WGU D450 COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION-
FOCUSED NURSING QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
- the nurse focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families across the lifespan
- the aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions
- manage acute or chronic conditions while promoting self-care among individuals
and families - CORRECT ANSWER community-based nursing
- systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population's health
status, and making information available about the health of the community -
CORRECT ANSWER assessment
- assessment, policy development, and assurance - CORRECT ANSWER public
health core functions
- focuses on the responsibility of public health agencies to be sure that activities
are appropriately carried out to meet public health goals and plans - CORRECT
ANSWER assurance
- emphasize health protection, maintenance, and promotion and disease
prevention, as well as self-reliance among clients - CORRECT ANSWER community-
oriented care
- the prevention of disease and disability - CORRECT ANSWER primary goal of
public health
,- Core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health protection, health
promotion, and disease prevention of a population - CORRECT ANSWER public
health/population-focused practice
- collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
- evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the
population
- questioning the availability of health services to the community - CORRECT
ANSWER assessment phase of a community's health status
- federal agency most heavily involved with the health and welfare concerns of
U.S. citizens - CORRECT ANSWER The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (USDHHS)
- includes a comprehensive range of services including public health; prevention;
and diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services
- essential care made universally accessible to individuals and families in a
community - CORRECT ANSWER primary health care (PHC)
- Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death
- Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
- Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
- Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all
life stages - CORRECT ANSWER Health People 2020
, - involved in health care primarily through administering the Food and Nutrition
Service, which oversees a variety of food assistance activities in collaboration with
state and local government welfare agencies to provide food stamps to needy
persons to increase their food purchasing power, as well as school breakfast and
lunch programs, grants to states for nutrition education training, and WIC, a
supplemental food program for women, infants, and children - CORRECT ANSWER
Department of Agriculture (DOA)
- Type of intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent disease from the
beginning; involves health promotion and education. - CORRECT ANSWER Primary
prevention
- Intervention that seeks to detect disease by screening and providing health care
early in its progression (early pathogenesis) before clinical signs and symptoms
become apparent in order to make an early diagnosis and begin treatment. -
CORRECT ANSWER Secondary prevention
- Continued long-term health care.
- Intervention that begins once the disease is obvious; the aim is to interrupt the
course of the disease, reduce the amount of disability that might occur, and begin
rehabilitation. - CORRECT ANSWER Tertiary prevention
- immunization clinics
- health education
- family planning services - CORRECT ANSWER programs provided at the local
health department level
FOCUSED NURSING QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
- the nurse focuses on "illness care" of individuals and families across the lifespan
- the aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions
- manage acute or chronic conditions while promoting self-care among individuals
and families - CORRECT ANSWER community-based nursing
- systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population's health
status, and making information available about the health of the community -
CORRECT ANSWER assessment
- assessment, policy development, and assurance - CORRECT ANSWER public
health core functions
- focuses on the responsibility of public health agencies to be sure that activities
are appropriately carried out to meet public health goals and plans - CORRECT
ANSWER assurance
- emphasize health protection, maintenance, and promotion and disease
prevention, as well as self-reliance among clients - CORRECT ANSWER community-
oriented care
- the prevention of disease and disability - CORRECT ANSWER primary goal of
public health
,- Core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health protection, health
promotion, and disease prevention of a population - CORRECT ANSWER public
health/population-focused practice
- collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
- evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the
population
- questioning the availability of health services to the community - CORRECT
ANSWER assessment phase of a community's health status
- federal agency most heavily involved with the health and welfare concerns of
U.S. citizens - CORRECT ANSWER The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (USDHHS)
- includes a comprehensive range of services including public health; prevention;
and diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services
- essential care made universally accessible to individuals and families in a
community - CORRECT ANSWER primary health care (PHC)
- Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death
- Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
- Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
- Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all
life stages - CORRECT ANSWER Health People 2020
, - involved in health care primarily through administering the Food and Nutrition
Service, which oversees a variety of food assistance activities in collaboration with
state and local government welfare agencies to provide food stamps to needy
persons to increase their food purchasing power, as well as school breakfast and
lunch programs, grants to states for nutrition education training, and WIC, a
supplemental food program for women, infants, and children - CORRECT ANSWER
Department of Agriculture (DOA)
- Type of intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent disease from the
beginning; involves health promotion and education. - CORRECT ANSWER Primary
prevention
- Intervention that seeks to detect disease by screening and providing health care
early in its progression (early pathogenesis) before clinical signs and symptoms
become apparent in order to make an early diagnosis and begin treatment. -
CORRECT ANSWER Secondary prevention
- Continued long-term health care.
- Intervention that begins once the disease is obvious; the aim is to interrupt the
course of the disease, reduce the amount of disability that might occur, and begin
rehabilitation. - CORRECT ANSWER Tertiary prevention
- immunization clinics
- health education
- family planning services - CORRECT ANSWER programs provided at the local
health department level
