C. advocacy
D. surveillance
7. What country spends the most money on health care, yet their population has
unhealthy lives?
A. United States
B. France
C. United Kingdom
D. Canada
8. In the United States, the system of healthcare has historically given and
continues to give stronger support to which types of care?
A. individual care with a focus on cure
B. individual care with a focus on prevention
C. community care with a focus on cure
D. community care with a focus on prevention
9. The public health nurse is performing STD screening at a local health fair. This
is an example of:
,A. primary prevention
B. tertiary prevention
C. quaternary prevention
D. secondary prevention
10. A nurse is caring for a client who is prescribed tetracycline 2 grams daily PO in
four divided doses every 6 hr. Available is tetracycline 250 mg capsules. How
many capsules should the nurse administer per dose?
Answer: 2 capsules
11. A nurse at an urban community health agency is developing an education
program for city leaders about homelessness. Which of the following should the
nurse include as a primary level of prevention for Poverty and Homelessness?
A. begin treatment for any disease that are detected
B. screen clients for early detection of drug use and the possibility of multiple
users on needles
C. provide health education in the local area for prevention of disease related
to multiuse of needles
D. implement more systematic programs for needle exchange
12. The historical nursing figure who contributed to establishing the foundation for
current community health and nursing in community health by working in military
field hospitals using a population based approach that improved nursing care and
environmental condition was:
A. Lilian Wald
B. Florence Nightingale
C. John Snow
D. Mary Breckenridge
13. Healthy People 2020 aims to reach four overarching goals (select all that
apply):
A. achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
B. create social and physical environments that promote good health for all who
, can afford it
C. create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
D. attain high quality longer lives free of preventable disease, disability injury and
premature death
E. promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all
life stages
Answer: A, C, D, E
14. A public health nurse is advocating for local leaders to place a newly approved
community health clinic in an area of the city that has fewer resources than other
areas. The PHN is advocating for the leaders to uphold which of the following
ethical principles:
A. distributive justice
B. autonomy
C. veracity
D. fidelity
15. A Public health nurse (PHN) is teaching a class on health promotion and illness
prevention. The nurse should include which of the following as an example of
secondary prevention?
A. Performing monthly breast self examinations
B. referring a client who has had a mastectomy to a support group
C. providing a community program on stress reduction
D. teaching foot care to a client who has diabetes
16. A nurse is preparing to administer potassium chloride 20 mEq suspension PO
daily. The amount available is potassium chloride suspension 10 mEq/mL. How
many mL should the nurse administer?
Answer: 2 mL
17. A nurse is caring for a client who has heart failure and a prescription for
digoxin 125 mcg PO daily. Available is digoxin PO 0.25 mg/tablet. How many
