FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS HIGHLIGHTED
1. A PHN is implementing interventions at the systems level of practice. Which of the
following interventions would be used by the nurse?
Identify health problems in the community Involve the
entire community in solving the health problem Provide
outreach services to populations at risk
Change laws, policies, and practices that influence population-based issues
2. PHNs utilize registries to identify children with delayed or missing immunizations.
They subsequently follow up with families by phone calls or home visits. Which of
the following levels of practice is being implemented?
Individual
Community
Systems
Policy
3. A nurse uses Health People 2020 as a guide when planning health education in the
community. Which of the following actions would be taken by the nurse?
focus on avoiding cigarette smoking and using alcohol in
moderation educates clients using primary and secondary levels
of prevention use Bloom’s taxonomy when planning educational
objectives design health fairs aimed at individuals
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, 4. Community Nurses who provided care to people in their homes were called
nurses.
visiting
private
duty
hospitalist
duty critical
home
5. In an educational process to the community, the nurse should know that the easiest
thing to change is the knowledge.
True
False
6. A nurse plans to contact a multilateral organization. Which of the following would the
nurse most likely contact?
United Nations (UN)
Project Hope Catholic
Relief Services Baptist
Charity Group
7. A nurse is involved in identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or
asymptomatic disease. Which of the following public health interventions is being
applied?
Referral and follow-up
Health teaching
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, Surveillance
Screening
8. The practice focus of a Public Health Nursing practice is:
The family as a group
The person as a unitary individual
The group as a part of the society
The community as a whole
9. Which step, when working with the community organization to make changes,
involves training of potential leaders in the community?
Core group formation
Integration Community
organization Community study
Core group formation
10. A social marketing campaign urging community members to avoid driving motorized
vehicles after consuming alcohol is implemented in a local community. Which of the
following levels of practice is being demonstrated?
Individual
Systems
Community
Government
1. Which of the following best describe the Public Health?
The disordered physiological processes associated with disease or injury. The
study of the development, structure, and functioning of human
society.
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