NU 400- Community Midterm UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -What does medicine do? Saves lives one at a time
What does public health do? Saving millions of lives at a time
3 Core Functions of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER -assessment, policy development,
assurance
assessment - CORRECT ANSWER -systematic data collection on the population
Monitoring population's health status
Making information available on the health of the community
policy development - CORRECT ANSWER -need to provide leadership in developing policies that
support the health of the population
Includes using scientific knowledge in making decisions about policy
assurance - CORRECT ANSWER -role of public health in making sure that essential community-
oriented health services are available
Includes providing essential health services for those who would otherwise not receive them
Ensures a competent public health and personal health care workforce is available
10 essential public health services - CORRECT ANSWER -Monitor health status to identify
community health problems (Assessment)
Diagnose/Investigate health problems and hazards in the community (Assessment)
Educate/inform people about health issues (Policy Develop)
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems (Policy Develop)
Develop policies that support individuals and community health efforts (Policy Develop)
, Enforce a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce (Assurance)
Link people to needed personal health services, and assure the provision of healthcare (Assurance)
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of health care services (Assurance)
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems (Assurance)
How can each essential service be used in tobacco use prevention?
Principles of Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -Client or unit of care is the population
and community oriented
The community is the client
Primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest # of people or people as a whole
PHNs collaborate with the client as an equal partner
Primary prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities
Health and prevention focus
Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -The community is the
client
PHNs focus on strategies that create health, environmental, social and economic conditions that
populations can thrive
Optimal use of available resources and create evidence-based strategies to assure overall improvement of
health
Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, stakeholder groups are the most
effective way to promote the health of the people
PHN is an agent of ________ - CORRECT ANSWER -change
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER -Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Disruptive innovator - founder of modern nursing, sanitation, and statistics
Cared for soldiers in the Crimean War and found 10x more soldiers died of typhus, typhoid, cholera,
dysentery than of battle wounds
Addresses unsanitary conditions leading to infectious diseases
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -What does medicine do? Saves lives one at a time
What does public health do? Saving millions of lives at a time
3 Core Functions of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER -assessment, policy development,
assurance
assessment - CORRECT ANSWER -systematic data collection on the population
Monitoring population's health status
Making information available on the health of the community
policy development - CORRECT ANSWER -need to provide leadership in developing policies that
support the health of the population
Includes using scientific knowledge in making decisions about policy
assurance - CORRECT ANSWER -role of public health in making sure that essential community-
oriented health services are available
Includes providing essential health services for those who would otherwise not receive them
Ensures a competent public health and personal health care workforce is available
10 essential public health services - CORRECT ANSWER -Monitor health status to identify
community health problems (Assessment)
Diagnose/Investigate health problems and hazards in the community (Assessment)
Educate/inform people about health issues (Policy Develop)
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems (Policy Develop)
Develop policies that support individuals and community health efforts (Policy Develop)
, Enforce a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce (Assurance)
Link people to needed personal health services, and assure the provision of healthcare (Assurance)
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of health care services (Assurance)
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems (Assurance)
How can each essential service be used in tobacco use prevention?
Principles of Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -Client or unit of care is the population
and community oriented
The community is the client
Primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest # of people or people as a whole
PHNs collaborate with the client as an equal partner
Primary prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities
Health and prevention focus
Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -The community is the
client
PHNs focus on strategies that create health, environmental, social and economic conditions that
populations can thrive
Optimal use of available resources and create evidence-based strategies to assure overall improvement of
health
Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, stakeholder groups are the most
effective way to promote the health of the people
PHN is an agent of ________ - CORRECT ANSWER -change
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER -Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Disruptive innovator - founder of modern nursing, sanitation, and statistics
Cared for soldiers in the Crimean War and found 10x more soldiers died of typhus, typhoid, cholera,
dysentery than of battle wounds
Addresses unsanitary conditions leading to infectious diseases
