Nursing NUR428 Community Health – Final Exam Comprehensive Practice Questions and
Answers Study Guide
causal thinking - ✔✔relating disease or illness to its cause
community-based nursing - ✔✔the provision of acute care and care for chronic health
problems to individuals and families in the community
consumption - ✔✔the common name for tuberculosis in the 1900s
district nursing - ✔✔the style of public health nursing organization in which a nurse is assigned
to a geographic area to provide a wide variety of nursing services. This generalized approach to
practice contrasts with a specialist approach in which several nurses may visit in the same home
for different purposes.
frontier nursing service - ✔✔a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge in
Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. The FNS influenced the
development of nurse midwifery in the United States
Henry street settlement - ✔✔established by Lillian Wald in NY in 1892; provided social
services, healthcare, and shelter to the poor
industrial nursing - ✔✔another form of public health nursing; expanded during early 1900s;
first industrial nurse: Philippa Flowerday Reid
Nightingale model - ✔✔a standard for proper education and supervision of nurses in practice
tenement - ✔✔filthy and overcrowded housing
, visiting nurse association - ✔✔any of various American organizations that provide home
healthcare and hospice services through a network of nurses, therapists, social workers, and
other healthcare associates for patients who are housebound, recovering from an illness or
injury, or are living with a disability or chronic condition
advocate - ✔✔pleading a patient's cause or acting on his or her behalf
assessment - ✔✔gathering and analyzing information that will affect the health of the people
being served
assurance (activities) - ✔✔activities that make certain that services are provided
case management - ✔✔a systematic process by which a nurse assesses clients' needs, plans or
and coordinates services, references to other appropriate providers, and monitors and
evaluates progress to ensure that clients' multiple service needs are met in a cost-effective
manner
clinician - ✔✔role in which the nurse ensures health services are provided not just to
individuals and families, but also to groups and populations
collaborator - ✔✔working jointly with others in a common endeavor, cooperating as partners
educator - ✔✔also known as health teaching, this is a role widely recognized part of nursing
practice that is legislated through nurse practice acts in a number of states and is one of the
major functions of the community health nurse
leader - ✔✔the nurse directs, influences, or persuades others to effect change that will
positively impact people's health and move them toward a goal
Answers Study Guide
causal thinking - ✔✔relating disease or illness to its cause
community-based nursing - ✔✔the provision of acute care and care for chronic health
problems to individuals and families in the community
consumption - ✔✔the common name for tuberculosis in the 1900s
district nursing - ✔✔the style of public health nursing organization in which a nurse is assigned
to a geographic area to provide a wide variety of nursing services. This generalized approach to
practice contrasts with a specialist approach in which several nurses may visit in the same home
for different purposes.
frontier nursing service - ✔✔a rural nursing service founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge in
Kentucky as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. The FNS influenced the
development of nurse midwifery in the United States
Henry street settlement - ✔✔established by Lillian Wald in NY in 1892; provided social
services, healthcare, and shelter to the poor
industrial nursing - ✔✔another form of public health nursing; expanded during early 1900s;
first industrial nurse: Philippa Flowerday Reid
Nightingale model - ✔✔a standard for proper education and supervision of nurses in practice
tenement - ✔✔filthy and overcrowded housing
, visiting nurse association - ✔✔any of various American organizations that provide home
healthcare and hospice services through a network of nurses, therapists, social workers, and
other healthcare associates for patients who are housebound, recovering from an illness or
injury, or are living with a disability or chronic condition
advocate - ✔✔pleading a patient's cause or acting on his or her behalf
assessment - ✔✔gathering and analyzing information that will affect the health of the people
being served
assurance (activities) - ✔✔activities that make certain that services are provided
case management - ✔✔a systematic process by which a nurse assesses clients' needs, plans or
and coordinates services, references to other appropriate providers, and monitors and
evaluates progress to ensure that clients' multiple service needs are met in a cost-effective
manner
clinician - ✔✔role in which the nurse ensures health services are provided not just to
individuals and families, but also to groups and populations
collaborator - ✔✔working jointly with others in a common endeavor, cooperating as partners
educator - ✔✔also known as health teaching, this is a role widely recognized part of nursing
practice that is legislated through nurse practice acts in a number of states and is one of the
major functions of the community health nurse
leader - ✔✔the nurse directs, influences, or persuades others to effect change that will
positively impact people's health and move them toward a goal
