Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care – Test Bank, Exam Questions & Study Guide with Verified Answers 2026 (11th ed)

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Test Bank Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered
Health Care in the Community 10th Edition ISBN:
9780323611114 by Jeanette Lancaster, Marcia Stanhope

, Test Bank Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community 10th
Edition ISBN: 9780323611114 by Jeanette Lancaster, Marcia Stanhope


Table of Content
PART 1. Influencing Factors in Public Health Nursing and Population Health
1. Public health foundations and population health
2. History of public health and public and community health nursing
3. Public health, primary care, and primary health care systems
4. Perspectives in global health care
5. Economics of health care delivery

PART 2. Forces Affecting Nurses in the Delivery of Public and Population Health Care
Delivery
6. Environmental health
7. Application of ethics in the community
8. Achieving cultural competence in community health nursing
9. Public health policy
10. Evidence-based practice

PART 3. Conceptual and Scientific Frameworks Applied to Nursing Practice
11. Population-based public health nursing practice: The intervention wheel
12. Genomics in public health nursing
13. Epidemiology
14. Infectious disease prevention and control
15. Communicable and infectious disease risks

PART 4. Community Level Interventions
16. Promoting healthy communities
17. Community as client: Assessment and analysis
18. Building a culture of health to influence health equity within communities
19. Health education principles applied in communities, groups, families, and individuals for
healthy change

PART 5. Issues and Approaches in Population-Centered Nursing
20. The nurse-led health center: A model for community nursing practice
21. Public health nursing practice and the disaster management cycle
22. Public health surveillance and outbreak investigation
23. Program management
24. Quality management
25. Case management

,PART 6. Promoting the Health of Target Populations Across the Life Span
26. Working with families in the community for healthy outcomes
27. Family health risks
28. Child and adolescent health
29. Major Health Issues and Chronic Disease Management of Adults Across the Life Span
30. Disability health care across the life span

PART 7. Promoting and Protecting the Health of Vulnerable Populations
31. Health equity and care of vulnerable populations
32. Population-centered nursing in rural and urban environments
33. Poverty and homelessness
34. Migrant health issues
35. Teen pregnancy
36. Mental health issues
37. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems
38. Violence and human abuse

PART 8. Nurses’ Roles and Functions in the Community
39. Advanced nursing practice in the community
40. The nurse leader in the community
41. The nurse in public health, home health, hospice, and palliative care
42. The nurse in the schools
43. The nurse in occupational health
44. Forensic nursing in the community
45. The nurse in the faith community
46. Public health nursing at local, state, and national levels

, Public Health Nursing 10th Edition Stanhope Test Bank


Chapter 01: Public Health Foundations and Population Health
Stanhope: Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the
Community, 10th Edition


MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. What is the primary focus to be addressed concerning the improvement of the health of the
American people in the twenty-first century?
a. Bioterrorism and global health threats
b. Delivery of individual care and hygiene
c. The need for increased hospital and acute care
d. Chronic disease and disability management
ANS: A
There are new concerns, and of the most serious are bioterrorism and globally induced
infections, such as the avian flu. These threats will divert health care funds and resources
from other health care programs to be spent for public safety. The others are not related to
public health or are concerns that have been present for many years.

DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding TOP: Nursing process: Planning
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance

2. A community is concerned about the threat of bioterrorism. Which of the following best
describes the basis for this concern?
a. Bioterrorism has the potential to dissolve community-based programs.
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c. The threat may divert funds from other public safety health care programs.
d. Fear of bioterrorism will increase the need for shelters.
ANS: C
Bioterrorism may have an impact on the availability of resources for public safety health
care programs. Because funds are diverted it is possible that community-based programs
would be eliminated, the health care system could experience changes, and that there would
be an increase in the need for shelter. However, all the remaining options would happen
because of the diversion of funds.

DIF: Cognitive level: Analyzing TOP: Nursing process: Diagnosis
MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity

3. Which statement describes the consequence of the successful implementation of the
Affordable Care Act?
a. Americans will pay closer attention to their health status.
b. Most of the population will be covered by health insurance.
c. Public health departments will need to increase the number of nursing positions.
d. The prevalence of obesity will decrease.
ANS: B





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